RDHCS S10 - General Chat

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Stuart Thomson

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Hello all.

As is customary, I will be starting to trail the next RDHCS season while still in the middle of the current one.

This time though, the process will be slightly accelerated, because we have a shorter break between seasons as we adjust to our timetable that avoids the peak Summer Holiday season and the Christmas/New Year break. This allows more people to compete in more rounds without absences.

There are just 6 weeks between Season 9 finishing & Season 10's Test event and so, as I'm aware that some of you like to have some extended testing time on the cars, I'll be announcing the final S10 vehicle list between Rounds 4 (23/10) & 5 (6/11) of this season. That will give you all around 3 months before the S10 Test event (29/01) to take them out, shake them down, spin then round, light them up, or whatever verb + preposition combo you like best.

I suspect that you will need the time to do your due diligence, as we have (deliberately) kept the vehicle carset quite large for S10, hopefully to provide even more variety and make the already tricky choice that much harder.

The last thing that will be released will be the finalised track list, as we are still compiling that at the moment, so you won't have the full 3 months of testing the League cars on the League tracks.

As finalised details emerge, those details will be formally posted in the (yet to be created) S10 Intro & Info Thread, and this thread will metamorphosise into the S10 General Chat thread as we get past the end of S9. Until things are finalised, everything I say in here and should be filed under a "provisional" banner.

As always, there is to be no talk of laptimes, relative speeds etc. either before the vehicle confirmation while you are speculating, or after confirmation when you are testing.

Here are the details I can release now:-

Nominal Season Class: GTC-65 (I say nominal, as there may be cars that are unbalanced in their own class that match up well in this set).
Number of Available Vehicles: 9
Default to mod ratio: 4:5
Rounds: 8
Format: 100km (200km finale)

Vehicle set teasers:
3 of the 9 cars have appeared in previous Seasons run by me (not necessarily in the same season as each other).
2 of the 9 cars have models in the Current season.
There is 600kg between the lightest and heaviest cars in the S10 car set.
The most powerful car has nearly 3x the power of the weakest
1 of the 9 cars has never been used by RD in any event (yet).
There are 5 different manufacturing nations represented in the car set
 
I have a tricky choice then; Porsche or Lotus? The standard Elite is one of my favourites of all time, and the Porsche was a blast the last time i used it. A good selection there it must be said, plenty of variety.

Hockenheim GP
 
Code:
Car                     bhp       kg     bhp/tonne
-------------------     ------   ----    ---------
Alfa GTA Junior         177.01    800    221.3
Austin Healey 3000      226.63    960    236.1
Ferrari 250 SWB         302      1007    299.9
Ford Escort 1300GT      167.63    828    202.5
Jaguar E-Type Coupe     274.91   1160    237.0
Lotus Elite S2          126.06    660    191.0
Porsche 911S            185.06    905    204.5
Renault Alpine          150.19    700    214.6
Shelby GT350            350.01   1260    277.8

Here are the numbers
 
OK - as there is such a huge scope to (and number of) the tracks, I'll give you the locations that we're using for the ones you haven't got yet (although one of them is the one we're applying to a fantasy track...)

Test 1 - Italy
Test 2 - France
Round 2 - UK
Round 3 - Australia
Round 4 - Germany
Round 5 - USA
Round 7 - Spain

If you pick a Fantasy Track, you also have to name the location you think we're using...
 
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