Quote from Hoellsen :

The 40% rule stands. It was added to avoid teams having their best driver drive most of the race. We feel this reason is very valid and that OCR's situation should be solved differently than by removing that rule. If it were down to hardware problems or something like that, an exception can most probably be made. But except for the 12h of Kyoto the schedule is know long enough beforehand that teams should be able to get their scheduling and planning done well ahead and therefore they should not run into time problems.

Well, you are right. In the 12 and 24 hours races, it's not that important, as you can shift and move schedules easily.
But take a 6 hours event. If you have only 3 drivers - and that can happen easily - you are actually totally bound to one strategie. Example XRR: max 3 stints per driver. A 4th stint would shoot far over the 40%. For FXR it's even more obvious: 2 hours (about 4 stints) are doable, but not a 5th. That leaves almost no room, to change tactics during race. So everytime, something unforseen happens in RL, you cant really react to that. Sure, you can now argue about having enough guys for the weekend. But for example next race is scheduled together with 2 other events in the LFS world. I see your point in those "dont let one driver drive it all" but as you can read, that's not my intention here

Anyway, if the rules stand, we'll have to accept it, but I guess one or more of the smaller MoE teams will run into trouble at one point here.

I agree about the 40% rule with Vyk indeed. In the Kyoto event one of our drivers got GFX problems at the moment he connected to the server. The driver currently in the car had done a 2hour stint, same for myself. But suddenly the current driver or me had to get into the car, instead of the driver that just connected. Because it was a 12h race we didnt get into trouble with the 40% rule, but during a 6h race we would've had to wait until the 3rd driver restarted his system.

40% of a 6h race are 144min. That makes a good 4 stints in the XRR (taken from experience at Kyoto). I don't see how a 4th stint takes you "far over the 40%".

Frank:

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If it were down to hardware problems or something like that, an exception can most probably be made.

Quote from Hoellsen :

40% of a 6h race are 144min. That makes a good 4 stints in the XRR (taken from experience at Kyoto). I don't see how a 4th stint takes you "far over the 40%".

well, a stint in XRR is more about 40 mins. 40 mins * 4 = 160 mins... Evenif it's only 35 mins, it gets you damn close to 40%. So no variation really possible. Anyway, you do the rules, and we for sure will follow, as long as you say we can discuss here, we'll prolly continue to do and rant

i'd also go for a 45% rule which would make it impossible to finish with only 2 drivers but would leave enough room to vhange the race strategy mid-race...

also having a driver race 45% would still need at least one very fast teammate, who also does 45% to finish good - and still a third one to drive home the rest

aslong as it's well below 50%, i would agree, that a change could be useful here

We made a slight change to Point 10 of the rules regarding driver names.

Last race we had a lot of trouble with driver names and our lap-tracker. This should make sure it doesn't happen again.