04-28-2020, 11:34 AM
I have a love, hate relationship with the Nordschleife.
I love it as it's such a different track to all the other ones we race. Not just going round and round. But I have issues racing on it.
I find it tricky to drive, but that's my problem, but also other people find it tricky to drive and don't make allowances for that. I don't know whether to race people behind me as they often decide to try passing in stupid places, where it's tight and there is no space really, which lets face it is most of the track. Or I let them past and they then make a mistake, but due to the tight confines of the track you get collected or can't get round them or they hit you while trying to sort them selves out.
Yesterday in the top server there were a total of 130 ( one hundred and thirty ) incidents, that's for 21 drivers. That was the lowest for any of the four servers with the total for all four servers at 757 incidents, with one driver, in server 4, managing 70 incidents
In fact out of the 76 drivers 27 of them would have been better off not racing, as they ended up with negative point scores.
The other issue I have is the cut off time at the end of the race. You have 4-5 minutes after the leader passes the line to finish your last lap. Normally this is fine on tracks the have lap times of 2-3 minutes, but when a lap round the Nordschleife can take 10 minutes that is a problem. If you don't finish your lap you get a count back to the previous lap. So yesterday I lost 2 positions, as one racer left the server having just passed the line and I passed one having run out of fuel. I wasn't far behind, just coming under the bridge on the back straight, when the server stopped.
I don't know what you do about the incidents, as I certainly wouldn't want to stop using the Nordschleife, but can we please have a longer cut off for these longer tracks.
I love it as it's such a different track to all the other ones we race. Not just going round and round. But I have issues racing on it.
I find it tricky to drive, but that's my problem, but also other people find it tricky to drive and don't make allowances for that. I don't know whether to race people behind me as they often decide to try passing in stupid places, where it's tight and there is no space really, which lets face it is most of the track. Or I let them past and they then make a mistake, but due to the tight confines of the track you get collected or can't get round them or they hit you while trying to sort them selves out.
Yesterday in the top server there were a total of 130 ( one hundred and thirty ) incidents, that's for 21 drivers. That was the lowest for any of the four servers with the total for all four servers at 757 incidents, with one driver, in server 4, managing 70 incidents
In fact out of the 76 drivers 27 of them would have been better off not racing, as they ended up with negative point scores.The other issue I have is the cut off time at the end of the race. You have 4-5 minutes after the leader passes the line to finish your last lap. Normally this is fine on tracks the have lap times of 2-3 minutes, but when a lap round the Nordschleife can take 10 minutes that is a problem. If you don't finish your lap you get a count back to the previous lap. So yesterday I lost 2 positions, as one racer left the server having just passed the line and I passed one having run out of fuel. I wasn't far behind, just coming under the bridge on the back straight, when the server stopped.
I don't know what you do about the incidents, as I certainly wouldn't want to stop using the Nordschleife, but can we please have a longer cut off for these longer tracks.