Hello all! I hope everyone had a good Halloween! I'm still here, plugging and chugging away with NCRD, Rishabh, and Stiggy on these cars. I wanted to take some time and apologize for my recent posting absence. I had a week-long vacation from work, then I went down with Covid, so it's been pretty hectic, but I'm back at around 95 percent, so we're moving in a good direction.
That being said, we currently are sitting at around 63 schemes left, but they're mostly hard ones, so we're cautious right now as to provide a release date for our carset. Next year, we won't have this problem, as I plan to start from the first scheme of the season, and we won't have to paint a whole new generation of cars, as most of the announced schemes for 2023 are the same as they were last year (with the exception of RFK Racing - imagine an old man shaking his fist at kids yelling at them to get off his lawn, and that's NCRD right now).
With that in mind, our current target date is December 1st, 2022, depending on how these schemes go. That being said, that's far from a guarantee, so don't rip our heads off if they're later than that - Trackhouse schemes are a pain to paint, and NCRD is basically trying to balance everything like he's a juggler in a carnival.
This seems like a good time to mention that I've also been working on a ratings formula for NRatings in my downtime. I figure that the ones we have don't take average running position into account, and in turn, we get a lot of the same winners. As of this writing, the formula has created different winners in 13 of the 15 races I've run recently, which is great, but I also am trying to avoid the Daytona and Talladega backmarkers winning the race. Top 10 is fine, but wins are not going to happen every time a backmarker is in a car.
Don't worry - we haven't disappeared. We are still actively developing the 2022 carset, and once it's completed, we will host a link somewhere for it to be downloaded. I'd like to say a special thank you to all of you for all of your support this year, and I hope that this announcement isn't disappointing or anything!
Thanks!
Mia