Bringing the test sessions back?

[Viper]

Ok, I've been thinking about it lately, and I think it would be interesting if we could have testing again for next year. But I'd like to make it in a way that everybody could benefit from it, and make it so it's not a problem.

So one of the ideas I had was basically, a certain nunber of laps submitted during the season break, would result in a +5 BHP increase for the team. The problem is that the number of laps has to be something that ensures nobody will have a huge gap to another team, but also allow teams to gain on it.

So for instance, maybe each 20 laps the team gets a 5 BHP increase? Providing each team starts with a 830 BHP engine for next season. So IE:

Team A does 160 laps. So the team starts with 870 BHP for next season.

Team B does 100 laps. So the team starts with 855 BHP for next season.

Team C does 132 laps. So the team starts with 863 BHP for next season.

And then, we could have the test sessions during season allowing each team to do a max of 40 laps to gain an extra 10 BHP. You may think that doing 100 laps is a lot, but it really isn't. I did before 160 for the Hungary GP, albeit crashing a lot. Imagine now that for 2 drivers to make and even, a third if you can find a test driver. A 910 BHP cap would be used though, so no one goes wild with testing

I think having a system like this would be interesting. Oh yeah, 1 driver teams could follow a slightly different rule:

Each 20 laps the team gets 5 BHP + 2.5 BHP bonus for having only 1 driver. So IE:

Team D does 60 laps. So the team starts with 856 BHP for next season.

I'm considering here that 1 driver won't be able to make as many laps as a 2 driver team. Of course, all those laps would be sent to me and saturday for verifying (no harsh verifying. It could be possible even to send only the 20th lap. So each 20 laps you save one and send to us. The log created by hofxlap shows which lap number that is).

What you guys think?

[Saturdaynight]

I like the idea but I do have an issue with giving a single car teams a bonus. They could run double time and get just as much time as a two car team, thus giving them an advantage.

[Viper]

Well, then we scrap that part of the idea out No problems

[Mαττ]

but surely you'd know they were running double time by the lap numbers they submit?

you guys would know tho i guess...

[Viper]

The truth is that if someone does 300 laps, we can't do nothing about it. That's why I want everyone to discuss it so we can reach an agreement. Some of my latest ideas was to increase the amount of laps needed for the 5 BHP bonus to 30 instead of 20...it would balance the values a bit more I think...

[Saturdaynight]

What about allowing only a certain amount of laps from one team durring each season quarter.

Like this pers say:

January 1st - March 31
April 1st - June 3th
July 1st - September 30th
October 1st - December 31st

Maybe we allow teams to do 100 laps each quarter. So that way, no team can do more then 400 laps.

[Viper]

How about:
- 200 laps max before season start
- We then hold 4 testing sessions during the season each one with a 40 lap limit. If a team does the whole package they'll bring it to the grand total of 920 BHP by the end of the season. That's about 360 laps for the entire year.
(Pre season testing can begin 2 weeks after the end of the current season)

How's that sound?

[Saturdaynight]

I like that idea!

[Viper]

If the rest agree, I think it would bring a nice addition to the championship, specially since we are levelling the entire performance and track data