by Doubl-B » Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:53 pm
Good question Bruce. I have hosted several proxies and usually the cars are qualified first before racing them. I just made an assumption that we should qualify the cars first. Qualifying mainly builds suspense as a build up to the race, but then the cars are raced by qualification results (usually slowest cars first) to group fast cars with fast cars and slow cars with slow cars.
I went back to check the RAA Proxy rules and I don't see anything speaking to how the racing should be run. For example, usually the proxy will specifically state how long the cars should race for, how the points scoring works, track voltage guidelines, and how driver rotations work. As you already stated, in order for the racing to be fair, a driver should be assigned to a lane so he races every car in the same lane. That way, if for example driver A is really good and driver B is a newbie and maybe not as good, all the cars are treated the same way because driver A runs all cars in the red lane and driver B runs all cars in the white lane. The point of a proxy is to see how all the cars do with a variety of tracks and varying skill levels of a variety of drivers.
So anyway, I didn't see any guidelines in the rules page and it's probably too late for me to line up drivers for tomorrow night so here is a rundown of what we plan to do.
1. drivers assigned to a lane for the entire proxy run.
2. 2.5 minute heats will give all cars 10 minutes running time.
3. voltage will be set at 10v.
4. cars will be raced in groups based on qualifying results. (we use TrackMate for scoring)
I didn't mean to make this more complicated than it needs to be. Maybe we could get Austin to give a nod on if this is ok or if he had anything different in mind.
Regards,
BB