If I come visit ya..and we collaborate on the new layout..can we use my legos to show how the layout would look like lolCiro Pabón wrote:That's not entirely true. Even if Spanish GP has a similar, abysmal overtaking average, it's slightly better. Anyway, both tracks are essentially a parade, so the proposal would give 20 points to a qualy, as I see it.mini696 wrote:There is the same amount of overtaking in Monaco as a lot of other tracks. Spain for one is just as much a procession as Mocaco is.
This graph (which I updated today) includes all races from January 1997 to December 2006. According to Brian Lawrence,
ds.raikonnen seems to imply that if you give more points you would get more overtakings, as if this depended on the lack of incentives for drivers. I don't think so. In my humble opinion, the teams and the drivers do as many overtakes as they can: giving 1.000.000 points to first place wouldn't change the laws of physics.For the purposes of this analysis, I only count what I will call "genuine"
passing manoeuvres, which means that I exclude:
a) any place changes made during pit stops
b) all lapping/unlapping manoeuvres
c) any changes during the first lap
As for the "uniqueness" of Monaco, well...besides Stefania kiss, I don't see what's unique in that lousy track, whose only pretext is its longevity, a lot of advertising, the public going nuts over royalty and the fact that every driver hates the layout.
Technically speaking, I could do a better layout on my living room. They could gamble the points at Monaco's Casino, giving handicaps according to previous cars qualifications and things wouldn't change much. In short, Monaco is only for royalists... republicans hate it.
