So race day! I left off with my methodology for the project and the robots. There were a couple of nice comments on BGG. It was a bright sunny day in Spain with fan favorite Alonso starting 5th. Mclaren seemed teh strongest team with 1st and 3rd. Ferrari was disappointing with Massa 9th and Schumacher 11. Guess who was between them, me in my BMW.
I rolled my skill and got Pitting so a two stop was a no brainer. I chose soft tires and banging wheels to try to make up some ground before my early pit.
Gentlemen start your engines!
Raikkonen leads as Weber slowly loses ground in his slow robot.Montya remains competative and keeps Alonso behind him. Fisherella on soft tires gains ground. I manage to move up to 5th so my team is happy.
At lap 10 Fisherella passes Raikkonen on corner 5 and takes the lead! Since he is doing a 2 pit strategy he pits lap 15 and Raikkonen resumes the lead. I pass Massa to move into 3rd place! Unfortunately, I have to pit on lap 22. I change to mediums and now find myself behind leaders so change strategy to chase. I start out 7th. On lap 25 Raikkonen and Alonso go into the pits for their one stop. Now is my chance!
Lap 40 I get a random event. My right rear tire is wearing faster than expected. Fortunately I plan to pit in 10 laps. Will need to watch it.
Lap 44 Schumacher continues to hold off Raikkonen and finally passes Montoya to take the lead! Fisherella bids his time. I continue to fight off Alonso while chasing Raikkonen.
Lap 50 Schumacher and I pit. Montoya takes lead. I chance to super softs and go with balance since there is a gap now between my and the leaders.
Lap 56 Raikonen passes his teamate Montoya to take the lead. Schumacher is in traffic behind me!
Lap 63 Things are nearing the end. Alonso and Fisherella pass Raikonen, Fisherella making use of his soft tire chit at an opportune moment! Massa passes Montoya to take 4th. Schumacher passes me to move into 6th.
Final lap First we have a contest here:
So everyone roars ahead on the last turn and I have the cool +2 tire chip for super softs which allow me to pass Montoya and that pesky Schumacher! I secure 5th place!
Alonso takes first having started 5th
Fisherella takes second having started 4th
Massa takes 3rd having started 9th
Raikkonen settles for 4th having started on the pole
I take 5th having started 10
Schumacher takes 6th having started 11th.
Montoya and Buttons also score points.
Not surprisingly the superfast robots scored almost all the points. The 2 fastest cars should be Alonso and Schumacher and they appear to be but Schumacher started 11th. It was also interesting that a superfast that had pole ended #4. Also the robots clearly challenged me as I pulled out 5th and that only by super softs. Another good thing was the game never dragged for me. I played the short version and it took about two and a half hours.
A couple of changes I will make. Robots on 2 pit strategy will pit 2 spaces less than regular plus 1 soft tire to keep them competitive. I changed mid game and Fisherella used this strategy and came in 2nd. Aggressive/bruiser drivers will draw 3 cards when in contests. Montoya drew two "1s", that should never happen.
So there is my report. Suggestions welcome. Also let me know if that was too much or too little detail.
Next up Montreal and Notre Dame island!
Enjoy!
Joe
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