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I kind of like it simple and old-looking. I think it's better to spend more time on making a good competition than a well designed site.

I tend to agree with that statement. In order to have a modern-looking site I had to take a crash course in elementary HTML, CSS and PHP (the latter is optional for a simple site, but helpful), and was only able to do it so quickly thanks to some extra free time in early July, plus a lot of help from conveniences provided by my Linux system. If you don't feel like going that route, functionality > form IMO, so I won't be complaining  Should you decide to upgrade it, though, I might be able to help...  (BTW, I avoid Frontpage and other WYSIWYG HTML editors like plague, so any help I might provide would have to be in form of bare-bones plain text HTML files)

Yes, the bonuses are growing faster than expected. I think that's because when we debated the new system last year we were considering only eleven cars, and the three extra cars are making quite a difference.

The range reduction measures sound like a good way to tackle the problem. I'm not sure about the ideal set of numbers, though. +2...+5 would be quite similar to the current system up to about two races ago, so probably +2...+4 or +1...+4 are better choices. Between these two, it's hard to predict the different effects without a simulation. Maybe starting from +1 would not slow recovery times, but just keep all bonuses closer.

(PS.: a long while ago I thought about a different sort of renormalization, to be done every six months or so, that would keep the average of all bonuses unchanged, in order to not break the system, but would modify all bonuses so that the standard deviation is reduced, thus fitting the values into a desired range. I don't have the calculations with me right now, but after you do them the final formulas are a lot simpler than it sounds. But just changing the ranges is far less messy of a solution.)

Edit / PS2.: And I do not think there is real need of changing the scheme for this season. There are only three bonus updates left, and the percentages are not that imbalanced right now - other than for PG Ferrari, Z99 bonuses are fairly well matched. Besides that, if you plan to use average values from 2009 as starting values for 2010 it is probably better keep things as they are until the end of the season.

Surely there is room for more! In fact, many here would find a Kalpen-style contest a blessing 

Battery will probably be a tighter race, so hopefully you'll be able to get some laps in this time

Hardly enough for even normal browsing, I see 
Bandwidth limitations suck. I was going to sign 3G internet at home, but the providers charge a hefty amount (R$110,00 - about 35 or 40 EUR) for a not really stable 1Mbps connection that can be cut to a tenth of that value if you download more than 1Gb/month... in the end I signed a shadier radio-based service - the signal goes off every now and then but at least there are no stupid limitations.

Leading Times on Battery are incorrect 

I introduced new mistakes, I see  Fixing it for good this time.

Considering the results today, in the end I guess it wouldn't have made much difference had we tipped 

Taking a suggestion by Mingva, I put up a YouTube video showing the most common rule restrictions of OWOOT/TWOOT racing and linked it from the rules page. As usual, feedback is welcome...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRxDK_Yy1Fw#noexternalembed

Damn! It seems F1Tipping moved voting deadlines to a couple hours earlier (it used to be about 6 hours before Saturday Qualifying), and now when I tried to vote it prompted me for Monza results already...

Seems I will have to race a bit any time soon to understand how you're getting these nice times 

Nice Debrecen made it through, I do not remember ever having seen an Hungarian team in the CL main round before.

Thanks for the comparison, Mark! I was unable to do the analysis but from watching the replays it becomes clear that the traits of the track amplified the gaps. Zak did a fine job indeed 

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probably this album has the most Stunts references ever

Sure : Orion and Damage Inc. teams.
Also, any old driver coming back or any newcomer is Welcome Home and in the end we're all Disposable Heroes.

Not to mention we used to have a Master of Puppets justkiddingsorryicouldntresisttothisinnapropriatecommentetcetc

Well, spammers are hilarious sometimes...

This reminds me of the fact I haven't been tipping over the past few GPs, since my (now solved) connection issues started in late June 

[6. Therefore I'm allowing it.]

Is this allowed, or out of staying on track rule:

1. I had never stopped to think about that;
2. My rules actually do not say cork undersides are part of the track proper;
2. Weren't it for this observation I'd never hesitate about having it as valid;
3. In fact, I thought of that trick during the design;
4. No OWOOT competition so far outlawed it (I looked for and found an IRC example for reference);
5. It seems pointless to add an annoying restriction on such a small thing that may just be a graphical design oversight;
6. Therefore I'm allowing it.
7. It took only a really short while for me to get knocked off my high horse on the subject of my "perfect" rule set, and the long excuses above are here just for making that all the more obvious  

Can I enter corkscrew left/right in both ways or just as shown with green arrow?

I assume you're asking whether you need to follow the yellow line strictly (green line) or only start to "loop" the cork halfway through it (red line). If so, both lines are valid, as long as you get upside down and leave by the other side of the red wall.