After a long wait and lots of work the time has finally come to start the next season of the Bavarian Racing Challenge: 1966! Running on a much more powerful engine (pun intended), this season will be more fun than ever. Not only have the underlying calculations been adapted to the original track simulation in Automation (or the other way around), the visual and auditive experience should be better, too. In addition to that, weather and pit stops are now simulated. Another factor of uncertainty which should add to the overall experience. Many new tracks will make too much finetuning senseless and unneccessary. Here you find the BRCTool, a little helper to set up your entry. Instructions can be found in the readme.txt. Please ask in this thread for support.
Feel free to post questions and ideas in case something remains unclear! I’m looking forward to running this challenge a LOT.
How to modify your race strategy
It is allowed to change race strategy during the season. Just use the BRCTool like you did when first submitting your car. But then only send me the *-Info.lua file. This one contains all the information of the form except for the actual car, which must stay the same.
Good idea! Currently it is based on durability (avg. reliability). But maybe your stats work better. I’ll include something like that or maybe a mixture of safety, reliability and weight.
The most precise method is by looking in the .lua file for the engine variant - that’s what I talked about in this earlier post - but eyeballing the numbers based on the graphs seems to be feasible. If the line on the fuel economy chart is about three-quarters of the way up from the 400 g/kWh line to the 700 g/kWh line, that means about 625 g/kWh. The formula has a pretty wide margin of error, after all - this is mostly to make sure that you’re not blindsided going into the pre-season testing by your car needing two pit stops in a 90-minute race. For that purpose, you want to have a reasonable margin of safety anyhow.
Because in 1965, the last ten years body rule will include the not-sprite. You weren’t around for that particular contest, but let’s just say that body was, compared to the other bodies available for the time, super OP to the point that if you didn’t use it, you had no chance of placing even in the top third of the field
(Due to low power:weight ratings, it was much lighter and the power limitation was very easy to hit, and also had much less overall drag than the other bodies.)
