02-06-2021, 10:52 AM
So I took part in the last Praga R1 race of the season. This was an hour at the Nordschleife with fastest lap times ranging from 9:17 to 8:23 and a full tank of fuel managing 3 laps.
Now I had put the practice in and worked out it was likely to be a 7 lap race ( though James Leader was only 49 seconds away from making it 8 laps ), so I did a two stop strategy for the fuel.
On the last lap there were two people in front of me, who ran out of fuel, but because of the cut off time at the end of the race I didn't get to finish my last lap. This means that the result gets counted back and the two overtakes on the last lap didn't count loosing me those extra points.
So please can we extend the cut off time at the end of the races of these long tracks as it's demoralizing to have put the work into the practice and the race to loose places due to this. This could even be extended on all the races, as on most tracks I don't think it will make a difference as the session is normaly ended by everone finishing and not the timing out system.
Now I had put the practice in and worked out it was likely to be a 7 lap race ( though James Leader was only 49 seconds away from making it 8 laps ), so I did a two stop strategy for the fuel.
On the last lap there were two people in front of me, who ran out of fuel, but because of the cut off time at the end of the race I didn't get to finish my last lap. This means that the result gets counted back and the two overtakes on the last lap didn't count loosing me those extra points.
So please can we extend the cut off time at the end of the races of these long tracks as it's demoralizing to have put the work into the practice and the race to loose places due to this. This could even be extended on all the races, as on most tracks I don't think it will make a difference as the session is normaly ended by everone finishing and not the timing out system.