Mercedes' virginity

[alanrotoi]

This year Diablo, Camaro and Oxia had their winning race. We can find the last win for Lotus back in 2021 but hey! a win after all and four more wins in the previous years.

Today we have two virgin cars: Thunderbird, which had its only test in 2024 and have got a 2nd and a 3rd place in 12 races. The other car is Mercedes DTM which is bein its 4th championship and still not a single first place. The other two DTM cars of the pack had already their baptism of joy (BMW DTM once in 2021 and Audi DTM two, 2019 and 2020).

What's wrong with Mercedes? why we still don't make her debut? It's beatiful, smart, fast and well balanced with her sisters.

[Duplode]

It's a mystery. The Mercedes had a second place in each year it featured except for 2023, two of them by small margins: ZCT225 (+0.53 to the LM002), ZCT241 (+4.53 to the Indy) and ZCT286 (+0.21 to the Camaro). Such misfortune!

[Overdrijf]

Maybe she's just saving herself for marriage. 

In the first championship all three DTM cars started with the same bonuses (they even false started with the same bonuses which were tweaked after the first race, if I remember correctly). It seems like the Mercedes was just a little slower on those tracks where the DTM cars as a group were competitive. In her third season (2023) the car just started with a very low bonus so it was always an uphill battle. But there was certainly also some bad luck involved, a PG surprise (ZCT241) and a few shared podiums (ZCT225, ZCT286).

I guess that is kind of a downside of the 1% system, we wanted more multi car podiums, but that also means higher odds for a car to get used and lose coefficient points but not win.

...I think it's kind of cool. I made a cursed car.