Spec Racecar Challenge
Brief:
A regional motorsport federation is looking to host a new series for spec racecars. They’re looking for a car that will be popular with both spectators and drivers, as well as reasonably affordable for the teams.
Performance Targets:
The car should have performance within these margins. These are not mandatory, but failing to meet these might give you penalties.
- Airfield Laptime: 1:05.0 - 1:25.0
- 0-100km/h time: 2.8s - 6.5s
- Top Speed: 220km/h - 300km/h
- Cornering Gs: 0.80G - 1.75G
Rules:
Trim:
- Model year: Free, Trim year: 2020
- Rim diameter: 18 inches maximum
- Tyre profile: Minimum 30
- All radial tyres allowed. Only hard slicks allowed for racing radials. All cross-ply and racing cross-ply tyres banned.
- Maximum tyre quality tyre: +5
- Interiors: Won’t be judged, but a simple one is recommended for topless cars.
- Racing parts are allowed
- Active aero and cooling flaps are banned.
- Seats: At least 1 full seat
- Basic, Sport or Race interior
- Entertainment: Basic or Standard of any kind
- Hydropneumatic, Air, and both Active suspensions will increase SVC by 10%
- Toe limit: +/-0.5
- Legacy and open wheel bodies are banned
- Max price: $60.000
Engine:
- Family year: Free, Variant year: 2020
- Fuel: Ethanol E100
- Loudness: 85 maximum
- Emissions must pass WES9
- Racing parts allowed
- No V16 engines
Other:
- Techpool: maximum $75M total
- No negative quality or techpool
- Advanced settings: Wheel width, wheel diameter, tyre width, tyre diameter, and camber are banned; wheelbase can be changed by 20 (including negatives, for example: -5 rear, 15 front); track width can be changed by 20 max (negative or possitive).
- I will punish memes and cars that cheese too hard.
- If you have any doubts feel free to ask either in the thread or my DMs.
- Ellisbury stable update.
Priorities:
The car will be scored in three different categories: Excitement, Racing and Cost.
Excitement:
- Styling, Design Realism
- Less driving aids (power steering and traction aids)
- Prestige
Racing:
- Sportiness
- Safety, Drivability
- Comfort
Maintenance:
- Price, Engineering realism
- Service Costs, Reliability
- Fuel Economy
Inspirations:
Open
Mazda MX-5 Cup
Renault Clio Cup
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
Lamera Cup
VW Fun Cup
Radical SR3 XXR
Formula Ford
Submissions:
- Model name: SRC - your username
- Trim name: Car Name
- Family name: SRC - your username
- Variant name: Engine Name
- Submissions will open on Monday, 24th March at 00:00 CET
- Submissions will close on Sunday, 13th April at 23:59 CET
- You need to submit your .car file to me via forum DMs and post an ad in this thread.
Changelog:
Open
- Clarified which tyres are allowed.
- Added rules for interior and entertainment.
- Removed lower limit for rim size.
- Lowered laptime taget times by 10s.
- Reliability goes from 3-stars to 2-stars, price goes from 2-stars to 3-stars.
- Active aero and cooling flaps banned.
- Entertainment changed to Basic or Standard of any kind.
- Changed Advance Settings rules.
- Specified what counts for driving aids in priorities.
- Hydropneumatic, Air, and both Active suspensions now increase SVC by 10%.
- Toe limit is now +/-0.5
- Removed John Travolta from the changelog.