RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races March 7th, 1999 RARS is the Robot Auto Racing Simulation, a competition for programmers and an on-going challenge for practicioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control. It consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. All RARS software and activities are free and open to the public. It runs on DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, Linux, and several other platforms. For more information e-mail to GianCarlo.Pascutto@advalvas.be. Or visit the Rars websites at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm and http://members.xoom.com/rars_races Contents Submissions Todays Races Preliminary lap times Race Report Authors Point Standings Upcoming Races Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions Please! Any people who want to submit for the first time please give yourselves more than a day or two. Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races: March 7th, No. of races 2 Tracks: Albrtprk + extra (Mosport) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.72 Surface Type: 1 no practice, 2 qualification laps -------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================= The initial RVG seed was 31987. * Qualifying results on albrtprk.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 102.65 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 51.274 mph. 1 DougE1 102.55 mph 2 Ralph2a 91.729 mph 3 Spider2 90.798 mph 4 Apex8 88.333 mph 5 Djoefe 84.944 mph damage 1781 6 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: albrtprk.trk. Race length was 301.28 miles, 484.83 kilometers. Track record was 102.6 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 92 92 100.2 102.4 7119 37 2 31 74 10 2 3 Spider2 83 0 89.84 91.14 686 47 2 33 61 6 3 2 Ralph2a 83 0 89.73 91.65 5810 80 2 14 67 4 4 4 Apex8 81 0 87.76 88.66 4163 80 2 19 66 3 5 5 Djoefe 78 0 84.19 86.59 13552 73 2 82 62 2 ======================================================================= The initial RVG seed was 902. * Qualifying results on mosport.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 97.986 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 49.050 mph. 1 DougE1 98.100 mph 2 Djoefe 91.825 mph 3 Apex8 89.860 mph 4 Spider2 89.668 mph 5 Ralph2a 86.975 mph damage 7845 6 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: mosport.trk. Race length was 151.11 miles, 243.18 kilometers. Track record was 98.10 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 59 59 96.66 98.10! 1060 18 1 10 49 10 2 2 Djoefe 56 0 90.71 91.77 0 109 1 7 44 6 3 3 Apex8 55 0 89.41 90.39 906 29 1 3 43 4 4 4 Spider2 55 0 89.24 90.20 106 24 1 3 41 3 5 5 Ralph2a 9 0 85.47 86.88 30060 115 0 0 0 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spider2 6 1.5 7.5 DougE1 10 5 15 Djoefe 2 3 5 Apex8 3 2 5 Apex1 0 0 0 Ralph2a 4 1 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Doug Eleveld 15.0 pts (Netherlands) DougE1 Tom Pycke 7.5 pts (Belgium) Spider2 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 5.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Maido Remm 5.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 (Ralph Scott 5.0 pts (USA) Ralph2a) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 11th April Brazil (Sao Paulo) brazil.trk + extra 2nd May San Marino (Imola) imola.trk + extra 16th May Monaco monaco.trk + extra 30th May Spain (Catalunya) barcelon.trk + extra 13th June Canada (Montreal) montreal.trk + extra 27th June France (Magny-Cours) magnycrs.trk + extra 11th July Great Britain (Silverstone) silver97.trk + extra 25th July Austria (A1-Ring) austria.trk + extra 1st August Germany (Hockenheim) hock.trk + extra 15th August Hungary (Hungaroring) hungary.trk + extra 29th August Belgium (Spa) spa.trk + extra 12th Septmber Italy (Monza) monza-76.trk + extra 26th September Europe (Nurburgring) nurnburg.trk + extra 17th October Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) track layout unknown 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments There were only 5 cars and I wanted at least 6 in the race so I had to add a car. I chose Ralph's car because he seemed to be interested in participating again. (with the same car) Apex1, as expected, didn't qualify in either of the races. DougE1 was unstoppable and none of the cars were even close to it. There were no real crashes, but my own car kept taking damage by missing the first turn in albrtprk. And Ralph2a had to try several laps before it could overtake Apex8 and Djoefe. Both cars have quite similar driving lines. Mosport is a relatively simple track, no really difficult parts and Djoefe did a lot better. Still DougE1 was no match for it. Spider and Apex drove at a nearly fixed distance but Apex had better luck while pitting. Ralph2a couldn't handle the lower right corner and didn't make the finish. Last minute note Bulle just arrived in my mailbox. Timestamped at 9:58 it was at least 1 hour late. The race has been finished for 7 hours now and I'm not going to restart and rewrite everything. Please people, send you cars early not late!