Season 9 Car Discussion

I'm inclined to agree with you Bryan. It's a great car! BUT, I think the most fundamental points to be addressed in perusing cars/tracks for next season are as follows:
- do we want 'fun' brought back into Sunday Night League?
- do we want to bring the fields closer together?
- do we want to produce closer racing with more passing opportunities?
- and probably the most contentious point, are ROOZ drivers prepared to run on SH or CS tyres in order to facilitate the above two points?
If so, I would suggest the LCC Rocket or the Lotus Elise 111R. Both cars are brilliant straight out of the box, and with 'ty' tyres they move around a lot more, which is a lot of fun and good from the point of view of learning better car control skills...
To counter the limitations of the Rocket's gear box, I often race it to "Gentleman's Agreement" rules, which allows tuning, BUT, by honour system, only allows tuning to the 'max speed' of an upgraded gearbox. 'We' have no problem with trust on the 'tune max speed only' rule, but I realise that wouldn't fly with ROOZ.
However, with regs capping power at 563PP/174HP it means that any 'clever' tuning that may go on is limited to suspension tweaks only...and I'm wondering if tweaking 'boss suspension tunes' on CS tyres would really reap any huge advantage anyway (any thoughts on this point welcomed).
I know it might seem left of field, but I assure you all, the LCC Rocket raced on "Gentleman's Agreement' regs produces very good 3 and 4 wide racing without the consequences of the much more powerful cars, and would suit the notion of getting onto some of the smaller, racier tracks mentioned.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think the main reason most of us got into this lounge room racing thing in the first place was "FUN!"
Remember? Lol!
So yeah, my suggestions for cars: LCC Rocket (Gentleman's Agreement or ROOZ adaptation thereof) on SH/CS tyres
Lotus Elise 111R on SH/CS tyres
WSR 1983 Ayrton Senna again, on SH/CS tyres
OR, any of these cars on SS tyres, BUT, to go with any more grip kind of defeats the purpose of running non race tyres, which is enhancing car movement/feel/feedback, and producing more fun and closer racing.
Give the Rocket a go and see what you think. Cheers

I'm a bit sick of one-line cars that only go fast driven one specific way.

Something like one of the quicker M3 road cars on Sports Tyres would be great, nice and adjustable moving around slightly.
Fast Tyre wear should make it 1x stop no probs in a 40min race, sorry @N64TheStig007 but it's not that hard to make Sports tyres last 20->25mins on Fast-Wear!

Definitely keen to go back to 2x compounds too, but adjacent ones, SS & SM or SM & SH.

I'm all for anything that brings close racing across all divs. Rather than just guess, perhaps we should test them out in some short races in between seasons. The car that brings the slowest guy the closest to the fastest guy, could be the ideal car.

The Senna F3 car is a blast to drive. Its been a while since it was used in a community event and could be a good season car.

I've been wanting the Senna F3 or Lotus 97T for a few seasons, but wasn't it vetoed in the interests of the teams championship?
IMO this could easily be solved with the 100's of suits and helmets available in the game.

I could definitely go for some Elise 111R on road/sport tyres, which has nothing to do with the car being great on a DS3... (at least on race hards)

And don't forget the X-Bow Street/R. You get a choice of two power levels!

If that's the case then I'm all for the Formula 3 car, RH tyres.

BMW M3 GTR 03 on RH or SS...............nice!!
And for the record, I'd love to see a return to the Season 5 tyre regs where we had the dual compounds (RS and RH), tyre/fuel wear set to fast and had the option to start the race on what we quallied on.
Made for some great racing at the tail end where guys on very worn RH's getting hunted down by guys on much fresher RS.
Really made tyre conservation a key point and gave as a mix of race strategies rather than "pit a lap either side of half race".
And, if a car cant have a race number on it...........who cares, you can change the colour and your bloody names above the car anyway!!!!

wow lot's of good suggestions. I guess there'll be a vote soon.
Speaking from noobie perspective even though I'm enjoying the pug it is a real handful so I'm hoping we choose something more 'normal' (tamer!) if only to bring the racing together. Not to keen on allowing any tuning options ... prefer pure driver-on-driver racing myself.

I like the idea of two different tyres, but for me if we're going to do that there needs to be a compulsory pit window or a minimum/maximum amount of laps required on a tyre and on normal wear. Maybe it's just me, but there was just something ludicrous about driving around on soft tyres that were worn down to 2's or even 1's on the front yet were still capable of faster lap times than a brand new set of hard tyres. GT6's tyre model is pretty dire, and the gulf between compounds is too high.

On the other hand, one idea I've always wanted to put to the test was perhaps (for example a race car) a season with Racing Hards and either mediums or softs on normal wear. Do you try to reach the end without stopping on the hards or go for all out pace on the faster tyre but take a pitstop?

If not the one compound, normal wear formula for me is always the best.

To be honest, I think the closest all-round racing I've had all year was in TITTS in the 300pp Toyota Vitz on comfort tyres. Doesn't have much grip, but doesn't go fast enough to need it. Side by side at nearly every corner for the whole race, especially fun around Monaco.

do you reckon it would have been fun untuned? i definitely have closer racing most street nights. maybe coz most don't practice?

I think it was de-tuned to get down to 300pp, yes it had racing suspension, brakes, trans etc. but I doubt you could get much more out of it by being a better tuner.

but it wouldn't be tuned if it was in sunday league, which i what i thought you were alluding too

Yes, it would likely be more even on a league race. I guess slower cars give you more time to react, especially in traffic. Also speed differences between drivers would be less.