The points given to position and lap time, potentially, are the same. So finishing first will grant you as many points as setting the lap record. Finishing 2nd does grant you less points, I guess somewhere around 101% lap time or something like that.
This is all an extremely moot point though, and with all the details given in the last few months quite laborious too, simply because the points changed quite dramatically later the same day as the particular incident in question.
It is now much easier to drive a clean race and score full points than it is to drive a fast race and get full points. Whilst the old points system still has some effect, it no longer matters if you are 2 seconds off the pace and fall into that category that many claimed previously, "I'm slow but clean".
I think many people are genuinely slow but clean, but generally speaking the standard of racing in LFS is still too low. Our AVERAGE yellow flag ratio on the CTRA is 28%, and i'd like to think that on the whole we have fairly clean servers.
I watched some real racing at the weekend that I thought was attrocious and yet still the average was well under 1%.
Our yellow flags comes out much faster than real racing and a lot more readily, but I think in comparable terms we should be aiming for a 10% ratio.
I seem to float around 15% or so and I keep pulling over to answer questions...
If I could change one thing on the CTRA that would have the biggest effect on improving it, it would be to get all the drivers to drive like it was the real thing and avoid those incidents we accept so readily now.
So, if you drive cleanly and dont throw out yellow flags the whole lap time debate is no longer rellevent, everyone, and I do meen everyone, should be capable of scoring full points for their position by not registering yellow flags in most of their races.
