Automation Beginners League - season 82/83 drawing to an end!

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Also can I just point out (not to blow my own horn too much) that may car was usually less than 0.5 s outside the top 3 on and was in the top 3 for two races, yet I have no weight penalty.

This doesn’t seem very fair to me, as if we assume that everyone makes a car to the same standard as the 1970 season (not saying it will happen!) and only the top 3 get weight penalties then all that happens is the top 3 drop down the order but the rest of the field stay the same. Surely we want to try to level the field rather than just drop the leaders down?

In my mind a more fair way would be a scaled system (perhaps a bit like the BTCC has) where the person in first has the most weight and as you go down the rankings each person gets a progressively smaller weight penalty until (maybe 11th and lower) have no extra weight at all.

With the only very light MR body banned, 1200kg isn’t that much of a penalty anyways :smiley:

Right now I have an MR and an FR car which both yield me roughly the same track times, none of which I’m really confident with :confused:

I can’t say you’re wrong. Our idea was to give a penalty to the round podium, so that’s why we choose the top 3. About the 1200kg penalty, the top cars that hadn’t used the LM body had from 1000kg to 1100kg, the ones with less then that would have only wheel-spin. But a progressive penalty is interesting. Anyone else agree?

There’s always room for improvement. I don’t know, it seems an overly complicated system for a beginners league. Let’s hold a poll and see how you guys like it when we reach the 80’s. Deal?

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With Semi-Slicks and race-parts I think a Green hell lap time unter 8:00 will be possible. Sad that it isn`t part of the Competition, but i think i will tune my car there again :slight_smile:

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8:00 first seemed easy for me with my old car i got around 8:04,5 (Sadly after the deadline) but since the price dropped and my fabulous v12 is not allowed it will be harder then i first thought but still possible

What are you guys thinking about the engine limits? We tried engines with the same bore/stroke ratio and same internal components, but different sizes and head types to have more or less the same power numbers, differing in torque and weight. So it feels fair enough?

havent started yet but since 70/71 the dohc was useless for me because it was like 2XX if i remember right against 4XX PS… so i think it should be closer to the other power outputs

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Yeah it´s better balanced now. But i coudn’t get my old v12 power. I was at 420 now. And the Engine was about the same weight as before.

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Yeah, the power output should be a little higher then 400hp for all the heads, that was the idea. We didn’t want to have engines too big, so we have lower displacement numbers, making possible the use of 6 cylinder engines too. I would like to include the 4 cylinders, but it would reduce a lot the engine displacement.


Just to remember, please send your entries to me!
I’m the one who will check and run your cars.

Just confirming, The safety requirement was removed and race parts are allowed for this challenge now? If that’s the case i might need to rework my entry a lil to squeek a bit more performance out

I think advanced safety is still required, but race parts are allowed this time.

Correct, advanced safety is required but all race parts are now allowed

Yeah, it doesn’t have a safety value (doe to smaller cars struggling to have better safety values), but advanced safety is required, because we don’t wan’t any deaths at the race :wink:

I think this would be a good challenge: Deathrace - Kill the other players :imp:

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Hahahahaha
It would really be awesome :smiling_imp:

Presenting my 1972 entrant: My Bogliq Expresso sequel!!!

The owner of this Expresso has clearly been in contact with Leeroy Racing and has modified his car in line with their recommendations, which include:

Ported and blueprinted head
Reground race-spec camshaft
Tuned length race intake trumpets
hi-flowed, high pressure fuel pump and injectors
Larger, optimum flow exhaust

The owner has also installed a road rally gearbox, stronger diff, competition compound tyres, stripped interior and deleted the power steering…

The result? Over 200Kw and a 0-100Km/h sprint reduced by 3 tenths of a second! :sunglasses:

Buy better, buy Bogliq!

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still no race parts allowed tho

god damn it john how many times do I have to tell you guys that all race parts are allowed now :joy:

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