BRC QuER - Hockenheim 1000 km 1976 [FIX]

[Der Bayer]

edit: more than 89 cars (but less than 100), I forgot a few still hanging around in my inbox

[findRED19]

I say over 35 will not finish.

[mer_at]

I say my Me M will not be crashed out this time.

Maybe the engine blows first ...

[PhatFree]

Can someone Remind me of how our reliability is being calculated, and what effect the cooling has on it?

[Packbat]

A bit late for the BRC 1976 QuER, but should still apply for the regular season:

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effective engine reliability = engine reliability * (engine cooling) / (required cooling)

Engine cooling you set yourself; the other two are calculated in-game.

Edit: I believe effective vehicle reliability is some kind of average between average reliability and safety, but I don't remember the formula.

[UMGaming]

My two cars and their engines:

[koolkei]

it's really curious to hear people are running 2:20s and below but have <30 reliability engine.
im still on low 2:21s but have a 47.8 reliability with slight overcooling. since i cant compete at the top pack, i'd like at least finish the race

and i didn't count how much fuel does my eco race car drinks, even if it's low, since the fuel tank is small, i may need to pit more than 3 times.

[Packbat]

@koolkei: Same. Looking at Der Bayer's chart, a reliability of 25 is something like a 20% chance of engine failure during the race. That's quite a risk to take. Edit: My car's engine (I entered two identical vehicles) is sitting around 40.

If a lot of people are going for reliabilities in that zone, I'm going to look awful dumb guessing the under on number of cars to DNF at 35.

[squidhead]

That's quite a risk, but it's only 1 race, and speed is quite important here, so no overcooling for me. For the full season a more sound strategy should be devised.

[Packbat]

Mm - true. And it's not like I built my car for crashworthiness or driveability.

[PhatFree]

on one of my cars I think I'm like 438(actual)/460(required) cooling. aka zero percent chance of finishing. JK It will be interesting to see if my required cooling less reliable engine breaks, or slightly less than required and more reliable engine breaks.

[TheBobWiley]

A bit late for the BRC 1976 QuER, but should still apply for the regular season:

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effective engine reliability = engine reliability * (engine cooling) / (required cooling)

Engine cooling you set yourself; the other two are calculated in-game.

Edit: I believe effective vehicle reliability is some kind of average between average reliability and safety, but I don't remember the formula.

Opps.... I forgot about this calculation..... Odin only has 26.8 effective reliability..... Thor has 29.7...... welp.... time to cross my fingers and looking for better effective reliability for the real season :\

[koolkei]

@packbat:
but der bayer said that graph is based full throttle time right?
so bigger engines that have bigger power over all the powerband might not be able to put those power to the ground, which means less full throttle time.
so will in turn bigger engines with same reliability rating as the smaller ones = higher chances to finish?

if it is, my 7.7l might have >94% chance to finish

[Absurdist]

Make sure we brace ourselves to accept if our cars don't finish. If everyone had 80% reliability and many don't, then it wouldn't be surprising if 20 cars had engine failures. Then on top of that we have crashes.

So, gird your loins for that one.

ALSO HYPE.
I'm gonna go ahead and tip Mattmr2 for the win. Shall we start a poll?

[AirJordan]

Having fast cars I hope at least crashes won't be my problem...and I hope reliability at 40 will be enough.

Yeah my thoughts exactly, Mattmr2 sure had the best car in test, at least it looked like it.

So will this weekend have 2 races?