The Alonso/Vettel start incident was identical to the start of the Hockenheim race by the way. I think that Schumi's penalty at Hungary largely owed to the fact that he forced Barrichello across the pit exit at high speed.
Looking at that Alonso moved a lot later than I thought. I can't tell for certain from that angle but it looked like he probably had some overlap after all. If that's the case then I think it's quite marginal. I still don't think it's quite as bad as the Schumacher/Barrichello incident mostly because Vettel yielded before it got dangerous and as such we don't really know how far Alonso would have gone.
Vettel didn't have any overlap at all when Alonso started to move across the track. There was nothing dangerous whatsoever in what Alonso did. If Vettel had decided to try and pass when the gap was too small then that would have been dangerous. But he didn't, because that would have been stupid. He also didn't even mention that he thought Alonso's move was dangerous afaik.
I think Alonso immediately moved to defend his position at the start and Vettel was at no point beside him. Schumacher waited until Barrichello decided to go inside him and then squeezed him towards the wall - continuing to do so when the cars were beside one another. Still, I didn't think that the incident in Hungary was a clear-cut penalty by any stretch. Rubens could have backed off if it was so dangerous but he didn't. Still, the incidents were different for the reasons I already outlined.
So what exactly is the issue? The outcome was in Vettel's hands and it would have been reckless for him to move into a gap that was disappearing all the time. Alonso started moving over very early - long before Vettel was beside him.
Do you know that all replays must be provided, including qualifying? Also, do you know that daylight saving time ends in October, and therefore, according to your schedule, rounds 1 to 4 start at 2000 CZE time and rounds 5+ start at 1900 CZE time? Is this correct?
Once you've confirmed these things you should upload all of the round 1 replays to our ftp server. Once all of that is done I'll add the competition.
Sorry, I did not see this until now. Some of the start times look wrong. E.g. 20 laps with the XFG at BL1 takes longer than 30 minutes, but the start of race 2 is only 30 minutes after the start of race 1. Please correct the start times.
Do you know that you will have to upload all of the replays from this competition to our website? That means every single one including qualifying (otherwise I will remove it).
I see that there's still a while till this gets going and that there aren't a lot of sign ups yet, so I'll hold off for now. Remind me again in 10 days or so.
I can't see the admins changing the result because of this incident - it looks a bit too marginal to me.
I think the double points final round is good. This season was very different to the last two in that no single team scored consistently well. From our perspective, we did crap in pretty much every race and so it seemed a bit strange to be in a position to win the championship in the final round - but then everyone else did crap, too, so really it was inevitable that a lot of teams would stand a chance of winning it. Looking at what's happened in the last two seasons I don't think there's really any reason to scrap the double points round.
Still, it seems like the tracker calculates the overall time using the session time which doesn't work across multiple servers since the start time is random - although it makes sense for a single server.
The race was really interesting to follow. Good race Conquest and grats to Nfinity for the LRF win .