I thought I would put together a basic time trial between the new cars to see where each other them would roughly run in competition here. Each car has had varying degrees of NO SETUP. Only lube/oil and a little tire sanding. Not even a complete tuneup or adjustment. There were a few little things that I'll list with each car.
I made a simple test track, consisting of a few straights, some mild esses made out of R2 and R3 curves, and two 180° 1/60 curves. I wanted a fast track so I could get through the cars in time and keep on my daily schedule. 50 lap main event.
Of course, to figure out where they stand, they have to run against a proven track competitor. I gathered myself together and decided on a candidate to post the benchmark time:
Slot.it Matra Simca 670 B
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| If I'm going to pick one car from Slot.it to race, this is the one. |
Results:
Car Time Lap
Matra 3:29.27 4:18
A respectable time. You can be guaranteed the Matra is going to deliver the hot laps. A tuned Slot.it car is a very good car. No complaints with this run, although a strange event happened. While running laps, it got a little wiggly through the esses and came out a little loose. Parked nearby was the Ferrari. The Matra clipped the back of the Ferrari, sending its magnetically-attached wing flying. Cars and wing were unhurt.
Good driving, Matra.
Up next is the NSR Porsche 908
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| What I like about this car is it's always telling me what direction to drive. |
Usually on my track layouts the Slot.it cars run at about 40% power. It sounds slow, but it isn't, especially for light cars. But for this car and the other two new ones I upped the power to 70%, only because they could handle it much like the Slot.its handle 40%. It's more of an adjustment to meet the car's potential than it is a limiter. If I ran the new cars at 40%, they'd run slower than the Slot.it cars.
Results:
Car Time Lap
Matra 3:29.27 4:18
908 3:33.00 4.26
Hey! Check that out. I don't know whether to be excited that they're running in the same general time zone as each other or to be depressed because the 908 didn't blow the Matra away. I think I'll go with the former. To the 908's defense, it hasn't had any tuning yet. I'm still just running them and seeing what they're capable of. I'm sure once I get this car tuned it's going to lower its lap times. It, like all the new cars, will go by the standard that I'll get it tuned as well as I can with what it's got right now, no fancy replacement parts. Moving on....
Porsche 917K
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| Sorry. I'll take more pictures soon. I promise. |
Lets see what the slightly more planted NSR car does through this layout.
Results:
Car Time Lap
Matra 3:29.27 4:18
908 3:33.00 4.26
917 3:25.14 4.10
So if I left the NSR cars in their current state and don't do any more tuning, I could drop them right in the with Slot.its and have some good competition. The Alfa and the Chaparral will both run those times, so there's good cause to try. Of course there are things I have to do to the NSRs and it'll likely mean increased lap times. The challenge then will be tuning the Slot.its to match the NSRs.
Next up:
Revoslot Ferrari F333SP
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| Hi big sexy. |
Results:
Car Time Lap
Matra 3:29.27 4.18
908 3:33.00 4.26
917 3:25.14 4.10
333SP 3:13.34 3.86
Since I reset this car to it's default setting and did a slight motor adjustment to pull the gears off each other a little, I taped the bottom of the car to prevent vibration and away we went. I'm not too surprised by the lap time, but I think I can tune the NSR cars to get there. It's a pretty fast lap time. I don't think the Slot.its can catch it.
So there we go. Looks like I could have a plastic chassis class without too much trouble. The aluminum chassis class, however, will need to grow a bit to have some form of representation. Otherwise it's going to be an anomaly on the track. A freakin fast anomaly.
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