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Originally Posted by awrb
The point of this system though is to close up any gaps in lap times, without being a cheap 'load the weight on the best driver' system. BMW need to now find a way to get past the SEAT's, it's not just handed to them on a plate. and as for the cheating, I couldn't see that happening in quali, just the race, and only then if in a dominant lead. By only taking the fastest lap, and not an average for example, they have largely eliminated that from the races, and by weighting quali higher than the races, it should all be quite fair.
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Of course its open to abuse both in quali and race.
The Seat drivers know
exactly what their car is capable of doing, and all they can just do is drive the car to well within that envelope. The team would set them a lap time to acheive and to stay within. That sort of thing has been going on for years, in all sorts of categories.
Anyone would be very naive if they didn't think that the drivers of the fastest cars out there don't play that game, so that they are not weighed down with a reduction in their performance.
Thats why a results based formula is better. Because they are not going to throw away race results are they?