Sorry there buddy, I didn't know you were going to be ready so soon.
If it helps, I think you can start organizing it a little early, with ticket sends, etc. Maybe start the thread, gathering entrants, just posting the start date in the thread name at first.
And it can start earlier than the 7th, since the first portion is tuning, it should be able to start around the 4th, which would still give testers a full week and a half break if it's a two-week tuning window. 👍
It's alright. There's still a couple of fine tuning's to be made - I just have the resources to start it, the ticket and the prize cars. I have a rough idea of all of the car's specs, but there's a couple I'm unsure of, particularly the Mini Cooper S '05 that you can get from the ticket. Since there wasn't a Mini rally car in '05 I was planning on specs from the current Countryman WRC (300hp, 1230kg) but I saw an online series which originally had maxed out Minis and the HP was only 276. I need someone to clarify me for this, and if it doesn't reach 276 I can just base it off of the lower rally series specs (What specs are the S2000's anyway?).
I might also do some testing with the cars using their specs as well. I already have a C4 with the correct specs so I won't need to bother about that yet.
This is a list of the cars that can be obtained from the ticket, with the specs I plan to put them in. It is
not a full list (I know I've gotten one Impreza that isn't in this list) but the ones missing are virtually identical to other cars so it shouldn't matter too much.
Alpine A110 1600S '73 - 90bhp, 800kg (Group 3 spec)
Citroën C4 Coupe 2.0VTS '05 - 315bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Ford Focus RS '02 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Ford Focus ST170 '03 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Lancia STRATOS '73 - 240bhp, 960kg (Group 4 spec)
Mini MINI COOPER S '05 - 320bhp (?), 1230kg (WRC/S2000 spec)
Mitsubishi CZ-3 Tarmac '01 - (probably) 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Mitsubishi Lancer EX 1800GSR IC Turbo '83 - 280bhp (?), 1040kg (Group 4 spec)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V GSR '98 - 300bhp, 1230kg (Group A spec)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI RS T.M. '00 - 300bhp, 1230kg (Group A spec)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII GT-A '02 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR P.P. '07 - 320bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Peugeot 206 S16 '99 - 300bhp (?), 1230kg (WRC spec)
Renault 5 Turbo '80 - 255bhp, 900kg (Group 4 spec)
Subaru IMPREZA Sedan WRX STI spec C Type RA '05 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Subaru IMPREZA Sedan WRX STi Version '00 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Subaru IMPREZA Sedan WRX STi Version VI '99 - 300bhp, 1230kg (WRC spec)
Toyota CELICA 2000GT-FOUR (ST165) '86 - 299bhp, 1100kg (Group A spec)
Mostly identical, but again, this isn't gonna be about speed but rather about how good your car is to drive since specs aren't identical.
I might go ahead and start it on the first as I planned, but I still have testing to do with other cars and also have some new plans with the track system for mine.
Basically, I'm allowing cars to be tested (by both tuners and testers) on any roughly tarmac like, dirt or snow course. However, what I wanna do is for the testers, make them drive at least 20km, rounded up to the nearest lap, in each car from a standing start, since 20km is the rough length of an average sized rally stage. For instance to get to 20km around Chamonix you'd have to do 3 laps (the full circuit is what I'm talking about). Also, 20km is roughly 12.4 miles for those that use it, like me.
I'm planning on making my shootout last till at least the 20th, and at most the 25th. When the date is decided I'll decide the deadlines for tuners and testers.