Improvements for the simulated car racing software interface

We analyze the timeout behavior of the server bot used in the simulated car racing championship and identify two shortcomings. Using Windows, we observe that the implementation generates timeouts too early. On both Windows and Linux, packets arriving too late introduce a lag from which a can controller can never recover. We present a solution for both problems in form of a modified implementation which adds a gametick counter to the network protocol and uses polling to implement the timeout behavior in a reliable way.