'95 NASC (Major Announcements)

[durk]

And with a few more rule edits, we're off! The first NASC isn't likely to be the prettiest, but it will be a great learning experience for both me and the participants XD. All races are set to have a length around 250 miles for the first season of NASC. Remember to build not only fast, but easy to drive and reliable vehicles. It might save your bacon one of these days .

[KLinardo]

You need to specify what unit of measurement your using for the power to weight rule. Is it Kg or Lbs.? HP or KW?

[durk]

pounds and horsepower

[AirJordan]

I really like the whole strategy thing but I have some suggestions:
- leave the option of interior slider open because that's the only way to balance a car
- convert all the units to other (=keep then both) so it's easier to follow the rules for people who do not use pounds, gallons etc.

[durk]

Rules are supposed to be closed now, but I was curious whether that was a good idea. Nobody objected during the rules phase, though. Although now that I think about it I can just calculate it by making a clone of someone's car, setting the interior to basic with 0 quality, and then using that to generate a set effect x amount of fuel has on one's lap time. Removing a rule isn't such a big deal, so I'll let this one slide.

But let's please not try to rewrite the entire rulebook in the build phase . This is likely the only exception I will make since it's so early and it shouldn't massively impact any builds anyone has started. Any big changes or balance tweaks can be saved for next season (There will be one, or at least there will be another racing series ran by me that learns from this experience). I don't expect the first run of this challenge to be all that great compared to the other race challenges on the forums, but hopefully it's sufficient enough to generate interest. Once I have some experience under my belt running this series, I should have a better idea of what works and what doesn't.

EDIT: Brand's Hatch Indy doesn't really work well with the current set of calculations, so it's been removed from the calendar. Note to self: Base calculations off of distance rather than laps next time, lol. While I hate to switch things around on you guys during the build phase, I want to make sure I will actually finish this challenge and not let it die. Hopefully no one was looking forward to that circuit.

[durk]

Unfortunately, I am going to have to halve the entrant cap. I will only be accepting 10 entrants now. Hopefully this is understandable. Based on the traffic this thread is getting, I'm not sure we would hit 20 anyways :p. This challenge turned out to be a bit too ambitious for me to guarantee that it will be finished if 20 competitors enter. Anyone who has already expressed interest in participating will be guaranteed a spot.

[Racer13]

I would like a spot, in case I haven't expressed interest yet. I won't be able to start a car until later this week, as I have a crazy work schedule.

[durk]

So far iRaptor, VMO, and Racer13 have claimed a spot.

[Vri404]

I would like to claim a spot, until about 7 entries come in, then I'll close my spot, so more people can enter.

Would I also be able to grab the Bathurst Event for an Astronaut Magazine sponsorship?

[durk]

Astronaut Mag has the Bathurst sponsorship.

[nerd]

I have claimed a spot. Entering a fast MR coupe.

[AirJordan]

I am in

from rules:

The hard compound is a second slower than the soft compound, but has a base tire life value of 200 miles per 1250 pounds of load The hard compound will last a base 100 miles for a vehicle weighing 2500 pounds. The soft compound is a second faster than the hard compound, but has a base tire life value of 140 miles per 1250 pounds of load.

Does that mean that load is always half of weight or will load be calculated depending F/R balance?

EDIT: Also, does power to weight ratio go for lean middle or rich variant?

EDIT2:

Wheel diameter must NOT exceed 27.165”

this is 689.999999...mm and default in lets say SillyWorld's car is 690mm. Is this deliberately so we must shrink tyres or were you going for 690?

[durk]

It should be 690 I suppose. 27.165" is the default for the GT1 car when using imperial units in Automation. I'm willing to bet Automation just rounds up that repeating decimal. Power/weight is for rich variant, I'll add that to the regulations book. I'll see about putting metric units into the rulebook. I see now that I will have to set my units to metric in Automation and obtain figures that way rather than just converting them outside of the game because of weirdness like that. Load is calculated the same no matter what your weight distribution is. Not all of these calculations are in-depth, unfortunately. It doesn't mean it's always half of load, though. What that sentence means is that if your vehicle weighs 1250 pounds the hard tire compound will last 200 miles. So if your vehicle weighs 2500 the hard compound will last 100 miles. For every 1250 pounds of car weight, you are robbed of 100 miles of tire life. So, if your vehicle lands in between 1250 and 2500, tire wear is calculated as if it weighs 1250. Pretty odd, I know, but it encourages weight reduction without getting too complex. Like I said, not entirely pleased with the way the rules turned out in this challenge, lol. I do not recommend doing something like this for your first challenge.


This combined with the power/weight ratio limit is probably going to make for a pretty low power field now that I think about it XD. This is ignoring any tire wear penalties you may incur by instructing your driver to push hard, or any tire wear bonuses you gain from doing the opposite.

Entrants so far:
1. iRaptor
2. VMO
3. Racer13
4. Vri404
5. nerd
6. AirJordan

[Racer13]

Vri, are we going to have another battle at the back of the pack? It would an interesting story for our companies if we became rivals at the back of the pack. Haha

Cheers - Racer13

[nerd]

Will we get to watch the race, in any form? Or will it be like AMWEC? (Not saying the AMWEC system is bad, it's really good actually)