##Welcome the the annual “Survival of the Fittest” shootout 1983
This is a multi-stage competition. Each stage will concentrate on a few key aspects of your car, and each stage, only the winners advance to the next stage, till there’s only 1 car left standing. Your car will have to be fast, tough, safe, economical and comfortable, but not all those aspects weight in as much as the others.
###Technical reglament
Car eligibility : any 1983 or earlier street legal vehicle, built to “Category 5” standards
Steet legal category 5 checklist:
Must include headlights, taillights, blinkers, reverse light (Well at least try to make these cars look good for the blurbs, people)
Safety : 30 or higher
Fuel provided : Ron 91
Catalytic converter : not required
Loudness : under 50
Tires : Semi slicks and off road not allowed, max +5 tire quality
Engine : No positive quality sliders allowed
Emissions : Not a single F given
Total cost max is $10,000
##Economy rule
Your fuel tank in liters equals 5% of your car’s weight in KG. If your car weighs in at 1 ton, your fuel tank is 50 liters. Fuel economy stages are done at a set speed, and are calculated based on automation’s rating for economy at that speed
##Reliability rule
Each point of reliability under 50 is allowed, but penalized by increasing your stage time by 2%. This means you have had some technical trouble along the way, and had to either endure them or stop and fix the problem.
example - your lap time is 1:40, which is 100 seconds. Your reliability is 40, which means 10 under required 50. Your penalty is 10 x 2% = 20%. Meaning your lap time is now 120 seconds exactly, or 2 minutes. After the completion of the stage each point of reliability under 50 is doubled and deducted. If you had a 45 reliability car, and you finish the stage your new reliability will be 35 points (50-45 = 5 points. 5 x 2 = 10. 45 reliability - 10 = 35). If your reliability reaches 0 you are out of the race.
##Offroad / rally stages
Since we don’t really have offroad stages, we will be using tracks that are twisty and tight with the time doubled. If we use nordschelife (which your car does in 10 minutes) as an offroad stage than the gravel nordschleife will take twice as long (10x2 = 20 minutes per lap). Each point of your off-road rating removes 0.5% of your final time. If you do 10 minutes exactly on the Green hell and your offroad rating is 10, then your offroad time will be 10min x 2 = 20 min. 10 rating = 5% decrease of stage time (which is 1 minute exactly). Final result is 19 minutes. For these stages each point of “Offroad” stat will remove 0.5% of damage dealt to your car set for the stage, to a total of completely negating the damage received.
##Damage
Each stage takes a toll on your car (stated for each stage separately), damaging it, including penalties to reliability, speed and driveability.
example - your car enters a 5% stage with 50 reliability, and 50 drivability. In the next stage both these stats will drop by 5%, meaning 47.5 for each. As soon as your car’s reliability drops under 50, you will receive 2% time penalty for each point of reliability under 50 as per reliability rule. All mentioned reliability is cars’ Average reliability stat, not Engine reliability
##Battle stages
8 cars stage for 1vs1 racing.
The qualification for battle stages is posting the best lap. After the qualifications the grid takes following setup
1st vs 8th
2nd vs 7th
3rd vs 6th
4th vs 5th
At which point 1 vs 1 battles commence
Battles
If the two cars are separated by less than a second per lap, then the battle commences. In battle 1vs1 drivablity stat acts as a multiplier between them, each 1 point of driveability takes off exactly 0.5% off your lap time (Cars are using each others’ slip stream and becoming faster both)
##Rain and night stages
When racing in harsh weather conditions or at night or both, it’s important to concentrate on the road, not on reigning in your car at every second. For a stage with bad weather conditions or night each point of your drivability will result in 0.5% decrease of your stage time. If both rain and night are present on the track at the same time then each point of drivability will result in 01% decrease of stage time.
##Tire suitability of tires at stages
Unsuitable tires will increase your time by a set amount of percent
Asphalt : Sports compound - no penalty / Medium compound - 5% / Hard compound - 10%
Asphalt + Gravel : Sports compound - 5% / Medium compound - no penalty / Hard compound - 5%
Gravel : Sports compound - 10% / Medium compound - 5% / Hard compound - no penalty
##Entries are now accepted. Deadline is in 10 days, 21/5/2016
###Mods allowed - steam workshop
###Naming guideline
This is to be followed exactly, or the car will not be accepted
Model name - “SOF - Your forum name”
Trim name - anything
Engine Family - “SOF - Your forum name”
Engine version - anything
#Stages
Stage 1
Type : The drive to the event.
Info : Your car will have to cover 300km on a single tank of fuel. The speed set is 120kph. The run is done on mild gravel. Your fuel consumption is automatically increased by 20%, each point of your offroad ability is able to remove 1% of your total consumption. If you run out of petrol at this stage you will not move to the next stage.
Surface : Gravel
Damage rating : 13%
Stage 2
Type : Time attack
Location : Sachsenring GP circuit
Conditions : Rain
Surface : asphalt
Damage rating : 3%
16 best laptimes move on to the next stage
Stage 3
Type : 1vs1 Battle stage
Location : Lydden Hill
Qualification : Based on positions in Stage 2
Conditions : Night, Rain
Surface : Asphalt + Gravel
Damage rating : 9%
Battle mechanics : ON
8 winners move on to stage 4
Stage 4
Type : Race
Location : Mid-Ohio race course
Conditions : Day, dry
Surface : Asphalt
Damage rating : 6%
Battle mechanics : ON
4 fastest move on to stage 5
Stage 5
Type : 1vs1 battle stage
Location : 25km rally stage
Conditions : Night, Rain
Surface : gravel
Damage rating : 11%
Battle mechanics : ON
Qualification : time attack on same stage where damage will be added per qualification and race
2 winners move on to stage 6
Stage 6
Type : Time attack
Location : Pikes Peak hill climb mixed course
Conditions : Dry, Night
Surface : gravel + asphalt
Damage rating : 6%
This race decides a winner
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