Something new for 2017

[Luke]

re. The benefit of this would be that with one less group, the classes would come around sooner and we would get to race the cars that we have actually painstakingly prepared at least once more for the year (therefore at least five times for the year, more for some classes, depending on the actual number of weeks that racing occurs on). My feeling is that currently we put a lot of effort into researching, building and preparing cars for many non-IROC classes and don't get to race each them enough. My proposal would go some way towards alleviating that.

Steve I'm sure you are looking for your socks ... because my suggestion on (3 groupings / 14 classes) previous page must have knocked them off ..?

I thought you might have been the first too reply with reference to two now less groups ... don't you feel this a great 2 thumbs up for 2017 racing

Luke

[steveaca]

Hi Luke,
you not only knocked off the socks but blew away the shoes as well with that suggestion. Although I am all for reducing the number of groupings, I feel that your Group B, with four non-IROC classes would be a bit difficult to prepare for. Nevertheless if this proposal is acceptable to others, I would be prepared to go along with it.
Steve

[Luke]

Concerning this grouping ...

B:
RC
HS
APC
VS

And thoughts with ...

I feel that your Group B, with four non-IROC classes would be a bit difficult to prepare for.

You're very correct Steve - group B dose look like it will take a lot of effort to accomplish with 4 non-IROC classes.

Plus, both from and at the circuit

Well, I made some adjustment but while lookong over Gordon's recent (avg. amount of races) suggestion and did two changes with F1 and MC ...

Focusing for the moment on the class groupings, how about this compromise suggestion:

A:
MGT IROC (Avg of 6 races)
RGT (3 races)
MP (3 races)

(12 races total)

B:
MC IROC (Avg of 6 races)
HS (3 races)
APC (3 races)
VS (3 races)

(15 races total)

C:
SGTC IROC (Avg of 6 races)
RC (3 stages of avg of 6 cars)
SC (3 races)

(12 "races" total)

D:
NSS IROC (Avg of 6 races)
GT (3 races)
LMP (3 races)
F1 (3 races)

(15 races total)

Here's the adjustments in green ... for Gordon's original suggestion and sure he is AOK with that

• A:
  MGT IROC
  RGT
  MP
  F1
  
  B:
  HS
  APC
  VS
  
  C:
  MC / SGTC IROC (alternating)
  RC
  SC
  
  D:
  NSS IROC
  GT
  LMP

Overall these 4 groups looking manageable and simply alternating the MC and SGTC IROC classes only

Luke

[steveaca]

This looks OK to me Luke. My main concern would be to not let the number of class groupings exceed four. I'd be fine with either this or Gordon's four-group suggestion above.

[gordon]

Thinking of this a bit more, I really feel that we need to aim for no more than three classes per event. Based on this, here's a slight rearrangement of Steve's suggestion that I think will work:

A:
MGT IROC / NSS IROC (Avg of 6 races)
MP (3 races)
RGT (3 races)

(12 races total)

B:
HS (3 races)
APC (3 races)
VS (3 races)

(9 races total)

C:
MC IROC / SGTC IROC (Avg of 6 races)
RC (3 stages of avg of 6 cars)
SC (3 races)

(12 "races" total)

D:
F1 (3 races)
GT (3 races)
LMP (3 races)

(9 races total)

In each group, I've arranged the classes so that they generally go from slowest to fastest.