Various Championship Notes

The Constructor's Championship

 I wasn't originally planning to add a Constructor's Championship because I kind of didn't want to have a particular brand stand out amongst all the others. But the more I thought about it, that's what's going to happen anyway if I didn't do it, so I might as well do it and get a definitive answer. After all, for most of the brands I have a pretty good representation of their lines. With the exception of Carrera and Policar I have over 10 cars of each from the big manufacturers: NSR, Revoslot, Slot.it, Thunderslot. I should be able to have a fair constructor's championship from this batch. Here's how it'll work:

Each manufacturer will take their top car's point totals at the end of each race as their constructor's numbers for the race. For example, whichever NSR car scores highest in the race, that race's point totals are transferred into the Constructor's Championship point totals, and so on for all six brands. This way there are six competitors. Some brands only have one car to choose from. The Policar will always be taking the points from the Ferrari, and the Carrera will always be taking points from the 918, no matter where they finish in points. 

If I was going to make any predictions, I'd say this: since this is a race where some brands have so many cars possible to score high, I don't expect Policar or Carrera to have an advantage. Based on the driving I've done with the various cars, and considering that many of them haven't even raced yet, but only ran development laps, I'd have to say that I think Thunderslot probably has a slight edge. I expect NSR to be very close to them, however, and it could come down to the last race before it's decided. Slot.it should also be right up there against everybody, and I expect good things out of some of the newer cars. Plus there are always cars like the Matra and Alfa that could win it all. Revoslot is the tricky one, because what I've noticed when running them is that they all do pretty well against each other, but none have raced competitively yet.

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The Team Sponsors Championship

At last count I have somewhere around 8 different race teams: Gulf, L&M, Shell, Sunoco, Rothmans, Tergal, Jaegermeister, Chaparral, Kausen, the Hippies, and maybe one or two others. Some teams have gained more teammates as time has gone by, and some teams are an exotic collection of various cars. The rest are single car journeyman teams.

This will be treated similarly to the Constructor's Championship in regards to points carrying over from each race, but in the Team Sponsors Championship, the top TWO cars from each team carry their points over. A team consists of minimum 2 cars. 

More Notes...

I'm going to change the points to cover all the cars. The last car will get 0 points, then they'll work up by one until around 5th place, where they'll start to jump a little. It'll end up handing out a crazy amount of points, but that's the way it goes when I'm racing 55 cars. I don't want any of the cars to be left at the end of the race with no way to explain themselves, and point totals are going to matter more than anything else. 

I'm going to run an exhibition race between the F1 cars. I don't have enough to make a complete class out of them, which is why they aren't in the big race. But if, as time goes by, it starts showing that the Revoslots are going to run in the own lap time bracket, then I'll include the F1 cars and give them their own class so they can run laps too. I'm expecting the Revoslots to be, for the most part, competitive with the other brands.

So yes, things have changes since the last couple of posts, but as usual I'm going to leave them there to document the process. Nobody reads this anyway. 

If you happen to be a manufacturer and don't see your brand car here and wonder why and would like to do something about it, contact me. I know you aren't reading this, so it doesn't matter, but if you were, then contact me and we'll discuss entering a few of your cars into this race. Gotta act fast, though. Once the race starts, that's it. No latecomers.