@the-chowi & @FrederikLenius have successfully appealed their bins and I’ve updated the instabins post accordingly.
I am now (finally) working on the poll which should be out tomorrow night if all goes well, so if you were binned but you think you deserve to be in it, then the clock is ticking! Beware, there are different measurements for GT and LMH, so don’t get mixed up
After the bins, we’re left with 8 and 9 cars in GTE and LMH, respectively - or is it the other way around? Anyway, back in the 1990s, this would have been enough for an arcade, PC, or home console game themed around Le Mans (and/or whatever series these cars’ equivalents were also entered in - between the collapse of the World Sportscar Championship in 1992 and the establishment of the World Endurance Championship in 2010, there were no unified global championships for prototype racers, and it would not be until 2011 that the WEC, then known as the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, finally added the 24 Hours of Le Mans to its schedule, with the race not being part of any series whatsoever during the intervening years, instead being a one-off stand-alone event).
A well-deserved congratulations to all the podium finishers and a big thank you to everyone for participating, whether you entered, voted, or both. I wasn’t sure if such an event would be successful, but I think it went quite well even with some hiccups along the way.
I’m planning to run more rounds of this challenge in the future with different themes, so do let me know what you’d like to see next and what I can improve on for the future.
But that's for another time. ROC still isn't done yet...
Just like the AGC23 finale, I’m going to write up an in-universe article (or maybe two) for ROC.
However, since exams are coming up for me, don’t expect it to be coming so soon. Most likely in a month or so.
In the meantime, I need some additional info for fleshing out the lore. Podium finishers, please send me the:
Full team name
Full driver lineup with names and nationalities
Any additional lore you’d like to add regarding race operations, company/team history at Le Mans, etc.
The rest can decide how you ended up in your finishing place. Did your driver make a costly mistake and spin out whilst they were in a good position? Did they make contact with another competitor? Or was the car stricken by mechanical failure, necessitating several laps spent fixing it in the garage? You decide (if you wanna be included).
What? The top LMH got beaten by two GTE cars? And the overall winner was a rear-engined beast based on the mid-sized '88 Indicator body set (2.75m wheelbase)??? This reminds me of the real life Le Mans '95 where a McLaren F1 GTR won overall as well as clinching top honors in GT1, ahead of the more fancied prototypes! Anyway, congratulations to all the class and overall podium finishers (and especially the class winners) - it was incredibly close at the top, with the top two being separated by a little over one point.
And I can’t wait to see the flavor text that accompanies the podium finishers’ final results - it’s bound to be as entertaining as the challenge itself, that’s for sure!
NICE!
Never expected to place so high.
What an amazing challenge, great premise, amazing write-ups and great designs from everyone!
Obvs congrats to the winner for such a creative and detailed design.
It was built on the 2.85 m version of that body and the wheelbase stretched up to 2.9 iirc. Full sized car level of interior space and decent frunk luggage space while maintaining a midsize footprint.