Seasons' duration and dates

[1959nikos]

There was talk about duration of our seasons before the start of Lola Season 5, I remember it as I started it
In that thread I proposed 1 full year duration for seasons but as I remember not many people liked that.
Some people even proposed less than half a year duration. The downside to this is that if we put in the calendar the usual historic tracks we all favour, Spa, Monza, Longford, Nords, Monaco or Le Mans (one or the other, I dont think we should be doing both at the same season, Monaco is for OWs while Le Mans is for SportsCars) there is not much place left for other tracks.
At the same time I understand the need to change seasons and cars more often, it maybe gets boring otherwise.

One thing also against smaller seasons is the time needed for the league to decide on cars and dates.
Regarding cars I believe we should have decided not only active season's cars but also next season's as well so we dont spend time beating our brains what to do next.
So, I propose for season after 60s F2s we should do 60s F1s (lol very obvious).

Anyway there has come a time when we must form our seasons in a regular way so admins dont have to think everything from the start every time.
More importand, we dont want situations like we had till now, for instance Brabham Season 4 started at 1st June 2014 and ended 14th December 2014, while Lola Season 5 started at 15th Feb 2015 and ended 16th August 2015.
This means you cannot use again last seasons days as they overlap.
So, we must establish feasible dates with possible alternatives.

I give two tables of dates, first two seasons every year with 12 races each and second three seasons every year with 8 races each. There is an interval between seasons that can really help in case something wrong happens and we need extra dates as it happened at Brabham Season.

Red dots and yellow dots represent alternative dates if red set falls on an importand day like New Years Eve, we use the green set.

1. Two seasons every year 12 races each, 6 months each, we start at first or second Sunday of September and at first or second Sunday of March.

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2. Three seasons every year 8 races each, 4 months each, we start at first or second Sunday of September then at first or second Sunday of January, then at first or second Sunday of May.

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