TK Solver
06-27-2006, 02:55 PM
I've been looking for some creative ways to score races where the drivers have to reslot each others cars. My track is a road course with roughly equal complexity (turns) in each quadrant of a 12x6 table. What do you guys think of the idea of awarding a bonus lap each time you re-slot one of your opponents' cars? Depending on the type of car in the race, a lap takes anywhere from 7 to 16 seconds. Seem fair? The obvious question is, will a bonus lap seem like enough motivation to actually slow your own car and re-slot another? I guess the second question would be, can people accurately keep track of their bonus laps over the course of a 5 minute race?
When kids are racing, they usually want to race for a certain number of laps, stopping the race whenever someone de-slots. They end up spending almost as much time re-slotting cars as they do racing and there is bickering over who kept racing after someone spun. I'm hoping that this bonus lap concept will get them to go for timed races and eliminate most (some?) of the bickering.
When kids are racing, they usually want to race for a certain number of laps, stopping the race whenever someone de-slots. They end up spending almost as much time re-slotting cars as they do racing and there is bickering over who kept racing after someone spun. I'm hoping that this bonus lap concept will get them to go for timed races and eliminate most (some?) of the bickering.