Microwave wrote:So... just to clarify before I get to building, are we being judged solely on track time?
The winner of the race is the car with the best lap time.
What else would you suggest? My idea was to multiply the track time by 36, to get a 300 km race.
In the future I could make this an endurance race and calculate the reliability according to the formula I gave some posts earlier. The downside is with reliability 50 there is still a 1% chance that you don't finish. The advantage would be that we theoretically need no fixed reliability requirement.
For this race there would be (if I can make this all work in Excel as I want)
best overall time
gaps
best lap time
best top speed
highest reliability
If no one disagrees I can also make a spreadsheet with important data like weight, engine, total cost, reliability and so on.
Some car seem to be clearly under the limit so there can also be very successful cars which do not make the best time but have for example greater practical reliability or low cost.