A superpole would be cool, only give a chance for 1 flying lap in qualifying. You wouldn't need to do them one by one, just make it a 20 minute session, and each driver/team chooses when they can go out judging by how clear the track is so they can get a good lap
. Would be cool to see more strategy rather than this free-for-all style most leagues have.
I agree also on making sprint races a bit longer.... something that at least lasts 20-25 mins. Then have a 5 minute break period, and do another sprint race with reversed grid. Reversed grid is fine if you develop the points structure in a way that the majority get their fair share of points. Points should be given from 1st through 10th. People purposely wanting to retire so they can start in front for a reversed grid is just a bad idea if you think about it... you'd lose more opportunities for points if you did that. If the person is the fastest overall and they start on the front row due to reversed grid dnf, then the amount of points for 1st place shouldn't be greater than a decent combined points result from the 2 races.
Say the 1st-10th points are like this for each sprint race: (12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) (just an example). If you got 4th place in the 1st race (7pts), and 5th place in the 2nd race (6), that'd be 13 points. The issue is, how big the grids will be, and how hard it would be to fight up to the front in a sprint race. Usually in 10 laps or so, it isn't always that hard if you are on the pace, so my example here is something that could really happen. If you had 1st place (12pts) and then fought back and got a podium finish, you'd get a
very good sum of points. If someone just DNFs and opts to try and win 1st place in the 2nd round, that is just too much to risk, and hardly that much of a gain.
But I do agree that it could be missused. If the points were even consistent of just 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, then the whole 'dnf strategy' would be useless. You could have those points, but give bonus points for Laps Led, Fastest Lap, and
Highest Climber (specifically FOR reversed grid starts so you can try to earn more). If you had a highest climber bonus point (say 2pts), that would encourage everyone to be given a good reward for a those that start in the back of the grid, rather than the people that just opt to start in front due to a DNF (The penalty would be greater for them).
Anyways, enough about points. I still stand by my idea that you should do several sprint races a month, and do one endurance race at the end of that month also.
Teams aren't truly shown in their variety of skill with a few measly sprint races, you need to do some endurance races to show who is prepared. And no Paul, an endurance race takes FAR MORE preparation for the setup then a sprint race setup. If the endurance race takes into account that the tires should wear and you need to make a pitstop before they blow, then setup development takes a lot longer... because you have to drive the distance each time you test. So a 2 week intermission before the endurance race would be nice for all the teams I think.
Hope the decisions for the next season are good, I'd be interested to see what the final decision is.
) and its quite often frustraiting when you've had a decent race and the reverse race turns a little 'mickey mouse' under the name of entertaining racing instead of possibly another good clean race (maybe duller, but probably more people satisfied with the result)
but all the other ones are good