No, it's an error, I forgot to check the points table before posting it. I was still messing around with it last week. Points for a Grid 2 feature race are equal to Grid 1 sprints.
We do this way because the fastest guy(s) in Grid 2 are almost never slower than the midfield in Grid 1, why should they then get fewer points than a guy who got lucky to get into Grid 1 and then cruises around well off the pace of the fastest drivers?
It includes the balance of performance change for the XRG (from 2% restriction to 1% and 8 kg of ballast) aswell as the change of the 105% rule in pre-qualifying to 103.5%. Drivers that are competing in a qualifying or race session, but have no set a time in pre-qualifying must now also set a time that's within 103.5% of the fastest qualifying time in their grid.
103.5% sounds more sensible to me.
BUT the way I read your summary above, you've subtly (and unintentionally?) altered the meaning relative to what's in the V3 PDF file, for drivers who do NOT pre-qualify.
What the PDF file says is that they "have to meet the 103.5% rule in qualifying and may only start in the lowest grid active in that round".
What you've written above is that they are OK to race if they are under 103.5% of the fastest time "in their grid" which will be the slowest grid, hence they could be quite a bit slower than if they did attend pre-qualifying (given that the best time on grid 2 is likely to be 1 or 2% slower than the best on grid 1.
I imagine this isn't what you mean/want. Seems more reasonable for them to have to set a time that's less than 103.5% of fastest pre-qually time, no?
Edit: just realised that there is a second bit in the rules, from which you are quoting above. This means that the PDF contains two (IMHO) slightly incompatible statements All I'm actually concerned about is a slow driver feeling that they are better off NOT pre-qualifying as the bar will be lower if they don't. But so long as you don't let slow ppl attend qually if they didn't pre-qual, then no worries
The reason they only have to be within 103.5% within qualifying is that qualifying is significantly shorter than pre-qualifying and that there will be 20 cars or even more on track. I don't want to put too much unnecessary pressure on people.
Dropbox is reliable, I have never had anyone complain that they couldn't get a file. Thing is though, it can't show you something that's not there anymore, since I moved all files from all of our past championships to a different location a week or so ago (some of which is yet to be moved too).
Anyways, I added the new link to to the first post.
