That, I think, depends on what car you're driving and where you're driving it 
As for the suggestion - yes, a good one. Although I'd adjust it a bit, and say add time for driver changes in short pitstops. As has been mostly said in bits and pieces, yes, it takes time to change drivers, but if your crew are spending a minute bashing some bodywork off your front tyre then you might as well change over rather than sit there and watch them do it. So I reckon it should be set up such that LFS adds time to your pitstop, up to making it last twenty seconds, when you change drivers.
For most cars, twenty seconds is probably about right. Were you a quick-thinking driver, you'd probably already have your harness released by the time you've stopped (not sure if this is legal or not, actually, but there you go. Seems like a good idea. Anyone know the rules on that?), so you could bail out in less than five seconds. Allowing a couple of seconds for the next person to get their sizing cushion in, another couple for getting themselves in, you're left with ten seconds to adjust and lock the straps in. Sounds doable, especially with the amount of practice you'd have had, but I might be about to get shot down in flames by someone with more experience of this
Of course, if you're in a single-seater it's gonna take longer to get yourself in and out - even more so if you've got a HANS, I guess - so perhaps different timing for each car class would be good. Quick for road cars, a bit slower for GTRs because you've got a rollcage in the way, slower still for single seaters because of pedal box adjustment and steering wheel fitting?
I'm looking for feedback here, guys
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Sam
As for the suggestion - yes, a good one. Although I'd adjust it a bit, and say add time for driver changes in short pitstops. As has been mostly said in bits and pieces, yes, it takes time to change drivers, but if your crew are spending a minute bashing some bodywork off your front tyre then you might as well change over rather than sit there and watch them do it. So I reckon it should be set up such that LFS adds time to your pitstop, up to making it last twenty seconds, when you change drivers.
For most cars, twenty seconds is probably about right. Were you a quick-thinking driver, you'd probably already have your harness released by the time you've stopped (not sure if this is legal or not, actually, but there you go. Seems like a good idea. Anyone know the rules on that?), so you could bail out in less than five seconds. Allowing a couple of seconds for the next person to get their sizing cushion in, another couple for getting themselves in, you're left with ten seconds to adjust and lock the straps in. Sounds doable, especially with the amount of practice you'd have had, but I might be about to get shot down in flames by someone with more experience of this
Of course, if you're in a single-seater it's gonna take longer to get yourself in and out - even more so if you've got a HANS, I guess - so perhaps different timing for each car class would be good. Quick for road cars, a bit slower for GTRs because you've got a rollcage in the way, slower still for single seaters because of pedal box adjustment and steering wheel fitting?
I'm looking for feedback here, guys
heheSam
- but as for open-wheel, open-roof cars? I've never seen a driver change executed in one of those. I think it's probably because of the inherent nature of those cars to get destroyed more easily than closed-wheel racers, thus longer races aren't very common. I can't see anyone setting up an open-wheel endurance race, but I could just have missed a whole segment of racing 