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What would such a head to head competition entail? We could be interested in trying out luck. I think it would be cool to get some different designs together. And if we got our ass kicked, at least when the dust settled we would all know what works.
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Frank, it's a great question, and one that I have been thinking about for a while. There are some pretty good first attmepts out there, some of the shoot outs that some mag's did in the past were pretty good. I think the issue is that the variety, and specific "influence" or intended use of all of the projects would make it difficult to level the playing field?
While our primary goal is to build the best performing cars on road courses, we also recognize that civility is important for the majority of customers, well, at least "moderate civility." As such, there'd probably have to be some form of subjective, "ease of driving," or something of note like that. I don't follow closely, but some of the drag events that feature max effort street cars require a 25 mile cruise, something like that would be good to incoporate.
From a performance standpoint, well, I think you'd have to have all of the usual suspects (1/4 mile, slalom, 60-0 braking, max steady state G's), but it would also be important to include a road course, or at least, cone course that ties all of the performance elements together. Scoring would be interesting too, how do you scale such an event? Normalizing points to the top performer of each event is one way, but this would not work well with a "long" event such as a road course (what I mean, is if one guy pulls a 10 second pass in the quarter, you could figure pretty closely how to scale the others, but on a 2 minute lap, a few seconds is a HUGE advantage but doesn't show up as proportionally significant). It is not obvious how to pull all of this together, and invariably, there would be differences in the cars that would sway the results (and form excuses...). Maybe a new thread to gain people's ideas on how to do this?
Depending upon how things go, we are strongly considering taking one or two cars to the Open Track Challenge, it seems to be about the best yardstick for the types of cars my outfit is intent on building, although they did not run it last year due to lack of participation.
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He seems like the only guy being down for testing his car to the fullest.
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I can assure you, he is not the only guy interested in doing this.
Sorry for the highjack, and I too hope the gentleman building the car will join the forum to add his insight.
Mark