Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
the % is the same, but the number of races you can drop does change. 20% of 100 is 20, 20% of 50 is 10. after the next event, we will have run 14 races. but before the season started the # of races planned to run @ the same point was 16. @ this rate if you miss more than 4 races, you will have to carry a zero in your points. basically there is no missing a weekend and planning to use them as drops cuase if you do and then @ some point in the year if you have a machanical issue and miss a race not being able to drop it cause your out of drops causes you to be out of the points chase for the championship.
my quick math shows that if we use the single 40 sunday format for the rest of the year, we will get 4.6 drops. i'm sure that rounds to 5 drops. @ the beginning of the year i had 6 (5.6) drops planned based off a 28 race year. that gave me 2 races to cover mechanical issues for drops and a full weekend for drops if "life gets in the way".
thats all i'm saying. my car does better over a 40 minute race anyways.