First FF Judging Results
Judging techniques: First I will give a brief run down of my judging techniques. I bought each car and made the modifications listed, I then drove each car for a lap under default settings. After driving the default settings lap I changed to the setup listed and immediately drove 2 flying laps and recorded the best time, so the process looks like this- pick car, test default, test tuned, get next car and repeat process. After all that (taking notes during process) I reserve final score until after I then get each car back out and then have another drive to make sure initial impressions weren't a factor for the cars I tested first. I have taken this very seriously as I know what it means being the owner of one of the entrants being in the RWD category myself. Some of the Judge's Comments are made in reference to the other cars (eg. not as quick). Each car was tested at Grand Valley Speedway. So without further ado, here are the results listed first to fifth.
1st
Kent's Honda Civic Type R (EP) '01
83/100
2.16.096 lap time
Judge's Notes: Best Handling of the lot by far, could be AWD and you wouldn't know. Most pleasurable drive also, wheelspin non-existent. Not the fastest by any means though and initial impressions were that the car handled worse than default settings but numbers don't lie (better lap times).
2nd
Greycap's Renault Clio Sport 2.0 16V '02
76/100
2.14.238 lap time
Judge's Notes: Little undesteer for an FF car and very controllable on track. Not too responsive though and as a result it's hard to tell its limits at times. Too much front body roll. Second quickest lap time but potentially quicker on other tracks.
3rd
Vince247's Mini Cooper S '02
75/100
2.14.137 lap time
Judge's Notes: It's reluctant to turn and really makes you work to race it but it is very stable and has the most direct feel and possibly as a result it is the quickest car here, but it feels like it will be slower than others here around short technical circuits with few straights. It is also easy to make mistakes with this car and wheelspin is evident-not good for such a low powered car.
4th
nissan tuner's Honda Accord Euro-R '00
68/100
2.16.473 lap time
Judge's Notes: Handles good and feels good but it's not as quick. Slides a bit exiting corners at times and has more high speed understeer than others here. Pretty good car for its size.
5th
Delta Train's Mini Cooper '02
51/100
2.15.599 lap time
Judge's Notes: This car was crisp and responsive and sorry Delta Train but that's all I can say. Lots of straightline speed compared to the others but it's ultimately underdone. With the absence of race brakes and LSD this car takes a long time to pull up and has loads od wheelspin for such a low powered car, including lots of one-wheeled spinners mid-corner. The car doesn't have as much understeer as some in some corners but it's hurt too much by the aforementioned factors and I think most of its quick mid-pack lap time comes on the straights.
Well that's the FF category judged on my behalf, and although some comments seem harsh that's what a judge needs to be or he might as well give you all 100s 👍 Overall I would like to personally congratulate all the entrants in this category for such well tuned cars, you all made good cars, and for making the competition so close, look at those lap times, less than 2.5sec separting you over a longer than 2min track well done:tup:
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Nah I'm just kidding 
