Retro Racers: a homologation race/road car design challenge
To give you all a break from the extremely regulated engineering savvy challenges, I decided to host a purely design-related challenge with as much creative freedom as physically possible. So without further ado, here it is;
Basically, this challenge is all about race cars for the road, AKA Homologation Specials. You can choose any racing series/class to make a race car and corresponding road car for, so long as it is between 1970 and 1999. Participants must make a race car for whatever class they choose and must make a corresponding road car, as long as it makes sense for the time period/era. Submissions open on March 5th, and end on april 20thThere will also be judge-given feedback starting on the 30th. ( ̶t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶l̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶a̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶m̶h̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶l̶l̶e̶n̶g̶e̶)
Participants may submit up to one car per decade
Submission Policy:
You must set your model name to
[RR-(main category)-(subcategory)-(decade)-(username)-(road or race car)]
The trim name should be the actual name of the submission
Example: [RR-On track-Coupes-80’s-Mustangporsche67]
The judges are:
Me (Mustangporsche67)
@MelikTheHedgehog
@Moose_Man46
@MountainGoat_96
@FuriousFox25
Rules/guidelines
This is a purely design-based challenge, so no engineering will be judged, although please keep it period correct/realistic (no 60,000hp v16s)
There will be 2 main categories and 4 subcategories, as well as the decade:
On-track: pretty much any car designed to be driven on a paved surface/track
Off-track: rally cars, race trucks, whatever else goes offroad goes here
Sedans/wagons (4 doors or more)
Coupes
Hatchbacks
Trucks/4x4s
70’s
80’s
90’s
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Road car Submissions MUST be road legal/make sense as a road car. If you just take the livery off your race car and put plates on it, YOU WILL BE BINNED
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Road cars must resemble race cars and must have the same body and wheelbase
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The road car MUST be at least believably road legal, so just slapping license plates on a race car will result in a bin
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Formula/open-wheel race cars are the only racing class that is banned due to obvious reasons
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The race car must make sense for the class it is supposed ot be entered in (ie; don’t make a group c rally car or something stupid like
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The race car must have a livery of some sort, and no, putting 2 racing stripes and a number on a car and calling it a day is not a livery
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The race car must have proper period safety features, and be up to the correct spec/limitations of the time/class
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MAJOR RULES UPDATE (3-20-23)
We have a few new rules I didn’t originally think of that are pretty important to what can and cant be submitted to this challenge, so, here they are;
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The car has to have 4 wheels touching the ground while at rest, so no 3 wheelers and no motorcycles (maybe I’ll do a separate motorcycle challenge after this…)
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Both the race car and the road car can only have 1 engine. no escudo pikes peaks and no twin-engine golfs
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No fan cars/motorized ground effect machines will be accepted, so no chapperal 2Js.
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The road car cannot just be a normal commuter shitbox, as the sole purpose of most of these cars existing is to go racing, not the other way around. if you do have a base model that you plan on giving the race treatment to for a homologation car, that would be fine, but just taking a normal ‘throwaway’ car and saying its the homologation version would result in a bin.
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Please refrain from using real life branding/cars, we want to see what you come up with, not some pre existing car company
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If there are any other rules that i think of i will be sure to alert all participants about them. As for now, get creative, have fun, and i look forwards to seeing what you guys make!
Inspiration:
Please note that this is my first challenge so its not perfect, any help and advice would be greatly appreciated
