Basically, just read “race strategy” in the OP and PM me something along those lines. This level of detail seemed like a good idea at the time, but it doesn’t seem to work too well in practice, lol.
NASC qualifying at Monza tomorrow 
. I’m thinking qualifying will be on Saturday and the race will be on Sunday, but I’ll probably have to release results on Monday. This is just a rough idea of how the races will operate and it is subject to change.
Sounds good durk. I actually prefer that schedule, and wish AMWEC had done it that way. Also, I still need to get you a strategy sheet if I still can. I’ll try to get that to you tonight, useless you have already done your calculations for the race.
Cheers - Racer13
I’ll be conducting qualifying later in the day. My sleep schedule is pretty abhorrent and it got even weirder today when I had to wake up pretty early to help out with some things. Expect qualifying results no later than 5 AM EST tomorrow. I wouldn’t be surprised if releasing information in the very early hours of the morning becomes the norm, which I suppose means everything will be coming a day later than I said (It’s not the next day until I go to sleep in my mind XD), so just keep that in mind. Although who knows, I may take a little nap here soon and find some time to do qualifying before today ends.
EDIT: If you don’t get your strategy submitted in time for qualifying, go ahead and send me a strategy anyways. You might get in it just in time for the race, and even if you don’t I’ll have something to use for the next race. Keep in mind you can change your strategy at any time between races, but you can also just submit one strategy and stick to it the entire season. If I don’t get another strategy before the next race I’ll just use the same strategy from the last race for your car.
Qualifying for the first ever NASC race at Monza, sponsored by Lefatti Automobili, was ran today under dry conditions. Here are the results.
1: Matoyama Target Racing - XL-1R NASC (2:04.92)
2: Smooth Racing - Scar 300 NASC (2:06.39)
3: Komodo Speed Research - FT30 Super NA (2:07.12)
4: HP Craftworks - Model N953 (2:09.77)
5: Rado Automotive Inc. - LXR 5.0 (2:11.99)
6: Astronaut Magazine Racing - #404 Facciamo Cars Finaliz GTxR (2:13.81)
7: Swanson Motorsports Engineering - Grunt (2:24.16)
8: Baker & Haase Racing - Preston Premocar Experimental/“PPX” (Crashed out)
The Matoyama Target Racing car demonstrated blistering pace today at Monza, putting in a little bit of elbow grease to post a 2:04.92 in qualifying. The Baker & Haase Racing car was pushing exceptionally hard in qualifying. The vehicle was on track for an estimated 2:07-2:08 when the driver overcooked it heading into turn 6, resulting in a collision with the surrounding barriers. The Baker & Haase machine will be back up and running by tomorrow; however, it will have to start at the back of the pack. There is a forecasted 9% chance of rain on race day.
(Just a heads up, if I didn’t receive a tire compound selection from you your car will default to the soft compound.)
EDIT: When I say today, just think of the same dates, but back in 1995 :p.
As per usual, I’m toward the back!
Hope for better in race results.
It might help to submit a strategy if you can decipher my confusing language, lol. Doesn’t have to be exactly written according to the formula I present (I haven’t, and probably never will, denied a strategy or asked for it to be edited so far. Although I’m pretty sure only 3 people submitted one). Don’t know how fuel strategy is going to work out. Seems like the whole rich/lean/middle thing was a pretty poor idea since some people are on track to run the whole race without refueling anyways XD. It’s also a bit too much of a pain to work with. Oh well. Live and learn. To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to running this these past few days, but running qualifying was surprisingly fun. We’ll see how the race goes.
I’ll do something for the next event. Didn’t have time this week.
Wow, am I slow!!! haha
Ooo crashed out, perhaps I was too aggressive XD for what appears to be little return
That’s what this team was all about though pushing the car and driver. Being at the back is going to make this interesting. Thinking on my strategy, if the qualifying went badly then the car might not finish the race in one piece.
I’m going to be removing the randomization of laps. It’s just too much work for such a trivial difference. Everyone’s lap time will always be what their car would achieve using the automation test track feature, but things like fuel weight, strategy, etc. will still factor in.
EDIT: This ruleset is so convoluted and messy in practice that I may consider only running one race 
. Sorry guys, it was a little too ambitious for just me to take on with my limited experience, but I’ll try to get at least one race out there. My plans to automate this whole thing fell through (Yes, I am actually rolling dice now despite what the OP says XD. It seems I can’t remember Java well enough to get my plans to work out.), and the build phase ran a bit too long and now I’m in a position where I don’t have as much time to run this as I would like. Hopefully you guys can understand. It’s not everything I promised, but I WILL get Monza’s results out there at the very least. I’ll also be doing away with the pushing/conserving mechanic for this race because it’s causing too many problems. This thing is just way messier than I anticipated and I was a bit too nice with the due date extensions and now I’m in a tougher spot. I was afraid I would have to shut the challenge down, but I’m trying to work through this. Seems like this is going to take quite a few hours now that I have to do every calculation by hand. Let this be a lesson amongst the other failed challenges that this stuff is a lot harder than it seems.
I feel bad for you, Durk. Really do.
I honestly do not mind how this goes about.
you could use randomization websites, instead of rolling die. Just takes about a minute off the entire time, but that’s still a minute less than how long it currently takes.
Also could use Excel spreadsheet calculations, although they do have a steep learning curve.
I mean, I don’t roll physical dice. I already use a website for it. Might have to take some time off and learn excel or something before taking another crack at something like this. I think Java has been overhauled a bit since I last learned it because I can’t get certain things to work and it seems like every source I can find on the internet is even more dated than my knowledge is. I’ll try to get Monza up. See what I can do. Might not be the big, exciting, long-running racing series it was supposed to be, but I’ll try to give you guys at least one race. I may have to do some other tweaking to the rules to make it more suitable for a single race.
Told ya it was really complicated! Do what is necessary to get through it. I’m sure we all thought it was on the complicated side of things.
Wow, I was not expecting that result in qualifying. If these results are anything close to the normal performance of each car, and the new calculations stay, it looks like these results will more or less stay given the spread from car to car. This should definitely be an interesting race.
Sorry to hear that durk. It will be disappointing if this series doesn’t run its course, not going to lie. But it is ambitious, and I totally don’t blame you if you have to throw in the towel. Hopefully though you will find a way to push through. You’ve been good with communication for this challenge thus far, so I imagine you will make the right choice and let us know what’s going on.
Cheers - Racer13
I’d have to make some pretty big changes for it to be reasonable to run the series all the way through given my current situation. The whole strategy thing I threw in at the last minute really screwed me over, and it’s probably going to have to be done away with if I don’t want to kill this challenge/make it take a hilariously long time to run.
Chances are this is going to turn out to be a simple test of who built the best car according to the regulations. Not as cool as it should’ve been, but hopefully that’s better than just killing this challenge. Lap times won’t be randomized, no strategies, but I’ll keep tire compounds and tank size choices a factor. From there it’s just a matter of weather, crash probability, and pit stops (which I will probably also de-randomize).
I’ll likely be taking another crack at running this challenge with the revised ruleset this weekend. I’ll have to recollect all the data on the cars because I may have deleted everything in a fit of frustration XD.
Honestly, at this point this challenge may as well be considered dead. I really didn’t want to do this, but in case you couldn’t tell by my communication becoming less and less frequent things are picking up a bit IRL and I don’t have much time for Automation right now. I may revive it sometime, but unfortunately I didn’t fully understand the amount of work that goes into something like this and my schedule doesn’t have enough room to run such a horribly designed challenge, lol.
I apologize for my mistakes, and chances are I’ll probably never try to run another challenge besides a revamped '95 NASC, but maybe I can participate on the forums in other ways if I find time for this forum again.
I’ll move this contest to the Suspended/On Ice section or declare it suspended on the Tracker, then?
Do you received my entry?
I suppose so. Didn’t want to have to do this, but I guess this is how it’s going to go down 
No, I did not. Although maybe by the end of the year I’ll do another challenge with an identical building ruleset, but with different “racing” mechanics. This way everybody’s cars can end up participating in something…eventually. So, you can submit then.