RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
Sept 21, 1997

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 mindwarp@cftnet.com or
rscott@netusa.net. Or visit the Rars website at
http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm


Contents

Submissions
Todays Races
Preliminary lap times
Race Report
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
Comments

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Submissions

Please! Any people who want to submit for the first time please
give yourselves more than a day or two (I made that mistake when
I started). Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only.

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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:

September 7th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2
Tracks: Castle Combe, Brands Hatch (no alternate)
Laps: not less than 100 miles
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random starting order.

This is a modified .64 where all cars must cross the finish line
once before the race is over.

There were no new files.
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Preliminary lap times

Brands Hatch (Brands.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Ralph2 81.50
Bulle 85.70
Apex 79.89
Magic 76.99
RW 1 73.69 30000+
Jas 81.29
Jammer 75.69
SmoothB 83.08
Lilbamb 73.34



Castle Combe (Cstlcomb.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Bulle 95.98
SmoothB 91.45
Ralph2 87.80
Jas 85.92
Apex 86.07 209
Magic 84.61
RW 82.66
Jammer 82.65
Lilbamb 77.54
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Race Notes:


Race 1: mv0921c1.zip
9 cars for 41 laps. The track was brands.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, Apex8, Bulle,
and SmoothB.

The initial RVG seed was 57675.

results of race 1:
starting positions:
Jammer, SmoothB, Ralph2, RW, Magic, Jas, Apex8, Bulle,
and LilBam.

1 Bulle avg spd 81.79 41 laps 16273 damage 2 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Jas avg spd 80.11 41 laps 25311 damage 13 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Apex8 avg spd 79.94 41 laps 24195 damage 3 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Ralph2 avg spd 78.72 40 laps 7116 damage 18 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Magic avg spd 76.83 39 laps 29214 damage 14 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Jammer avg spd 75.41 38 laps 25786 damage 29 fuel 1 pts accum
7 SmoothB avg spd 80.98 25 laps 30529 damage 57 fuel 0 pts accum
8 LilBam avg spd 71.95 8 laps 30001 damage 120 fuel 0 pts accum
9 RW avg spd 0 0 laps 30118 damage 145 fuel 0 pts accum


Race 2: mv0921c2.zip
9 cars for 55 laps. The track was cstlcomb.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, Apex8, Bulle,
and SmoothB.

The initial RVG seed was 57648.

results of race 1:
starting positions:
SmoothB, Magic, RW, Ralph2, Bulle, Jammer, Jas, Apex8,
and LilBam.

1 Bulle avg spd 89.5 55 laps 27214 damage 4 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ralph2 avg spd 84.86 53 laps 20813 damage 16 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Magic avg spd 84.63 53 laps 26717 damage 15 fuel 4 pts accum
4 RW avg spd 82.67 44 laps 30017 damage 33 fuel 3 pts accum
5 SmoothB avg spd 91.13 42 laps 30885 damage 39 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Jas avg spd 81.37 23 laps 30762 damage 88 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Jammer avg spd 81.93 18 laps 30417 damage 101 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Apex8 avg spd 82.25 16 laps 30054 damage 102 fuel 0 pts accum
9 LilBam avg spd 74.39 11 laps 30084 damage 117 fuel 0 pts accum

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Points for Day

Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Finish Last 5 new-old
Total
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Lisa 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Jas 6 2 8 4 4.0 3.0 10.0 3.0 1.5 21.5
Lilbamb 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
RW 4 4 2 2.0 1.5 3.0 0.0 1.5 8.0
Jammer 2 1 3 1 1.0 4.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 11.0
Magic 3 6 9 6 6.0 0.0 2.0 10.0 0.0 18.0
Apex 4 4 2 2.0 6.0 4.0 4.0 6.0 22.0
Bulle 10 10 20 10 10.0 10.0 6.0 1.0 10.0 37.0
SmoothB 1 3 4 2 2.0 1.5 0.0 6.0 4.0 13.5
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Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Lisa 0.0 2 1 1 3 0 0
Jas 21.5 3 2 5 2 1 0
Lilbamb 0.0 0 0 1 0 2 1
RW 8.0 1 0 0 2 3 1
Jammer 11.0 0 2 2 3 5 1
Magic 18.0 3 2 1 1 2 0
Apex 22.0 0 2 4 3 2 0
Bulle 37 7 3 0 0 0 2
SmoothB 13.5 0 1 3 2 1 0
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This is the point standings.

Marc Gueury 37.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle
Maido Remm 22.0 pts (Estonia) Apex
Jurgen Sang 21.5 pts (Germany) Jas
Sebastien Tixier 18.0 pts (France) Magic
Dennis Lew 13.5 pts (Canada) SmoothB
Kim Laurio 11.0 pts (Sweden) Jammer
Robert Wilderspin 8.0 pts (Britain) RW
Al Davis 0.0 pts (US) LilBambi
Henning Klaskala 0.0 pts (Germany) Lisa
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This is the RARS address book.

Juergen Sang jusa@darkstar.bb.bawue.de
Henning Klaskala bm321465@muenchen.org
Al Davis adavis5555@aol.com
Kim Laurio kim@ida.his.se
Robert Wilderspin rob@feverish.demon.co.uk
Sebastien Tixier s-tixi95@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr
Maido Remm mremm@ebc.ee
Marc Gueury marc.gueury@skynet.be
Dennis Lew av504@freenet.toronto.on.ca


Upcoming RARS Race Meets

RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
Sept 28th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100 Miles
Alternate: Nurburgring
Oct 12th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100 Miles
Alternate: Suzuka
(will include pitting)


Upcoming RARS Race Meets

TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.64)
Tentative Alternates:
Oct. 26 -- Portuguese Grand Prix, Estoril.
Later -- suggestions?
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Comments from Ralph

Since we don't have A1 Ring yet, todays race did not have an alternate.

Please note that Nurburgring is help the wekend after A1-Ring.
I have not decided which version of Nurburgring to use.

October 12ths race will be the first to have pitting. This will
be as discussed in the mail list with the pitting formula to be
20 + 10 * repairamount/1000. Any cars not updated will have the
default pitting code added to it.

What are the three most difficult tracks that we have? For myself,
I find tremblent, estoril, and donington to be some of the tougher
courses to survive.