Nordschleife Challenge

hm?

 

I assumed you'd take base model which I think has like 50hp, which was the basis of a joke that apparently wasn't as good as I thought

 

Think this is the best spot to post this.

I finally got around putting all the times on a website that the players drove on my nords server for the past 2 years. Thats over 6400 lap times, only ever kept the best https://apache.neverless.dev/laptimes

There is a leaderboard for each game own vehicle config and one board per vehicle for custom configs. And each leaderboard was then seperated into a realistic and arcade board. Where if a player chose to use any arcade option it would put them into the arcade board. Because we found that things like arcade abs is often allowing you to drive faster times.


Since the server has by meter exact track limits it made this rather competitive. Although cheating in this game is easy and people have done so

 

Wow thanks, that is some interesting data

 

1 shot, no practice lap with a stock Hirochi Sunburst 2.0 Sport (M)

 

Managed to wrestle the T-series under 10 minutes without a trailer.

Gavril T82 (modded)

• 15 litre straight 6 turbodiesel
• 1034 BHP @ 2500 RPM, 3101 Nm
• Decompression brake ~700 BHP @ 3000 RPM
• 7-speed planetary transmission
• 425/65R22.5 super single tyres front & rear
• ABS & front disc brakes
• Chopped cab

 

Hahah holy moly

Is it slower on dually rears?

 

I never actually tested that, until now.

There are better tyres available for the standard width wheels. Unfortunately, the nose is too heavy to really exploit the added grip since it just causes terminal understeer. It's technically faster on a skidpad, but the handling goes from kinda bad to terrible. Also, the front brakes already exceed 1000 C in a couple of places, so any additional front grip will just make them overheat.


22.5x12.25 wheels; note weight distribution in upper right corner


On the skidpad


22.5x10 wheels w/ sticky tyres


More grip, more Gs, but not much more speed thanks to terrible understeer

 

All in the name of science

We need dually front tires

 

As much as the concept sounds good, I think there's a good reason why that hasn't happened in real life at all.

 

GM tried it with the Futurliner. I imagine the geometry gets really awkward...

 

I see your challenge and accept it. Just kidding! I agree.

Meanwhile in Finland:


Yeah I know it isn't a truck