ACC [PC] Season 7 - Round 4 [Monza 2020 - 60min] Sprint

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  1. CornfordCaster

    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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    RaceOnOz Monday Night ACC League Season 7 - GT3 Spring Cup
    Admin team: @krunch, @nanlatt, @CornfordCaster, @SteveDrivingSlowly, @Flamebadger

    Round 4 - Sprint - Monza 2020
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    25th October 2021 at 8:15pm AEDT
    (AEDT - click for time zone info)

    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.

    GENERAL NOTES
    • Redressing is a thing - It's important to redress when you have caused another car to lose position. More info here
    • Start Formation - 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 continue to review starts as a matter of procedure. We will issue warnings or penalties to drivers that we believe are gaining an unfair advantage or causing a disadvantage to other drivers by being out of position.
      • Please respect other drivers and stay in your grid position
      • Do not stay 'ghosted' within any other car especially in the final phase of the formation lap
      • It is not acceptable to take another car's position before the start
      • If ACC fails to give a penalty for being out of position then the Admin team will issue a post race penalty
      • Driver's 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
      • Drivers should stop all weaving and brake warming as soon as the double file segment begins
      • Penalties WILL NOT BE CLEARED even if it seems to be a glitch - just take more care!
    • Avoiding pre-start 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 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
    • The Admins will review the race starts - To ensure that everyone is racing safely, the admins will review from the start of the race until the end of the first lap and may issue warnings or penalties if deemed necessary regardless of if an incident that occurred was reported or not.
    • Optional use of indicators - Should drivers wish 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 before the start of Round 1.
    SERVER INFO
    Race Server Name: RaceOnOz.com ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] SVR01 [PRAC/RACE] S7 R4 [Monza 2020 - 60min]
    Server Password: season7
    • This server is available for practice in the week prior to Monday's race.
    • The server will reset for official practice at 8:15pm (AEDT) on Monday night.
    • 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".
    'Whacky' Wednesday Server Name: RaceOnOz.com ROOZ [AUS:AEDT] SVR02 [WHACKY WED] S7 R4 [Monza 2020 - 2x30min]
    Server Password: season7
    • This server is both for season 7 practice and for others wishing to try out racing at ROOZ.
    • The server runs as a Super Sprint with 2x30min races and no pitstops.
    • The server will kick over to first practice at 8:15pm (AEDT) on Wednesday night.
    • The server has an open entry list with an SA rating of 60.
    • 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".
    • more info: Whacky Wednesday Forum Thread

    RACE & SESSION INFO
    This round is a Sprint:
    • 1 x 60 min race.
    • Pitstop Rules:
      • Tyres Mandatory (No tyre set restrictions)
      • Refuelling is Not Mandatory (Fill time not fixed)
      • No Pit Window
      • No Stint Limit
    • 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 1x for this round.
    • SESSIONS:
      • Official Practice, 45 mins (in game Friday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
      • Qualifying, 15 mins (in game Saturday 4pm) - OPEN for joining
      • Race, 60 mins (in game Sunday 3pm) - OPEN for joining
    • Weather: "ambientTemp": 24, "cloudLevel": 0.25, "rain": 0.10, "weatherRandomness": 2
    (Weather and session settings may be changed at any time at the admins discretion)

    CAR CHOICE
    This season 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

    DISCORD & VOICE
    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.

    >> ROOZ Discord Server <<

    Discord voice chat rules and etiquette:
    • if you intend to chat you MUST use push-to-talk. No-one 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 please do not push your talk button. Keep it private!
    • Please 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 :)

    WHY NO CUSTOM PAINTED SKINS?
    Unfortunately due to the serious "join freeze" or "join lag" issue we are currently not allowing the use of custom painted skins for this season. 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 the season 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 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 custom skins in their game.

    Thanks for racing at RaceOnOz
    :)
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  2. CornfordCaster

    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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    Special additional information for those of you who come in here and read all of the information on the forums!

    CornfordCaster's Cornforecast:

    Extreme low chance of rain
    Based on the current weather settings in the OP there is a <5% chance of any session having some level of rain during that session, this does not indicate the intensity of the rain. This was determined by advancing the sessions and 'simulating' 10 race weekends, out of the 30 sessions 0 had some level of rain.
    Last edited: Oct 19, 2021
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  4. krunch

    krunch ACC Server Legend Team Raceonoz Gold Member Super ROOZ

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    It's race night! Depending on your timezone, tonight's Official Practice begins at:
    • 5:15pm AWST in Western Australia (except Eucla)
    • 5:15pm HKT in Hong Kong
    • 6:45pm ACST in Northern Territory
    • 7:15pm AEST in Queensland
    • 7:45pm ACDT in South Australia and the town of Broken Hill in western New South Wales
    • 8:15pm AEDT in New South Wales (except Broken Hill), Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory
    • 10:15pm NZDT in New Zealand
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  5. Dan Medved

    Dan Medved Rookie

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    @CornfordCaster: Nice update on the chance off rain :) Do you also have the probability of us all making it through turn 1 without an accident? Might be a miracle but lets hope so :p Maybe we should have double penalty points for T1 issues?
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    This looks about right....
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    UrsineSaturn9 World Champion Gold Member

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  9. CornfordCaster

    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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    It's a very complicated formula. Probably about 50% chance of 100% death?

    Last season we ran Monza T1 wasn't the only problem!
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    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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  11. Wally

    Wally Team Driver

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    Not a great result for me. I got a bit of light damage on lap 1 from the concertina effect, and a few laps in I got passed at the second chicane. I left room and slotted in back behind the car, but they slowed, or spun a bit, on exit, and I hit them and someone else hit me from behind. I was losing a few seconds per lap after that, so I pitted early for repairs, and after that the race was pretty lonely and uneventful.
  12. Mael

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    Always diificult to catch up at Monza. For myself had hopes for a good result as the Honda's pace were pretty good but got beaten by a couple of drivers with better pit strategies. The race itself were mostly uneventful (aside from a heart attach when Wally missed a blue flag ). Could not quite catch the guys in front of me but managed to pull away from those behind.At least had the pleasure of jumping Krunch in the pits :p.
  13. krunch

    krunch ACC Server Legend Team Raceonoz Gold Member Super ROOZ

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    Well considering you pitted from in front of me and came out in front of me I'll take that as a compliment :D

    The problem was you were catchable before we pitted but drove away from me after we pitted :cry:
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  14. Cokko Bill

    Cokko Bill Rookie

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    I was having such fun that i forgot to pit and i run out of fuel.Great battles
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  15. CornfordCaster

    CornfordCaster Moderator Team Raceonoz Gold Member

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    oh dear!
  16. krunch

    krunch ACC Server Legend Team Raceonoz Gold Member Super ROOZ

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    For some reason I was feeling a bit 'low' after the race last night

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    My Monza curse continues... :(
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  17. nanlatt

    nanlatt ACC Server Legend Gold Member

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    I had very low expectations for this race. No practice or setup work until the race as I was away all weekend so finishing 3rd was a huge surprise. Had a good early battle with P.Britt but he was just a bit too fast for me so I just settled into a rhythm and was able to keep a good pace. When I emerged from my pit stop I had M.Frost bearing down on me and I though I was in trouble but after a couple of laps to get the tyres back in the zone I was able to make a small gap and hold it till the end.

    Really happy with my pace and consistency at Monza and spent most of the race in the high 48's. I thought I was going to suffer the same fate as Krunch mid way as my frame rate tanked and it got very choppy for a bit but the laptop didn't shut down on me this time. I can't imagine this run of luck and form can continue but for now I'm very happy.
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