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Originally Posted by Bcarr6
I dont think anyone here is saying the format is hated.
The format is great, the three hour races are great and the gid is good even at 46 instead of 55 or whatever it was.
The point people, myself included are trying to make, is that it could be so much better with minor tweaks to the way the races are managed- Remove the SC after FCY rule, and remove the stint length rule.
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Exactly.
Remember when they did this at Le Mans with the GTE class and it ruined the GTE race, and when they did fuel and tyres together for LMPs and it ruined the strategy? Nobody said Le Mans sucks - just these were bad decisions. The ACO partially rolled these back. SRO needs to do the same.
tux makes a good point in that some of this is to stop innovation and costs, which is fine. But some of it, to be brutally honest, is just laziness. Because it's a BoP class, they attempt to balance the cars. But doing that is hard. So rather than try to work out fuel tank sizes for the cars, they just have maximum stint lengths. So now everyone can only do 65 minutes - you can't do an epic fuel run for an additional lap or anything. And since everyones fuel tanks are different sizes, they're all putting different amounts of fuel in, so rather than work out the corrrect flow rate on the pit equipment they just have a minimum pit stop time. So no matter how much fuel you put in, everyones stop is the same length of time.
All of that is purely so they don't need to work on creating a proper balance in the cars. Just mandate it in the rules.
FCY > SC is just purely for bunching cars up to create racing. That's all that is. Get rid of it for more pure racing and less yellows. This "yellows create yellows" thing is only true when the yellow bunches cars up.
GTWC is really really good to watch. But it could be basically perfect with some minor changes.