That was really unexpected because the car was so much slower in practice and qualifying than the actual race. It’s like the driver got a little extra in his coffee.
Glad to see the high drivability paid off again. I think 7/8 races were without errors.
I had no special tyre strategies and apparently a full tank was enough fuel to drive all but five laps of the race. Finishing second in the standings is also quite astounding because that was my first brc.
As always an entertaining event and I can’t wait for the next season.
The spread of results reinforces that time and knowledge are still the predominant factors, excluding those who took gambles with very unorthodox strategies. It also appears that it is better to make a car that stands out in some areas with the expense of some weaknesses, as opposed to trying to compromise everything. If you play it safe, you are likely to get an unremarkable result. Frankly I’m not sure my car even deserved the placing it did, but on that token if it wasn’t so fond of playing bumper cars in the wet, I could have finished another ten spots up, though the utility of that speculation is questionable.
I had very limited time to spend on this car (spent as much time styling it as I did tuning it lol), and also spent precisely 3 minutes on the pit strategy, not submitting any adjustments after round 2. For those who were able to follow the races, how much of a role did it play? Seems like it did indeed make the difference between a swag of points several times.
As an ongoing work in progress this is proving to be great for the community and the game. I regret that I’m not able to participate more properly, but hopefully life will settle down sometime in a few years when the simulation has been refined even further and the competition has moved into the modern era, I’ll be there
My pit strategy was able to leap frog my car from mid to late 20th positions up into the top ten on 2 different tracks I believe because of rain pattern which would have given me points if not for crashes which nulled my position gains. Tire wear was still low when my accidents occurred, so having an earlier pit point than others should not have significantly increased my chances to have an error in the grand scheme of things, which means it should have worked out in my favor for fluctuating rain tracks. All in all, pit strat can be advantageous with the random weather, but a better performing car overall makes a much more significant impact.
Your car will get you into the top 10 or 5, pit strat determines final position in that range it seems. So, pretty realistic I would say.
Based on my pit strategy planning, I think the difference between a generic pit strategy and one optimized to the track is … ten seconds to a minute, depending on the track? Probably more commonly near the ten second end of that range, though - and the bigger effect of pit strategy is just who gets unlucky with their rain tyre thresholds.
