Race ranking discussion

I promise I’ll let you off the hook this time and not give you a 75 paragraph explanation as to why you’re wrong. Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? YOU’RE WRONG BECAUSE I SAY SO! :smile:

Any system will have small nooks and crannies you can exploit somehow. There are stories like that from the lower cats in US racing for example. It’s just that in a results based system you can’t keep doing it 100% of the time indefinitely. You need to lose a bit to get the chance again to win a bit. I think that’s better than having monopoly on the podium for months or even years on end.

I would have loved to show you and others in here how even the test model can be exploited, like the old system. Thing is I think I have nailed it.

I wouldn’t have been able to though. I would have had to be at least deep into the bottom of cat C fitness-wise. I’m just top cat D right now, not enough juice. But I wouldn’t have had the chance in either case.

Interesting observation:
I was originally assigned to D in the test. Then I suddenly got bumped to C before the first available test race Monday evening. So I signed up as C. Then after my participation in that race, a flat out but still D-like performance, I was again allowed to join cat D for the next race same time the day after. But a few hours before race start I got bumped to C again.

I’m not saying I get any paranoid ideas about this. Not at all. I would never…

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