It is well known and not banned. Just about everyone is using it right now.[/quote]
I think it is cheap to do it. Didn’t do it myself either. We do have power to weight ratio, but still. Feels like cheating or rather exploiting a bug.
Will we btw get another test just prior to the start of the season. Or did we have all the tests already?
I will start another test (the final one) this evening.
The bug does not change a lot. Now it’s too late to change the rules anyway. More than half of the participants are using the bug (not me by the way 
), no way they can all revise their cars in time.
The car I used for the previous test wasn’t using the bug but the new one is. The lower power and weight means it’s quicker round some tracks and slower round others. I’m mainly using it in the vain hope that it reduces tyre wear.
If I think of it as a ballast slider it makes it a little easier to sleep at night.
It is well known and not banned. Just about everyone is using it right now.[/quote]
I think it is cheap to do it. Didn’t do it myself either. We do have power to weight ratio, but still. Feels like cheating or rather exploiting a bug.
Will we btw get another test just prior to the start of the season. Or did we have all the tests already?[/quote]
The power to weight limit makes it kinda irrelevant. All you really gain with the loss of weight is a slightly better cornering, but as we saw with Absurdists car cornering does not always make that much of a difference. Bobs car turns much better in the corners but because of Absurdists car was faster out of the corners he won the race.
The thing that I really feel is cheap is using the little roadster car. There is just no way anything else can compete with that thing and I expect it to keep showing up for a while. I am using it now just because nothing vanilla had a hope of keeping up with it.
cccrrrraaappppp, wanted to submit my new new race car utilizing the mid engined '45 tonight (was busy sight seeing in London 
)… seems I missed the deadline for the last practice session 
Man, choppy internet at this hotel… hopefully my revision got in on time :\
It looks like the bugfixes and driveability equation change tamed the hell out of my brownmobile - only one mistake, and it was minor. I’m still nowhere near the top cars, though!
I kinda feel like for next competition there should be an adjustment to horsepower for body aerodynamics. Maybe just a linear bonus based on square footage to roughly level the playing field at 100 mph/160 kph? The more aerodynamic bodies would still have a top-speed advantage but the less streamlined bodies wouldn’t be as much penalized.
[size=150][color=#0080FF]Final Pre-Season Test[/color][/size]
The results of the final pre-season test are now available:
http://youtu.be/ZVfXS8uuuAA
You now have time until Sunday to make final changes to your car. Especially the following three participants must revise their car to avoid disqualification:
[ul][li]AshleyBlack: Total Cost + 0 reliability[/li]
[li]UltimateBMWfan: TotalCost[/li]
[li]vmo: Power/Weight ratio[/li][/ul]
These results are acceptable. My strategy has changed from strong slow cornering to faster corners, mid range acceleration and a higher top speed than the other front runners. Now it remains to be seen whether this affords better overtaking on the long straights of Monza and Nosiring…
Tire Wear FTW! I need to work on this. My fastest lap was the first one. Every other lap was slower than the previous. And…4.23 fuel left…American Gas Guzzling at it’s finest!
My car drinks enough fuel that the performance loss from tire wear was balanced out by the performance boost from fuel consumption. Odd sweet spot.
Really hot competition on this one. Be interesting to see if anyone can catch Mattmr2 who seems to be doing everything right on this one.
Oh, mother - I’d thought I’d made my peace with how slow my car was, but this is horrific! I’m going to have to crack this thing open, see what I can do to make it faster.
(Also, I was really confused by the changed numbers, but they’re from the standings in 1945, aren’t they?)
Well that was rubbish… looks like I can spare a tad more tire wear for better times.
Yes, I thought it would be nice to have starting numbers transferred to next season depending on the finishing position. 
I certainly am ok with that! 
Well, I needed seconds and I found tenths. At least I had a chance to change the color to something more pleasant for my final revision - and I actually improved the fuel economy a fair bit by refining the fuel mixture, engine timing, and compression ratio to more optimal figures.
Blaeh!.. my car needs someone, with much more skill than me, to set up the suspension and gearbox. I’ve done what i can, hope i can at least qualify good enough.
(Don’t want to make the engine smaller or less powerful, even if i might have the heaviest car.)
I just can not do this season… trying to build a new roadster body after the poor performance from my mid-engined '45 but the suspension just will not cooperate. Getting 1 second slower laps than my '45 car even though the roadster can go 20 mph faster on the straights…
Just build a coupe and be with the cool kids! 