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Exactly my hopes 
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ditto!
I’ve been crunching numbers with my car, tinkering with the settings (after submission), and found another half-second! I also crunched the numbers in fuel consumption, and if I didn’t make a mistake, my 7.4L (or was it 7.5?) V8 should be able to go just over 30 minutes with a full tank, which is better than I expected, but not necessarily great.
[quote=“strop”]Those sub 2:20 times seem to come with cars that have quite a lot of fuel consumption, or lower engine reliability, or both. At least, I hope lol. Otherwise I’m a good 2.5+ seconds slower per lap for not very much benefit… Because I’m running >200hp less for starters.
If the BRC suggested anything to me it was that I should be less conservative. But in a 1000km race, you only dnf once…[/quote]
My thought was, since I’m going to break down anyway, I might as well go fast before it happens. And sub 2:20 times usually come at the expense of fuel, reliability and wear, but 2 seconds a lap means I can afford twice as many stops as you, probably.
So, with the BRC tool, for endurance mode, I only fill at R1 and Q, and ignore R2 and R3. Right?
I’m guessing each pit stop costs about 40 seconds - 25 for 75 kg fuel and 15 for pit in/pit out. So 2 s/lap is one stop per 20 laps, or ~45 minutes, by my estimate.
No quality slider restrictions correct?
I hope I am not too late to submit, I was busy all day and was not thinking about the fact that Der Bayer is on Germany time. I have 2 cars to enter, do I give them the same racing number or different? Gonna post pics and some stats in a while, wanted to get this post up in case someone in my hemisphere knows when the submit deadline is.
You must use 0 quality on the wheels/tyres. Otherwise, I believe it’s unrestricted.
I gave my two entries different numbers - assuming we don’t have more than 45-50 entries, that makes the most sense to me.
Yeah, two different numbers, I’m fairly sure that’s why he said if there’s too many entries we only get one. So he doesn’t run out of numbers 
Just about to submit myself.
Coming soon to a race track near you…
Redhawk Performance Group (RPG) has announced they will be backing a race team in BRC for the 1976 season. This comes after someone got a picture of their race car (a pre-season build) with a rumored 7.5L Bigblock V8.
In the press release RPG gave today, they stated the car is based off the AEA Barracuda body and Uniframe, but is completely remade. They’re calling it: Barracuda RRE (Road Racing Edition).
(Full write up to appear On the official AEA/RPG forum while the BRC 76 season is fully underway.)
Time to unveil my first entry
Sporting the 10,5L V8 and Lap Times of 2.20 flat, this is not your ordinary pickup!
The observant might even notice the spoiler in the bed of the truck and the lip on top of the grille for max efficiency 
(Just hoping this body is in the HighRes. believe it is but not 100% sure)
Ok, so this seems to be a David vs Goliath battle thing now, with some people opting for engines at over 10 liters, and others are trying to squeeze some power out of things like 2-3 liters. I do hope there’s more middle ground.
I will be interesting to see all the different apporaches to aero this BRC, and what kind of builds use a lot of aero, none, etc.
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Well, it is stirring up some emotion at least, even if it is a bit of a glaring colour. The racing teal will be back on my other entry, more soothing to the eyes 
Also, having similar issues to GenJeFT, slightly different numbers. Only issue on this car, other cars worked fine
i swear it’s only me. some kind of driver error or something.
How come all my tires are absolutely tiny? Mine are smaller than a Prius atm…?
@KielEire: There’s a minimum tyre profile limit - if your rims are too large relative to the outer diameter of the tyre, you can’t make the tyre any wider.
My process is generally this:
[ul]]Increase tyre diameter as much as possible./:m]
]Decrease rim diameter some. (Depends - some cars you can stop at 15 inches, other cars have to go down to 12 or 11.)/:m]
]Increase tyre width./:m]
]Discover that I didn’t flare the wheel arches enough./:m]
]Go back to the trim tab (with the two cars in the symbol) in the “Model” section and increase the flare on the wheel arches./:m]
]Go forward again to the tyre section./:m]
]Increase tyre width to maximum (265 in this case)./:m]
]Increase rim diameter to until tyre width drops (because the profile got too small again)./:m]
]When it does, decrease rim diameter by one inch and increase tyre width back to maximum./:m]
]Decrease wheel diameter until tyre width drops (same reason)./:m]
]Increase tyre width by 10 mm (I don’t know why, but if you increase it by only 5, it doesn’t work) and increase tyre width back to maximum./:m][/ul]
This will leave you with tyres with the minimum possible profile and largest possible rims for your specific car body.
Just a sneak peek at my realistic entry, boring presentation atm I’m afraid:
Does it look like it is squinting?
3,5L V8
2.21.50 track time
78kg fuel tank, fuel consumption 108kg/h
And same error message on export in brctool. Seems like I only have trouble with the newly created cars 
It looks particularly distrustful. That, or it just ate something that didn’t taste quite like one would expect.
I’m definitely somewhere in the middle. That works for me, though it will not be clear how good the balance is in a 20 lap pre test.
