ACC Wednesday Season 5 - GT4 Sprint Challenge

Which track and which class of car?

Here is a sneak preview of one of the stats features we are building - these are the track records by Rooz drivers for each track:

https://stevehasadomain.com/trackstats.php?forum=false

it takes a moment to load as it is yet to be optimised. There is also a problem with the record for Kyalami as somewhere in history a race from Zolder was uploaded as Kyalami - I know the record is held by Andy and is a high 1:39 I think. Will fix that soon! more features coming!

ahhh that one will be a bit of googling or youtube, as we haven’t collected any data for that combo yet!

I have now fixed the Kyalami record - properly shows Andy in the Audi with a 1:39.957

Great racing tonight gents - love the GT4's!!!! Results are up in the OP!

OK I have set up the server for tomorrow night with slightly higher chance of rain (5% more cloud cover, 20% more randomness). I've been what I think is gentle as I know that when Marty experimented with this in the past there was a very fine line between drivable weather and insane thunderstorms.

Yeah!

I am having amazing fun with ACC at the moment, even on pub servers. Have had three incredible races in the last week that I have saved the replay for and one was a fantastic GT4 race around Brands Hatch on a European server in the rain. Most of the race felt like it was side by side, sliding and slipping, amazing! (others were a great battle 20 minute on Bathurst on the Jandal server (those guys are proper aussie geezers, legends actually) and the Wednesday league race here which wasn't so eventful for me but still maximum fun).

Good racing again tonight gents! Results are in the OP as usual!

Bloody awesome races, was almost more of a workout than the hour long Maserati race. Thanks guys

I'm so sorry about that first race, felt like i was getting pushed out coming into the first chicane. Got a wheel on the grass, tried to pull right into the wall but the car went left into someone (so sorry). The rain and night racing combo is an fps killer, was a struggle out there.

No drama mate, I don't think any fault on that one - I was on your left and I watched the replay back a few times to see what happened. There was room but it is so difficult to judge it when we are all packed together like that and I think you were trying to leave extra room (the right thing to do) which put a wheel on the grass - luckily in the end pretty minimal impact on the overall race.

NOT like when I totally killed @nando later which was 100% on me. I redressed to Mr Gock who I thought I had contacted but it turns out it wasn't him at all, it was Nando. Apologies again mate, but I had to get my "I Killed Nando" gold badge, I'm sewing it onto my fireproofs now.

I have been watching a lot of British GT lately - the last races at Donnington and Brands Hatch were incredible. Those guys are incredibly aggressive with each other and somehow mostly seem to avoid incidents. It is really worth watching a few of these and taking a moment to try and analyse their race craft and understand how they get away with it - because it isn't an accident!

All good Steve. It was pretty clear you had no idea where my car was or you wouldn't have driven me off the road. I'm happy for you to have got your gold badge though....

Ow it was 100% my fault, I had way more room than i thought i did. I started to panic and tried to give you some more space.
So worried about causing an accident, i caused an accident ... genius. I think i should of just held my line as far right as i safely could? At worst we would of rubbed doors (if you were actually as far over as i thought you were) in reality it would of avoided the contact all together.

I will definitely check out some GT races, have been watching David Perel's onboard videos with him chatting away. There
was one i think you might find interesting called "GT Sport: Dirty David Perel?" He goes into overtaking/aggression in
the sim world vs real world, he refers to his onboard from silverstone which is superrr aggressive driving.

A large percentage of his overtakes i would classify as dive bombs/way to aggressive to do in our races, on the
flip-side of that coin i can barely overtake someone I'm faster than and get eaten up on the first lap every race. Any tips
on how to work on this would be greatly appreciated.

No drama mate, all good!

Thanks for the great racing as always gents! Results in the OP!

So it is with great sadness that I am forced to announce that @Cooper (Matt Frost) has won the Wednesday Super Sprint GT4 Challenge! Incredible work in probably the hardest car to drive mate, very nice!

Well done and proof that colour blindness and complete lack of aesthetic sensitivity are not disadvantages for a racing driver.

Also huge congrats to @krunch for 2nd place and @Dan Medved for the final podium spot.

This was a very enjoyable season to listen to (during broken pedals period) and join in with - I hope you guys all had fun too. Really great racing, great battles and I have to say very nice banter in discord with zero salt/anger (not that we ever really have much of that) - makes for a great experience gents, awesome work.