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Originally Posted by kobefly
You put it in great words, there is the key!
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Thanks.
To be clear in what I wrote I am not arguing one way of the other.
But when I go through the logic of the considerations I see two similar situations. Neither ideal.
I also see, man it’s not easy or straight forward to craft these. And certainly it isn’t possible to have an ideal solution.
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Originally Posted by crmalcolm
I can see the logic in your view. You are saying that the procedure should be drafted in such a way that benefits the driver(s) ahead.
I guess that could be seen as 'track position is key'.
There is another way to see that approach though. If you approach the race from a competitive angle where track position is the priority, then you are reducing the likelihood of close competition.
It would be the inverse of the first 20 hours being a waste of time. You are saying that once a car has a clear lead, then a FCY would only exaggerate that. So in consideration of the value of racing, we would end up in a situation where the last 20 hours of the race are meaningless.
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Interesting.
This is where I’m coming down on it he more I think about it. Same probably, but the other way round.
I can certainly see why IMSA made the choice.
And we are only really considering the lost a lap situation here. There is more to the fairness than that.
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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
The thing we're not really discussing here is the quality of the entries now days.
We had SC periods before. The difference was that cars broke a LOT more back in the day, so even SC periods made no real difference. Now, mechanical issues are actually the exception, not the norm. It's now expected that a manufacturer backed entry will NOT have mechanical issues. This alone makes things much much tighter.
If you look at 1996 (picked a random year), the gap between 2nd and 3rd was almost 50 laps. Less than half the field finished. There were 11 FCYs. So even if you gave 2 laps back per yellow (double today), then the 3rd place car was 30 laps off the lead.
A big reason it is tighter now is cars now break a LOT less than they used to.
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Interesting. I’m not up enough on how the rules have changed over the years, but we would have a much different dynamic.
On the very specific of laps and wave rounds, I’m not sure it impacts us that much. I might be wrong if we look at previous years and other races.