Sigh..... I added the red rule because we were having non stop arguments about what was a "cut" and what was not.
I have absolutely no intention of trawling through every replay counting how many times each person gets 4 wheels
inside a kerb. If someone wants the job you are welcome to it. Seems this one will just not go away and we
will be still be wanting clarification for every track we run at, Well I will not be giving out track by track rules for
each and every event. "If" there is a particularly suspect part of a track, and I am aware (or made aware) of it, I will state in the
event page what we should do about it. Matteo's club use the kerb as part of the track, I don't really agree with that.
If we say that the kerb is part of the track then there will be another 1000 posts about whether the green part of
the kerb is "kerb" or not, and is the white line "track" or not ad nauseum.
Sorry to be a bit grumpy guys, but I am absolutely, completely, and utterly fed up with the constant "discussion" of what
is track or not. My suggestion for these series is that you should keep two wheels on the track most of the time
occasional accidental wanderings are not an issue. And the "track" is anything tarmac or up to the kerb.
If you choose to ignore my suggestion, and you are gaining time by excessive cutting then your victory will be shallow
just like the fastest driver always taking the fastest car (which anyone is free to do) but the fast guys tend not to
and self handicap.
Some tracks have kerbs that mean it is a natural driving line to get your outer two wheels on the kerb itself as per
Matteos' rules. the 1st chicane at Adelaide street is a bit like that. When we ran there almost everyone had
all 4 wheels up one of the kerbs at least some of the time (including me), in that example it was painfully unnatural to have to slow
to drive carefully around the kerbs, so we ignored that, and at Hungary it is hard to avoid sometimes getting outside
wheels up kerbs, <shrug> I am not going to drop 90% of the drivers from the results because they were doing something
that most other people were. I need a very very simple rule, it is too time consuming working out whether driver 1 or driver b,c,d,e or f
cut a kerb more than 3 times in a race, I just don't have the time to do that, however good an idea it might be.
My simple "Rule" is: Keep two wheels on the track surface on most laps.
Beyond any painted lines at the outside of the track count as track by default. (Such as at Monza)
unless stated otherwise in the main event post.
Now, if everyone would try to drive within those guidelines, my life will be simple.
I really hate to use the incident report system, because someone/people (not me in this case) has to review the replay
and make a judgement, and if someone gets a judgment they don't like it can be an emotive subject.
If a particular person is getting what you consider to be an unfair advantage by unreasonable cutting
then do an incident report for it, stating in the report the time(s) in the replay that this occured.
Otherwise just drive sensibly, and keep two wheels on the track surface, so no one can accuse you.
Ok, on to the next event
and I will be there muhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhahahahaha