Do you notice how he says "this year"? Adapt in his sentence reads "copy" in my opinion.Originally posted by Terry2Umich:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Fantomas:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">This is a fair competition this year,the partition is for teams who can be adapt to changes smoothly,the partition may disappear in the next year.Welcome to FSC.
To those of you who do not know the story behind my comment, here it is (from a reliable source):
Last year TU Munich was asked to bring their car to FSC to do demonstration runs at the 2011 chinese competitions. TU Munich did not ask to officially compete, but was asked to hand in the necessary documents like Design Report, Cost Report etc. When they were asked, the official deadlines for these documents had already passed, but the officials of the chinese competition granted new deadlines due to the special situation and the fact that they invited them on short notice.
TU Munich showed up on the event and it turned out that they would be integrated into the event as a normal competitor. They of course started to dominate the event and with every event, static or dynamic, in which they did well, the organisers increased the penalty for the "late" submission of their cost report. In fact it was not late, because they were granted a different deadline, but suddenly the original deadline applied. Another argument was that the car costs more than the maximum 15k$ limit in the chinese competition. So they reduced their cost score after each event by applying penalties. When they reached zero it seems that they figured out that that could not have been enough and so Munich started to score negative points in cost!
Before the start of Endurance they already had -37pts in cost. After the Endurance this has been adjusted to -105pts in cost. During the Endurance they lapped faster than 3-5s per lap than the fastest team. Mysterically the Endurance scoring does not reflect this...
They came second with, in fact, 205pts taken away arbitrary from them to prevent them from winning and still managed to come in second with a gap of 28pts. The third team was 168pts below Munich. Munich scored 762pts. Now add the -105pts plus a mediocre cost score of 50pts ->917pts. 127pts more than the winning team...
They were awarded a trophy for being the best (and only) international team.
I would never honor this competition with my attendance.
Fantomas </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, this is true and we have all been experiencing the whole shit. And I don't think it would get any better within, at least , three years. The motivation for the Chinese committee to run the competition is quite utilitarian and politics-orientated, so there can be little chances that they will have any reflection of themselves. That's why I left after my whole year working for them in 2010. That's really sad.
But when it comes to the Chinese teams, it is a different story. Actually they have made making great progress during the 3-year development. Proud to say, China is the only country that has a local translation of Matt Brown's Racecar (well that's maybe there're fewer language obstacles in other countries, but) that means the teams are developing so fast and the book can find its readers. Admittedly, everyone is eager for a better platform to demonstate themselves. But it is not only due to the fair or unfair result, it is more related to our passion for engineering and motorsports. That's why we are here.
Regards,
Terry </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Is this gonna be your first and last post using this ID? Terry? lol
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. At least it is not an off-key start.
