In certain situations, if the lead car takes the best 'drift' line, it is. Trust me.
Haven't said anything about judging as didn't want to speak out of turn, but if you guys want me to do it, I'll do it. I want GT drifting to go the right way and if I have to help it along, then that's fine by me
Yes, the lead car always has right of way, but small touches are not a problem. If the touch is so light that it does not affect the lead car, then there is no issue. If you state that even the tiniest contact will lead to 10/0 to the leader then you will create two reactions. 1st, people will not attempt to get close, meaning battles are boring. 2nd, you will get something which has become VERY prevelant in Dutch driting, brake checking, where the lead car slows his drift knowing that the following car will have to correct the drift in order to avoid them. This does nothing but encourage dirty tactics.
That's a better contact rule, but it is contradicted by the one I have quoted above.
Hitting a wall only counts as a deduction if the touch affects the drift. If the driver can touch a wall without it adversley affecting the drift (no reduction in angle or throttle), it is considered ok, and in fact sometimes rewarded, depending on the course.
Where each judge is giving an overall score, I have always scored it as the following:
This is dependant on putting a cone on the main straight to give a visual reference for the sway on the straight, if this can't be agreed, then the only option is to start the judging at the entry to the real 'turn 1' of Tsukuba.
If anyone straightens their car at any point other than on a long straight there are HUGE deductions. The idea of drifting is to link all the given corners if physically possible, therefore any time where the car is completely straight/understeering for more than a few metres is considered a zero score for the entire run.
Scores should be decided and announced after each run, this prevents any form of 'shuffling' of scores to manipulate results. When scores are announced immediately, there is more transparency and therefore, less chance for anyone to say the judging is biased.
The obvious answer would be to simply have the top scorers from each team run again. The likelyhood of each team winning twice is reasonable, and therefore it could take a LONG time to work out. Or, have a knockout elimination.
Sorry, but that's dumb, drivers deciding the score? It'll never work, trust me, it only ends in arguments. Why have judges at all if you are not going to respect their decisions? The judges should each decide a score for qualifying, the two scores are added together and the total is the result, even if it means having a total out of 200. One judge may give higher scores than the other, but the overall result may be the same, so saying the lower one counts is pointless.
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