Little thought about the new penalty system. 1st i had it on imola race couple days ago and it was horrible. Then did test session at spa and now race at Misano. Seems to be ok if track is well made. It does now give oppirtunity to cut little at eau rouge for example ( which is very bad since gains are huge ) but other than that Spa feels ok and at Misano you could really be all over the track without a penalty. Actually at Misano had to lift myself not to take an advantage since cut was so big couple times ar T2. Not sure how i feel about it. I mean we are ment to have 2 wheels in white line but some tracks allow more like Misano and some are just weird like Imola. Should there be rules per track to support this new system. Like Misano, take those corners as you wish, since track is pretty much build that way with wide kerb areas. Basically would need more work to brief drivers for every event. Just an idea to have little diversity but probably easiest to go as it is. I did couple ac races in finnish series and they had briefings that detailed sometimes exit or 2 that were allowed to go wide. And it was following pretty much the characteristics of those corners and how them are driven in real races. Cut rules were very strick overall. But yes would need much work so....
One of the problems is there is no coding standard for non-S397 track creators, so effectively they have the tools provided by ISI/S397 to define whatever they want with regard to to the track limit parameters which ultimately trigger any penalty. They can also not bother and not build in any track limits into their designs, which is what we are seeing with some workshop content. For S397 to create something robust enough to work accurately with S397 & 3rd party tracks is never going to work 100% perfectly all of the time. It would be way too much work for SRO to try and define rules for every track we use for obvious reasons. We also wouldn't want to run some tracks e.g. S397 with cutting on and other tracks with it off. Until now we have used a cut setting high enough to avoid the sim giving penalties and managed any obvious track limit abuses manually. It may be that we continue to do the same in future.
Correct Ken, it depends on the track. Round 2 of Alpine GT4 @ Misano was ok, round 3 @Brands Hatch does not convince me at all.
