Running wide/shortcutting at Oulton Park
Nov 9, 2010 10:09:51 GMT 2
Post by Cholerix on Nov 9, 2010 10:09:51 GMT 2
You may remember that in pre-race chat at Oulton Park race I explicitly pointed out to stay ON the track and that we'll investigate especially in your racing lines in Turn 4 after the race
Furthermore I'd like to point towards this rule:
Drivers are required to keep at least 2 wheels on the race track at all times. Consistent abuse may result in disqualification and no scoring for that race.
Now the question is: when is "consistent" ?
We had a long and controversal discussion how to proceed on that topic as almost everybody occasionally ran off in one or another turn. Most popular to run off was in T1 and T4. Now T1 and T2 are somewhat special at Oulton Park because of the specific ("wired") surface that may indicate that a lot of the green part would be allowed to use. So we added that part in to be ok. We had in mind that the track's flow would at some places would invite to run a more aggressive line. So we didn't at all go for shortcuttings in a zealot's way of rule interpretation
We only started investigating, if a driver was more than 33% of all times offtrack with all 4 tires in a specific turn. Which we found only happened in T1 and T4. We put off those occasions when drivers had run off accidently, indicated by pushing brakes or at least lifting throttle. We put off those times when drivers may have been forced to run off in any way - by another car close by, or by damage on their own. We then even put off all those occasions where drivers were only rather slightly off with all 4 tires.
We only added up when drivers without any doubt deliberately shortcutted or ran wide, extremely extending track width to gain an advantage
Drivers that did so < 33% of all laps in a race will lose 3 positions in race result
Drivers that did so < 50% of all laps in a race will lose 5 positions in race result
Please have in mind that to get penalized that way you had to at least 6 (4 in R1) times extremely run off - deliberately - to gain an advantage on others. We can and will not tolerate such individual interpretation where the track ends, else this will turn into a "who cuts in most" contest for those who aim for being competitive.
You may wonder now why opposite to above rule there's no DQFs for shortcutting here ? Because this is no fixed rule, as the wording "may" incidates. There's a wide variety of options that could all fit under the label "shortcutting" - from missing whole turns to using the green to extend track width. DQF is for deliberately missing parts of the track, which is same category as cheating. Shortcutting the way done like at Oulton Park ain't cheating, but rather a much too aggressive interpretation where the track ends
Furthermore I'd like to point towards this rule:
Drivers are required to keep at least 2 wheels on the race track at all times. Consistent abuse may result in disqualification and no scoring for that race.
Now the question is: when is "consistent" ?
We had a long and controversal discussion how to proceed on that topic as almost everybody occasionally ran off in one or another turn. Most popular to run off was in T1 and T4. Now T1 and T2 are somewhat special at Oulton Park because of the specific ("wired") surface that may indicate that a lot of the green part would be allowed to use. So we added that part in to be ok. We had in mind that the track's flow would at some places would invite to run a more aggressive line. So we didn't at all go for shortcuttings in a zealot's way of rule interpretation
We only started investigating, if a driver was more than 33% of all times offtrack with all 4 tires in a specific turn. Which we found only happened in T1 and T4. We put off those occasions when drivers had run off accidently, indicated by pushing brakes or at least lifting throttle. We put off those times when drivers may have been forced to run off in any way - by another car close by, or by damage on their own. We then even put off all those occasions where drivers were only rather slightly off with all 4 tires.
We only added up when drivers without any doubt deliberately shortcutted or ran wide, extremely extending track width to gain an advantage
Drivers that did so < 33% of all laps in a race will lose 3 positions in race result
Drivers that did so < 50% of all laps in a race will lose 5 positions in race result
Please have in mind that to get penalized that way you had to at least 6 (4 in R1) times extremely run off - deliberately - to gain an advantage on others. We can and will not tolerate such individual interpretation where the track ends, else this will turn into a "who cuts in most" contest for those who aim for being competitive.
You may wonder now why opposite to above rule there's no DQFs for shortcutting here ? Because this is no fixed rule, as the wording "may" incidates. There's a wide variety of options that could all fit under the label "shortcutting" - from missing whole turns to using the green to extend track width. DQF is for deliberately missing parts of the track, which is same category as cheating. Shortcutting the way done like at Oulton Park ain't cheating, but rather a much too aggressive interpretation where the track ends