Powerful American Insanity National (COMPLETE)

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@LS_Swapped_Rx-7

Super unleaded/leaded fuel (98 RON)

I’m assuming that 98 RON fuel of some sort is actually mandatory, and not merely an upper limit.

@LS_Swapped_Rx-7

don’t go above the default +5 allocation.

I take that as “the maximum techpool limit for each and every area is +5”, and not “all techpool areas must be set to +5”.

Also, entrants may equip driving aids on their cars if they want to, but I’m presuming that traction and stability controls will be toggled off, if either or both of them are fitted.

@LS_Swapped_Rx-7

Max Price: $40k

This is not only a hard limit, but also applies to all decades, in contrast to FM4 which had different price limits for different decades.

However, when testing entries before the actual challenge, you may want to keep these in mind:

• Active aero is not implemented in the exporter, and any spring types other than standard or progressive (i.e. hydropneumatic, air, and active sport/comfort) do not operate in Beam. I’m not sure if adaptive/semi-active dampers and any sway bar type other than passive works properly in Beam, though, but on the assumption that they don’t, I’m fitting mono-tube dampers and passive sway bars to my entries.

• According to the OP, tire tech pool may be set to +5 at most, but there’s a good reason why cars are more drivable if tire tech pool is set at 0:

@gridghost

One of the things i’ve noticed when doing some testing for some potential challenges is that techpool actually makes tires worse in beam. the difference in 0 techpool and +15 is about 1.5 seconds in favour of the 0 techpool ones, strangely enough. This was medium tires but it’s something to keep in mind.

@strop

I did some testing before and absolutely noticed this also across other compounds. I had a speculation it was due to the rigidity of the wheel mesh and the more rigid it is, the worse the contact patch. When I used 15+ in particularly high powered cars it was like driving on glass.

That’s why the techpool on the wheel tab is strictly set to 0.

It also explains why I’m setting the tire tech pool on my entries to 0, unless the rules are changed so that tire tech pool must be set to +5, without any exceptions, in which case I’m bumping the tire tech pool up to 5 for my entries.