1st-Oct-25, 08:41 AM
I have now changed the wording in the Format described in the leading thread, I would have preferred the original Format, but it is obvious from the 1st set of Round results that cars which experience some specific track issue (which is common on Rally Style Tracks) gets a handicap imposed on the 2nd Stage.
Basically the car has to run faster than average on the 2nd Stage to get an average result overall.
Obvious examples were Demon Tweeks Corvette, RS Slot Racing Ferrari, Batmanx Porsche & Equipe T Lancia D24, but there may be others. By combining the finishing times of both good and poor Stage runs, the overall combined result is always the car ends up with the poorest finishing position. Rather than an average result you would fairly expect. By allocating each stage points, this handicap problem is averted. It is more laborious having to enter 24 Stage times, and Jason (our SCOREBOARD designer) was somewhat exasperated when I asked him to change the system yesterday after he had spent quite a few hours on the original Format. Nothing like bad timing on my part.
So the new statement
Race Format
Each host will run the cars singly, either on 2 different single lane Stages for "Rally Stage" or on 2 different lanes for "Tarmac Stage".
All individual Stage/lane finishing positions will be allocated points on an equal basis. I have found that the orginal intended method of combining "stage" results for each round generates an unfair overall handicup to cars which experience a particularly slow run time on just one of the 2 Stages in a round due to a specific track related reason.
Basically the car has to run faster than average on the 2nd Stage to get an average result overall.
Obvious examples were Demon Tweeks Corvette, RS Slot Racing Ferrari, Batmanx Porsche & Equipe T Lancia D24, but there may be others. By combining the finishing times of both good and poor Stage runs, the overall combined result is always the car ends up with the poorest finishing position. Rather than an average result you would fairly expect. By allocating each stage points, this handicap problem is averted. It is more laborious having to enter 24 Stage times, and Jason (our SCOREBOARD designer) was somewhat exasperated when I asked him to change the system yesterday after he had spent quite a few hours on the original Format. Nothing like bad timing on my part.
So the new statement
Race Format
Each host will run the cars singly, either on 2 different single lane Stages for "Rally Stage" or on 2 different lanes for "Tarmac Stage".
All individual Stage/lane finishing positions will be allocated points on an equal basis. I have found that the orginal intended method of combining "stage" results for each round generates an unfair overall handicup to cars which experience a particularly slow run time on just one of the 2 Stages in a round due to a specific track related reason.
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I have posted photos of the 11 cars selected as being suitable for the "Spririt of the proxy award" on the leading page of this thread.
