Thanks to the “23 hours plus competition cautions of Daytona”, I’ve been wondering if we could translate car performance from the car performance screen into actual track performance. My quick and dirty way was, using Daytona as an example, break the track down into sections and correlate those to the various given speeds. Windy bits wre given the cornering speed, shorter straights were given the 1/4 mile speed, and long straights were given the maximum speed. Amazingly, I was able to get a car I made similar to a Daytona Prototype to have comparative speed on the track.
Other tracks…did not work well. I tried St. Petersburg and Miami, and it was a mess. Now, that may have been error in partitioning off those two tracks, but the speeds weren’t even reasonable (I used the most recent P2 speeds at each track, or IndyCar times modified). Has anyone been working on a project like this? My reason is that I would love to translate our car designs into a sort of IMSA GTP series, but I’m having some difficulty in putting this together. Any ideas?
I could agree with that idea, but then not USA tracks! XD
The most “logical” and "real-life"track could be the Nürburgring or, “to be right” the Nordschleife, infact, quoting en.wikipedia:
This is because of the road materials and conditions that recreate a real life situations of “driving” (there are concrete sections, corners with different height sides ecc).
I don’t need a test on a perfect road if my customers will drive on a road full of holes (you know, I live in Italy! )!
So I agree with your idea only if the devs will insert a circuit very similar to all day roads!
I think it will be more like the “perfect” road, with flat tarmac. A test track then will consist of straights of various lenghts and corners with various (constant) radii, without hills. Lap time calculations based on such a track can be done with the current simulations. Anything more complex would require a huge effort.
The Nürburging could of course be approximated by a 2D-projection and approximizations of the corner radii. The question is if such a long track needs a very long time to calculate.
I know it’s being planned to add it later on, and I’m not in a real rush to get it, as I’m pretty sure the devs have more pressing issues. That said, I would love to see the ability to plug in a track and use that to figure out how a car would perform there, and even plug in how long the car would drive that track for, how long before it needed to refuel, etc.
Basically, set a car we design up as a race car and let it go. I know that’s well outside of the game’s scope, so I was wondering if anyone else had a system for doing this. My system works only for Daytona, so it seems.
[quote=“taoistlumberjak”]I know it’s being planned to add it later on, and I’m not in a real rush to get it, as I’m pretty sure the devs have more pressing issues. That said, I would love to see the ability to plug in a track and use that to figure out how a car would perform there, and even plug in how long the car would drive that track for, how long before it needed to refuel, etc.
Basically, set a car we design up as a race car and let it go. I know that’s well outside of the game’s scope, so I was wondering if anyone else had a system for doing this. My system works only for Daytona, so it seems.[/quote]
I don’t know if in USA motor companies and magazines test their car on oval circuit ( ), but in Italy Fiat Group and many magazines use the “Langhe” Circuit, the “old” Alfa Romeo Test Track at Balocco.
And in Europe, in my humble knowledge, motor companies and magazines use Nürburgring (Nordschleife).
Italian links on it.Wikipedia and fiatspace.com (the english version doesn’t exist, sorry ):
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), but in Italy Fiat Group and many magazines use the “Langhe” Circuit, the “old” Alfa Romeo Test Track at Balocco.
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