Ok gang,
With 11 signed up so far we should have a really good time Monday Night. There are a few things I want to go over before Monday.
First. I have a slight schedule conflict so the earliest I can start is about 10:30 EST/7:30 PST. With that in mind I would like to knock the races down to 15 minutes (we could do 10 minutes if people would like to finish a bit earlier). With a 10 minute qualifying period this will give us 70 minutes of track time and we should still finish before 12:00/9:00. If that is a problem and you guys want to start at 10:00/7:00 that is ok I will join when I can.
Second. We still need a host. Anyone have some good internet speeds?
Third. A lot of points have been brought up so I want to make a list of things to discuss. Perhaps you guys can mess around (might I suggest seeing how the Cappi RM compares to the Honda S800 Race car) until I show up and talk about the following:
1. Should cars be unique? If so are they to be first come first served or do we need a random drawing?
2. Should the podium finishers for the night be forced to change their lineup for the next night of racing? Perhaps forcing the winner to change 3 cars, the runner up 2 cars and third 1 car.
3. Should we let the winner choose a new PP level for the next night of racing. One note on this I feel small adjustments (+/- 25PP) would work better than just choosing a totally new number. But what do you guys think.
4. I would like to add a second set of tracks to the list. What if we had 4 sets of tracks grouped as follows:
Slow - Monaco, Tsukuba
Medium Slow - Twin Ring Motegi, Laguna Seca
Medium Fast - Spa, Suzuka
Fast - The Nord and Daytona Road Course
We would still run one from each group but the winner of the previous race would have a larger pool of tracks to choose for the next race. I would also like to add 1 fictitious track to each group but have not run them to check speeds yet. What do you think about this?
5. How should we do pts. Currently my plan is to use 16 pts for 1st, 15 pts for 2nd... and 2 pts for pole for a max of 64. Should we use 24 pts for 1st, 23 pts for 2nd
and say 4 pts for pole for a max of 100? Or are there other suggestions?
There are a few things I feel we should discuss after the racing such as tires, race cars, handicapping and whether we want to do this again. I would like us to race first rather than speculate on what might happen with these.