ATAQ - a time trial experiment

[rheinaoi]

I was getting the sense that the ATAQers have been busy / on vacation / exhausted. I was a day or three away from posting my final entries for this round as well.

What keeps me coming back to these challenges is that this aligns with how I play GT7 - test, tune, hotlap, retest, etc. I'm OK with postponing / extending this round. Because I like Brands Hatch

As for Round 4's twist, the year of manufacture limitation sounds really interesting. but I'd like to keep the current power/weight formula for now. As @ikon_313 mentioned, the cars take a while to set up. I'm open to a shorter track too, because it might give lighter builds a chance.

But I am open to changing the power / weight formula in future when there are more of us trying to solve the problem of going faster.

Side note: In additional to a given car's potential, mechanical grip and aero grip, I've noticed that a build needs at least 500hp to be competitive.

@ikon_313 I've been using 1.34102hp in my calculations.

 

[bliprunner]

I've been a little busy myself. I did test the new Vantage at Brands and I think it can sneak a 1:25 with zero tuning (just widebody, aero and all the regulation parts).

So I guess I need to have a fiddle and see if I can get it going even quicker without losing the nice driving characteristics.

As for future ATAQ... I'm having fun learning some tuning skills and don't think I would ever have time to properly test and drive cars for all three categories. So extra simplicity is good for me personally.

 

[Gorefast]

Good to get feedback, thank you. So, I tend to give this round a prolongation until 4th of August.

Regarding round 4 I remembered that someone here had the Idea of using cars from a certain time but maybe I misunderstood something. By 1987 there some nice classics available that otherwise probably would not be chosen. How about round 4 at Barcelona National with the current rules and the additional limit that the Car must be from 1987 or older? We now have some time to think about it...

 

[benjoi84]

What's really killing me is the effort required to use power-to-weight, as the only place you can access the data (as far as i can see) is in the Tuning Shop.

This has the side-effect of leaving me less time to actually choose and tune a car, as a result i spend less time on the racetrack and have ended up just leaving my leaderboard "as-is" after 10-12 laps in each of my vehicles.

Now, this is definitely a 'me issue' and i wouldn't want the community to change anything on my behalf, but any time-saving pointers are appreciated.

 

[Meythia]

What's really killing me is the effort required to use power-to-weight, as the only place you can access the data (as far as i can see) is in the Tuning Shop.

It is not perfect as we have seen, but no method is.

The only way to know for certian would PD having run Sophy on every track with every car with every setup and use this as a baseline PP calculation

For what we have seen, it does its job quite well, and definitly better than limiting PP, weight or power and opens up more cars, if lower weight can be benficial for a certian track or setup.

 

[911RSR]

What keeps me from getting good results:
I‘m not a tuner. I struggle to fine tune a car. It just takes an eternity for me to find a setup that works. That‘s why I never have many cars entered in the competition.
And i‘m focusing on the offical TT‘s. That leaves me unfortunatly with only a little time for ATAQ.

Barcelona Nationa

I hope that‘s not the Rallye-cross track?!
Apart from that i‘m fine with round 4!

What's really killing me is the effort required to use power-to-weight, as the only place you can access the data (as far as i can see) is in the Tuning Shop.

Just use a calculator! There‘s no need to go to the tuning shop. I.e. If your car has a wheight of 1300 Kg it can have 371,4 KW (1300/3.5).