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Automation Live Racing #11: Classic Sports Track Weekend



Welcome to the the place for live multiplayer racing in BeamNG! This will be a competition to determine the best combination of car and driver.

To play, you will need BeamNG, The BeamMP Multiplayer Mod as well as Automation.
Details on how to install mods, and links to our discord and dropbox, are in the ORIGINAL POST.

EVENT RULES

Theme

It is 1956, and post-war wealth has lead to a boom in the automotive industry. Only in recent years has the “sports car” truly come into its own as a class of vehicle. Constructed for pleasure and racing more than practical transport, sports cars of this era are small and light. Competition classes for ordinary drivers involve very small engine displacements, and the vehicles themselves are easily affordable.

The Race

Track: 4 Laps around the Lakeside Park Raceway.
Contact: No deliberately pitting, brake checking, or ramming drivers off the road.
Heats: Maximum 6 cars per heat. Number of heats depends on number of participants. Most drivers should race in two heats; one qualifying heat and one heat to determine final position.
Appearance Poll: Qualifying will be based on appearance poll! Top qualifiers will place into new heats first- EG the 2nd best voted car will be 1st on the grid in Heat 2, then 3rd would be either 1st in Heat 3 or 2nd in Heat 1 depending on the number of heats.
Schedule: Race is tentatively scheduled for 1:00PM US-CST on Friday, July 2nd. Cars must be submitted by noon the prior Wednesday!
Pre-Qualifier: To prevent issues with users connecting on race day, EVERYONE MUST CONNECT TO THE SERVER BEFOREHAND. The server will be up after cars are submitted. Just join any time and say hello if I’m in Discord, or take a screenshot showing you’ve connected successfully. Most race days we spend 80% of the time dealing with getting people into the server so this should save a lot of time.

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Submissions

Teams: One driver per team, drivers may not double-book teams. NEW: A car may be used by multiple teams, or a designer may submit multiple cars. When submitting your car, include your Driver’s name and control type (EG Steering Wheel, Gamepad, Keyboard).
Naming: Name your Model and Engine Family “ALR11-Username” and submit the .car file to me on the forums (not discord).
Picture: (NEW) Post a picture of your car in the thread when submitting. I will use your picture (or first picture if there are multiple) for the poll!
Schedule: To be included in the poll, and to give time for pre-downloads, cars must be submitted by 12:00 Noon US-CST on Wednesday, July 30th. The race will be in the afternoon the following Friday!
Pre-Download: When the poll goes up, all the car files will be in the dropbox, linked in the OP. It is strongly recommended that you download them ahead of time instead of when trying to join the server. See the OP link for mod installation instructions in order to make them work with BeamMP or KissMP. Remember to download this and PRE QUALIFY BEFORE THE RACE by connecting to the server!

CAR RULES

Inspiration




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Car Requirements

Year: Trim year 1956
Total Estimated Cost: $14,000 or Less
Maximum Engineering Time: 65
Seats: Minimum 2 Full Seats
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Minimum Safety: 20, May not use “None” safety
Minimum Comfort: 10
Minimum Market Score: 200 in Light Sport, Fruinia Only (This is easy!)
Tires: Bias Ply, Sports or Medium Compound, +0 Quality
Tire Width: Max Width: 145mm, plus 10mm for every 100KG above 500KG, EG 800KG = Max 175mm Tire Width. Absolute Max of 185mm. Staggered tires may average the max width.
NO: Wing Fixtures, 4x4, Manual Locker, Auto Locker

Engine Requirements

Year: Variant year 1956
Maximum Engineering Time: 75
Max Displacement: 1.7cc/kg
NO Turbo
NO Race Parts
NO DAOHC
Maximum 2 Valves per Cylinder
Fuel: Super Leaded
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Maximum Loudness: 50
Maximum Stress: 5% in any category.

Tips

-There is no fuel economy requirement!
-Expected performance: About 0.9-0.95 cornering G, 80-120HP, and try to set a flying lap under 1:15.
-Practice the track! Know your braking points!
-It is NOT RECOMMENDED to model the interior of cars for BeamNG racing as this tends to add weight in beam and makes the model more complicated.
-DO NOT FORGET TO PRE-QUALIFY!!! I will bring the server up all day thursday!
-Do not forget to post a picture of your car. You can post multiple if you want.
-We will be using BeamMP. You may need to set your user folder for BeamMP manually with the option in the launcher.
-Go to the original post and click the Discord link if you need help!

COUNTDOWN TO SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DON’T BE LATE

Schedule US-CST Time:
Submit cars: WEDNESDAY JUNE 30th, 12:00
Race: FRIDAY JULY 2nd, 13:00

I’m rooting it’s the last one

Adjusted: Back to no fuel economy requirement!

1956 Husar Lancet ready to race

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1956 Tenryu 1055 (yes i named it after the engine cc)

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Bias-ply is the same as cross-ply as far as I know.

As for the abolition of the fuel economy requirements for this round, I think it was removed due to the fact that it made eligibility more difficult to achieve than anticipated.

The Winthorpe Pod joins the race:

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The Micron, I picked the name because the styling sort of got away from me and it looked a little French in the end. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Spot on! A micron (also known as a micrometer) is a unit of measurement, equivalent to one-thousandth of a millimeter (or 1,000 nanometers), which makes it a very short distance indeed. Considering how small your car is, it makes perfect sense to use it as your car’s name somehow.

CAR

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This Week’s Entries:

The race may be DELAYED due to BeamMP not launching after the latest BeamNG update. There is currently a workaround, but I might wait until there is a proper fix that’s easier anyway.

Furthermore, The race format is CHANGING! Since we have only one heat worth of competitors, instead you’ll be competing for points in multiple, different events which compare car and driver alike! Stay tuned!

@ImKaeR in the Husar Lancet

This is the “safety edition”, as the version submitted had None safety- which might be legal in whatever weird country Husar is based in, but it’s not legal here. The extra money spent on safety glass and such had to come out of interior quality. This car weighs 951kg (up from an original 920 or so) and has a 1.6L SOHC I6, making a whopping (for this market) 128 horsepower- that’s more than I thought we’d see today! There’s aggressive use of positive and negative quality sliders all over. This car is sitting on 13-inch wheels with 185mm sports tires.

@A_Harmless_Fly in the Micron

The Micron weighs in at 721kg, and has a 1.2L DAOHC- wait that’s illegal don’t you guys read the rules? I’m going to give this one a pity pass since it has the second-lowest power-to-weight.

The Micron has a 1.2L B6 making 88 horsepower. It’s not highly optimized, since there’s some engine ET and budget left. It’s a ladder frame with double wishbone suspension all around, which seems to be the typical choice. Tires are on 14 inch wheels, and staggered at 145/165. Interestingly, it has a luxury interior with no entertainment system- for the sophisticated gentleman. Or for someone with a bad back who can’t stand the music on the radio these days.

@Sigg610 in the Tenryu 1055

This is an extremely popular car- it has a market score of 678! What makes such a bestseller? A space frame chassis seems to be the secret. It’s also incredibly light at 622kg, I think the lightest in this class. Engine is a 1055cc I3 (I3 engines don’t get displacement in liters because they need the number to look bigger) with a DOHC. Very high compression and advanced timing get a peaky 89hp out of this diminutive displacement. It gets only 12 inch wheels and 145mm tires, and surprisingly, comes with power steering.

@pcmoreno in the Winthorpe Pod

Styling here is… distinctive, as ever. Although it looks like some kind of barebones kit build, it’s one of the heavier cars at 911kg. It has a 1.5L SOHC I4 making 108 horsepower. Most of the rest is pretty standard, ladder frame with DW suspension. It does come with enormous 16 inch wheels, and tires big enough to make the max 185mm width- this car might have some impressive braking capabilities because of that. It also comes under budget and ET.

@Elenir1 in the MIdget Funeral

The name of this car is plastered on the side in yellow letters, although it’s not shown in the photo. Like his last vehicle, this comes with a surprise in the back. This car weighs in at 623kg and makes 93hp from a 1055cc exactly I4, with the help of twin DCOE carbs. It’s monocoque with macpherson/semi suspension, but still RWD. Every bit of ET is used on the trim and engine, and it has an impressive 0.088 Power to Weight.

@stigx24536 in the Hierarch

The E-type body does some of the heavy lifting here but this is a great looking car, and the luggage rack is a nice touch. This car weighs in at 601kg, and has a 1L SOHC I6 making 89 hp. This car has 11 inch wheels, which is probably necessary to get the 150/160 tires in. These may be a big advantage as most of the other cars in this weight range have 145mm tires. It does have tiny brakes, with have a little fade even with 78 pads and 100 brake ventilation. This is also a space frame car, and has no entertainment system.

Survey Link Here

As always, look in the OP for the file download! It will be up shortly after this post.

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Ugh I misread DAOHC as Dual overhead cams DOHC when I was building it, I suppose that’s what I get for building the car the night of though. Thanks for letting it slide.

it is also the only one which happens to look anywhere close to the cars on the main photo for this challenge :wink:

oof. my tires should have been 155s but i must have forgotten to widen them after fixing the quality

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I would LOVE to participate in these events one day!!

Is there a date for the mext challenge?

ALR is kinda dead at the moment, but I belive that @SenseiB12 will ressurect it in undisclosed future

Not sure exactly when the next one will be, though I do have a few plans. It kind of depends on my schedule.

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Automation Live Racing #12:
The President's New Wheels




Welcome to the the place for live multiplayer racing in BeamNG! This will be a competition to determine the best combination of car and driver.

To play, you will need BeamNG, The BeamMP Multiplayer Mod as well as Automation.
Details on how to install mods, and links to our discord and dropbox, are in the ORIGINAL POST.

EVENT RULES

Theme

It is 1995, and with the fall of the iron curtain a few years before, goods are pouring into the former communist states from all over the world. The new, almost democratically elected president of Kolechia has decided to use the country’s newfound wealth and free trade to choose a new foreign vehicle as his presidential transport, replacing his 600CC ZAZ-1600 which was famously slow, unsafe, and uncomfortable. The country’s budget only allows an ordinary luxury vehicle, but he wants to choose the absolute best one, so he’s having some potential candidates put through a series of trials.

The Challenges

THERE WILL BE THREE CHALLENGES, Top Gear style, and you’ll be ranked on each. However, you don’t get to know exactly what the details are until race day, so you only get a short time to practice and can’t tune your car to one exact situation.
THE TEST OF COMFORT will involve driving smoothly over uneven terrain.
THE TEST OF EVASION will involve driving from one place to another while the other players try to ram you.
THE RACE will be a conventional race, on a relatively high-speed course. The usual rules apply:
Contact: No deliberately pitting, brake checking, or ramming drivers off the road.
Heats: Maximum 8 cars per heat. Number of heats depends on number of participants. I’m somewhat hoping to get the race done in one heat, but we may need a qualifying and final heat.
Appearance Poll: Qualifying will be based on appearance poll! Top qualifiers will place into new heats first- EG the 2nd best voted car will be 1st on the grid in Heat 2, then 3rd would be either 1st in Heat 3 or 2nd in Heat 1 depending on the number of heats.
Schedule: Challenge is tentatively scheduled for 2:00PM US-CST on Friday, November 12th. Cars must be submitted by noon the prior Wednesday!
Pre-Qualifier: To prevent issues with users connecting on race day, EVERYONE MUST CONNECT TO THE SERVER BEFOREHAND. The server will be up after cars are submitted. Just join any time and say hello if I’m in Discord, or take a screenshot showing you’ve connected successfully. Most race days we spend 80% of the time dealing with getting people into the server so this should save a lot of time.

Submissions

Teams: One driver per team, drivers may not double-book teams. NEW: A car may be used by multiple teams, or a designer may submit multiple cars. When submitting your car, include your Driver’s name and control type (EG Steering Wheel, Gamepad, Keyboard).
Naming: Name your Model and Engine Family “ALR12-Username” and submit the .car file to me on the forums (not discord).
Picture: (NEW) Post a picture of your car in the thread when submitting. I will use your picture (or first picture if there are multiple) for the poll!
Schedule: To be included in the poll, and to give time for pre-downloads, cars must be submitted by 12:00 Noon US-CST on Wednesday, November 10th. The race will be in the afternoon the following Friday!
Pre-Download: When the poll goes up, all the car files will be in the dropbox, linked in the OP. It is strongly recommended that you download them ahead of time instead of when trying to join the server. See the OP link for mod installation instructions in order to make them work with BeamMP or KissMP. Remember to download this and PRE QUALIFY BEFORE THE RACE by connecting to the server!

CAR RULES

Inspiration

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Car Requirements

Year: Trim year 1995
Total Estimated Cost: $45,000 or Less (The President’s dreams are far larger than his budget…)
Maximum Engineering Time: 120
Seats: Minimum 4 full seats
Doors: Minimum 4 doors
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Minimum Safety: 50
Minimum Comfort: 60
Minimum Market Score: 120 in Luxury
Tires: No Semi-Slick, +0 Quality
Tire Width: Max Width: 205mm, plus 5 mm for every 100KG above 1200KG, EG 1800KG = Max 235mm Tire Width. Absolute Max of 255mm. Staggered tires may average the max width.
NO: Wing Fixtures, 4x4, Manual Locker, Auto Locker
Minimum Fuel Economy: 20MPG, minus 1mpg for every 100kg above 1200kg. Absolute minimum 10MPG.

Engine Requirements

Year: Variant year 1995
Maximum Engineering Time: 120
Max Displacement: 2.5cc/kg
NO Turbo
NO Race Parts
NO DAOHC
Fuel: Premium Unleaded
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Maximum Loudness: 30
Maximum Stress: 0% in any category. (That means NO STRESS)

Tips

-Expected performance: About 0.90-0.99 cornering G, 200-350hp
-There’s no track to practice, but learn your braking distance
-DO NOT FORGET TO PRE-QUALIFY!!! I will bring the server up all day thursday!
-Do not forget to post a picture of your car. You can post multiple if you want.
-We will be using BeamMP. You may need to set your user folder for BeamMP manually with the option in the launcher.
-Go to the original post and click the Discord link if you need help!
-Ping @Sensei#7825 on discord!

COUNTDOWN TO SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DON’T BE LATE

Schedule US-CST Time:
Submit cars: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10th, 12:00
Race: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12th, 14:00

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