First AWD Judging Results
Alright here we go again, if you wish to see my judging methods they're on page 67 of this thread I think but just a friendly reminder, the test track used is Grand Valley Speedway, the judging is in no way biased and I take this very seriously. So here are the results.
1st
CraftyLandShark's Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 '85
96/100
2.02.391 lap time
Judge's Notes: This is a brilliant compromise between drivability and stability, and way better than the default settings. It turns when asked, it is stable and poised under brakes although it does take a while to pull up. Even when understeer occurs, it rarerly does, you can easily correct it through easing off the throttle.
2nd
Greycap's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV GSR '96
86/100
2.06.499 lap time
Judge's Notes: Agile and responsive car. Speed reducing slides are easily encountered at low speed. High speed understeer but that's easily counterable by slightly easing off throttle. Slow times are only because of lack of power but the major reason this car makes second is the improvement over default settings, impressive.
3rd
hemisport15's Nissan Skyline GT-R '99
83/100
1.58.286 lap time
Judge's Notes: Too tail happy at times which hurts corner exit speeds. Second quickest car here but loads of horsepower helps that. The car has responsive handling though and certainly gives off an overall good feel. Not much understeer.
4th
Leonidae's GT-R Tokyo Motorshow Concept '01
79/100
1.54.013 lap time
Judge's Notes: Understeers like a dog at higher speeds and it has a fairly lowzy brake balance. It's not very responsive either. Despite being the quickest car here that is more than probably courtesy of copious amounts of horsepower and a most superb gearbox that takes almost no shift time whatsoever. It is however stable at low speeds and fairly willing at low speeds, but it doesn't feel like a winner, that's for sure.
=4th
Vince247's Subaru Impreza WRX STi Ver. V '98
79/100
2.04.602 lap time
Judge's Notes: Another aggressively understeerig car at anything above a speed that you can't make out how hot the babe on the first row in the grandstand is, that is low speeds it is fairly reasonable. The car isn't brilliant, but it is far from pathetic either and still packs a good punch while being a reasonably fun drive. It definitely shows improvement on stock and the car is willing to do what you ask of it if you are patient as it's not too responsive.
6th
Delta Train's Honda Odyssey '03
73/100
2.14.053 lap time
Judge's Notes: Ok, I better explain myself here, you see this car came as a total shock to me, TOTAL shock. It handles well and it pulls up fast even without race brakes, and it's a people mover! But as you noticed it's not very quick and once again, sorry Delta Train, but it's ultimately underdone. The tune was barely if at all better than default and that hurt this car's score badly otherwise it may have been in the top 3 despite it's sluggish pace. An absolutely brilliant people mover though, hey kids, we goin to the airport and it's normally a 1hr drive but we need to be there in 20mins, I think we can make it.
Judge's Thoughts: Well that's all the judging I have to do here, and congratulations to all entrants once again. The field here was a 1000 times harder to separate than the FF category and as a result you may noticed that 2nd to 6th is only separated by 13 points, not bad for a 100 point scoring system. To all of you that didn't fair so well this time I sincerely wish you the best of luck next time. Now I can sit back and watch the cudos roll in.
