Sell on Monday, Win on Sunday [Finished]

[Leonardo9613]

Here are the important stats, finally.

[Packbat]

Didn't realize how much less powerful I was than the field, but low weight and tight handling are making up for a lot of that.

[strop]

Wow, I'm still not sure how some users managed to get such good stats. Did I spend my money in the wrong place and fluke a decent result? Or is it something else?

[VicVictory]

Ardent: The Pinnacle of Mediocrity.

[Der Bayer]

Racing Trims: Race 1 Training

Here are the training results of Race 1: https://youtu.be/kfrwSd26UeA

[Packbat]

Sweet! I'm feeling okay about this - I'm underpowered relative to the field, but not grossly so. I think I have the pace to get a top-five here, and better on the more technical tracks. (My car seems to have very good acceleration.)

P.S. wow at biafo131 and Der Bayer - what kind of engines do you have in those beasts? Those fuel consumption numbers are ludicrous!

[strop]

Probably a whole lot of TUBROOOOOO BOOOOSCHT
If I recall I used a torsion beam and MacPherson setup, and I also used a naturally aspirated i4. I can't say, looking at these results, that I'm going to be particularly competitive! But all the times at the top degrade pretty sharply as the tyres wear, so I guess we shall see.

In the big picture, I'm also looking forward to the reviews!

[Der Bayer]

Qualifying Results Race 1

Here are the results of the first qualifying session: https://youtu.be/fcqS-S3lKM4

[Packbat]

All right!

If I were making book on this race, looking at the effect of fuel weight, I'd have to put myself down for a 6th or 7th place finish - ahead of Der Bayer and biafo131, behind strop and possibly Riso. I don't know who would be favored to win between pHanta and Absurdist, but my money's on one of those two; I'm guessing TrackpadUser for third, but Leonardo9613 could surprise me.

[RobtheFiend]

Looking at DerBayers fuel consumtion an 10+ km/h faster topspeed than anyone else, i'm guessing afterburner.

[strop]

oh my god, so much lack of power and still burning up the tyres with aggressive camber. Just do your best car!

[Packbat]

@strop: You're actually doing really well relative to the field - less than two seconds lost per lap over the ten-lap training session, just going by first and last laps. Other than biafo131 and myself, you maintain speed better than anyone ahead of you, and both of us have heavier fuel consumption than you. Barring accidents and driver error (I haven't done a driver error count for the training session), I think you're actually in pretty good shape.

[strop]

I think my view is influenced by my BRCC55 car's performance: which is actually doing better than I expected as I think I'm behind the curve when it comes to understanding exactly how the BROBOT works. That car's relatively good around the corners and is quite driveable, but has also the least power out of most of the front-runners, so on every reverse grid race, I really struggle to overtake.

[Packbat]

Mmmph - what makes a car succeed in the reverse starts isn't yet clear to me, but straight-line speed is an interesting criterion.

...actually, that suggests a hypothesis to me. I looked at exit speed out of Banhammerhead and top speed reached on Taylor Stint during the qualifying session, and while I have very little confidence in my measurements*, those numbers suggested to me that #2 (Absurdist), #20 (biafo131), #22 (Leonardo9613), #18 (TrackpadUser), #14 (Riso), #6 (Gooles), #1 (pHanta), and #23 (Der Bayer) might outperform on the reverse starts, and #3 (conan), #10 (Lordred), #15 (8bs), #13 (Razyx), #9 (NormanVauxhall), #21 (WoarLord), #4 (NiuYorqCiti), and #5 (VicVictory) might underperform on the reverse starts. So I guess we have a testable prediction: excluding mechanical failures, do the 8 cars in my high-speed group place higher in Heat 2 than Heat 1 more often than the eight cars in my low-speed group do?

Edit: By that criterion, strop, you're toward the top of the middle group of cars - depending on how you measure it, you might be higher than that.

Edit #2: For clarity, sorting in ascending numerical order instead of by top speed reached:

• To overperform: #1, #2, #6, #14, #18, #20, #22, #23
• To underperform: #3, #4, #5, #9, #10, #13, #15, #21

* I ran the video at 0.25 speed and watched the speed numbers - shown are all the sig. figs. I could see, with probably some errors:

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 1: 62.6 to 151
 2: 61.9 to 154
 3: 59.1 to 134
 4: 63.8 to 145
 5: 62.1 to 145
 6: 60.7 to 151
 7: 60.3 to 145
 8: 62.9 to 149
 9: 62.4 to 144
10: 63.6 to 142
11: 64.7 to 149
12: 62.8 to 149
13: 62.5 to 144
14: 62.7 to 152
15: 63.4 to 144
16: 62.4 to 147
17: 62.6 to 147
18: 64.2 to 154
19: 63.1 to 148
20: 62.1 to 154
21: 62.0 to 144
22: 62.8 to 154
23: 61.9 to 150

[Leonardo9613]

I think that the overtaking right at the start of the sessions is due to the 0-100 time, on the 55 BRC my car is 0.7s slower to 100 than most front runners, so every single time I lose a few places and then have to use the higher top speed togain them back. That car is slower, by the way, because I didn't add a locking differential, as I simply forgot about it