Muscle, Inc. March Challenge: Two Minute Warning--Closed

[DirtDriver]

Two Minute Warning: Part I, Cont'd...

"dooodleooo...dooodleooo...dooodleooo...dooodleooo"

DD: Hello? Hello! Dammit! Besty! What the hell is wrong with this cackelberry phone you got me!

Betsy: Oh! It's just a text message. See? From Blooze.

DD: Blooze! When did that ole cuss learn to text?

"Hey, Dirt. Hope you got your jogging sneakers on. This one's gonna keep you runnin'. You won't find out the next track until you post your time at the one currently assigned. Hehehe"

DD: Well, now that's going to be a pain in the...."Da dadda DA...Da dadda DA...Da Dadda DA..." Now what? "BEEEEEP"

Trixie: Here, give me that thing.

Drift: Hey, Trix? It's Drift. What's going on with this challenge? And when did Blooze start texting?

Trixie: Not sure, Drift. We just got the message, too. We figured out the short list of possible tracks. That's about it.

Drift: We don't have the funds for all this globe-trotting. Better be worth it.

At that moment two rather large men in pin-striped suits walked into the shop...

Bert: Help you guys?

Fat Louie: Yeah. We're here to see this guy DirtDriver. Where is he?

Betsty: Uh, what do you want with Dirt?

Fat Louie is startled and puts his hand inside his coat pocket...

Fat Louie: GEEEZ! You almost caused an unfortunate incident, Miss. My business with Dirt is personal. Now. Where is he.

DD: (Walking to the front of the shop) I'm right here, Fat Louie. Whadya want? You got no business coming into my place like this.

Fat Louie: The Boss has another job for you.

DD: I'm through doing business with your boss.  Now, get out of here.

Fat Louie: That's not the way the Boss sees it. Boss says you still owe. So, you'll take this job.

DD: Don't have the time even if I wanted to.

Fat Louie: Yeah, that Muscle, Inc. thing, right. The Boss understands that. Boss's giving you ten days and then we'll be back to discuss the job. You better be here. Hate to see anything happen to this pretty little operation you got going here while you were gone.

DD: Alright. Ten days, but this is the last time.

[Placard Rat]

A three track challenge sounds good, maybe pick one track from each region?

From a purely selfish standpoint I'd like the tracks to be Road America, Mugello and Suzuka because those are the tracks that I need to find much more time on. Looking at the boards, I'm still outside the top 10,000 for Mugello and Suzuka

I'm looking forward to this one!

Rat

[DirtDriver]

Well, we did Road America in the Trans Am challenge a couple of months ago so I was holding off...but, I didn't get to run that one, myself and it would be a pretty good test for king of the long tracks.

What do the rest of you guys think...interested in Road America again this soon? Might be a good idea since we have limited time...Fat Louie means business, I'm afraid.

DD

[Serial]

Sebring.

[DirtDriver]

Yeah, I knew I forgot that one...I avoided it because I have used it so much already. But, it is definitely a two minute track.

Thanks, Serial

DD

[fndrbndr]

Hm, taking these cars to the sorts of tracks where they're really meant to shine.  I love it.  I'm also looking forward to running this, as today should see me much closer to finishing the first draft of the incredibly long and dreaded, advisor tear-inducing Thesis of Doom!!!!!!1!!11!!!!one!!!11eleven

Edit:  I like the idea of Road America, at least for online racing.  These cars did incredibly well there (read: bumper to bumper for 10 laps) when we ran the S^4 cars.  I'm actually curious as to whether the extra rubber will sort them out or they'll remain that close.  Also, this might be a time to just say no to the chevelle and charger, if they're still part of Muscle, inc. spec.

[DirtDriver]

No! to the Chevelle and Charger...see how easy that was?

We don't really use them in Muscle, Inc. B spec. The Charger has some wierd aero thing going on with it and the Chevelle takes insane amounts of HP before peaking in B.

DD

[fndrbndr]

Problem solved.  I was thinking they were still part of the spec for some reason.  Guess Bimmer and I will have to put the "general lee tune" on something else.  lol

[DirtDriver]

fndr, we had a pretty good discussion in days past about these two cars...we decided to leave them on the list because we might do something where they would be fun but also marked them as suspect...since then we have been able to pinpoint the glitches. We knew about the Chevelle from the New York Minute Challenge but found out that the Charger had a bit too much slickness when we built out cars for the superspeedway. Same speed rating as the other cars (6.3) but it slipped away from the pack while all the other cars stayed pretty damned tight together.

DD

[fndrbndr]

OK.  Thanks for the clarification.

[TheJohnNewton]

It's a shame these cars have such a stigma.  My only real C class muscle is a Charger built to handle AND go fast.  I race it online in traffic with no problem at all.  I used it in one room I came upon that had all assists forced off, rwd only, and a HP restriction (I think it was 300-400) and it worked great.  I did get booted with no warning from one room though and I can only assume it was because I chose that car and they must have assumed it was a cruise missle.  Pretty rude to be immediately booted with no word whatsoever before hand.  I could have switched to my leaderboard Golf to match most of what the room had if they had only said something. 

Anyway I'm not making a plea to include the car here I just wanted to point out that they can be built and tuned to work well as more than just missles.  Perhaps a future challenge could include a hp cap to make these workable?

Now isn't it March the day after Feb 28th?  I'm so confused... 

[DirtDriver]

The problem with B spec is not about stigma, although I certainly agree with you regarding its unfortunate influence. The problem is parity between cars. Now, I know you can push that issue but it is what it is at the moment. And in another class or under other restrictions we can most likely give them some show time.

DD

[TheJohnNewton]

Hey Dirt, I just remembered it does cause one problem online.  One guy behind me complained it's so big there is no way to get around it, lol.  That was on the Ring.  I don't know how you pass anything on the course it's so narrow.  I myself was stuck behind a Cobra.

[fndrbndr]

On the ring, I typically just wait for mistakes.  Then again, I'm usually the one making them, so I don't fare too great there. lol

[JG4tr]

My personal preference would not be for Road America. It may work well for online competition but, as a solo drive, it seems boring to me. Mostly from the predominance of full throttle, full braking and not quite enough cornering time. It kinda takes the driving out of it and makes it mostly about the car.

Motegi seems to have that accelerate, brake, hairpin, rinse, repeat flavor to it as well but, whatever the choices, I'm sure we'll have fun with it!