What is your dream racing series?

"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin) 01/06/2014 at 13:16 • Filed to: None

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Mine:
"Do I look like I give two shits what you run? Homologate it, cage it, race it. 100 streetable production cars, minimum."

CAR_IS_MI > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 13:20

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IMO some of the most beautiful race cars ever built. Keep the shape / layout, upgrade the engine and suspension to more modern standards and you have a race.

Agrajag > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 13:27

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2 different series. Involvement would be mandatory for large manufacturers.

1: Unlimited, maybe one tire manufacturer or some other kind of shared weak link.

2: Production cars only. Varying classes for different levels of cars including rally. Only modifications allowed are safety equipment and brake upgrades. Ford wants to use that V10 well they need to sell it in a production car.

Brian Silvestro > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 13:36

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Group B

Storz > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 13:39

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Late 80s into early 90s IMSA stuff

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > CAR_IS_MI 01/06/2014 at 13:47

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This one would be awesome. The lack of aero and downforce would mean these cars wouldn't go as fast as elite Open Wheelers, and that could really level the field. We could call it Formula Awesome.

CAR_IS_MI > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 01/06/2014 at 13:55

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Exactly. Suspension upgrades would help with cornering, and modern engineering would help make some really cool, modest power, low displacement engines.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 14:23

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Old-school Trans-Am/BTCC style touring cars. One large displacement class, one small displacement class. Maybe split into power-to-weight ratio rather than displacement.

Either that or ChumpCar. Real racing, real tracks, real cheap.

borkbork69 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 15:11

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2 classes:
All The Way: 43mm air intake restrictor(~750hp), spec tire, 100L fuel tank, F1/LMP1 cockpit safety, 750 Kg minimum weight. otherwise completely unrestricted (open/closed wheel, active suspension, active aero, turbo, supercharged, fuel, hybrid, 2/4/6/8/10 wheel drive.. whatever.. completely unrestricted) then have open road (Isle of Man), sprint, standard and endurance races using the same formula.

cheap and fun: small spec NA motor (off the shelf honda CBR 600 or similar), motor drawn from a pool maintained by the series at the beginning of every weekend, any modification == ban. no aero anything, open wheel, spec tub (any modification == ban). spec tire. In my mind, these cars look like the first gen mid engine F1 cars.

syaieya > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 17:40

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I want a racing series where nothing nice is destroyed. Tiered classes with mass production cars with rule being something like production cars, stock engines, vehicle's trim level must have sold in excess of 20k units.

Higher than lemons with a little more fit and finish.

TwoFortified > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 19:07

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I'd love to see a new Drifting league pop up that still resembles the original idea. Formula D is still fun...ish, but the whole point feels a bit lost. Drifting was supposed to be about reasonably priced cars with reasonable internals, not about 1300HP crate engines.

Formula D tanked (IMO) because the organizers had to make a set of rules, and drivers, in an attempt to build the best vehicle possible for the competition, while still following said rules, have sort of taken some of the soul out of it.

Maybe like Formula D with a pretty severe torque limit? If not torque, then power/weight?

Watching DK swing a 99% stock S14 Silvia around the track sideways is a damned far cry from watching Forsberg in his 370Z is all I'm saying. I prefer the former.

aquila121 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/06/2014 at 19:25

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24 Hours of Lemons all day.

Rules to keep it cheap(-ish), fun punishment for cheaters and assholes, lots of passing, parts breaking, and swearing. People are happy just to participate, not going for the jugular to win. Oh, and the teams are just as varied in their themes as they are with the cars (make/model) they show up in. May the child of Jay Lamm never die, or take itself too seriously. (Wait, that'd be the same thing.)

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/17/2014 at 17:23

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Those who played Gran Turismo, know about the Sunday Cup, your very first race.

this is kind of a amateur race where the ''normal cars' race against eachother on a track.

That is what I'd like.

Normal people racing their normal car and see who's best.

I think the cars should be seperated in classes, because the outcome of a race between a Nissan Micra, a VW Golf, dodge pickup, and a Veyron would be unfair.

Or Amateur rally, where you buy a minimal rally safety kit for your car, install it and rally your car. Any car.

I'd just like to see regular people get a chance to race their car or drive it for what they are made for, and I'd like to make it affordable. Otherwise people will do it on public roads, and thats baaad.

steevkay > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/18/2014 at 16:14

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Open wheel racing is my favourite, so it'd basically be a GP2 type series with a spec car, except it'd be for truly the best drivers in the world. No hiding behind a car, or fancy electronics, etc. You'd basically have a modernized McLaren MP4/4 (mostly chassis related for safety reasons), but retain the manual gearboxes. Carbon brakes are okay, but there is no DRS, and each driver gets a few seconds of KERS/push-to-pass per lap, but both the attacking and defending driver can use this system. A limited number of engines, but they need to make 800-900hp, and we'd have proper slicks which can be pushed (but have obvious wear limitations). No refuelling, drivers/teams would have free reign over strategy/setup, and each team would have whatever choice of 3 tyre compounds (soft, medium, hard) that are made available by the sole tyre manufacturer.

I dream, but the point is: F1 calibre drivers all in the same spec, but extremely high spec, car. It would still be the pinnacle of open-wheel racing, because no other series would have such ridiculous cars and talent, but it would be down to drivers to sort it out. No aero nonsense. Any aero development would be applied to all cars on the grid and tested thoroughly to ensure that cars can still chase each other down through corners without having their own aerodynamics suffer.

I'm not holding my breath for such a series.