Flibutz's Three Ring Circus (posted 1/17/06)

Ring Race Challenge pt.II -the mini version

(original challenge by sackedagain)

In the three 'Ring races listed below, get as many A-Spec points as you can. Since you pick the car to use in each race, you set the bar as high or low as you want.

These are the rules:

a. Only one try at each race. No practicing. If you don't like the line-up or the A-Spec points, quit before the bell rings. Then find a new car or line-up. Once the bell sounds, your choice of car is official. Finish the race.

b. Do not race your potential car in other races in the series to check its performance. Your choice will be based on the line-up against you and the A-Spec
points available.


Report back with results. I'm hoping we hear some good race stories and learn something along the way. Friendly competition, as always.

Here are the three series with Ring races that I've picked for this challenge:

1. European Events - Schwarzwald Liga B
2. Manufacturers Events - Mercedes - Legend of the Silver Arrow
3. Extreme Events - Real Circuit Tours

Your're up against: (Info taken from jdwilli1's faq)

Schwarzwald Liga B:

| VS (MIXED/SM): Mercedes SL 65 AMG '04[604], Mercedes SL 55 AMG '02[492],
| Mercedes SL600 (R230) '04[492], Mercedes E 55 AMG '02[469],
| Audi RS 6 Avant '02[446], Audi RS 4 '01[444], BMW M3 CSL '03[443],
| Mercedes CLK 55 AMG '00[433], Audi S4 '03[442], BMW M3[441],
| VW Golf V GTi '02[394], Mercedes SL600 (R129) '98[388]

Legend of the Silver Arrow:

| VS (MIXED/SM): Mercedes SLR McLaren[616], Mercedes E 55 AMG '02[469],
| Mercedes CL 600 '00[362], Mercedes CLK 55 AMG '00[346],
| Mercedes SLK 230 Kompressor[346], Mercedes 190E 2.5 '91[346],
| Mercedes A 160 Avantgarde[216],

Real Circuit Tours

| VS (STOCK/RS): Nissan R92CP[939], Sauber Mercedes C9[927], Jaguar XJR-9[914],
| Nissan 89C[908], Minolta 88C-V[906], Gillet Vertigo[888], Peugeot 905[799]
| Playstation Pesacrolo C60[794], Mazda 787B[791], Nissan 390 GT1[789],
| Toyota 7[788], BMW V12 LMR[787],Mercedes CLK-GTR[785],Bentley Speed 8[785]
| Audi R8[783], Toyota GT-One[765], Chaparral 2J[684], Pagani Zonda LM[651],
| Nissan GT-R Concept LM[616] Ford GT LM Spec II[606], Ford GT LM[606],
| BMW McLaren F1 GTR[603], Camaro LM[592], Mazda RX-7 LM[501],
| Chaparral 2D[420],

Good luck.

Soulidarity's Driving School Rival Budget Rider

You've asked your exorbitantly rich uncle to send you to a racing school in Germany every year since you got your license. This year, he's decided to surprise you. On your birthday you find out that he's arranged for you to be enrolled in the driving school, and has paid for you and your car to be transported to and from Germany.

Upon arriving, you find that there is only one other person from your country enrolled, and he's declared himself your rival. Unfortunately for you, he regularly outperforms you due to his superior car.

After a week of enduring his constant taunts, you decide its time to make him eat his words. You call up your uncle, explain the situation, and he agrees to give you some money to modify your car to compete with his.

You modify your car and challenge him to a run around the ring.

___________

So here's the challenge. You'll be using your real life vehicle for this one. If your vehicle doesn't exist, use the closest equivalent you can find. (For example, I drive a 2.0 (2.slow) VW Jetta. I'll be using the Bora, since it shares the same body and the weight is similar, though the drivetrain and horsepower are quite different.)

You'll pick a higher performance vehicle to run against, and announce both cars before actually running this BR. I'll be taking on the C5 Z06 Vette.

In order to determine your budget, you'll need to do a little math. You'll need to take the difference in horsepower between your car and his, so if your car is 200 HP, and his is 300 HP, then you are 100 HP in the hole. You get 125 credits per 1 HP that you're down on him. So in the above example, your budget would be 12,500.

As your rival is unaware of your modifications, he'll be running his car in completely stock form (N2 tires). You can use N or S class tires. But your car must remain "street legal", so no exhaust mods, weight reductions, nitrous, or racing slicks.

You'll run a lap in his car, then you'll attempt to beat it. Here's the catch. The 'ring won't be closing for your little competition, so there will be traffic. This means both runs will need to be done in Family Cup mode. How high you set the difficulty is up to you, but it must be the same setting for both runs. Driving Aids and driver ballast are optional, though I think adding in driver ballast makes it more interesting.

If you keep the default S2 tires, you must count the cost of them into your budget.

jwrebholz's Happy Holiday's Budget Rider

Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the town, every creature and his mother was stirring, trying to get those last-minute gifts down.

I'd just like to note that I HATE holiday shoppers.

Here's your challenge. Wade through the malls and holiday traffic and pick up those last-minute Christmas gifts for your wife, 2 kids and the family dog. Of course you can't go to the mall--if you went there, you'd never get out. So off you go to all the little cute stores around your hometown. You'll run 3 laps (since none of these stores, of course, are anywhere NEAR each other). Run all 3 laps in Track Meet mode to add a little traffic to slog through. Each time, to pick up a gift you must pull over to the side of the road (whichever side would be appropriate in your country--for the US and most of Europe, that's the RIGHT shoulder. For the UK and Australia, that's the LEFT shoulder). Get as far off the road as you can, come to a complete stop and wait for 10 seconds. Then continue on your merry way to the next stop. You can't stop more than twice on each lap, and must stop at least once on each lap, but I'll leave it up to you to decide in what order you want to stop, but here's where you've gotta go: (shouldn't be hard to figure out where these are)
Wife: Adenaur Jewelers, to get a diamond pendant for the old ball 'n' chain (who's been harassing you for months to get her a diamond)
Son: Karussell Toys (said ball and chain insists your spoiled brat of a son deserves an XBox360. He doesn't--but it's the only way to get your wife off your back)
Daughter: Dottinger Recods (your teenage wannabe-goth drama queen daughter wants front-row seats to the upcoming Green Day concert)
Dog: MUTZ R Us (after all the other gifts are paid for, your trusty dog deserves to have something nice, so you're getting him a new doggie bed and some rawhide bones to chew on.)

First though, a little Christmas gift to yourself. Your wife agreed--it's time for a new car. You'll give her the current Family Truckster and go find yourself a new ride. You've budgeted $60,000 for the car and any modifications you want to make--but since the car will be a daily driver, the things you can do are a bit limited. You can't run anything stiffer than a Sport suspension or the wife will complain. You'll need to keep the interior intact, so no weight reduction is allowed. You'll also need to occasionally haul the wife and kids around to one thing or another, so it has to have four doors.

Oh yeah, and you need to get all this stuff bought, paid for, and wrapped before Mrs. Battle-Axe and the brats get home. You've got half an hour. of course the consequences won't be nearly as dire if you get home late--you'll just have to leave everything in the car for a while, and endure the mother of all tongue-lashings from the wife, then spend the night on the couch.