BRC - Out of the Steam - 1945 [Final Race Results]

[8bs]

Great job!!!!

[07CobaltGirl]

Caswal's Carousel killed me! I went from 16th to 38th before the corner exit....


Still recovered back to 33rd, and 23rd in the first race, so not terrible. I certainly do wish we could make changes between races, however. hahaha My car can't overtake for squat.

[Der Bayer]

I certainly do wish we could make changes between races, however.

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[Lordred]

Ohh, this looks like fun also. When might you be doing the next part of this event?

[Der Bayer]

I think the submission phase for the next round will start when race 3 of this round is done. So 2-3 weeks from now!

[Der Bayer]

Race 2 Training Sessions

All participants have travelled to Brands Hatch for the second race. Here is the footage of the training sessions:

Youtube video

[strop]

Managed to sneak up a few extra places from the 25th place finish, but the overall weak offensive ability of my car will probably cost it places in the real race!

[TheBobWiley]

FIRST PLACE!!! I would like to thank all of those who lost
.99 front grip and 1.0 rear grip. Even had a .8s ERROR in there..... Well... that was unexpected!

[Packbat]

...huh. Score one for the Automation test track designers - I've never sent my car to Brands Hatch before, but my car looks like it could qualify 25th based on the training, so my setup must not be that bad here. I'm going to have the heaviest fuel load of anyone who makes the grid, but I think I'll make the grid. And what with my straight-line speed, I might be able to place above my qualifying position in the actual race, given traffic.

With such a short course, though, [edit: there will be a lot of dealing with traffic and] crashes are going to be huge. Here's hoping my car is sturdy enough to finish!

[VicVictory]

If I was paying attention properly, my PB lap included two minor errors.

I wonder if my driver is Absurdists's drivers lazy twin?

[BlastersPewPew]

Well, my car is consistent, doesnt place last and doesnt place higher than the 20s LOL. Also noticed that I never hit 3rd gear on this track, poor little engine must be ready to scatter its guts.

[Tycondero]

FIRST PLACE!!! I would like to thank all of those who lost
.99 front grip and 1.0 rear grip. Even had a .8s ERROR in there..... Well... that was unexpected!

Congrats Bob. Though nowhere near your time (as most people), but still happy with my magic number 7 ending as 7th on the grid. I often wonder, how did you manage to get such high cornering speeds with these cars? I optimized all I could for the suspension with my car and retain good tire condition, and indeed I have some of the best settings concerning tire management. Last race my tires lasted best out of the entire field I think. But, for me the races are too short for it to make a huge effect, sadly. How did you pull off such high Gs with these 40s cars?

[07CobaltGirl]

So, with the training sessions, I would place 35th? I sure hope they take 38 cars again so I can qualify for round 2!!

I wonder why the first group was so much faster than the second group, as a whole I mean? I get they were the top finishers from round 1, but it looks like they were all consistently faster around this track, by a few seconds!

[TheBobWiley]

Congrats Bob. Though nowhere near your time (as most people), but still happy with my magic number 7 ending as 7th on the grid. I often wonder, how did you manage to get such high cornering speeds with these cars? I optimized all I could for the suspension with my car and retain good tire condition, and indeed I have some of the best settings concerning tire management. Last race my tires lasted best out of the entire field I think. But, for me the races are too short for it to make a huge effect, sadly. How did you pull off such high Gs with these 40s cars?

Its a really delicate balancing act between camber and suspension settings. Honestly, I would have multiple saves of my car with slightly tweaked settings and would systematically check almost every possible combination of camber to suspension setting and I would randomly stumble across "veins" of settings that would suddenly drop a second or so off my time. Then I would try and fine tune that "vein" as best I could and then start over on a different camber setting. Took a solid 3 days to hit the sweet spot, but I didn't have a lot going on those three days thankfully. Also, the camber/suspension tuning took up about 75% of my entire design time :\
That definitely hurt my engine design time... but meh.

[TrackpadUser]

Damn, while your technique works, it might be a bit overkill :p.

I just do the race preset, then I adjust camber with trial and error, finding the fastest-setup, and finally I adjust the rest with the same technique.