BRC 1955 - The Golden Age [Qualifying R5]

[Absurdist]

I certainly am ok with that!

[Packbat]

Well, I needed seconds and I found tenths. At least I had a chance to change the color to something more pleasant for my final revision - and I actually improved the fuel economy a fair bit by refining the fuel mixture, engine timing, and compression ratio to more optimal figures.

[RobtheFiend]

Blaeh!.... my car needs someone, with much more skill than me, to set up the suspension and gearbox. I've done what i can, hope i can at least qualify good enough.

(Don't want to make the engine smaller or less powerful, even if i might have the heaviest car.)

[TheBobWiley]

I just can not do this season..... trying to build a new roadster body after the poor performance from my mid-engined '45 but the suspension just will not cooperate. Getting 1 second slower laps than my '45 car even though the roadster can go 20 mph faster on the straights......

[07CobaltGirl]

I just can not do this season..... trying to build a new roadster body after the poor performance from my mid-engined '45 but the suspension just will not cooperate. Getting 1 second slower laps than my '45 car even though the roadster can go 20 mph faster on the straights......

Just build a coupe and be with the cool kids!

[TheBobWiley]

Just build a coupe and be with the cool kids!

I kinda want to now that I won't be in the top 5...... If I get time tonight I will try and put my SOHC or Direct CAM engines into the coupe body and see what that gets me..... worst comes to worse I think I have my original coupe from the first or second practice runs on my laptop I can resubmit. Hard to have time to do anything of this season while traveling through Europe :\

[TheBobWiley]

Final revision submitted for the season, going with the coupe body. Found another .10 seconds on Automation and a full second on Monza. Seems more HP beats out reduced cornering for the coupe. If I had time to actually try out some different engine combos before the submission date I might have found a better car, but as it is I think I will place just above 20th position. I think I'm the fastest coupe body too
Looking forward to the new season, good luck to everyone!

[RobtheFiend]

It will be fun to see how many of us that are gonna use the coupe. That 0.20hp/kg is really killing the true potential of that body style.
Hope the limit will be higher than .25 in the BRC1965.

[AshleyBlack]

My car is over the cost limit? By how much? It's just under it for me. Could you just turn down the suspension quality? I don't have access to do it at the moment

[07CobaltGirl]

It will be fun to see how many of us that are gonna use the coupe. That 0.20hp/kg is really killing the true potential of that body style.
Hope the limit will be higher than .25 in the BRC1965.

Yes, I am interested in finding out how many use the coupe as well. I'm also quite curious how many of those coupes are actually competitive against the wondermobile...ermmm...roadster.

You know my car will suck, right?

[Packbat]

@07CobaltGirl: Quite frankly, one of my major goals was to make sure I could qualify to run in the races - your car might lose a lot of speed from tyre wear, but mine never had speed to start with!

[RobtheFiend]

Hope we can get a separate table for the coupes after the season.

[TheBobWiley]

Got my camber to -1.5 / -1.5, brought fuel usage down a whopping 0.05 or something... but hey, faster laps times as previously mentioned and I'm on sports.... come at me tire wear!

[Absurdist]

Hell, we could have two tables, an overall table and a class table. That'd at least offset the people getting penalized for liking certain bodies (somewhat).

[07CobaltGirl]

@07CobaltGirl: Quite frankly, one of my major goals was to make sure I could qualify to run in the races - your car might lose a lot of speed from tyre wear, but mine never had speed to start with!

I'm still working on that tire wear issue. I have it down some, but it is still horrendous! Taking it back to sports compound takes me back to 1:50's, so that isn't an option considering the plethora of 1:40s and sub-1:40s I saw. Currently, camber still south of -2!

Speed, on the other hand, was never a huge problem in my coupe. I've cut almost 100hp from the original engine I built just to meet the .2 hp/wgt restriction.

EDIT: 4th and final revision of the SME Coupe sent in....I hope I made it in time!