I understand why you might feel penalised by having the BRM. I am sure that you are not the only driver that wishes for a faster car?
However, the faster drivers are all near the top of the table after 5 races?? I do not claim to have used a perfect algorithm to allocate the cars to the drivers, I am just not that clever!.
If we look closely at the points table, things are not quite so bad for you as they at first appear. Do not forget that under the rules, all drivers have to drop their 2 worst scores at the end of the season.
If we take the single worst score from each of the first 5 races for those cars around you, things get a little closer. Looking forward, some of those drivers also have a slower car for the remaining 5 races.
If we drop 1 score from the first 5 races the points are:-
Enrique 187
Jonny 166
Andy 144
Uli 138
FGubbels 127
Evilclive 115
I do not think that this championship is decided yet as we are only at 50% distance, so everything could change again. A single DNF when one of the top drivers has not completed 50% distance= zero points. I would guess that any driver from the top 5 or 6 could still take the championship?
This is the first time that UKGPL has run a series like this with 90 minute races and it was an experiment, plus there are many new drivers on the grid and we did not know their true pace, which is why we have reviewed the cars after 5 races.
@ FG. If you find that your BRM is much faster with less fuel. You can always run 50% fuel and take a pitstop at half race distance? I will leave you to do the calculation to see if it works for you.
If we run a similar 90 minute format for the next season, we might change things a little to keep the competition element interesting....maybe just tokens to buy cars for each race?, maybe tokens but also with timed pitstops for the faster cars?, maybe free choice of 2 drives max per chassis ?? Nothing is decided yet, but the moderators will start planning soon.
I hope that all drivers continue for the whole season as we have had some tremendous racing and great respect on track too. Thanks to all who are trying their best with cars that they might not have selected for themselves.
Thanks Evil for this clarification. it feels a bit better indeed. I think that tokens could really help maintain a closer battle for championship. One possible way would be to open chassis in second half according to the gap to rank in championship. 1st has BRM, 2nd Cooper, 3rd has honda, 4th has Brabham, 5th Ferrari, 6th Eagle, 7th and above have choice and this is redistributed at each race. That would make the first half close racing and second close battle to championship
