Good to see such positive feedback here so far.
Not sure why the race ended a little early on a standard track, but we can always do lap counted races in future.
Obviously we need to fine tune these races if we are going to run a series, which is what these test races are for. Personally I'd love to do full length repli races, but as I said to H@L recently, I'd then have to take Wednesdays off work to recover
Joking aside, I do think slightly longer races would make things less frantic as these sprints are just soooooo intense. Maybe half RL distance with 1x tyres which would equate to approx 50 mins total and entice us into looking after our tyres for a one stop strategy? or 2x tyres for a 2 or 3 stopper? I'd like to not do refuelling as this wasn't part of the formula back in the day....nice to keep it a bit real.
As far as car choice. I think that with a couple of exceptions it worked pretty well tonight.....at this track. I think the aim of keeping our times as even as possible is a sound one. A kind of self handicapping....after all there's no fun in racing away 30 secs from the rest of the field, but then it's even less fun to be 30 secs off the back. So maybe a bit of car/driver tweaking would is worth considering?
There is another half of this mod which is referred to as the "Missing Teams" (which completes the full grid from the '88 season). The quality is at least as good as these cars and it would give us a greater choice towards the lower end of the performance spread. Maybe this is something to consider for a future trial?
As for the race, good fun although I managed to work my way backwards for most of it. I was busy watching Geoffers in pit hoping he'd join and missed the start, so sorry for anyone who got slowed up in that. Had a nice little scrap with Legzy, his turbo V6 pulling away on the straights, but the better handling Benetton making time back in the corners. I slipped past when he made a mistake but then backed it into the armco trying to pull a gap. Lost my rear wing and then spun off at the next turn into the armco losing my front wing and damaging suspension
Pitted for repairs which took an age and then had a stop go for speeding. Car was not too bad after repairs but I got caught out a couple of times trying to push back. Tyre wear for me wasn't too bad.....20/20 even with all those spins, but then I'm usually good with tyres.
Thanks to all who gave this a go and hope to see you back for more next week.