I’ll see, I have a more traditional Dragotec fashioned prototype nearly finished now. With a surprisingly high tameness/sportiness ratio for a car which reached the holy 1kw/kg ratio before during development, but lost it in favour of other things 
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EDIT: Question, are front mounted wings street legal? 
Hmm it seems that the engine from the comet fwd prototype has gone missing… and I think I just heard a turbo blowoff from the shed. what could be going on in there, just last night I saw the team unloading ome of our worst selling models '74 brougham from a junkyard. They must have no idea what to build.
Oh damn, that’s a good question. Technically a front mounted wing increases risk of pedestrian injury in event of a frontal collision and may impair visibility, therefore they should not be legal 
However, because some road legal splitter and air dam modifications can still generate a good amount of downforce, I would say you are free to add them, just try to do so in a less conspicuous way 
[size=85](And I better figure out a better way to design the Civic Aero if I can’t use a Rado style front wing…)[/size]
Another way to interpret it, is, for example, how Dodge got its ACR to lap Nordschleife quicker by using a front splitter that effectively made the car not road legal for the duration of its attachment (but it was easily detachable).
Thank you for the hint. Seems like my idea needs some more thought…
Been tuning this FWD car and holy hell, for a car that has over 850bhp now. Its goes around Nordschleife faster than any car i have thrown around it.
Strop i agree, FWD cars do surprisingly well in this format.
Something smells terribly burnt outside of AMW’s factory. On the factory’s closed 5km testing straight, you can only hear a high-revving V8 but you can’t see anything as the entire place is covered in smoke. And as the smoke finally faded away, the car had already disappeared. Something mad is about to be unleashed.
Where is all that tyre smoke coming from, outside our factory?
[size=50]Wait, the engine just blew? 
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Having done some further testing (of my own models, not anybody else’s as yet), I’ve decided to rebalance the points slightly by allocating slightly more points to the FR format. I apologise if this would change your strategy, and if you’ve already submitted, I’m happy for you to resubmit or retune.
Helps me, having already choosen to go FR.
I’ve also decided that since I can’t decide which car of my own to enter, I’m tempted to benchmark a heap of them in different formats. As the host, I’m not allowed to score points, however, the cars I run will appear in the race standings so you have an idea of how they might have performed, though they will not count as real entries, so your standings will not be affected in any way.
Thing is, I created this tournament so people could experience the kind of stuff I habitually play with, so just about all of the cars in my garage have >1000bhp or >1hp:kg. So far my choices include:
[ul]]2014 Ascension Mephisto, GG’s own highly sinful fastback coupe AWD mega car./:m]
]2014 Sleipnir, GG’s own MR supercar currently on an ongoing pre-release campaign to take over the world./:m]
]2013 Honda Civic GG Tune, Strop’s FF ex-sensible city runabout initially given a Stage 3 Time Attack makeover for VosNox’s FWD competition. Now tuned well beyond sensible and surprisingly competitive on the circuit./:m]
]1986 BMW M3 E30 Works, with a sourced recent reconditioned engine. This one’s a real handful, just like its equivalent I drive in NFS Shift 2./:m]
]1975 Ford XB Falcon John Goss Extra Special, the ol’ Falcon given a proper tubbing and reboot with a ridiculously large engine that easily puts out 2500hp. Massive wheelspin penalty anyone?/:m]
]1965 Aston Martin DB5 Big Block Edition… with a 1974 10L V8 running 1003hp. I’m currently debating whether to keep the 1965 chassis and trim (which would guarantee it finish dead last in every event owing to the prohibitively small tyres), or whether to modernise the chassis, strip it out and rebuild it in carbon, which would give it almost 1hp:1kg… and give most of your entries a good run for their money./:m]
]1962 Cadillac Series 62, an answer to what happened to the missing chassis from The Hulk project (see story on next page). 3100hp going through a pair of 245mm wide tyres… hmmmmmm./:m][/ul]
There’s just so many possibilities!
So far I have 4 entries. 3 of them use the Corvette shell. Is this because it’s new? Or because it has insanely wide rear flare with a maximum rear tyre width of some ridiculous 455mm?
You’re still accepting entries, correct?
I’ll probably throw a silly engine into my new 4-door sports car and appease your desire for non-vette-shell cars. 
That and huge engine bay, my prototype uses it too atm 
In a single word: YES!!!
Damn this is harder then I thought, so many prototypes! All of them cool and utterly mad, but nothing quite jumping out at me yet. 50’s Cadillac with a 1200hp modern turbo v8 crammed in sideways with a 400kph top speed? it’s just not saying yes to me yet. This is a really fun challenge to build for strop!
Looks like this could become interesting, looking forward to see how this turns out. It’s my first compo as well, so I’m definitely excited for it 
I’ve only owned the game for three weeks, so I’m not nearly as experienced as most of you guys, but I hope I’ll do all right. This is what I’m working on right now:
It’s called the Decker Annihilator and to be honest it’s most likely one of the tamest cars in the comptetition. It’s built in 1990 and has a 5.5-litre, twin-turbo V8 from 1991 powering all four wheels through a five-speed gearbox. Also it gets less than 9 MPG 
I’m not going to spoil too much of the specs, but here’s what the power graph looks like:
Full boost for almost half the rev range; not too bad for a newbie, eh? 
It’s got good potential. If you’re really smart, you can make a car with parts from the 60s compete decently with the modern extreme tuner models.
(However I don’t expect the seriously classic/antique bodies to be competitive as they have limitations on suspension, tyres and undertray that make them much harder to race. However, what they lose out on the track, they make up for in sheer lunacy, and are much more likely to pick up a huge swag of bonus points, so watch out!)
Here’s the Vindicator, My team has combined a old school big block, stroked and over bored to 9.7 liters, with racing internals and a set of dohc cam heads, It’s highly stressed but should hold for the duration. The big V8 is Mounted into one of Centauri’s last ladder frame chassis and then a old classy fiberglass body is bolted on to the rails. The Vindicator will be turning a lot of heads on this tour. I added a few creature comforts, a basic radio, some seat padding, and roll down windows to prevent the James May experience.
[size=85](not my testicals!)[/size]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m8rBgE0IqbA/TA5qd6rs1kI/AAAAAAAAALg/Wthkx6dmulM/s640/james.jpg
So with out further ado I present the Centauri Vindicator.
look out everyone, that right there is a strong contender for the Crazy Wheels award!
We got a working prototype, the mechanics worked all day (and night…) long to tune the underperforming 1990 Achernar 5 door hatchback into something good, now it has a carbon fiber chassis and body panels, extreme twin wing, twin lip flared aero setup and… a 8.1 liter crossplane V8 powering all four wheels making 1220HP at 8500RPM, with a weight of 1170KG 
It goes around the Automation Test Track in 2 minutes and 13 seconds in the current iteration, luckily it’s got driver aids, otherwise the driver (Read: ME) would die in a brutal crash. That would be pretty bad for the company… Anyways, we have a new challenger coming soon 
A few more stats:
0-100: 2.5s
Top Speed: 387km/h
Handling: 1.38-1.51g
Awesomeness: Over 9000
