...and by the way: Greetings to all race directors out there! The race neutralising procedures FCY and CODE60 do not really work on a grid with amateur driven historic cars, which have... ...no Speedometer. ...no speed limiter button. ...no pit radio for green-flag-countdown. No, don't argue, just believe me. IT DOES NOT WORK! The race shown above is certainly not the first and single time these procedures failed. ...stick to SafetyCars please! In the end they're cheaper than delay for track repairs and cleaning. Thank you! P.S.: Best wishes to Sarène! Get well soon!!
That black car had to have seen you passing by really wonder how he still hit you. Guessing that the things you comment on in your comment is the reason you caught half the field sleeping at the restart before the crash red flagged the race.
Well... the basic idea of (full course-) CODE60 is to instantly slow down every car in every place to 60kph to freeze the gaps between each car. Even with modern sportscars having speed limiter buttons and complete GPS-surveillance this only barely works if the race control is punishing really every rule violation very strickly (see in WEC, NLS, etc.). ...but with cars that do not even have a speedometer, and no real time surveillance at all...? ...actually here again the CODE60 became a factual FCY. No gaps were preserved, the grid collected itself tightly before restart. ...and then you can see what happens in FCY situations: A few drivers are strained to watch every marshall post for bringing out green flag, everytime and everywhere on the track. As you have no radio, you just don't know when to expect restart, so you are on high alert literally all the time. ...that's everything but save! ...especially with many drivers doing something else in their cars but not watching out for restart. A safety car is literally the only way reasonable way at the moment as the restart area is clearly defined an the restart is announced by safety car lighting.
...and by the way: Greetings to all race directors out there!
The race neutralising procedures FCY and CODE60 do not really work on a grid with amateur driven historic cars, which have...
...no Speedometer.
...no speed limiter button.
...no pit radio for green-flag-countdown.
No, don't argue, just believe me. IT DOES NOT WORK!
The race shown above is certainly not the first and single time these procedures failed.
...stick to SafetyCars please! In the end they're cheaper than delay for track repairs and cleaning.
Thank you!
P.S.: Best wishes to Sarène! Get well soon!!
Code 60 does NOT work in single seaters .No speed recording on rev counter .
That black car had to have seen you passing by really wonder how he still hit you. Guessing that the things you comment on in your comment is the reason you caught half the field sleeping at the restart before the crash red flagged the race.
Well... the basic idea of (full course-) CODE60 is to instantly slow down every car in every place to 60kph to freeze the gaps between each car. Even with modern sportscars having speed limiter buttons and complete GPS-surveillance this only barely works if the race control is punishing really every rule violation very strickly (see in WEC, NLS, etc.). ...but with cars that do not even have a speedometer, and no real time surveillance at all...?
...actually here again the CODE60 became a factual FCY. No gaps were preserved, the grid collected itself tightly before restart. ...and then you can see what happens in FCY situations: A few drivers are strained to watch every marshall post for bringing out green flag, everytime and everywhere on the track. As you have no radio, you just don't know when to expect restart, so you are on high alert literally all the time. ...that's everything but save! ...especially with many drivers doing something else in their cars but not watching out for restart.
A safety car is literally the only way reasonable way at the moment as the restart area is clearly defined an the restart is announced by safety car lighting.