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Originally Posted by The Doktor
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How would you see a normal race day working?
F1 and 2 drivers together in the same heats,
F3 drivers in another heat
F4 and 5 drivers together in heats
And finals split the same
Or would you see it F1, 2 and 3 together and f4 and 5 together?
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From reading all of this I think we're getting close to a good solid idea.
They way I would see it is that for qualifying, drivers would be in heats based on their F grade along with the number of drivers at the meeting.
Extreme example:
So one F5 Driver three F4 drivers and one F3 driver, with 5 F2 drivers.
The F5/F4/F3 drivers would all be in one heat, the F2 drivers would be in one heat, that would give 5 drivers in each heat.
The idea is to have as many full heats as possible, rather than 2 full mod & clubman heats, with 2 half-full, mod an clubman. It would be better for all racing / marshalling to have 3 full heats, seeded on F grading.
But for the finals it would be based on overall qualifying positions regardless of F status.
So in a championship situation, any of the above 10 drivers could TQ/Win the meeting and score top points for the event. This would include the F5 driver(s).
So using the above example the A-final could be a mix of F5/4/3/2 drivers, similar with the B-final. So on a good day a F5/4/3 can make the A-final, where the worst then can do is last, but best is to win the meeting. But with that the worst a F2(F1) driver could do would be last overall in the meeting.
What I can see this stopping is anyone (in 2wd any way with the numbers we have) automatically making the A-final.
But look at this for an example. A single F4 driver makes qualifying position 8 of an 8 car A-final, finishing last, 8 position in the final, other 7 drivers of the A-final are all F2(1) drivers. In the B-final, there is a mixture of F-grades (F2/3/4).
So overall the F4 driver gets the points for finishing in 8th place in the meeting. But more importantly they are the top finishing F4 driver of the meeting. So if this was a one-off meeting. That F4 driver would be the top F4 driver of the meeting and win the F4 class of the meeting, along side the 8th over-all placing.
MiCk B. :-)