& News About Upcoming Races
November 26, 1995
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
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Contents
Todays Races
Preliminary lap times
November 26 Race Report
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
Comments from Ralph (please read)
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
November 26: (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Chosen at random/unknown
(Actually Watglen.trk and magnycrs.trk)
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.63b (or latest variant of 0.60)
Surface Type: 1
practice as requested, random starting order.
The tracks are on the ftp.ijs.com site. In the uploads
directory named trk1126.zip. There should be a .jpg file
of the watkins glen track as well.
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Preliminary lap times
Watkins Glen
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Nov Ralph01 7 91.34 117
Nov Jas 7 88.80 117
Exp Ramdu 7 88.34 114
Nov StukCar2 7 85.62 117
Nov Heath4 7 85.39 109
Nov Sneezy 7 85.38 115
Magny Cours
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Nov Ralph01 7 80.31 123
Exp Ramdu 7 76.44 119
Nov StukCar2 7 74.49 122
Nov Jas 1 72.23 30341 141
Nov Sneezy 7 72.21 6957 119
Nov Heath4 4 70.97 30027 127
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Race Reports
As I said I would, I ran the experts with the novices as traffic
and vice versa.
The first race was run on watkins glen. This is a very long and
thin looking track on my computer. The cars were able to navigate
it without problem. StuckCar2 proved to be very hard to pass and
passing it dealt much damage to ramdu and jas. Ramdu was the leader
most of the race with jas trying to make up time. Near the end,
ramdu tried to pass on the inside and got squeezed off the track.
Ramdu had about 23000 damage at the time. This was enough to
force ramdu out of the race. Heath4 ran off the track while
refueling. By lap 70, Jas seemed to be in a low-aggressive
behavior pattern (as was my car). So they all meekly followed StukCar
for 10 laps neither one accumulating damage.
6 cars for 80 laps. The track was watglen.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Sneezy, Ramdu, Heath4, and Ralph01.
The initial RVG seed was 71558.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Ralph01, Jas, Ramdu, StukCar2, Heath4, and Sneezy.
1 Jas avg spd 86.51 80 laps 20460 damage 88 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ralph01 avg spd 86.5 80 laps 26209 damage 53 fuel 6 pts accum
3 StukCar2 avg spd 85.43 79 laps 11547 damage 92 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Sneezy avg spd 84.95 78 laps 3761 damage 66 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Ramdu avg spd 87.95 60 laps 30067 damage 144 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Heath4 avg spd 85.37 52 laps 30253 damage 0 fuel 1 pts accum
The second track was Magny Cours. Created by Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff.
The track was very treacherous. Jas accumulated 28000 damage on
the first lap. Both Heath and Sneezy took small hits each time
around. By the 10th lap, Heath4 and Sneezy were out, Jas was
running conservatively (or so I believe) and StuckCar2 was limping
along. Ralph crashed both Jas and StuckCar2 into the dirt so
it was just a matter of Ramdu and Ralph (neither really competing)
to finish the race.
6 cars for 80 laps. The track was magnycrs.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Sneezy, Ramdu, Heath4, and Ralph01.
The initial RVG seed was 40961.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Ralph01, Ramdu, Sneezy, Heath4, Jas, and StukCar2.
1 Ralph01 avg spd 78.44 82 laps 10319 damage 136 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ramdu avg spd 76.25 80 laps 11895 damage 106 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Jas avg spd 75.06 56 laps 30393 damage 88 fuel 4 pts accum
4 StukCar2 avg spd 74.42 27 laps 30353 damage 43 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Sneezy avg spd 71.74 10 laps 30005 damage 104 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Heath4 avg spd 71.1 4 laps 30444 damage 127 fuel 1 pts accum
Jas was the undisputed winner of the novice division and with this
win gets his second novice win which propels him into the expert
division.
I ran the Magny Cours track again with all cars but this time it
was a matter of Jas versus Ramdu. As can be seen, Jas quickly
crashed out of the race and the rest was history.
6 cars for 80 laps. The track was magnycrs.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Sneezy, Ramdu, Heath4, and Ralph01.
The initial RVG seed was 36692.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
StukCar2, Jas, Heath4, Ralph01, Ramdu, and Sneezy.
1 Ralph01 avg spd 78.34 84 laps 10807 damage 127 fuel 10 pts accum
2 StukCar2 avg spd 74.31 80 laps 16127 damage 140 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Ramdu avg spd 76.53 34 laps 30048 damage 0 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Sneezy avg spd 71.58 14 laps 30003 damage 86 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Heath4 avg spd 71.41 4 laps 30232 damage 127 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Jas avg spd 73.29 1 laps 30328 damage 141 fuel 1 pts accum
Watkins Glen looked to be a good test as both Ramdu and Jas did
well in the novice division and it was only bad luck that made
Ramdu crash out. This time Ramdu had a bad starting postition
and had to pass (or die trying) everyone else. The esses proved
to be too much for Ramdu (who was trying to pass at the time)
and very soon he crashed out.
6 cars for 80 laps. The track was watglen.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Sneezy, Ramdu, Heath4, and Ralph01.
The initial RVG seed was 32303.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Ralph01, Sneezy, StukCar2, Heath4, Jas, and Ramdu.
1 Jas avg spd 88.04 80 laps 16460 damage 80 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ralph01 avg spd 87.47 80 laps 21649 damage 67 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Heath4 avg spd 85.18 77 laps 7453 damage 4 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Sneezy avg spd 84.93 77 laps 17048 damage 70 fuel 3 pts accum
5 StukCar2 avg spd 85.48 66 laps 30040 damage 149 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Ramdu avg spd 84.41 2 laps 30303 damage 137 fuel 1 pts accum
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Points for Day - Unlimited Division
Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Seasons Seasons Total
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Expert
Ramdu 10 6 16 8 8
Jas 6 10 16 8 8
Novice
Jas 10 10 20 10 0 (no longer in division)
StukCar2 6 6 12 6 6
Sneezy 4 4 8 4 8
Heath4 3 3 6 3 3
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Expert Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 11/26 Driver Country
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Marvin 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 Nicole Greiber Germany
Ramdu 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Randy Saint (U.S.A)
Jas 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Jurgen Sang Germany
Novice Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 11/26 Driver Country
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Sneezy 8 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 4 Larry Ludwick USA
Carski 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 Robert Skupinkski USA
Sarah 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Daniel Ash USA
Shocker 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 Henning Lkaskala Germany
Phill 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 Mike Carty USA
StukCar2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 Ferd TrauttmansdorffCanada
Heath4 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 Patrick Tierney Canada
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This is the point standings for the Unlimited Division.
Expert Class Point standings
Expert Division
Nicole Greiber 10 pts (Germany) Sticky
Randy Saint 8 pts (U.S.A) Ramdu
Jurgen Sang 8 pts (Germany) Jas
Novice Division
Mike Carty * 10 pts (U.S.A.) Phill
Larry Ludwick 8 pts (U.S.A.) Sneezy
Ferd Trauttmansdorff*6 pts (Germany) StukCar2
Robert Skupinski 3 pts (U.S.A.) Carski
Patrick Tierney 3 pts (Canada) Heath4
Henning Klaskala 2 pts (Germany) Shocker
Daniel Ash 1 pts (U.S.A.) Sarah
(* means has 1 win towards advancement to expert)
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Upcoming RARS Race Meets
December 10th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Mosport and Suzuka
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
No practice, random starting order.
December 24th, (Stocker Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Fiorano and Adelaide (good luck!)
Laps: 40 each race
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
No practice, random starting order.
TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
January 7th, Fiorano and Adelaide Unlimited Division Races, 80 laps
January 21th, Fiorano and Adelaide Stocker Division Races, 40 laps
February 6th, Fiorano and Adelaide Unlimited Division Races, 80 laps
2 races each track (daily points count double towards
season)
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Comments from Ralph
This was very exciting today as I didn't run the preliminaries until
after the races. I hadn't seen the Magny Cours track until today
and from the first glance it looked like a doozy. We had the first
competition for expert races today and I think we might have had
better competition but someones mail didn't come through quite
right.
I have decided to waive the requirement to resubmit the entries every
week in the hopes of building up the number of drivers. The contestants
starting this week won't need to resubmit their cars. If, on the other
hand, they don't wish to resubmit their driver, then they should let me
know.
Good luck and see you in two weeks.
---ralph