ACC RaceOnOz ACC [PC] Season 5 Round 7 [Monza] Sprint

RaceOnOz Monday Night ACC League Season 5 - GT Challenge
Admin team: @Flamebadger, @krunch, @SteveDrivingSlowly, @nanlatt, @Rolz

Round 7 - SPRINT - Monza 2020

15th March 2021 at 8:15pm
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REMINDER: NO CUSTOM PAINTED SKINS ALLOWED DUE TO JOIN LAG! PENALTIES MAY APPLY
We recommend completely uninstalling custom painted skins from your ACC folders to avoid the excessive join lag issue.

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DRIVER BRIEFING NOTES

• Avoiding Lap 0 and Lap 1 Carnage - Take extra care as the lights go green as all cars will be in a tight, accelerating pack:
  • Expect cars to be much closer to you and varying in speed due to all the others around so try to leave a tad more space.
  • Assume there are cars in your blind spots and and on the other side of visible cars until the pack spreads out more.
  • In braking zones you must brake SIGNIFICANTLY earlier than you would in general racing.
  • Avoid sudden direction changes unless you are sure you are well clear.
  • If on a straight section don't drift - stay straight.
  • Approach each situation with caution but execute your driving with intelligence.
  • If you need to redress in this tight pack situation keep going until you can move out of the traffic safely before slowing down

• Start Formation - The admin team will be taking a close look at drivers' positions at race starts as we have noticed that some cars are getting away with being out of position. Drivers need to be side by side with their row partner and must maintain a reasonable gap to the cars ahead prior to the lights going green. The Kunos start system isn't perfect and still allows cars to be a fair way out of place by the time the lights go green so we will be reviewing starts as a matter of procedure from now on. We will issue warnings or penalties to drivers that we believe are gaining an unfair advantage or disadvantaging other drivers by being out of position. We'd also like drivers to stop all weaving and brake warming as soon as the double file segment begins. These sorts of sloppy grid formations can lead to major crashes in the first few corners so we'd like to clean that up

• Discord rules & etiquette
  • If you intend to chat you MUST use push-to-talk. No-none wants to hear your gear clicks, heavy breathing or barking dog in the background.
  • Non-excessive chat and banter is OK in Practice sessions.
  • There should be minimal chat in Qualifying sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
  • There should be minimal chat in Race sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
  • If you become frustrated or angry at yourself or another driver DO NOT PUSH YOUR TALK BUTTON. Keep it private!
  • DO NOT CONDUCT ARGUMENTS OVER VOICE CHAT. Sort it out later!
  • ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. There's no place for that stuff at Rooz!
  • Please wait until ALL drivers have completed the final lap of a race before discussing your race.
  • Admins may speak at any time in any session for obvious reasons.

• Optional use of indicators - Should drivers 7wish to use indicators to assist with managing lapped traffic, they are to be used as they are used on the road - i.e. you should indicate which way you are going - if you indicate left, you go left. REMEMBER TO TURN THEM OFF AGAIN.

• All drivers should read the "Rooz Etiquette guide' and "Rules & Regs" linked below

• Enjoy the battles with others and yourself

SERVER INFO

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Race Server Name: "RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] PRAC/RACE SERVER S5 Rnd7 60min of Monza"

• The race server will be available to join from approximately 7:45pm AEDT and will kick over to official practice at 8:15pm
• The server has a locked entry list and will only allow those who have signed up for the event to join it.
• Qualifying and Practice sessions are open for joining but the race sessions is locked.
• The server won't show in the multiplayer lobby so you will need to search for "raceonoz" or "rooz"
• PASSWORD: season5

Practice Server Name: "RaceOnOz.com 01 ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] PRAC/RACE SERVER S5 Rnd7 60min of Monza"

• The server has a locked entry list and will only allow those who have signed up for the season to join it.
• All sessions are open for joining.
• The server won't show in the multiplayer lobby so you will need to search for "raceonoz" or "rooz".
• All conditions are set to match those that will be used for the race server.
• PASSWORD: season5

NOTE: Wacky Wednesday League Practice - Every Wednesday night we host a semi-closed race practice evening ahead of the upcoming Season 5 championship round. These are very informal and chilled out practice sessions where you can come in and try out set-ups, chat and have some fun racing without worrying about your championship points (this is separate to the 24/7 practice server which is always available). Importantly you can practice close racing moves with far less pressure and less consequence than Monday nights and we particularly encourage those newer to sim racing to join in. There are often excellent tips from some of our top pro drivers too.

RACE & SESSION INFO

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This round is a SPRINT:

• 1 x 60 min race.
• 1 Mandatory pitstop for tyres.
• Fuel optional, fill time not fixed.
• Full formation lap with UI gizmo and car ghosting on. Getting too far out of position can result in being auto-sent to the pits for the start.
• Server time scale multiplier set at 2x for this round.
  
• SESSIONS:
  • Official Practice, 45 mins (in game Saturday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
  • Qualifying, 15 mins (in game Saturday 12pm) - OPEN for joining
  • Race, 60 mins (in game Sunday 3pm) - LOCKED no joining
• Weather is set to an average of 20 degrees with a low chance of rain across all sessions so expect some variation.

CAR CHOICE
Season 5 is a fixed car per driver championship. Whichever car you start your first official round in will be the car you use for the rest of the season.

MORE INFO

• Rules & Regs
• The Rooz Guide to Courteous Driving
• Lodging protests post race

DISCORD & VOICE

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All important information for racing is available on our forums, however we strongly advise drivers to join our Discord server for for voice and text chat. Sometimes critical information such as server issues, race delays, last minute race format changes, instructions to a specific driver, etc. will be relayed only through the Discord voice channel and text chat. There is also a healthy dose of banter that just makes the round more fun . Once you sign up for any Season at Rooz you'll be given extra Discord permissions for text chat.

Discord voice chat rules and etiquette:

• if you intend to chat you MUST use push-to-talk. No-none wants to hear your gear clicks, heavy breathing or barking dog in the background.
• non-excessive chat and banter is OK in Practice sessions.
• There should be minimal chat in Qualifying sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
• There should be minimal chat in Race sessions - essential questions, statements, apologies etc. only.
• If you become frustrated or angry at yourself or another driver DO NOT PUSH YOUR TALK BUTTON. Keep it private!
• DO NOT CONDUCT ARGUMENTS OVER VOICE CHAT. Sort it out later!
• ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. There's no place for that stuff at Rooz!
• Please wait until ALL drivers have completed the final lap of a race before discussing your race.
• Admins may speak at any time in any session for obvious reasons.
• Feel free to hang around in chat after the race. Many of us like to have a laugh about things that may have happened in the race and it can be a nice wind-down

• ROOZ Discord Server

CUSTOM PAINTED SKINS

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Unfortunately due to the serious "join freeze" or "join lag" issue we are currently not allowing the use of custom painted skins for Season 5. Specifically we are talking about skins painted externally and saved as PNG files that are added to ACC.

We love the idea of custom painted skins and would dearly love to add this rich feature to our league but ultimately the quality of the racing must come first. We have discussed at length a number of ideas and methodologies to try to overcome the problem but these involve arrangements which add complexity for the admin team as well as all drivers involved in the season and still may not result in overcoming the problem. If the situation improves significantly either through better support within ACC or through the community arriving at workable solutions then we will certainly look at allowing custom painted skins into our Monday night league racing.

If you also love custom painted skins then please help us out by searching high and low for real solutions, and by all means feel free to do some testing on our servers including during our Wednesday fun practice nights.

At this stage we are not restricting the use of the in-game editor for creating custom colour schemes. This may change if we find that even that system causes serious join lag issues.

NOTE: As we cannot block the use of skins at the server level we strongly suggest all drivers who sign up to Season 4 remove all custom painted skins from their game installation folders as a precaution. If a custom painted skin has been accidentally left selected on a driver's car when they enter the S4 server during a qualifying session causing join lag they will be immediately disqualified from the round. Any driver that has a copy of that joining driver's selected skin will experience a large join lag as that image is loaded into memory. Every other driver on the server may experience some level of 'join lag' even if they have zero customs skins in their game.

Thanks for racing at RaceOnOz


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Round thread posted bang on time as always

Well that went relatively well and happy enough with P20. Avoided most of the carnage and had a good battle with @Flukey for the last few laps until we had a slight coming together; nothing too catastrophic so all good.

I was dreading Monza a bit because of the inevitable first lap carnage, but came through pretty much unscathed. I had a good race with a bunch of people, notably A Tsakohoev and A Pilat in the closing stages with a few position changes. I came 16th which was my best result for the season.

Working on getting back into silver, this track helping a lot. Constantina effect in full showing first lap causing bad aero damage. A bunch of slow laps, approx lap 11? Wally safely making a move up inside turn 1, I got rammed from behind from who knows, last bit of aero completely gone had to pit for repair at the end of the lap .
My least favourite track I don't know what people see in it

Same here. There are no "nice" corners to speak of. It's all about how hard you can brake into chicanes and how well you can accelerate out of them.

Conflict of highs and lows this race. Set a PB for qualification, absolutely stoked with that. Got a reasonable start and stayed clear of T1, T2 carnage and managed to gain some places.

Lap 1 continued down to the T4, T5 chicane and that spelt the end for me. A nudge from a Mclaren spun me and left the Aston facing the wrong way, stranded and with no choice but to watch the field pass me by. (Sorry if I got in your way )

Monza chicanes were mentioned above so I've posted a video as it could be a good example. The view from Pilat's Porsche gives a great perspective of the racing incident and how it played out. I'm driving in the green and white Aston #563.

Anyway sorry for the vent on comms during the race, I let my frustration get the better of me this time. Eventually took a breath, shook it off and continued to see out what was a fairly lonely race. Finished 25th overall,

Congrats to the guys up top, some seriously impressive lap times and consistency. Truly astonishing.

Another W! I feel like Rubens when he got the rare leg up over Michael. Alas, it's Mad Monza, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend several hours trying to find a way not to smash the Merc into a million pieces over Ascari after Wacky Wednesday's horror show. So perhaps not indicative of season pace, but , will take what I can get.

The only point of interest throughout was the start. @Kcender braked quite early which allowed me to pull up side by side. I must have been in his A pillar because he turned in like I wasn't there and donked into me. Looks like he got well rodgered after that but I kept going. Then @Andy got a wiggle out of the 2nd Lesmo several laps later which allowed me to close up and pass before Ascari. And that's pretty much it, just passing blues after that.

Congrats to @Andy and Hendo on the podium.

It's always felt too much like; straight/chicane, straight/chicane, straight/chicane, boring, don't particularly like chicanes in sim racing lol, although I don't mind zolder ironically, maybe because it has a bit more roller coaster effect and you can actually ride those curbs a bit.

Sorry about that. My fault 100%
I thought you would leave space and not close the inner path. Could drive this chicane without loss

Had a not great quality, but, the first 6 or 7laps turned out really fun, close, and clean racing trying to move up a little group but Mr Pilat's car can stretch pretty wide. Lonely racing after the pits but always happy finishing up in 14.
If someone knowledgeable has a few minutes, b would they mind looking at good old L1T1 from me? I gave @WALLZY a a boot up the butt and I'm not sure what I should've done to avoid it. I thought I left a good space but he ended up in it and I don't think I had anywhere else to go.
Thanks for the fun race anyway

Yeah, it's so hard to judge how this pile up at this tight chicane evolves. I just wanted to make sure I don't run into someone, but it seems I was a bit too cautious...btw, I'm k.34. I made it through, but it didn't go too well. Wally was the winner.
A few more things went wrong during the race. However, I finally managed to actually finished a race...wow!
Thanks James for putting up the replay...was interesting to watch.