Vintage Tuner Cup Phase 1 Judging
NOT IN ORDER OF POINTS
ND 4 Holden Spd's Chevrolet Corvette C1 '54
Starting off bone stock, it ran an easy 1'10 on Tsukuba Circuit, and with all those upgrades i was already expecting to run under a minute. Also, I noticed that it braked so well, so at first i accidentally over-braked alot. The 2 speed transmission was really holding it back and it accelerated pretty slowly.
After a few laps on TC again, full ymodded this time, I ran a 56.1, on Sports tires!
The car didnt feel lively, and wasnt snappy or aggressive feeling, which I didnt like about it, but It sure put the power on the pavement and it was amazing to see the car performing so well despite it's classic value.
I took it for a few laps on Circuit de la Sarhte II and I was even more surprised, the car was very very fun, it felt snappy, and powerful, the chicanes were so easy, and the car punched through them. It felt like a solid block superglued to the road
but it still didnt feel new/fun enough on smooth tracks like TC.
90/100
KC Motorsport Lotus Elan S1 E.P. Special
The car had bad throttle response, didn't seem to brake very well and, surprisingly, was way to predictable. I was expecting a hard to control monster, with 210hp and a low weight, but instead it turned out to be a user friendly weekend track monster. It gripped pretty well, but understeered a bit on many of the corner exits. It was a big improvement over stock, but it wasnt that fun. I didnt even want to test it very much because it was so bland feeling/ built for speed not enjoyment(maybe, seemed like it).
After a little time at sarthe, I realized what the problem was, it felt like(the power as well) the grip never changed, it didnt feel dynamic, almost like a 2-dimensional racer from the NES, not hard to drive or challenging. Even a serious attempt at a feinting motion to initiate a drift was simply obliterated by the grippping aura that the car conveys.You were right about high speeds thouhg, no stability.
Tsukuba Circuit time: 59.533
81/100
Nissan Tuner's Jaguar E-Type coupe '61
The car started out fairly powerful, and without the upgrades it was fun! The car felt pretty good through the 4 speed, though they shoulda/could've been shorter. I really didnt like the new suspension, and the added speed meant that the brakes wouldn't compensate either. It always felt like it was being pushed to hard, though it was very hard to spin out. It felt more like a stock, understeery econo car after the "upgrades" I couldnt get it down to a 1'04 at TC, and I didnt waste my time trying really hard either. Overall, the car was better stock with S3's, but the added power was fun to do little drifties
75/100 a good solid C
Greycap's Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale '63
I decided not to test this one on TC, because I
knew it was made for a more, or should I say less, racey/realistic track.Not only good fun driving, but you give your buddies a run for their money after work. I took it out to the nurburgring and...
Whooooooa! This thing was soo fast! It had good overall response, and was definately a vast improvement over stock power and handling. It felt very MR/RR, and wouldnt turn under throttle easily, and that sorta lost some points. also its ride height, I felt should have been lower to enhance the look, and lower the cog of the car, which left some tires useless at times when the car had heavy weight transfer. The power came from just below the redline, and then through it, it needed a lesser exhaust to keep it more balanced.
Verdict: Under high speed, but cautious situations, it hanndled well and was great fun. BUT, under medium/fast cruise speeds, it lacked the lower rev power it needed to be a really fun toy.
91/100
Leonidae's Mercedes-Benz 300SL
alright, I will leave me idiocy below, so you can all publicly humiliate me, but i did it for real:
I went to Tsukuba Circuit, and at first I was very, VERY dissapointed. Then after a few laps, I realized that the car isn't new, and cant use the same techniques. You had to trail AND left-foot brake like mad to get the traction down on a turn, and drift on the corner exit was almost like clockwork. It was really fun, like a beast to be tamed. *MORE TO COME*
OK, I ran a
59.5 on TC,
there was more, but after the initial break in, I don't think it would've gotten too much better. The car had predictable, but hard to understand ways of doing things, but it suer laid the rubber down, and if you calmed down it really flew.
Going to the Nurb:
The first corner felt oddly different, after a few minutes of driving TC, the car oddly seemed better, grippier on the Nurburgring. I WOT'd through the first section of twisties, then the car braked flawlessly to transition to the second set. It beckoned for more, and I pushed the pedal further down, and it performed flawlessly. It felt good, braking, accelerating, lift off. The bumps didnt upset traction, so my original thoughts that the low damper setting would be a bad idea was wrong. The car surprised me, and was fun. It didnt have mad amounts of traction, but if driven smartly it was very fast. After testing this car for real, I have come to the conclusion that it deserves a 90. It was very challenging, and I didn't just get in and drive it correctly at first. Just like when you get a new car IRL you don't drive it perfectly, but it grows on you, and its good points come out.
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"Comments: I originally said this car was insane, but then I took it to the Nurburgring. It began to redeem itself in the high-speed course which favoured it, wheelspin vanishing to be replaced with controlled pace. Bringing it back to GVS with a bit more throttle control, it suddenly became brilliant! It corners fairly quickly, showing a neutral, capable chassis. Then, it demands your attention to throttle modulation, but rewards precise control with excellent corner-exit oversteer, which is fairly easy to control with speed, as long as you don't get too carried away. The straightaway speed is appreciable to the driving experience, and there is joy in revving 1300 RPM past the redline. The setup takes a while to adapt to, but once you do, it ends up excelently! The improvement score here is very high, because the default setup has little grip on front or rear wheels, and improper gearbox. Like the Elan, the tuning is a transition from drift to grip setup, but there is huge improvement from the stock setup here."-EA11R
I also took this car to the Nurburgring first, it was grippy and quick. The car revved forever and these tunings really allowed it to live up to the legend. it drifted a little on a few bumps, but as long as you didnt attack corners too hard it stayed put, and fast too. Getting up to almost 180mph in some of the WOt sections was crazy, and over braking was not a probem, because the car would just muscle it's way back up to speed. The car was fun, but it still wasn't the type of car that I could really love. Too advanced, too much at oen time, bu definitely a good racing car.
90/100