F1-2012 Bots

[Lalonso]

Hi, everyone. I've just started to work on the F1 2012 Bots, now I have more informations about the cars.

Speed trap
For the speed trap (on the bots' file appears as "velocidad"), I'll analyse the speed traps at the qualifying sessions of this weekend and Sepang (next weekend).
This weekend, we had this Speed trap results:
1. Sauber
2. McLaren
3. Mercedes
4. Lotus
5. Toro Rosso
6. Williams
7. Force India
8. Caterham
9. Ferrari
10. Red Bull
11. HRT
12. Marussia

Sepang is a different circuit, it has more straights and longer ones, so this results might change a bit deppending on the set up teams will choose, but I don't think it will do big changes.

Accelerarion, Brakes and Rotation

With this race, we have an idea of the cars this is year, but in Sepang it will be more obvious and then I'll manage this 3 numbers deppending on the speed trap and the results (For instance, this numbers have to be high in Red Bull's case to equilibrate with the low speed trap)

[ELBUSKILLA]

Animo con ello Lalonso jajaja aun que creo que es demasiado complicado hacer lo que quieres hacer jejeje de todas formas intentalo.

[Lalonso]

I've already done lots of bots! That's easy to do. The worst thing is that rain is expected for Sepang, so it will be difficult again to see how are the cars. It seems like I might have to wait for China GP. The files are already ready, I just need some informations about the cars in the next race (if it doesn't rain) and I'm waiting for the 2012 cars.

[OsoAzul]

emmm, buenaas gente, queria hacer una preguntita, ya que tengo unos 12 coches creados, pero no me acuerdo de como habia que guardarlos para que funcionaran en el juego xDD


Haber si alguien me echa una manita

[Dodani4]

No había que guardarlos en formato BMP

[Lalonso]

YES!!! Sunny qualifying session, which means it's easier to determinate the cars' pace.

McLaren is obviously the strongest team.

Mercedes seems to be a little bit stronger in qualifying then Lotus and Red Bull, but let's see how they will be on the race, 'cause in Melbourne, they're race pace wasn't that good.

It seems like we have Lotus and Red Bull with a very similar pace on qualifying. On last race, Grosjean got out of the race, so we didn't see how would be Lotus race pace, and Raikkonen started in a bad position, but he did a great result, 7th, but that's not enough to analyse they're pace. Let's hope to see what can Lotus do on this race. Red Bull had a great race pace last weekend.

Ferrari, Williams and Sauber are very close, it's difficult to say which one is better. Alonso is the 1st driver from these teams, then we have Perez, Maldonado, Massa, Senna and Kobayashi. Looking to the last race and this one, the first 7 teams are McLaren, then Mercedes, Lotus and RedBull very similar, then Ferrari (a bit away from the other 4 teams), after that Sauber and finally Williams, both close to Ferrari.

Force India and Toro Rosso looked stronger then Sauber in Australia's qualifying, but actually, on the race Sauber and Williams were better, and now, in this qualifying session, they're still better. Toro Rosso and Force India are very similar, so it's difficult to say which one is better, it might depend on each track caractheristics.

Then we have Caterham a little bit away. Then Marussia, too away from Caterham and finally Hispania, away from Marussia too. I'll try to make this hierarchy:

1 McLaren
2 Mercedes, Lotus and Red Bull
3 Ferrari
4 Sauber and Williams
5 Toro Rosso and Force India
6 Caterham
7 Marussia
8 HRT

Comparing the two qualifying sessions of this year, the speed trap hierarchy will be:

1 Mercedes (3rd Australia; 1st Sepang)
2 McLaren (2nd Australia; 4th Sepang)
3 Lotus (4th ; 2nd)
4 Sauber (1st ; 7th)
5 Force India (7th ; 3rd)
6 Toro Rosso (5th ; 5th)
7 Williams (6th ; 8th)
8 Caterham (8th ; 6th)
9 Ferrari (9th ; 9th)
10 Red Bull (10th ; 11th)
11 Hispania (12th; 10th)
12 Marussia (11th; 12th)

The other definitions will be chosen considering each team pace. A middle field team with a good speed trap have to have less points in acceleration, rotation, brake, etc. Red Bull need good point at this categories, because they have few speed trap.

[Lalonso]

I've completed the 2012 bots. I just need the cars. I've done some races, and it is usual to see McLaren in 1st, and sometimes Mercedes, RedBull and Lotus. Ferrari is usually in the TOP 10, depending on the circuit still. In the last position we normally have a HRT. Sometimes, We have also some surprises like Force India or Williams fighting for high positions, which I just can explain with the different circuits styles, and some circuits may help their caractheristics, but that just happened once or twice and I did lots of races, but it always happened since 2010, when I started play MRO, and it happened with 2010 and 2011 bots.