FIA Events '18 - World Finals Monaco Finished! Congrats to Team Lexus and Igor Fraga for Brazil!
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One question, this qualifying yesterday, does it determine only the starting positions of the first race at sunday or of all 4 races? If the second one the correct answer, then this event is as crazy as it could've be. Remembers be somehow at the crazy guys in Alice in Wonderland.
Edit: In that case, it'll end up in watching Igor hotlapping.
Edit: In that case, it'll end up in watching Igor hotlapping.
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Essentially he pushed me out of the way at one point and then drove off. There were two or three times I was deliberately pushed out of the way that race which really screwed me. Many of the drivers were pushing people out of the way and even watched a few people get completely punted off track with the one who caused it getting no penalty at all. It was a rough race both semifinal and repechage with chaos and poor driving by many. Bummed to not make it through even after having made up positions to nearly make it only to get taken out at the end of the day.
Oh well, we all have bad days. Hopefully there will be many changes to qualifying and race formats in the future as one qualifying session to determine all the races doesn't make much sense. At our regional final we qualified for each race which is the way it should be. On to manufacturer tomorrow which I hope goes better for myself and my Mercedes team.
There's always next year, right? haha
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I think they need to re-evaluate their qualifying and race structure. Doodle was basically screwed after his qualifying effort. He gained 5 spots at Maggiore and 7 at Red Bull Ring from starting 14th in both. They either need to have qualifying for each race individually, or make the races much longer to allow drivers to recover from mistakes or bad luck in the qualifying session. To be honest nothing about it makes sense to me, having 1 qualifying session at a different track/car combo decide the starting lineup for all the races.
Anyways, TLDR, good job Doodle. Your efforts didn’t go unnoticed, you definitely had the pace and deserved to make the final. Hopefully some changes to the format will come next year.
Anyways, TLDR, good job Doodle. Your efforts didn’t go unnoticed, you definitely had the pace and deserved to make the final. Hopefully some changes to the format will come next year.
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First, you bumped into him at the end of lap 10, probably unsetling his car going into the straight before overtaking him. Yes, he lost grip slighly before T10 but you carried on as if he wasn't there, bumping into him.
Now to the important moment on T2 lap 11. It looked to me and most people on chat like you shoved him on purpose (he had the steering wheel turned slightly to the right away from you even) because in the previous lap you kept it clean and he overtook you with the exact same move. You got a warning for illegal blocking so the stweards saw it like I did. Both Filipe Albuquerque and Félix da Costa said the same btw (and they call it out right when it happen, before I had even commented on chat).
I think stewarts have been all over the place and I've defended a certain leeway should be given to everyone so certain risks can be taken and certain moves can take place. You certainly had the benefit of the doubt in the EMEA finals and that's OK. This one shouldn't have gone down with a "warning" IMO. It makes it look like the stweards/PD really want some drivers to be in the final or really don't want some other drivers to be in the final, which I hope is not the case, but that's what it looks like to me. Maybe I'm being too harsh, who knows really. I'm not coming to this conclusion out of nowhere.
I know Carlos is a pretty chilled guy and very down to earth so he wouldn't make a mess out of it. He was clearly unhappy with the stewards though (he talked to Feilipe Albuquerque after the race).
At the end of the day, my biggest criticism is on what the stewards decided because they clearly saw the illegal move and left someone driving clean out of the finals. I just hope it doesn't happen in the finals.
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Very happy to see that Cody Nikola made it to Final of the World Finals. Being the youngest driver of everyone and representing Australia makes for a great little story about a kid that made it to the big time. 
Semi final B seemed to be a very chaotic race for Nik, especially after being unfairly forced into the barriers by Law. Mikail was in no way the cause, just an innocent bystander who happened to place himself between the other two drivers. Congrats to German alien on a strong win.
Repechage seemed to be a turn for the better in regards to the young Aussie, but I honestly expected Nicolas to put up more of a fight when it came down to who would be getting that extra point. You never know, it could be the difference of hopefully getting onto the podium.
This new will be very interesting, perhaps it's just we need to even the competition... but then n500 tends to do the exact opposite lol.
Anyone from the top 16 know what Cody Nikola will be using for the finals? And if possible what tracks/group combos will be for the final races?
Semi final B seemed to be a very chaotic race for Nik, especially after being unfairly forced into the barriers by Law. Mikail was in no way the cause, just an innocent bystander who happened to place himself between the other two drivers. Congrats to German alien on a strong win.
Repechage seemed to be a turn for the better in regards to the young Aussie, but I honestly expected Nicolas to put up more of a fight when it came down to who would be getting that extra point. You never know, it could be the difference of hopefully getting onto the podium.
This new will be very interesting, perhaps it's just we need to even the competition... but then n500 tends to do the exact opposite lol.
Anyone from the top 16 know what Cody Nikola will be using for the finals? And if possible what tracks/group combos will be for the final races?
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It's probably the illegal blocking thing. Carlos had to back off because it looked if he kept the throttle on he would have cause a bad wipe (that's how it looked).
Of course i would like to know from your view on what made you suddenly close on him (like lost control of the car, didn't see him etc)
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You're probably right.
It looks like they don't want to make an example out of anyone so they let people sneak into questionable moves and borderline illegal ones to then give out warnings. Only on obvious divebombs they gave out penalties which is ridiculous.
And we get to a final event where drivers and people watching are unhappy with the lack of penalties for clear penalty deserving contacts.
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Fantastic event. This is the future and, dare I say, today's races had more action and were more fun to watch than the whole season of F1.
Races could be longer for sure, and I agree that the qualifying system was unfair, but PD is still learning and they must improve for next year.
Congratulations to the 30 that made this far and thanks for the show, especially to Lopez, Hizal, Suswillo and Salazar.
Races could be longer for sure, and I agree that the qualifying system was unfair, but PD is still learning and they must improve for next year.
Congratulations to the 30 that made this far and thanks for the show, especially to Lopez, Hizal, Suswillo and Salazar.
To be fair, Aderrrm should not have been in that repecharge to begin with. The effect of being handed the prototype '16 Lexus instead of the superior '17 Lexus cannot be underestimated, and had he been in the latter I think he would've had the pace to keep Blazsan at bay.
You mean the Asia-Oceania exhibition battle wasn't Maxx Bantz enough for PD and they're going to do whatever the hell that was with the real thing!?
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What is even worse they are promoting this overtake moves across facebook in short promo videos, eg Brooks pushing McMillen out on last turn, which costed McMillen 2 or 3 places down the grid.
The right ones pushed through, been saying that since Madrid! Of course that doesnt go to all that made it.
The right ones pushed through, been saying that since Madrid! Of course that doesnt go to all that made it.
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Actually in Manufactures Cup with the drivers locked into a car brand and PD "adjusting" the cars in the class BoP levels during the course of the season they can very well control which brand of car and/or drivers have an easier time making it to the finals.
I still find it somewhat concerning that the actual top drivers in each region were all driving the same brand of car and even with BoP adjustments maintained the top spot in all three regions.
The BoP levels should be locked after the test season and no changes to the BoP and no new car additions until the race season for next year.
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I would love to see Tidgney going through as well. He's been a great GT driver and member of the community since I can remember and something went really wrong today. The dumb structure of the Q and races didn't help either. :/
I'm sure PD and the drivers participating could come up with a better solution (even taking into account all the event limitations) that would make all the races and qualifications for finals more balanced for every driver on the grid. As it is, anyone with a bad Q or divebombed in a race, has no chance of fighting for anything. For sure not a podium, let alone a win.
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That still does not change the fact that a car can be nerfed just a bit mid season making that brands driver have a harder time to score race wins and top points.
Too much room to be abused behind the scenes or to make people question the integrity of certain changes.
Best the changes are made during the test seasons and locked for the actual season where the competition occurs to maintain a total transparency in regards to having an unbiased and fair competition.
If the test seasons are not for checking out and getting the correct balance among the cars and the actual testing the implementing of new changes prior to the seasons start why bother with the test season at all?
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