Awesome awesome.
Love the track choices so far! Really characteristic of the series, nice and tight and it ends properly with a final visit to Laguna 👍's up on that one. You should post a little video up of a run through your custom course you've got in mind so we can get an idea of what it's like (like the 1st page posts in the S1 thread).
Clubman route is one of my favorite tracks, I've always wanted night races too so it's just great. I'm hoping it won't stay a pre-season race.
Autumn ring mini's gonna be a scorch fest. Should be a brutal race and a test of real racing wrestling skill, interesting choice and it harks back, again, to S1 and the old qualifier.
Are you thinking of doing some other style qualifying system? I think what we had worked pretty well, only drawback was the time needed to quali. people up. But that's negligible if you decide to set a couple days for quali. instead of on race day.
"Dual sprint race" reminds me of GP2. They run to races on their race weekends. One main race and then a sprint race the next day where they reverse the grid order to run the race:
On Friday, drivers have a 30-minute free practice session and a 30-minute qualifying session. The qualifying session decides the grid order for Saturday's race which has a length of 180 kilometres.
During Saturday's race, each driver has to make a pit stop in which at least two tyres have to be changed.
On Sunday there is a sprint race of 120 kilometres. The grid is decided by the Saturday result with top 8 being reversed, so the driver who finished 8th on Saturday will start from pole position and the winner will start from 8th place.
Sounds exciting that way.
Only thing that kind of perplexes me is the suspension. It's really hard to police, but I'll leave that discussion for a bit later.
Anyway, I'm stoked for the series and we only had one show at work tonight so I'm heading home now. I'm gonna open up a room with Clubman to break in my new car and get a good feel for everything. I'll post up the room number when it's up if anyone wants to join up.
Just opened up a room. I don't expect anyone to join though. I'm mostly just opening it for testing and breaking in the new car. But anyone is more than welcome to join up.
Room's closed up now. I really like the feel of the new specs. The car feels a lot better than any tune I could come up with last season. Really good choices for specs. Car's super responsive cause of the drivetrain mods too so it's smooth and feels great to keep the power on. I'm a fan 👍