Ground up unicorns?
Shhhhhhhhhhh, you were supposed to use the code word, A.K.A. “DevMeth”, they are probably the same thing 
The Unicorn Power or “UP”. The only power unit that can measure strop´s engines output.
I was actually surprised by the sheer width of your front tyres, which normally doesn’t work in an MR car, but then again, that may be something to do with the loss of tameness. An optimised C group body in the old build around Nordschleife, for example, prefers something like 315s, not 425s! I think your car, as a result, was pushing cornering gs like 1.58-1.6g in the 20m circle test, which is unprecedented!
Turbos seem to be a little easier to wring performance out of in the new build, so it’ll be very interesting to see how they truly stack up once calculations are redone.
I’m really surprised how powerful my engine was in comparison to the rest of the world.
But I guess Pirelli was right saying that power is nothing without control. I’d say that I made a decent contest debut, but I wonder what I’ve done wrong with my car…the gap between me and 3rd in class was huge.
The typ C chassis is very tricky. I also tried putting in more powerful engines and it only makes it go slower. There must be a secret trick that only a few people know. Or they experimented until they get a magic balance of numbers. When I try to setup the car just 1 harmless can change everything. For example, using 13" or 14" rims made 8 seconds difference. I’ll probably leave my hands from this chassis (in fact, all MR chassis are like that) because I dont understand it.
[quote=“strop”]
I was actually surprised by the sheer width of your front tyres, which normally doesn’t work in an MR car, but then again, that may be something to do with the loss of tameness. An optimised C group body in the old build around Nordschleife, for example, prefers something like 315s, not 425s! I think your car, as a result, was pushing cornering gs like 1.58-1.6g in the 20m circle test, which is unprecedented!
Turbos seem to be a little easier to wring performance out of in the new build, so it’ll be very interesting to see how they truly stack up once calculations are redone.[/quote]
I think that it has to do with the car being AWD. Before the Steam update, the power distribution couldn´t be modified. Assuming that it was distributed 50front/50rear, with low weight on the front, and a lot of power, the front tyres needed to be unusually high for a MR car.
That is easy to check though. Just put the AWD drivetrain on the group C body, install a high output engine, change power distribution, and play with the tyre width. The more power you send to the front axle, the wider its tyres have to be.
Immortal Pikes Peak TC - Winner of Time Attack Tuned Class
After seeing Streets of Detroit times in The FWD Sedan Endurance Series, where it was over 1 MINUTE slower than opponents I lost hope about this car. Maybe to early…
Thanx for great competition Strop 
As a rule you are right, but the funny thing, lespass, is for every quick solution I saw that was MR AWD, I could find a MR RWD that was faster! At least, in b1418.
The solution I had for pikes peak that was about 0.3s faster than lespass was in fact a RWD MR with unusually wide front tyres. I wonder what happens if I drop the width. I suspect my low speed cornering g will drop…
[quote=“conan”]
That would be excellent! Can you write one for us?[/quote]
Here you go, I have a first version for the old format (B1418).
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5833
Good show, lots of fun! 9/10 would do again :-p