2011 Prototypes

I mentioned I had a couple of things in mind - so here's what I'm considering.

1. Take the 2010C car a bit more mainstream. Maybe take the RS5 gears, 1 or 2 points off the pit stop stuff and up the drag to compensate. This would be called the MRDC-11A.

2. Take the 2010C car a bit more extreme. I may be on no aids next season (can't say I'm enjoying no ABS too much and I think no TC is a bigger step, so we'll have to see if I'm up for it), so we might envisage a wide diffusor, 4 gear car with the nano brakes. Can't decide whether this ones should be called the MRDC-SL (Super Leggero) or the MRDC-XT (Xtweem). We'll see what the marketeers say.

I am happy with the current gearbox as I have found no real drawback to it so far this season.  I would like to see a bit more pit tech used tho. Other than that, the current car is very competitive for me, but it is your team.....lol

I am not in any hurry to give up on aids yet.  I like having ABS and TC so I would prefer a car that can utilize these w/o to big of a performance hit.

One thing I would like to point out is that at Fuji Matt was able to pull away from me with no problem running the same wing as I was simply because he was running the scoop intake(?)

Not sure about the hit it would give, but a little extra power at high speed might be nice.

Hmm, interesting feedback. I'll sneak round the M-Sport garage time and see what I can pinch out of their parts bin, one night.

I had expected that our relatively low drag would offset our relatively low peak power, but maybe that's out of kilter. Certainly, the two times I've really noticed the low drag is when trying to get the damned thing to stop and then for top speed of course.

On the "S" vs "B" gearbox, I noticed that the RS4 I've been driving was getting from the Birmingham  "Corkscrew" to the first L-R measurably faster than our RB5 was, but on the hand I'm not sure that the S gearbox is any more driveable as such.

If AJ passes by he might want to comment on if there's anything special in the shift from 2 to 1 in the S gearbox (4-speed example) cos I've found that change to be the most de-stabilising of the lot - although this may of course just be me mismatching.

As for overall car choices, if the proposed change in points goes through, it maybe that the restriction on "1 car per team, and the owner must drive that car" rule will be revised to allow the MRDC Xtweem (the marketeers have come back to me) to see the light of day. Otherwise I may just have to keep it as my weekend car.

No difference between different gears...all shifts are the same.  There is only a global setting per gearbox in rFactor.

I'm pretty sure Hoss and I are on the same page with respect to changes in scoring, which means owners would indeed no longer be restricted to always drive what they designed.

HOWEVER, to keep submissions under control, to hopefully limit my overhead, there could be only one submission per member.  So MRDC could still only submit one car type.  You would probably have to talk one of your members into being a satellite MRDC owner to field another car type entry.  Role play it if possible instead of doing a sterile gaming of the rules. 

The M-Sport car is stunnignly fast down the straight at Fuji.  However, note, Matt's laptimes were not out of hand.  Both myself and Nico were basically running the same laptimes, in two different other cars.  Admittedly though, neither of the other cars were bare ottodyns.  Rusyn has a scoop and SDL has an airbox.

The tentative track schedule should be out soon, so you can start CSPing with the actual tracks soon.  You should be able to CSP with the existing mod.  I am purposely limiting the changes of the mod such that they can be reasonably emulated with the current mod -- which means I am backing out a significantly different curve for the Merlin, and making it close enough to the ottodyn where you can CSP with the ottodyn to emulate the Merlin.  Also, the turbo has been dropped as well, for other reasons, but that means that option is no longer something you have to try to emulate to test.  So to CSP, simply note that the new formula will have these changes:

• brake bias will go from 1 point to 1/2 point.
• lateral moment arm will get longer, but there will be no price change.  So lateral adjustability for FIS and boxy will approximately double.  This is minor for testing, so hopefully emulation with what we have will be close enough.

We are due for a mix-it-up change for the engines, which could have been a power adjustment either up or down, or boost options (liek turbo), and that stuff was on the table.  But we both ran out of testing time, and I decided to mix-it-up more with track than cars instead.  The stable car platform, which aint broke, so dont need no fixin, enables us to raise the new track per season percentage.