................or coincidentally, a large, bulky brown envelope dropped through Phil's letterbox this week??
Not seen anything yet.... but if JonnyO has sent some cash he's wasted his money
The simple answer is this is how the token system has always worked. For the 67F1 cars the race importer works out the cost in tokens and the start money automatically. The algorithm uses the car the driver started the race in, which effectively means crossing the start line and registering a time. Trying to do anything else would make the importer too complicated. It would have to take account of situations where a driver joins a server in the wrong car. Realises their mistake and re-joins in a different car but doesn't start the race in either car. All the 67F1 championship announcements (including
Season 37) make this clear. They include the statement:
A driver must cross the start line at least once under race conditions to qualify as a starter (this is determined automatically by
GPL not by the moderating staff). This means if a driver makes the grid he must actually cross the start line to qualify as a starter,
simply making the grid is not sufficient. Similarly if a driver fails to make the grid but decides to start from the pit lane, he must
cross the start line at least once under race conditions to qualify as a starter. Depending on where his pit box is in relation to the
start line, this may mean he needs to complete a full lap in order to cross the start line. Drivers must start the race to be eligible
for the 10 tokens "start money".
I maintain the token count for the 55GP cars in a spreadsheet, simply because we wanted to be sure the cost in tokens for each chassis was set correctly before we ask our web master to go to the trouble of updating the import algorithm to cater for the 55 cars as well as the 67s.
All I have done in this case is apply the rule as it will be implemented in the importer when it is updated.
Hope this clarifies the situation.