Season 17 - Mid Season Review

[Billy Nobrakes]

Just realised its taken best part of an hour to wade through this thread. Good luck on digesting this all Phil.

I'm very new to Sim racing - you only need to look at some of my lap times. Nevertheless it is a huge amount of fun.

One of the big challenges is getting the various programmes & patches to run on your PC. Several of the more experienced guys have been very helpful in sorting me out. If we do pick up new people it might help if they can be directed a mentor who would help with the dumb & not so dumb questions & a bit of general encouragement.

65 seems to be very popular. With my limited skills a third divsion would be interesting but, unless we can attract new drivers, I'm not sure we would have enough entrants. Recent races in the Novs have only had around 15 cars on the grid. Also if there are only two functional servers how would this work?

I've also recently signed up for Clubmans. Now I am VROC compatible I might start a race. If this was combined with D.1 I'd probably drop it. Just be far too intimidating. If this is replaced with a 69 league then I don't see this as a problem.

No particluar views on handicapping. If someone is quicker than you - get better or put up with it. I can, however, see that it makes the championships more interesting. For me its not really an issue.

On the Moderator question I guess this is quite time consuming so I'd support any initiative that makes the job easier. There might be the occasional borderline decision but thats just part of it. It can't be any worse than some of the FIA's decisions.

On the Server issue - should we try running some off season fun races off of home PC's?