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 find myself torn between the Escort, Alfa, and Alpine.
Been driving them around all freakin day trying to decide, I love them equally! It's driving me insane!!!

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I find myself torn between the Escort, Alfa, and Alpine.
Been driving them around all freakin day trying to decide, I love them equally! It's driving me insane!!!

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LOL!
Possibly the E-type or Ferrari for me. Haven't got the Elite or Escort yet. I'll need a good setup for the porker. The alpine is interesting, but I've never really driven it
 
Wow! You guys are already testing/picking cars and stuff?? I'm still struggling to find time to try learn the next track for THIS league season....:cool:

TBH I'm completely clueless of what car I'd like best.. gonna start collecting MOD stuff already then...
 
Wow! You guys are already testing/picking cars and stuff?? I'm still struggling to find time to try learn the next track for THIS league season....:cool:

TBH I'm completely clueless of what car I'd like best.. gonna start collecting MOD stuff already then...
i already know this track from a stc race a while back, but i know it even more now from testing a few of these cars around it. It does not take me long to pick a car when i drive them in GTR2 instead of GTL, I use time trial mode and ghost car so i can see just where each car is week or strong and judge which one i am going to have the most fun with.
 
This group of cars is...impressive. :thumbsup:

I've been practising round Donnington, and even I'm getting very similar times.

[edited by Stuart for contravening the no laptime or relative speeds discussion rule] I need more time in the 250 & E Type. I want to try the Healey too, but I need a setup for it...and the 911S...and the S2 (HINT HINT GUYS;) )

GTa Junior is too similar to what I'm driving this time, although it's very nice, and me & Stangs don't get on too well. Something about my right foot being too heavy.

Most excellent work Stuart Thomson & Knut Omdal Tveito

Thanks for the link Neil Gault
 
I'll probably do my usual, wait until closer to start time, pull something (car that is) blindly out of the hat, or try something that looks unpopular. That didn't seem to work this season though, lots of fellow Skylines ;) .

Have to at least check to see if any of the cars are RHD.
 
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