GallopPost The Virtual Racing Desk
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Write to the desk

Corrections first, then tips, then everything else. A circuit figure can be checked against its published seed before you send.

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Messages are written to a file on this server and read by the desk. We do not pass them to anyone else and we do not add the address to the mailing list — the privacy policy sets out what is kept and for how long. Required: a name of two characters or more, an address that validates, one of the five subjects, and 20 characters of message.

Which subject to pick

What happens to each

  • Circuit correction — a card, field, result, weighting or standings figure that does not add up. Name the race and the figure. The seed and the full weighting table are printed on every card, so a disputed result can be checked before and after you write.
  • Industry tip — something happening in the real virtual racing trade: suppliers, shops, terminals, regulators, broadcast, games. Documents travel better than summaries.
  • Data request — the circuit as files. The whole circuit is already published as circuit.json and circuit-results.csv; write if you need a cut that is not in them.
  • General — everything else, including reader questions about how a race is decided. How a virtual race is decided and the glossary answer most of them first.
  • Other — for anything that fits none of the four. Advertising enquiries come here and are answered with the policy: no operator advertising, no affiliate links, no paid placement in editorial.

Corrections are printed under the byline that made the error, in the first line of the column, with the date they were made. That rule, and the rest of how this paper works, is at editorial policy.

The circuit wrap

Friday mornings: the week's results, the weightings that moved, and anything the industry did worth reading about.