Top Gear Comparason #4: Racecar (500bhp)
Round 4 Results
You were challenged to lap the chicaned version of
La SartheI in your unmodified cars in under 4 minutes, scoring +/- 1 point per full second you were faster/slower.
Magic Racer lay down the gautlet in his
Mazda RX7 LM with an astonishing time of
3'42.573 earning him
17 points.
BH-21 was next in his
CLK Touring Car setting a time of
4'02.204 costing him
-2 points.
Jet Badger suffered some technical problems with his
Honda Mobil1 NSX and could only manage a time of
4'04,775 costing him
-4 points.
shotamagee fought with his
205 Turbo 16 Evo 2 Rally Car to set a very respectible time of
3:57.217 earning him
2 points.
GrumpEone returned to slide his
Hyper Silvia D1GP to a
4'19.600 costing him
-19 points.
SVX eventually brought his
A4 Touring Car in to a time of
4'00.561 which was just enough to neither lose nor score any points.
B-spec Bob in the
Ford GT40 actually took a few seconds less than 4 minutes at
3:50.751.
Round 5 Results
You were asked to adjust the settings on your car so that you could beat your previous La SartheI time, scoring 1 point for every half second improvement.
Magic Racer was quick to finish with his
RX-7 LM Race Car with a time of
3'40.977. This was only 1.596 seconds faster than his previous time, scoring just
3 points.
Jet Badger used alternative control methods to bring his
Mobil1 NSX JGTC in to a time of
3'57,429. This was a good 7.346 seconds faster than his previous troubled run, and scores
14 points.
BH-21 was next to finish in his
CLK Touring Car with a time of
3'56.064. A decent improvement of 6.140 seconds scores him
12 points.
GrumpEone with minimal effort in his
Hyper Silvia D1GP finished with a time of
4'03.234. An incredible improvement of 16.366 seconds scores him a massive
32 points.
shotamagee found the going much easier in his tweaked
205 Turbo 16 Evo 2 Rally Car setting a very quick time of
3:48.943. An improvement of 8.274 seconds scores him
16 points.
SVX was last to finish in his
A4 Touring car with a time of
3'59.626. An improvement of just 0.935 seconds is only good for
1 point.
The Scores So Far
shotamagee scored 18 points to add to his 24, taking him to
42 points.
Magic Racer gained 20 points to add to his 12, so now has
32 points.
Jet Badger gained 10 points to add to his 10, and now has
20 points.
BH-21 also gained 10 points to lift his score from -12 to
-2 points.
But wait... SVXs late entry to the dragrace was slower than the rest, so giving each of you another 10 points.
GrumpEones even later and even slower dragrace result also gives each of you (including SVX) another 10 points.
...Then GrumpEone and SVX need to get their scores for the other rounds bringing them up to 13 and 11 points respectively, before adding in the time penalties...
Final Scores
Code:
[U]Driver Car Bonus Power Drag Speed Lap Tuned Penalty Total[/U]
Shotamagee (205 Evo 2 Rally Car) +40 -22 +50 -24 +2 +16 -0 = 62
Magic Racer (Mazda RX-7 LM) +0 -8 +40 -0 +17 +3 -0 = 52
Jet Badger (Honda Mobil 1 NSX) +10 -8 +30 -2 -4 +14 -0 = 40
BH-21 (CLK Touring Car) +20 -27 +20 -5 -2 +12 -0 = 18
SVX (Audi A4 Touring Car) +20 -16 +10 -4 +0 +1 -53 =-42
GrumpEone (Hyper Silvia D1GP) +40 -7 +0 -33 -19 +32 -148 =-135
So if you need to get yourself a 500hp racecar to pit against an old Ford, then you shouldn't bother with a car designed to go sideways. You should instead leave your sanity at the gate and buy yourself an outlawed killer of a Group B Rally car!
And on that bombshell, it's the end of the Racecar comparason.
Now over to your latest winner
shotamagee if he want's to run the next one.
Alternatively the original winner
GrumpEone might like to do it.
Or as a last resort, the usual suspect
Car-less has some more comparasons ready to go.
