World Grand Prix Organization: OOC Discussion Thread

[Aboveland]

In case I'm awkwardly gone for a few days it's cause my power is going out all the time.

[Audioslavia]

In case I'm awkwardly gone for a few days it's cause my power is going out all the time.

The power in your house keeps cutting out? Do you live in a Chase Cutter?

[Esmerel]

In case I'm awkwardly gone for a few days it's cause my power is going out all the time.

The power in your house keeps cutting out? Do you live in a Chase Cutter?

ahem if you read up on the lore and history of the WGPC beforehand you'll remember it was hax and not bad engineering

i jest of course. nice burn

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

In case I'm awkwardly gone for a few days it's cause my power is going out all the time.

The power in your house keeps cutting out? Do you live in a Chase Cutter? ;)

Yes, our standard for reliability really should be set by the individual whose cars are powered by literal explosions and whose team's design philosophy at various points in the past has been 'make it just stable enough to survive the one race'.

I kid I kid I kid

[Filindostan]

One final question to ask of the community (JNI not necessarily excluded, though naturally the viewpoints of drivers and team owners will have more weight) is this: In Formula One there is a limit of 26 cars allowed to start a race. The addition of McPahan will take us to 28 for WGPC17.
Do we want all 28 drivers starting the race or should the amount of drivers progressing from qualification to the race be limited to 26 (IE with the slowest two drivers not making it)?

I agree with the majority here. Also, it opens up more RP opportunities as well. It depends on the thought process of the users how to tinker with the possible scenarios a 28-car field may bring.

[Joushiki Nante Iranai]

This makes me think of an idea for next season - tracks can set an amount of drivers passing the qualification stage (from 20 to 30). Like One-Shot Qualifying, this will be rare, although not as rare (maybe 5-7 races with limited drivers?). IC this would make sense for narrow, technical circuits such as street tracks.

[Audioslavia]

Aye I had that idea myself. It's a little too late for it this season, but it's an option for the future.

[West-East Timor]

I don't have time to anounce it ICly, but the Omni test will be held tomorrow or on Sunday. ICly it will probably be after the second pre-season test, but if I sign a driver tomorrow (which is unlikely I guess) they might ICly take part in the pre-season test on Sunday, if not in the test on the 19th, probably.

[WGPC]

The first of the pre-season tests in Mattijana was edited an hour after original scorination to add in Dalia Dahl of Eastfield Lodge, who I forgot about.

This is why there are so many tests. It's mainly for me

[Liventia]

This makes me think of an idea for next season - tracks can set an amount of drivers passing the qualification stage (from 20 to 30). Like One-Shot Qualifying, this will be rare, although not as rare (maybe 5-7 races with limited drivers?). IC this would make sense for narrow, technical circuits such as street tracks.

Aye I had that idea myself. It's a little too late for it this season, but it's an option for the future.

Personally, I would rather us not go down this route and have the same number of cars in every race. Either we have a fixed number of Did-Not-Qualify cars, or everyone makes it to the grid imo.

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Alright. I'm back from university. Two weeks of mostly free time.

[Esmerel]

of course you make it back from university but now i'm stuck in illinois 4 hours from home for the entire weekend

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

of course you make it back from university but now i'm stuck in illinois 4 hours from home for the entire weekend :unsure:

Ah, we have more than one and a half weeks after that. There is time enough, my friend!

[Aboveland]

Okay, actually concerned now.

[Audioslavia]

It's pre-season

[Aboveland]

It's pre-season

And with it, pre-anxiety.

Although I suppose that's the definition of anxiety anyway.

[WGPC]

POS #   DRIVER                         FASTEST LAP     BEHIND LEADER		
 1 14 ▍Sigur Bjarnason             	00:01:35.276	00:00:00.000
 2  7 ▍Vijay Tripathi              	00:01:35.277	00:00:00.002

Just in case anyone is confused, the fact that we have a difference of 0.002 seconds between 00:01:35.276 and 00:01:35.277 is due to rounding. The sheet calculates to many more decimal places than RL timing equipment. In order to save time we won't be making alterations to the read-outs. Just pretend official WGPC timing is future-tech. We have cat-people, sentient birds and even Krytenians driving this season, so it shouldn't be too much of a leap.

[Diarcesia]

Since my circuit didn't make it, and hasn't been used in any GPs either, I think I can retcon it for the next season.

[Filindostan]

Since the three sessions at Mattijana were all dry session, I took liberty to extract the times from each session and take the fastest lap of each for the entire testing at Kopylov Internazionring.

Below are the unofficial combined fastest lap times for the WGPC pre-season at Mattijana:

POS #   DRIVER                         FASTEST LAP     BEHIND LEADER		
 1  14 ▍Sigur Bjarnason               00:01:35.276	00:00:00.000
 2   7 ▍Vijay Tripathi                00:01:35.277	00:00:00.001
 3  20 ▍Mick Schramm                  00:01:35.302	00:00:00.026
 4  64 ▍Carsten O'Rourke              00:01:35.328	00:00:00.052
 5  56 ▍Terho Talvela                 00:01:35.330	00:00:00.054
 6  49 ▍Benjamin Talison              00:01:35.338	00:00:00.062
 7  27 ▍Gregori Krupin                00:01:35.345	00:00:00.069
 8  17 ▍Evdaden Carnétier             00:01:35.353	00:00:00.077
 9  22 ▍Jasmin Kranjska               00:01:35.353	00:00:00.077
10  77 ▍iBen Toralmintii              00:01:35.358	00:00:00.082
11  29 ▍Esteban Guilhermez            00:01:35.387	00:00:00.111
12  51 ▍RL Cruisin                    00:01:35.393	00:00:00.117
13  41 ▍Jean Mercer-Daly              00:01:35.458	00:00:00.182
14  63 ▍Dalia Dahl                    00:01:35.523	00:00:00.247
15  71 ▍Rustom Ibuna                  00:01:35.553	00:00:00.277
16  52 ▍Sayono Souzare                00:01:35.575	00:00:00.299
17   3 ▍Darius Castellammare          00:01:35.602	00:00:00.326
18  18 ▍Taylor Blake                  00:01:35.651	00:00:00.375
19  47 ▍Erica Okumura                 00:01:35.717	00:00:00.441
20   1 ▍Jessica Franssen              00:01:35.777	00:00:00.501
21  33 ▍Jai Kardaeri                  00:01:35.908	00:00:00.632
22  94 ▍Ryker Lane                    00:01:35.966	00:00:00.690
23  15 ▍Tabita Novax                  00:01:37.393	00:00:02.117

[Falcania]

Below are the unofficial combined fastest lap times for the WGPC pre-season at Mattijana:

POS #   DRIVER                         FASTEST LAP     BEHIND LEADER		
22  94 ▍Ryker Lane                    00:01:35.966	00:00:00.690
23  15 ▍Tabita Novax                  00:01:37.393	00:00:02.117

oof

[WGPC]

Right then. That's our last pre-season practice out of the way. From here on in, shit gets real.

McPahan will send offers to two drivers early next week. Hopefully on Tuesday. I already have an idea of which two drivers will be in line for the two seats. It's looking like we'll only need two.

Happy RPing, all!

[Third Asopia]

Happy RPing, all!

But first someone has to stop me from procrastinating and start RPing immediately.

[Savojarna]

Woohoo, shit gets real!

*checks qualifying results*

Damn. Can we make this a test run again, please?

[Starblaydia]

Woohoo, shit gets real!

*checks qualifying results*

Damn. Can we make this a test run again, please?

I had exactly the same feeling so many deserving teams and drivers who should be up there, but can't wait for the first race!

[Savojarna]

Woohoo, shit gets real!

*checks qualifying results*

Damn. Can we make this a test run again, please?

I had exactly the same feeling so many deserving teams and drivers who should be up there, but can't wait for the first race!

TBH that entire Hodori qualifying is such a wild fluke. A bunch of people who did well in practice crashed, vice versa, and the test sessions mean really nothing. Interesting races incoming, I guess