First and most importantly, a big thank you to @Der_Bayer for building BROBOT and hosting these challenges. Even running a regular community challenge takes up a shocking amount of time, I can only imagine what it is like when you have to develop a real time simulation program, scrutineer and manage strategies for 50+ cars and so on.
The frustration of those who had their race(s) ruined by bugs is understandable, but is no justification to start throwing toys out of the pram and yelling at people. This is not a paid service. Everybody saw that it went wrong. Der_Bayer has said he will try to find and fix it. If you compare the first race of the season and the last one you can see how much the program moved forward - the top 10 view outside of autoscroll, the visual distance indicator under the track window, contact notes instead of crashes. It has clearly been in constant development. I’m sure if the pit bug can be found, it will be fixed. If not, you can imagine one of your pit crew screwed something up. That happens in real life, too.
(Now that I’ve said that I’m sure that’ll happen to me next season. So be it I suppose.)
Big thanks also to the commentators. It is immensely entertaining to have you guys chat over the goings on, especially since my own attention is mostly locked on my car (and I imagine it’s the same for most of us), so it’s good to get a heads up when other interesting stuff is happening elsewhere.
I had been looking forward to BRC 1976 ever since the Hockenheim endurance race (that made me sign up in the first place, but I was too late to join). I was hoping for a good finish here and put a fair bit of work into a NA car before the season, before scrapping it for reasons and stuffing the driver in a turbocharged rocketship at the last minute. It worked out better than I could have hoped for.
I had quite good luck over the season. I had two collisions in the first race and extra pit stops (which were due to my strategy not lining up with the race weather pattern) in the first and second race if I remember correctly. I probably lost some points to mer_at in the race where the sim crashed, as there had been a late safety car and three turbonauts including mine were left running away before it all went blue. I also despaired openly whenever qualifications took place in the rain because my car was consistently in qually point range in the dry, but turned out to be an absolute murderous beast in the damp and the driver was clearly feathering it around. (Just look at the dry practice vs wet qualification standings for Nordschleife) Overall, nothing like some of you had to deal with.
Thank you for the congratulations!
My hat’s off to AirJordan, who built a car similar in principle to what I had tried to do (NA with sport tires) and showed an absolutely blistering pace with it throughout the season. Probably deserved to win the last race by the looks of it. His NA is better than mine would have been, so it’s a good thing I went for the monster.
I think TheBobWiley deserved to end up higher than he did if not for the problems over the season, that was a seriously fast car. Obviously there were lots of other very fast ones around, too.
Condolences to mer_at for the bug. That is no way to lose the championship and should not have happened. It would have been interesting to see the race play out, doubly so when you got unlucky with the crash early on. I suppose we will never know what would have been, but it was a very tense season and a very fast car, so well done on the build.
You had me worried when fortuna kept smiling on you through the season with the coinflip for an engine explosion, you getting no points in one race would have made my position much more secure. Your car was very fast, possibly the fastest on the grid, but it was also the least reliable one by a long margin. As I said, winning because of the bug did not feel good or fair. I would have felt much better with a justified, honest engine blowout. That is not intended as schadenfreude, just that the gamble of a blowout was clearly an inherent part of the design (because had it been possible to make it that fast with higher reliability I’m sure you would have).
Great season, all things considered. On to the eighties! 
Maybe sprint cars? WRC? dtm? oh the possibilities…
You can do that, can’t you.
