You’re forgetting that next stage is full on tarmac, and your car is very very offroad oriented, Madrias 
My car’s a blend of compromises that lean toward offroad, yes, but I do have power. The Envy may not be built for paved track racing, but if luck is on my side, it should hang in there a little longer.
Granted, my luck lately… It’s not been that great.
Arrrrgh I wanted to join this but work was simply too busy this week!
This seems to work for the most part (i already found things i’d like to change), so I’ll probably host another one at some point 
Survival of the fittest '85?
Probably something earlier.
1980 possibly?
though for some odd reason i’m thinking 1978
I will check out the appearance of new bodies and tech and set the year between 76 and 80 I am guessing, on a year that gives the most significant new technology.
Also this stacking of damage and penalties is a pain in the ass to calculate, but I got ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA, which car is actually best 
which is quite fun.
ouch. seems i actually mixed up total costs with the sales price on the market tab for this one… lets see whether i can survive the speedway anyway
We are in the same camp, sir.
Just read your comment and winced. 
I resubmitted my car because it was $223,000 in Markets…and I brought it down to $30,000 with HUGE compromises. My “uber” car was >$30,000 in Total costs. 
Pretty sure I’m out next round. 
I have a suggestion for the next SOF (because I think it’s a great concept and you are doing great as a host). I usually do not like to do that before one round is complete but I’m sure I will forget otherwise.
I think that next stage time penalty should somehow depend on reliability you are running. So a car with a score 35 will be in more trouble than one with 55…
Yeah, I figured that’s sorta not the way it should be. For the next event I thougth to only add time penalty because of damage to cars with reliability of under 50. But this event - we’re finishing the way we started, don’t want to change rules mid event.
Until stage 1 resoults I was 100% that’s already the case
What’s your time plan for next stages?
Going to do stage 2 today, hopefully stage 3 and 4 tomorrow.
Stage 2 qualification runs posted. Battles yet to come.
I wonder if putting mediums on was a mistake… only time will tell
dat radust’s car Comments reference…
god, you reminded me of that thing again.
also my the stage time penalty… is that 6.85s or 6.85%? i’m assuming it’s % since the other are getting %. (almost 7% is pretty big penalty though)
and it seems, the more reliable your car is, the more time you lose on each progressing stage??? the battle is gonna be scary
edit: i mean losing 2% of a 80 reliability car compared to 2% on a 60 reliability is a good 2 Points that may give up to 0.5s time difference per lap in a track?
[size=50]it may be an exaggeration though[/size]
Penalty is in %, did I miss something?
Also no, reliability starts to be a burden factor only after it drops below 50, up till then everybody is getting similar damage and similar penalties, unless they have coutnered some of them via offroad factor in stage 1
Okay, now I’m nervous. Actually, scratch that, I’m downright worried. Looks like I’m going to have to hope for someone else to have breakdowns, or the Envy’s going to eat it on this track.