Don't know if the scoring system is a reflection of the real one, but find it a major and demotivating factor that only class position counts, and not the overall position in the race, as we've had before in other series.
It's close. Real world scoring in 1964 had points thus: 1st = 8 points, 2nd = 6 points, 3rd = 4 points and 4th received 2 points. They also had 1 point for fastest lap in each class at each race. This scoring system started in 1961 and went up to the 1970's (I have not been able to establish yet exactly when it changed).
Our closest scoring system is 10,8,6,4,3,2,1 so that is what I have used.
When the series was created we did not have the mechanics in place to award fastest lap points but now we do.
I think what Erling is trying to point to is that we're rewarded class points for the overall standings, instead of treating the whole race result as its own. In other words, it means people in different positions get the same amount of points, because they're in different classes, and the overall standings are being ignored.
As for my race, I did the best I could in the Jaguar, setting a personal best in qualifying. Could have gone 2 tenths faster if it wasn't for traffic, but it was only natural, given the large turnout for this race (great to see!).
I knew that there was no chance to fight with Erling, so my only option was to take bigger risks after the start and hope to get in front of him. Unfortunately I braked a bit too late for T2 and tapped him from behind, sending him into a slow spin. I thought he wouldn't recover it, so when I saw him spin out of view to the right, I slowed down to wait for him. Little did I know Daz hit him and "helped" him recover quickly, so by the time I realized what has happened, I was down to 6 or something, narrowly staying in front of Dimitar.
From there on it was all about pushing as hard as possible and recovering the positions. I was just catching up to Geoffers and Daz, when both had a moment in 2 consecutive corners, so I was suddenly up to 2nd. Erling was already more than 10 seconds ahead by that time and no matter what I did, he was pulling away by about 1 second per lap.
I knew tyres were going to be an issue and with the Cortina being so easy on its tyres, it was going to be tough keeping Geoffers and Daz behind. As expected, Daz caught up with me and when I had a small off at the last corner, he was through into 2nd place. I did my best to close in on him, but sometimes it's so difficult to judge the difference in car size and weight, so we had a moment in T1, after which I waited for him and we resumed our battle.
We exchanged positions 1-2 times more, but then it was his turn to misjudge a braking point going into T4. Funnily (for me) the Jag is so heavy, that it barely felt the hit, while the poor Cortina spun around despite being the offender.
All this allowed Geoffers to move up to 3rd and now it was his turn to threaten my 2nd place, by going quicker and catching up. Fortunately for me Daz had other ideas and both of them battling allowed me to escape further in front, and eventually secure 2nd after they lost a massive amount of time waiting for each other due to contacts (and other shenanigans, from what I saw on DD's live stream replay analysis
).
Grats to Erling on a well deserved victory - you were out of our league in this race! Grats to Daz for bringing it home in 3rd and commiserations to Geoffers for mistakenly ending his race 1 lap too soon!
I hope we'll continue getting such a big turnout in future races as well. I wonder if this was because of the track and cars, or just a coincidence that everyone was available to race this week.