OK, new idea (well, it's one of my old ideas from another series but yeah, you get the point).
With the first round being at Rome you could set up a Time Trial club event with say a 10 minute time limit. Each person gets to run the TT on their own to set the fastest time they can and since all the results are listed in the event you can take the fastest 10 and lock them in.
You can either have 1 of 2 rules. The first would be that everyone gets one shot, no more. The second would be that people can run as many times as they want, but only their last run counts. So then you have the strategy of do you risk running again and invalidating your previous lap time.
We've done this in a series I was in before and it's hit and miss on most courses since you can take liberties with the track limits. However, with Rome being the way it is there aren't many places, if any, where you can shorten the track by corner cutting. This gives everyone a chance to try to Pre-Qualify over say a week, where people can run at times that are most convienient for them.
Hi Ninja, yes i have also seen that and its a valid idea, however this will be a test of a fast lap time, and our series is an endurace race, and maybe not a problem its an option for sure.
Ok lets say then that we run 2 lobbies of 16 drivers in each room.
Lets say we have points from 32 points down to 1 point for last place.
lets say that the weight penalty system is stretched out in effect each position is halved -
so championship leader starts the race with 1300 kg
and then a 5 kilo drop in weight for each championship position down to 32nd position who will have 1150 kg - drivers run their qualy and race with those weights.
Lets say there are no lock in places ?
Lets say there will be 4 lobbies open at the start of each Monday night race at 1800 Uk,
Qualy lobby 1 hosted by stewards between 1800 and 1840 uk
Qualy lobby 2 hosted by stewards between 1800 and 1840 uk
practice / prerace lobby 1 hosted by stewards between 17.30 and 1900 uk
practice / prerace lobby 2 hosted by stewards between 1730 and 1900 uk
Lets say drivers must have a 4 lap run - 2 flying laps - and best time is logged and put on forum at 18.30 by stewards.
Drivers will go to the forum look on which room they are in pre race room and running their qualy time in.
They go into that room and run their 4 laps, then go to the pre race room and wait.
Drivers look on forum at 1850 uk at the list of drivers times
Room 1 with grid order
room 2 with grid order
No need for qulay as times are there, drivers will just line up on track from 1st down to 16th and then start the race at 1900uk,
The 1st pace - safety car lap works really well, so in theory it should all work, BUT
All sounds easy amd would be, but even the simplest thing like posting on forum that you will be racing seems too much for many, this then involves me posting or psn messaging chasing up people - ARE YOU RACING TONIGHT
WHAT IS MY BHP PENALTY etc etc and in all honesty it spoils the race for me, i start the race stressed out trying to get all sorted.
So although all the above sounds great, we ended up making this new series a 1 almost guaranteed full race room, with others at least have a race in another room.
IF everyone posted in on forum they were race or not and made sure they knew what their car weight was and were not late to the qualifying and always showed up and we had no server problems and everyone looked at the forum before and after qualifying and went to their allocated race room and lined up on the track in the order posted on the forum and the race started and everyone drove well and there were no disconnections and everyone had a great time and at the end everyone was happy.
Well theres a thing, reality just isnt like that i am afraid, but i would love that.
We are really trying to make a great series, thats full and easy to manage.
Its also good that people voice there thoughts, as we have been through many many hours of thoughts and gone down many many routes to see the final outcome.
Lets see