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BRC - Bavarian Racing Challenge - 1955

What once upon a time was the Bavarian Rallye Challenge has now become the Bavarian RACING Challenge. And with "RACING" I mean "RACING". Direct Competition. Fighting for Position. Epic crashes. Tragic failures. Worn out tyres. Each race a unique story.

After a good start in 1945 we continue in 1955 with updated rules.

Features

• lap after lap after lap, dynamically calculated acceleration, braking and cornering
• standing start
• real time calculated fuel consumption
• tyre wear based on tyre compound and car settings and stats
• engine failures based on engine reliability
• mechanical failures because of crashing based on chassis reliability
• B.R.O.B.O.T: Bavarian Randomly Organised Behaviour On Track: dynamic, random and rulebased artificial intelligence in the driver's seat (overtaking, holding up others, crashing, errors based on car driveability, good and bad starts...)
• Youtube videos of training, qualifying and race sessions with 2D track view, timing and automated text comments (and, thanks to NormanVauxhall, Pyrlix and Pleb, live commenting on Twitch)
• theoretically unlimited number of participants (practically limited by screen size to fields of 38 cars)

Rules and technical specifications

• 1 car per player only
• Chassis and engine year: 1955
• Power to Weight ratio: 0.20 hp/kg or lower
• max. tyre width: 175 mm
• Tyre quality: 0 or lower
• No wings and lips
• max. total cost: $8,000
• Community Modpack from the Automation forums allowed (plus the non-Sprite body made by trackpaduser)
• Engine reliability (recommended): ~ 30

Tracks

• some Pre-Season Tests (during the Build-phase) for Benchmarking (revisions allowed before first race)
• Automation Test Track
• Brands Hatch Indy
• Monza 1961-1965
• Norisring
• Südschleife

Race Weekend Format

• Training Session (10 laps) for fuel consumption estimation
• Single lap qualifying (the fastest 38 cars qualify for the race)
• Race 1: 30 minutes. Starting fuel estimated based on training results (heavier cars for gas guzzlers at the beginning)
• Race 2: 30 minutes. Reverse grid from Race 1 results. Same starting fuel rule.

Championship Points

• Qualifying: 1st 5p, 2nd 3p, 3rd 1p
• Race points from 1st to 20th: 50, 40, 35, 30, 26, 22, 19, 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
• Lead at least one lap at the finish line: 3p
• only the best 8 out of 10 races of each player count to the championship (2 drop results)

How to participate

• Build a car according to the rules
• Send a PM to me with the 4 .lua files of the car (name the files in-game to "BRC1955-playername-Engines-Families.lua", "BRC1955-playername-Engines-Variants.lua", "BRC1955-playername-Cars-Models.lua" and "BRC1955-playername-Cars-Trims.lua", only edit "playername", the rest should be exactly as I wrote (and case-sensitive)! Please please please do this correctly!). Add the name of your car in the PM (for example BAM 1955 BRC).
• Deadline: June 7, 8 p.m. UTC+2
• Check this thread during the building phase for results of pre-tests to get a feel of the performance of your car.
• Tweak the car if neccessary and send me the new file (only before the first training session of the first race weekend)
• No revisions during the season!
• Questions, problems or suggestions? Feel free to ask!
  

Trump Cards

Click on picture to get access to trump cards of all participants!

Sweet! I'll be joining this one for sure.

Let's see how much I can slip in the rankings this time...

I really should've joined the last one, I won't make the same mistake this time! I'm in!

My car for last challenge was one of the first I'd built - let's see how much I've learned since!

The larger amount of bodies and parts available will definitively make this more interesting, although I wouldn't be surprised if the difference between the top and the average cars ends up being a bit larger.

Also, obligatory complaint about the still very crappy brakes available in 1955

Getting in early with my first attempt:



Tried to keep a little bit of that black-headlight look from the 1945, but it doesn't work very well on this model.

(Also, setting boldly forth with a non-aerodynamic body ... because apparently I hate winning. )

Here is my entrant into this competition...

The 1955 Bogliq Kitten BRC Edition!!!



Since I have no idea where my old car placed a decade ago, this car'll definitely do better!

Pressure is on! I'll only have one night on friday to have a crack before I go away for a bit, but I'll be back to see if I can keep everyone honest again.

Also, Packbat, that car is beautiful. Just saying.

Honestly, with the more powerful, faster cars, I expect tyre wear to become a bigger issue.

Alright, alright, the engineers at KE finally got around to finding out about the amazing tech called "headlights" we'll be joining in full force!

Trying my hand at challenges, my very first submission.

BMC 2.0 CS.

Thank you! Most of the credit goes to the 3D artists who made the meshes, but I was happy with how I managed to put them together.


That's one of the reasons why I'm trying to get in early - I want to see how much tyre wear my current setup suffers.

This is the prototype entry by BAM: The BAM Citrus 55 BRC

Superb car, bayer!

Oh man! These shitty brakes! Go for 14inch wheel and thinner tires? Go for a lighter and least powerful car? So much compromises!

Loving the challenge!

Here is my car, the Conan Frosch.




It's very happy about something.