新闻 - MRC 101 - Part V

MRC 101 - Part V

Another week gone, another publish from Blazefp Magazine. Today we talk about what cars to use and how to pick the right one for each track.
If there are things to learn, Blazefp and Francisco Pires are always there to teach.

CARS (where, when and which to use)

Blazefp Magazine: Speaking of cars now, where, when and which ones to use?

Blazefp: Cars can be changed in the garage before you sign in a race. This is the source of many mistakes. Despite my experience, I still occasionally forget to change my driver's car. No matter how good a driver is, a wrong car is still a wrong car and he's never going to get as good lap times as he would with the right car.

Francisco Pires: It's a mistake that happens to everyone. What matters is making the best out of the situation. Also, picking the wrong car for qualification doesn't necessarily means bad race results. The "ideal" line changes with the other cars around you.
To learn more about which car characteristics to give more merit, I believe this example is pretty well written:

http://www.myracingcareer.com/en/manual/#on-the-track

It just misses to quantify each characteristic but that's one of the hardest things to do let alone to explain.

Blazefp: And here are the main characteristics of every chassis and engine with relative points (best gets maximum points, worst gets minimum points)

Chassis (0 a 4)

Dallara:
Max. Speed: +++
Acceleration: +++
Braking: +++
Handling: ++

Lola:
Max. Speed: ++++
Acceleration: ++
Braking: +
Handling: +++

Arttech:
Max. Speed: +
Acceleration: +
Braking: ++++
Handling: ++++

Mygale:
Max. Speed: ++
Acceleration: ++++
Braking: ++
Handling: +



Motor (0 a 3)

Honda:
Max. Speed: +++
Acceleration: ++
Braking: +
Handling: +
Reliability: ++

Renault:
Max. Speed: +
Acceleration: +
Braking: +++
Handling: +++
Reliability: +++

Volkswagen:
Max. Speed: ++
Acceleration: +++
Braking: ++
Handling: ++
Reliability: +


Blazefp: There are twelve possible combinations, just add the points to see which ones are better for a certain track. The result might not be correct because this values are relative (the extra point on the braking of the Dallara chassis over the Mygale only reflects one single absolute point, whereas the point that differs the maximum speed of Lola and Dallara is actually 20 absolute points)

Francisco Pires: That, at least is the easy part. The hard part comes before: to know which kind of track it is.
Of course this comes a lot from experience and pure logical thinking so it's extremely hard to cover every track with a single example. Once again, the example shown before is quite useful even though it's impossible to explain exactly how much you need one characteristic over another.

Just remember that long straights call for high maximum speed, tight corners means good braking (the longer the straight before it, the more important is the braking), long corners imply good handling and short straights call for quick accelerations.

Blazefp: A good shortcut to study the track is to pick the car from the track's record holder. It might not even be the perfect car for the track but it's definitely a good car.

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And it's time to end our fifth and second to last part of the interview with Blazefp and Francisco Pires. Hope you enjoyed it so don't forget to hit the like button bellow.

Stick with us next week when we reveal the last bit of this long interview, this time with some more serious talk - advanced techniques and wet weather.

Till there, keep your pedal to the medal.