Speed Circuit Tracks for WBC

I'm ready to announce the four tracks I will run for speed circuit at the WBC.

The qualifying tracks will be Kyalami, Estoril, and Gilles Villeneuve. Gilles Villeneuve (Montreal Grand Prix) is a new track. I'll run that one Saturday. Haven't determined running order for the other two.

The finals track will be Suzuka.

Play Testing Speed Circuit Rules

I had a practice run last night at the new speed circuit rules that I will be implementing for the WBC in a month's time.

In the end, there really wasn't much to it.

The slipstreaming from 0 mph mod is one of those things that seldom comes up and was less noticed being ruled out then when we had to deal with its existence last year.

The passing table was not actually rolled on last night, but its more of a re-ordering-for-integrity then a rule change.

The order of movement tie-break change went over very well because of the track markings. The fact that there was a rule tweak on that end might have caused confusion, but because no-one really needs to know the rules anymore the rule effectively becomes find the grey border to the track and that side goes first. That worked real well.

The first corner sprint rule seemed to make sense to people, but did not seem to have an impact in this particular race. We had an 8 car field, which is probably on the lower side that I'll see at WBC. The fact that the spaces go away after that first corner also did not seem to confuse any body this race.

More on these rule revisions (and the over all WBC rule mods)

The WBC