BRC 1976 - Under Pressure [E8-Q]

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dull and plain, too busy tweaking with car without caring the aesthetic though 2:10 still a barrier but im pretty happy to make car a little more easier to drive and have a little more economy efficiency. i dont know if i should really sent my revision now.

also spending +4 on advanced safety with -4 Premium interior just to get minimum weight which make me very unhappy about the budget allocation which i think i should spent the money elsewhere instead just trying to pass minimum requirement. dunno if i should make another car after all weekend(with tight schedule) i spent tweaking on this car

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well you’re first in the test why wouldn’t you be? :stuck_out_tongue:

anyway, just how much camber is ‘a lot’ you say?
i’m having nearly the same weight as yours @1080-ish but we have quite the difference in tire wear


@Denta you call that dull?
and 2:10 is plenty fast, i’m still stuck on 2:12.5 on automation.


okay i am now contemplating 2 things,

actually try to lower the tire wear (conservative)
OR
go nuts with the camber and go forth with a 2 pit strategy each race, which means the results of my race depends on the length of the pit lane. (go balls deep)

how many strategy test do we have?

on hotlap not standing start, on standing start using the ATT Hotlap course i secure around 2:14 low. by increasing 1000 more RPM i can get about .20 milisecond lower but im not confident to stay with 29.4 reliability though BRC now is less random which it make really hard decision. i can make the power a little bit higher but the economy already bad enough plus i missed the test entirely for new car, for camber im trying to be more conservative on my tyres more since last season being aggressive just not worth much in long run.

@Der_Bayer another question just to be sure

If it rains at the start of a race, will there also be track humidity already there (from the rain that happened before the start)?

from previous BRC, yes. but iirc, the track humidity starts a bit lower than the level of rain

Wow, full season starts tomorrow? Crap. I was gone due to a 3 day music festival.

Welp, gonna have to run what I got…

you still need to set your strategy first you know

Yeah, I’ll look into the last revisions today and set up my strat then.

Whelp, still need to increase my fuel efficiency by 10-15% or gain at least 1 sec a lap to compensate for double pit… sounds like an all nighter :wink:

Eh, I think I’ll be running at the back of the pack this year. I didn’t choose an optimal body for my engine, but I designed it so nicely on the outside, I really didn’t want to get rid of it, or try to replicate it.

Time to reveal my entrant…




Introducing the Civera Silhouette S-3B, the final version of ErinSport’s most succesfull car of the 1970s. Having raced in Group 4 and Group 5 with a number of different variants, the S-3B marked the final edition of this car, as the old Civera was discontinued by Erin.

This was designed to be the grand finale. Hence, it ran with the second biggest engine ever made by ErinSport - a SOHC 5.7l V8, shoe-horned into the front of the car, and throwing 468 bhp to the rear wheels. 0-60 could be dealt with in 5.2 seconds it topped out at 172 mph.

Having failed to gain a single point in the 1966 season, ErinSport are looking to make big gains this year and race with a genuinely competitive car.

Team Lineup
Drivers: Harold Forgely (GBR) and Piet Klosschers (NLD)
Team Manager: Michael Farthing
Project Overseer: Damian Harleson





ErinSport would like to wish all competitors the best of luck in what will hopefully be the best season of BRC so far.

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Yeah, have to admit I did the opposite. When I was rebuilding the turbo from scratch, I wanted to do a thing or two differently and didn’t leave time for playing with the looks.

The final version of the Howler Godiva is unfortunately a bit of a minger. Also it was supposed to be the RST trim because it’s a turbo but I now find I’d named it RSF in the car file before I sent it in.

Oh well, at least it should be reasonably fast.

2.50 rear, which is down from 3 for the test.

What do you mean sideways will affect the tire wear? Bah!

@Denta Oh, Premium int, ouch. :confused:

@DeusExMackia Some serious photoshop skills there! Looks amazing! Love the Martini livery.

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I can confirm that my NA engine is larger than that in displacement and made more power if that helps. :wink:

Please automation gods, let me drop this remaining 0.0:14 seconds so I can say I am sub 2:05. Amen

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Hmmm… maybe not a smart thing to let the designteam do this on party night,
after a marathon of old 60’s - 80’s 'murican movies.
And i have to remind myself to fire the idi…:zipper_mouth: , i mean reasign the person responsible for the front end.:rolling_eyes:

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Is it better to have higher cornering speeds for Brobot even if it is slightly slower in Automation?

Derp, started doing body mods to make the car look good and suddenly lost 0.8 seconds a lap :frowning: And of course i forgot to make backup/clone :flushed: PM incoming to Der_Bayer

There’s mine … I nicknamed it “The Fisheyes”, guess why.

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