Post by hanziboy on Feb 2, 2009 10:05:15 GMT 1
Thank you for the assistance Pe !! And if other have ideas to improve this .. let us know.
The SC rule will be fine tuned this week....
And indeed , I think a SC should be out only for 2 reasons.
When the car is completely stuck ( flipped over or on other tracks stuck in gravel)
Or when the car is to badly damaged to return to the pitlane in a save mode with a REASONABLE speed, and the chance that someone will collide with you is at hand.
So forget my "below speed" and "360" rule..
This ALSO mean that others should respect the Yellow flag rule....-> Slow down and don't overtake, even if you gained room on the car in front of you and you can overtake him now due to that. Stay behind a few corners and there will be no discussion about it. Also the attitude would grow not to keep it floored because we will know that the one behind us would not make advantage out of it. That is still the on of the main reason we keep it floored.. We think the other one will close up and overtake me or we think that the car just in front om me in the timetable is having a problem and you will gain a place.
Resetting gives you new tyres and full repair.. A lot of advantages indeed, but you are at least 2 laps down.. so gaining out of a reset is out of the question I think. In fact the chance of getting a place up front is gone.. We you stay in the race and are improving your driving skills
Ok, in most disciplines Resetting is not allowed, but in some cases it is the possible...
*Rally : the public often turns the flipped car back on his feet our out of a stuck situation
*Paris Dakar : same here, stuck cars can continue after help.
* F1 : If a car is stuck on a dangerous place but can continue then the marchalls may push him out of this situation. Michael Schumacher was the first, clever enough, to use that rule, others followed.
The main reason we brought that rule into place was indeed to keep the number of racer high during the race. And not to repeat 2 races we had in season 3 where more then 75% of the races did not make it to the end of the race. At the end those races are not fun at all.. And having Fun is our main goal here...
The SC rule will be fine tuned this week....
And indeed , I think a SC should be out only for 2 reasons.
When the car is completely stuck ( flipped over or on other tracks stuck in gravel)
Or when the car is to badly damaged to return to the pitlane in a save mode with a REASONABLE speed, and the chance that someone will collide with you is at hand.
So forget my "below speed" and "360" rule..
This ALSO mean that others should respect the Yellow flag rule....-> Slow down and don't overtake, even if you gained room on the car in front of you and you can overtake him now due to that. Stay behind a few corners and there will be no discussion about it. Also the attitude would grow not to keep it floored because we will know that the one behind us would not make advantage out of it. That is still the on of the main reason we keep it floored.. We think the other one will close up and overtake me or we think that the car just in front om me in the timetable is having a problem and you will gain a place.
Resetting gives you new tyres and full repair.. A lot of advantages indeed, but you are at least 2 laps down.. so gaining out of a reset is out of the question I think. In fact the chance of getting a place up front is gone.. We you stay in the race and are improving your driving skills
Ok, in most disciplines Resetting is not allowed, but in some cases it is the possible...
*Rally : the public often turns the flipped car back on his feet our out of a stuck situation
*Paris Dakar : same here, stuck cars can continue after help.
* F1 : If a car is stuck on a dangerous place but can continue then the marchalls may push him out of this situation. Michael Schumacher was the first, clever enough, to use that rule, others followed.
The main reason we brought that rule into place was indeed to keep the number of racer high during the race. And not to repeat 2 races we had in season 3 where more then 75% of the races did not make it to the end of the race. At the end those races are not fun at all.. And having Fun is our main goal here...