Dessau Autobahn Speed record 1994 - [RESULTS POSTED]

[HighOctaneLove]

Please keep the street legal modified class! Just because no-one else entered that doesn't make it a failure...

I intentionally made the car close to what the road going version was set at; I built the road car THEN the racer! I didn't want to IMO cheat and build an extreme version of my D1 entrant because it wasn't in the spirit of the class

It was fun to tweak a sensible road-car design to see what was possible to extract from it and IMO this class shouldn't out-power the special classes as they're custom built racers whereas the modified production is a road-car first, racer second!

Anyway, thanks for running this competition; I did better than expected and I had a lot of fun!

[Coolghost]

Thanks for the run! I had much fun to make cars and try approaches i've never done before.
See you next contest!

[DeusExMackia]

Congratulations to all. Can't wait for the next one, now I know where to improve

[AirJordan]

Ahhhh so close yeah I ran out of time to get the best out of D2 because I spend hours on D1 (well time well spend if I judge by the margin to second place):D D2 is not that much faster than D1 because that turbo needs that much more cooling. I'm sure few extra kph were there but I'm not sure that I could squeeze extra 10 for 1.place.

I really like the picture+blurbs style of results it should become standard on all challenges.

[BurningBridges]

Thanks a lot for running this round!

Well done by AirJordan, but the chassis is a bit overpowered imo. It looks like he has just analyzed all chassis for their Cd values. The Large Sedan has a Cd of 0.17 vs 0.25-0.28 for most other chassis we see in the races. I had known about this for quite some time and thought about entering one myself but then I thought it would be stupid. See also the Avus race from sunday where the Smooth "Pumpkin" stole the top speed with ease.

[BurningBridges]

And if I may make a suggestion I hope to see smaller engines in the future, not larger.
3.6L turbo / 6L aspirated was actually already quite a monster engine to me and I dont know how far this can be taken. From my experience there is a point around 6L turbo where the engines in Automation would need to be made from different materials. Whereas small displacements drive innovation more and are imo more fun too. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

[squidhead]

And if I may make a suggestion I hope to see smaller engines in the future, not larger.
3.6L turbo / 6L aspirated was actually already quite a monster engine to me and I dont know how far this can be taken. From my experience there is a point around 6L turbo where the engines in Automation would need to be made from different materials. Whereas small displacements drive innovation more and are imo more fun too. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

At higher levels you'll run into the fact that you can't properly turbocharge the car because the body does not allow it, so that's going to be a challenge in itself. But for next installment I got a few ideas which classes to run to mix things up a bit. Just need to get this windows re-installed before I get to work on more automation related stuff

[BurningBridges]

Ok. Do you already know what the year will be next time?

[squidhead]

1996, most likely

[BurningBridges]

Ok. Every tech year helps a bit with getting the required reliability from such a large displacement.
Wouldn't want to go higher than 5 liter, from there I gets funny. But I think it can be made to work for 4.8/8L.

[squidhead]

Ok. Every tech year helps a bit with getting the required reliability from such a large displacement.
Wouldn't want to go higher than 5 liter, from there I gets funny. But I think it can be made to work for 4.8/8L.

We will be running Junior 1 class next year

[RaduST]

This is the first competition I entered since strop's PPAHC in March last year. Frustration with game crashing and failing to save after the Steam port and general lack of time killed my enthusiasm. I noticed things got better with the game so I decided to step back in. This was the perfect competition for me. I loved its straight straightforwardness. I regret that I didn't had the time for a D1 entry as well. I'll try not to miss the next iteration.

[Sillyducky]

I think the lesson learned is next time don't be an Idiot and choose a normal car body and give it DOWNFOCRE!!!

[AirJordan]

We will be running Junior 1 class next year

Time to make junior speedfreak than...

[squidhead]

Time to make junior speedfreak than...

You did not see the restrictions yet XD