A new motorsport proposal.

"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv) 09/28/2020 at 22:39 • Filed to: None

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Sometimes it seems to me like the early days of motorsports were more interesting because people hadn’t figured out the best ways t do everything yet so there was a lot of creativity and innovation going into race car/truck/whatever design. And sure, there’s still some of that going on today, but the vehicles feel a lot more samey now with the main differences being tiny technical things. So how about a new motorsport that would require new car designs that we haven’t perfected yet?

My proposal is handbrake drag racing. It starts out like regular drag racing, but at the end of the drag strip you must do a handbrake turn and then go back the way you came. Winner is, of course, whoever returns to where they started first or the quickest. I figure this is different enough from regular drag racing that you’d need a whole new type of race car for it. You couldn’t just use a conventional drag racer, since that’d probably flip over if you tried to do a handbrake turn, so it’d require a lot of thought put into getting the right balance of being able to safely do the turn at the end while also being fast in a straight line, and I think that design challenge could yield some really interesting vehicles.

Perhaps a time trial setup on something like an abandoned runway would be the safest setting for this since you’d have plenty of space to spin out without hitting anything if you failed to control the handbrake turn well enough. An d if you were racing against someone rather than just against the clock, I imagine the lanes should probably be pretty far apart just to be safe.

Any thoughts?

atfsgeoff > Jim Spanfeller 09/28/2020 at 22:52

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A bit too close to established drift competitions, if I’m honest

I would love an endurance race where you take a showroom stock current model year base trim car and race it against other cars of the same class for 24 hours around a road course circuit. No performance upgrades, the only thing to change is run them all on the same rubber (in oem sizes).

Imagine a lineup of 20 new CUVs all from different manufacturers, battling it out for which one lasts the longest before breaking shit under race conditions

Jim Spanfeller > atfsgeoff 09/28/2020 at 23:08

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Yes, we need something like a new NASCAR that returns to actual stock car racing. And modern cars now have enough safety features built in that you probably wouldn’t even need to make many if any safety modifications, so it could legitimately be stock car racing. That’d be epic.

As for drifting, that’s more about precision driving than going fast and isn’t a race. In my proposal, the handbrake turn is simply a means to reverse direction, to make the drag strip twice as long with the han dbrake turn being a sort of intermission in the race so to speak, and a skilled driver could potentially save time by making the handbrake turn as quick and efficient as possible. So it would combine elements of both drif ti ng and racing. Drag racing with more skill involved...

OPPOsaurus WRX > Jim Spanfeller 09/28/2020 at 23:18

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I want to see some sort of race with loops, jumps and crazy banked turns. Think hot wheels track but real life.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Jim Spanfeller 09/28/2020 at 23:49

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How about NASCAR, but with actual stock cars. With those cars being  capped at 300hp.

Jim Spanfeller > OPPOsaurus WRX 09/29/2020 at 00:26

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Yes. I was so disappointed as a kid when I dsicovered that real racing was not like Acceleracers....

flatisflat > atfsgeoff 09/29/2020 at 01:13

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Yes! A basic cage, harness, whatever brake pads they want, and a spec tire. Go until the cars die. CVT’s be damned!

Only Vespas... > Jim Spanfeller 09/29/2020 at 02:53

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Bring back the figure eight race track !

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jim Spanfeller 09/29/2020 at 05:20

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racecars with no brakes.

at the end, the track diverts into a great big sandtrap. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > atfsgeoff 09/29/2020 at 09:17

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A sort of cheap car showroom stock competition with generous body contact rules would be amazing. It would make for quite a spectacle I think if the racing was really scrappy and not this highly scientific race to invent a superior car or whatnot. It would encourage creative rule bending and lots of faring driving.

Jim Spanfeller > Only Vespas... 09/29/2020 at 12:18

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With collision opportunities, a bridge, or a jump?

Only Vespas... > Jim Spanfeller 09/29/2020 at 12:35

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Hmm.  I’m thinking moat.  Some sort of water hazard.  Maybe an overrun filled with creamed corn.