Quote:
Originally Posted by M&M
In my opinion it doesn't matter what disadvantage there is. You HAVE to get up into the powerband. Even if its only for 2000rpm. Because from that point forward you will redline that gear & always be in the powerband for the following gears.
Here are 2 more videos to illustrate my point. Both runs are 50km/h to 260km/h & it says so in the banner at the start. A modded 335 against a Porsche 997 GT3-RS & the same 335 against a stock M3. 2nd gear roll-on. The Porsche with a significant power advantage & a big weight advantage gets a beating. It loses so much ground at the start, that it can't even come back on the top end. And this is a car that does a true top speed well in excess of 300km/h straight out the factory. In fact the M3 looks like it does better on the top end than the Porsche, but that could just be circumstances on those races.
The point these videos prove is that rolling with highly tuned NA cars out of powerband is a pointless exercise & doesn't prove anything. Races should be from a dig, or a roll in 1st gear. One has to give both cars a fair chance to get into the respective powerbands & 1st gear rolling tends to even out gearing & powerband differences between most vehicles.
|
Any rolling start is very dependent on both drivers hitting the hammer at the same time, a split fraction sooner with one than the other and the outcome is dealt there and then if the cars are pretty evenly matched.
This JB3, please enlighten me with the breakdown as to what's been done to this car from the video and exactly how much power you think it's making.
Also based on what I did happen to see, I reckon the 335i got the jump on both other cars, if that is the case then I reckon it's only slightly quicker than the MTM S4.
P.S.
The sad and sorry thing about this latest GTBoard event is it's becoming an event for tuned cars. Previously it was mostly stock so gave a better indicator as to how each model of car performed against it's rivals, but now it's a guessing games as to what mods have been done and how much have been declared.
