it’s hard enough to explain to non drifters how it works, but if your in America you now have to explain how you penalise the faster cars for being fast!! In Europe we encourage the chasing driver to get on as close as they can when chasing, lets face it there is a lot more skill involved in matching and trying to anticipate what the lead car is doing than there is in running the qualifying line. I wasn’t in the drivers briefing but after watching the Drift stream replays it looks to me they told the slower cars, "If the lead car is pulling away from you, don’t try to match them, just run your qualifying line with as much angle as you can and we'll penalise the lead car for pulling away" Can someone please explain to me how” slow with big angle” scores higher than “fast with less angle”?? What would spectators prefer to see, Slow or Fast? I think fast as there is a sense of danger involved, when cars are slow people start to think “Ha I could do that, look how slow they are going” ?? I mean, what's the difference between a 25.2 and 25.5 in angle? these numbers are pulled out of a hat. No judge can tell a driver "you got a 1 pt deduction for this, a 2 pt deduction for that, and 2 .1 deductions for other things, therefore, your score is 26.8". Without that distinction, the scores are kinda worthless. I mean, not that D1 is any better (99.5 pts = do not qualify), but at least their deductions can be isolated.
) but when you get widespread dissatisfaction of judges calls you have either a judging system the fans don’t understand or you have bad judges (or ones that don’t explain their decisions very well)
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