LIVESTREAM VIEWER CHALLENGE: KSC Rover Rally (Patreon)

Those of you who watch my game livestreams know I recently put a  rover on the mun. (And then wrecked it. Twice. But that's not important  right now.)

I've also been watching a lot of racing videos on  YouTube (yes, including marble racing, but mostly stuff like FailRace or  Achievement Hunter's GTA videos). 

So I thought: wouldn't it be cool to try to combine the two?

Unfortunately, Kerbal Space Program's functionality pretty much limits racing to time trials. So here's what I'm going to do.

THE TRACK:

Starting  at the launch point on KSC's runway, drive down the runway, turning  right at the SPH Water Tower to drive in front of the Space Plane  Hangar's doors. Slight turn left past the Mission Control building to go  between that and the VAB, off the pavement just past the VAB's tank  farm, then hard right to cross the Crawlerway. (This is the only  substantially rough-road bit, with the only other slopes being the berms  the KSC buildings and runway are built on.) From the Crawlerway  cross-country to the easternmost dish of the Tracking Station, around  the outer perimeter of the Tracking Station complex, then straight  cross-country to the outer perimeter of the R&D complex. Right turn  to drive between R&D and the Astronaut Complex, large left curve in  front of the KSC flagpole, drive between the Astronaut Complex and the  SPH, right turn to drive between the SPH tank farm and the water tower,  then onto the runway for the sprint to the finish line (the end of the  runway pavement).

RULES:
NOTE: ALL BUILDS MUST USE NON-MODDED  PARTS. Making History parts are OK; Breaking Ground, warn me first (not  that BG should be a factor)

1) Each rover must contain:
(a) seating or crew capacity of at least TWO kerbals
(b) the ability to generate and store electricity (solar cells, fuel cells, RTGs)
(c) at least one each of: goo canister, Science Jr., thermometer, barometer, seismometer, science storage unit.
(d) Wheels. Duh.

2) MAXIMUM WEIGHT: 4 TONS.

3)  Kris (me) will drive each rover around the KSC course three times.  After each successful attempt, the next attempt will be more aggressive.  The fastest successful time of the three will be the recorded time for  that design. Rovers which do not finish will have NO time recorded (so  no, you don't get credit for partially completing the course). 

4)  This is a ROVER time trial. Rockets are permissible to provide  propulsion, but the vehicle MUST roll along the surface and will be  driven as such. NO FLYING.

5) When submitting build, please NAME  the build "(number)_(your name)_(rover name)". Example:  "42_TwilightSparkle_Bookmobile." This will make it MUCH easier for me to  find and track your build. Any one-digit or two-digit number will do,  with the warning that Kris may change it if someone else chose the  number first.

6) Maximum of three (3) submissions per contestant. (Kris intends to drive three of his own designs.)

7)  COOLNESS COUNTS (a little). Depending on how cool or artistic the final  build is, Kris will deduct between 1 and 20 seconds from that build's  final time (cooler = faster). This score is ARBITRARY and cannot be  appealed. To be fair, and also because Kris is very poor at artistic  expression in sandbox games, Kris's "cool score" for all of HIS builds  will be ZERO, i. e. no time shaved off his laps.

8) PLEASE provide detailed driving instructions for any rover that requires more controls than WASD and brakes. 

DEADLINE  FOR SUBMISSIONS: Saturday night, April 4. (Late submissions may or may  not be run as bonus material on subsequent Mondays, time allowing.)

Please  submit builds via Dropbox. (I will need BOTH the CRAFT and LOADMETA  files.) I would prefer the rovers to be built in the SPH and not the VAB  for ease of finding/placing the rovers.)

THE RALLY BEGINS MONDAY, APRIL 6, 7 PM CENTRAL, https://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin .