Latest news from the ZakStunts crew:

• Duplode, July 25

  

  ZCT300 deadline extension

  This Saturday, ZakStunts and the other stunts.hu sites stayed offline for the better part of the day, from early in the European morning up to now, around 22:30 on Budapest time. To avoid compromising anyone's entry due to a hosting (or timezone) misfortune, we are extending the deadline by one day, that is, up to 2026-07-26 23:59:59 Budapest time.

  —Duplode

• dreadnaut, June 28

  

  Three hundreds

  In a long running community, anniversaries pop up quite often, yet hundredth ZakStunts tracks have a powerful appeal. While it takes years to get there, time passes by itself. What makes a hundred races special in my eyes is that they take thousands of replays, millions of gear shifts¹, billions of driven tiles. It needs folks making it happen, awesome folks with patience and endurance.

  In 2018 we celebrated ZCT200 with a new track by Kevin Pickell. It was a way to look back at the very start and say "Wow, we've survived this far, we're still going!". Eight years later surviving doesn't seem the right term: ZakStunts and the Stunts community are thriving, in an evolutionary explosion of cars, tools, and mods, with a growing set of formats and competitions.

  Many of today's successes began around ZCT200. Cas made Race for Kicks into a regular competition, the first sister event in a long time. Overdrijf released the DTM car pack, first of a new wave of custom cars that whizz on today's tracks. Live races became recurring events. The customisation and reverse engineering scene snowballed into several mods thanks to Daniel3D's and other Daniels' work, and most recently with HerrNove's SuperSight.

  More cars, more tools, more polygons... and always great people behind them. Growing numbers on the track, the shoutbox and the forum. Past the difficult start of the '20s together, into these more chaotic years, the competition remains, grows and evolves. I'll go all out, and call it ZakStunts' platinum age 🤩

  The question then is: how do you celebrate 300 tracks, growth and inventions, and the serious driving of the past years? Who could represent this continuity of community and effort? Turns out I know someone who has been around for decades, has crossed more finish lines than anyone else, and continues to gift his time, energy, and good vibes to the Stuntssphere: Duplode!

  As I fast my seatbelt and face his vision for ZCT300 tomorrow, I'll think about the sheer human power behind whatever it is we've built. Thanks to each one of you who's sent a replay, posted a message, designed a track or fought for a position. I'm having a good time here, and you are a chunky part of the reason.

  Now go out, and bring all Stunts lovers you know, old or new, here for ZCT300. To celebrate the game, how far it's gone, and our stubborn refusal to stop.

  —dreadnaut

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  1. Estimated. I could process all stored replays and actually calculate the number of collective gear shifts in the past 100 tracks 😅 ↩︎