Talk:Mazda RX-8 Special Edition/@comment-34918040-20180724225150/@comment-34918040-20180725092748

@ Laowailong:

Unfortunately this is mostly all I can achieve against an ARSE. It's ultra rare that I beat one. If the ARSE is well tuned and the driver makes no mistakes I have no chance.

Concerning the Mazda:

I tried to reproduce the tuning of the car in the race. Seems to be 5505 5050 (at least A8 Tuner displays a rank of 1600 with this tuning).


 * Without tuning kit, the Mazda would be 11 km/h slower than a Dendrobium at 0505 5050.


 * With tuning kit, the Mazda's speed would be nearly the same.

But the Dendrobium's nitro efficiency is much better than the Mazda's. Maybe this tipped the scale. And perhaps the fact that this driver got the Mazda very early so she/he might have paid tokens for auto tests and lack some skills.
 * Acceleration of the Mazda would even be 0,5 seconds faster than the Dendrobium.

Comparing the stats of us both triple boosted, the cars should have had roughly the same speed, with the Mazda having faster acceleration and me having longer nitro duration.

In the end, this means that an mp tuned Mazda SE would meet exactly the same opponents as my Dendrobium (and perhaps even stronger ones because the Mazda's rank is 36 points higher than mine): ARSEs (no chance), mp tuned Apollo IEs (no chance), as well as SIN R1s, Camaro SSs, MP4-25s (which I can often beat with my Dendrobium, but a Mazda couldn't) and MP4/8s (the Mazda might have a chance there).

I'll try to get the Mazda at 0505 5050, but the final goal will be to max pro it (if I get all the engines in, let's say, seven or eight years. :D )