Re: Low's Spec Miata Series Announcement and Discussion Thread

by **Lowflyinmx3** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:12 pm

The first scheduled race will be Oct 20. Not exactly sure on the time but I'm thinking around 9:30. Any thoughts?

by **BiggLou55** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:13 pm

9:30pm Eastern? Is 2 hours enough to finish before the series race?

I'm in...

by beefsupreme42 Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:18 pm

I am going to start designing this week... trying to think of something good I can use....

by **Lowflyinmx3** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:19 pm

The 20th is a Saturday correct?

by beefsupreme42 Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:22 pm

you have a calendar on the right of your screen now, remember?

...yes it is

by **BiggLou55** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:37 pm

Sorry.. I didn't look at the day at the top, and just assumed that was a friday... LOL

by **Lowflyinmx3** Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:33 pm

What class do you want to be in beef? Did I send you the template already?

by beefsupreme42 Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:42 pm

Lowflyinmx3 wrote:What class do you want to be in beef? Did I send you the template already?

I want to compete with mark because it will make me feel good about myself if I can keep up Very Happy

I don't think you sent me the template yet. are there any restrictions to the base color?

by **Lowflyinmx3** Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:34 pm

No restrictions on base color.

by Markve91 Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:33 pm

20th sounds good!, I've still got to design this thing and practice with it...

by wolfman115 Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:04 am

Here is my finished design. Let me know if I need to change anything. Hope you guys like!

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by **marmuttlebow** Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:43 am

Need more safety striping.

Of course, that's me and my affinity for nasty livery talking.

Good job.

Set the car up last night, tried running on Laguna. Made it up to the corkscrew before I just screw it and turned the xbox off. No opinion on the car. I just wasn't paying attention last night.

by **BiggLou55** Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:04 pm

Looking good guys...

I was working on my build and livery last night.... I was just about done with the livery when I accidentally (due to being REALLY tired) canceled out (hit X instead of A on exit) of a really good design session and lost a lot of livery goodness... I was pissed, so I rage quit my Xbox LOL.... I'll finish it up tonight.... and post pics this weekend...

by FraidKn0t Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:10 pm

I got my sponsor vinyl group made last night & think ya'll will like it! I dont have the base template yet so I didn't get a chance to mock everything up but I'm excited to see the final product

by Markve91 Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:59 pm

put a super simplistic livery together...Now i've got to do some test laps!

by **Lowflyinmx3** Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:32 pm

I'll get the template to you here soon Fraid. Anyone else need the template?

by **Lowflyinmx3** Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:34 pm

Looking good wolfman.

by swviper Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:28 pm

Late to this, sorry....Sept was a complete write off.

Totally in for this!

by **Lowflyinmx3** Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:48 pm

Send me a message on live reminding me tonight viper and I'll grey you the template. Also, What class do you want to be in? I'll put everyone's name in their class when I finally come home to a charged laptop. Damn woman is battery challenged I swear lol.

by **BiggLou55** Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:56 pm

Low.. I will say that I questions whether or not I am in the pro class, but I guess we'll wait and see...

I do suggest that you have an active classification system where you adjust the class through the series, or use the first race as a determination of class... we can look at the results and determine high or low class based on total race times... The reason I say this is that the car has a lot to do with how your place in a race, as does tune.... With both of those out of the equation, we'll see a purer representation of driver skill.... Thoughts?

by FraidKn0t Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:21 pm

BiggLou55 wrote:active classification system where you adjust the class through the series, or use the first race as a determination of class

I like this!!! I will volunteer to work out a handicap system to give slower guys a little more PI.

Idea 1 - Honor system... More accurate / less bias / People could sandbag
Everyone runs 7 laps in the spec miata separately (no traffic/ghosts to skew times) at several less popular tracks (remove any track advantage from practice) and report simple average of their times [total time ÷ 7] . Then compare individuals to the rest of the participants to produce a scale.

Idea 2 - Prior results... More bias / no sandbagging
The results from previous series races are available in the archives. Since folks were in those races were in it to win, it's probably safe to say using those times would prevent any sandbagging. We can compile total race times compared to the rest of the participants to figure out how we rank between each other.

by **Lowflyinmx3** Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:57 pm

I'm thinking that the first race its what I'll use to set everyone in their class. Probably just split it down the middle. There will be 1,2,3 prizes for both class. I'll still move people around based on their skill throughout the series. I trust the people here enough that I don't feel anyone will really sand bag a race or two just to get into the rookie class. I'm going to be running balls to the wall no matter what. Even if I move myself to pro and then come in last in that class I'm still going to be happy with how I finish.

by **marmuttlebow** Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:15 pm

I wouldn't sandbag to drop in class. I would however be prone to screwing up thereby leaving me in a bad position. Then I'd have to Beef my way to the front.

by **Lowflyinmx3** Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:02 pm

Yeah but screwing up is different. I screw up huge a lot, you and some other guys in the club rarely screw up. That's a big difference.

by Eric21477 Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:57 pm

I want in, send me the template please Very Happy

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