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Originally Posted by David Church
I respect the officials that run these meetings, well, after the Euro's 2005 (France) say no more, our section is probably the best run section in the world!!!!!!!
But, "Question" Why was it so important to run the second round? I understand it made an official meeting, but the track was changed after round 1 and was getting more standing water on it all the time. I did not see them sweep any water off after round 1, and I was heat 12. So after only 2 rounds, which the track was different, only 1 score counted. Is this fair?
I am not angry at all. It was the BRCA's choice on what to do, well they had a vote, but why not call the meeting after round 1, or take an hour or 2 to see what the weather was going to do? Then either call the meeting or have another round of qualifing, and maybe even final if the weather improved?
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with regards to 'timing' on the changed track. the time is only used for the 'split'
if you TQ'ed either round you CAN'T finish lower than 2nd if its best 1 from 2 to count.
Paul did say thats how it would work at the start of the day, he also said there was a very good chance on bad weather, I went out with the knowledge that round 2 was going to be 'the' round to get the result in.
regards the track conditions in round 2, and to a certain extent end of round 1, its a hard one to call, my car had a fair amount of water proofing but we didn't go crazy over-board with balloons and stuff. I did try and negotiate the dryest line where possible, the 'chute' straigt had a dryer section down the middle in my run, I know this might not have been the same for the later heats. and there were certainly some avoid at all costs sections of the track!!
problem is, if they call the meeting before it can 'count' then think of how many hotel bills would have been 'wasted'
I agree about some people getting abnormally good results out of the meeting just because they finished the round where 70% of cars dropped out
but....
it was physically possible to finish at worse 2nd in the meeting by only running in round1. Darren did just that pretty much, though he did race his last round, he didn't need to because his 1st from round1 was his counting score
I am just playing devils advocate here so don't beat me up about this.