CRCC: Cheap Racing Car Championship [Finished]

[Leonardo9613]

Well....

[Janekk]

Well I guess in hindsight I should have expected a number of cars like this. Fine by me, I'll call it a win if my car is fastest small mid engine in race.

[RaduST]

Zimmer Z7-9

I begin to realize that I brought an elephant to a ballet party.

[Reaper392]

I had a 1187bhp car with a decent power band ready to go, but it handled about as well as a dog on an ice rink compared to my other car so I didn't submit it. From the first few entries I thought my 700bhp entry was excessive, but it seems to be OK now

*edit*
Just checked the power. It was higher than I thought

[Dragawn]

CRCC: Round 1: Brands Hatch Indy





Round 2 will take place tomorrow on the good old BRC track "Mountain Ridge".

[Reaper392]

Looks like its quite tight at the top . I'm just hoping there aren't too many tracks with long straights because I added a LOT of downforce. As a consequence Im about 10s down on the two times i've seen for the nurburgring so far because my straight line speed is appalling (~165mph at best)

For anyone that doesnt want to look it up, Mountain ridge is stage 2/6 of the first proper BRC (not the three stage beta shakedown BRC)

[pyrlix]

The new Banhammer H5.0 - hammering down some crazy 11s on the tarmac with its rear wheel drive and big 5L V8 that has sufficient Power for the driver to put a Grin in his Face every single time.

[Janekk]

4th place and not too far behind top 3 in time, much better than I expected considering what engines it's going against. Since everyone is posting their car stats I might as well dump some images too.




Not very fancy looking.

[Lothoren]

5th, was not expecting that, was expecting to be propping up the rear, lol So here is the Dalora Rhyno in all her glory.

[Reaper392]

Here's mine. I went for lots of downforce rather than straight line speed. lets see if it pays off:

[mer_at]

Not optimzied for straight line maximum speed, yet it takes the car 4.5s to reach 62mph?
So not really optimized for quick acceleration.
Only good thing i see, is the cornering for very large corners?
It weighs 100kg more, and has 50hp less.
Still, you are only 0.6s behind me.

[RaduST]

considering the fact that this was a really slow course i'm sort of okay with the results. I hope that there will be a track in witch my elephant can go at least into 5th.

[samlonsberry]

Some straight lines would do my heavy 80s throwback some good... nowhere near the front of the pack, and I'm not surprised... but I still think she's pretty.

[Reaper392]

Not optimzied for straight line maximum speed, yet it takes the car 4.5s to reach 62mph?
So not really optimized for quick acceleration.
Only good thing i see, is the cornering for very large corners?
It weighs 100kg more, and has 50hp less.
Still, you are only 0.6s behind me.

The low 0-60 time was because of the gearbox. I sacrificed my speed off the line partly to save money and use a 5 speed gearbox, partly to improve acceleration at the higher end, but mostly to improve tameness by reducing wheelspin. The main downside to my strategy is that my 0-30mph or so time is abysmal considering the stats of the car, which manifests itself in the bad 0-60 time. The 50-75mph time is where the car (should) shine. It was down to about 1.4s, but its at 1.6s because it has to change gear at ~55mph. I figured that getting off the line is something that only happens once on a track so it could be sacrificed for performance in other areas

[Janekk]

Considering that what was timed was flying lap.

TBH though I think you may have overdid down force a bit, your low top speed will probably bite you in the back later on. I know it's funny coming from a guy that finished behind you .