State of the Series Announcement
Due to the events of Saturday night which were beyond my control, people have started to launch scathing attacks on the way I run the series. So, to address the concerns and questions of those people, I have decided to take the initiative to review how the series works. Here are the list of changes that will commence from the 27th October at 11:59pm AEST.
New Start Time: Due to the daylight savings movement, a lot of things have moved around. So to reassure everyone on what the NEW start time is, I will state and bold the time zone in both acronyms and the full form. The new time is 10:45pm AEST (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). This is NOT a daylight saving time.
Reprimands: There has been some negative feedback from people within and out of the series stating why the reprimand system is in use. My direct explanation is this;
Lateness/No-Shows: It has been brought to my attention that I'm being too harsh on lateness/no-shows. So from now on, it will be the driver's responsibility to provide me with a notification on whether they will be attending or not, even if they do not know for sure. If you however don't do that, which will be understandable, I will issue you with a "Please Explain" notice in which you can provide your excuse in there. So from now on the points that are given out to a driver if they can't make an event will not be handed out.
Due to the events of Saturday night which were beyond my control, people have started to launch scathing attacks on the way I run the series. So, to address the concerns and questions of those people, I have decided to take the initiative to review how the series works. Here are the list of changes that will commence from the 27th October at 11:59pm AEST.
New Start Time: Due to the daylight savings movement, a lot of things have moved around. So to reassure everyone on what the NEW start time is, I will state and bold the time zone in both acronyms and the full form. The new time is 10:45pm AEST (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). This is NOT a daylight saving time.
Reprimands: There has been some negative feedback from people within and out of the series stating why the reprimand system is in use. My direct explanation is this;
Now I understand that some people will still object to this giving explanations like, "It will give them too many chances", "Still can punish innocent drivers", etc. So, from now on, the Reprimand system will only be for incidents on the track or behavioural issues (abuse or unnecessary intimidation of fellow driver's). Driver's who do not turn up and have not provided an excuse will be dealt with on a less harsher manner.
Lateness/No-Shows: It has been brought to my attention that I'm being too harsh on lateness/no-shows. So from now on, it will be the driver's responsibility to provide me with a notification on whether they will be attending or not, even if they do not know for sure. If you however don't do that, which will be understandable, I will issue you with a "Please Explain" notice in which you can provide your excuse in there. So from now on the points that are given out to a driver if they can't make an event will not be handed out.
Another list of changes will be announced sometime in the coming weeks sometime before the start of the Asia-Pacific Leg. I will now regretfully apologise for my hard-line stance on this series but it is all in the interest of maintaining an organised series. However it has dawned on me that it may have somewhat held the series back so that is why I'm bringing in these changes.
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