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Dec 1

  • Cas
    Wow! Happy Birthday, Stingray, GTAMan and Stan!
  • Cas
    And Daniel3D, happy birthday too!
  • Straycat
  • dreadnaut
    The joys of magic carpets!
  • Overdrijf
    The best part is that it essentially gives no time benefit, just a buttload of style points.

Dec 2

  • CTG
    @Seeker1982: you should take the lead now, if you want to beat DUP in overall. Especially because he has a lot of "unused" LTB hours in the pocket.

Dec 3

  • Cas
    @Overdrijf... I tried to send you an e-mail and it bounced for some reason. Have you changed your e-mail?
  • CTG
    221 hours left, Seeker1982 missed the LTB (no reserve hours). Roll Eyes Duplode is carrying 85 hours from the previous races, still having a chance to take a single bonus point. ZCT233 - Home Office

Dec 4

  • Seeker1982
    I didn't miss/forgot anything,, I simply don't have the speed for your times.. I'm still a GAR/OWOOT specialist
  • Overdrijf
    @cas: no, I have not, weird. You're typing it with no capital letters, and no dots or underscores or spaces or whatever? Can you try again? Or maybe send it over the forum system or something?
  • Cas
    @Overdrijf: I just used the same e-mail address as before. Copied and pasted. Maybe it just failed that time. I'll try again now and otherwise, I'll PM you in the forum. @Duplode: I've made a significant change in the Wiki section about WSC after watching the replays from the archive. I've posted a thread about that in the forum. You may want to take a look and perhaps make some more changes, as I think you probably were the one who wrote the initial section

Dec 5

Dec 6

  • dreadnaut
    Phew ? I have deployed some back-end changes around teams, including a table migration. I was very careful, but let me know if you notice anything odd or missing.
  • Cas
    At Race For Kicks, we're having an endurance race featuring the McLaren Honda! Smiley
  • Overdrijf
    No kidding, it's like ZCT211 in there, but with none of the roads being the decoys. I'll be over after I have found the time to beat dreadnaut and secure 4th place over here. ;p

Dec 7

  • CTG
    Official: I won't be here on Saturday.

Dec 8

  • KyLiE
    @Straycat, your most recent GAR replay is also invalid. You cut the corkscrew left/right and went off the track several times. Are you accidentally entering your replays in the GAR competition when they aren't eligible?
  • Duplode
    "CTG will be away for 24 hours" Smiley
    Carrera 1:45.79

Dec 10

  • dreadnaut
    Just to show that it could be done Smiley The meat is at 40"-55" ?
    Indy 1:44.19

Dec 12

  • Duplode
    Three racers, two points and one quiet day. Alea iacta est ?
    Carrera 1:10.22
  • dreadnaut
    Five hours left of the 2020 season! ⏱
  • Zak McKracken
    true listfiller. Exciting season ending! Smiley
    Carrera 1:37.23
  • Zak McKracken
    and a gar lap as well
    Carrera 1:46.11
  • Duplode
    Nice to see you on this scoreboard, Zak Smiley @dreadnaut: That's some jump! Watching it motivated me to also squeeze in an Indy run before the deadline.
    Indy 1:22.30

Dec 13

  • dreadnaut
    Great race everyone! Let's publish those quiet replays, and then sleep Smiley
  • Overdrijf
    Assuming the LTB points have not updared yet on the season scoreboard... Sorry Seeker, too bad. Sad Still a great time on this difficult a track. Also congratulations Duplode, CTG and Seeker! Cheesy And well fought dreadnaut. That was not an easy race.
  • CTG
    Congrats to @Duplode. Btw the track was originally built for Indy.
  • Overdrijf
    Also, the smallest possible gap between Stingray and Kylie in the newbie league!
  • dreadnaut
    That's it, scoreboard confirmed! Congratulations to @Duplode, @CTG, and @Seeker1982 for showing us some impressive Carrera skills!
  • KyLiE
    @Overdrijf, yes, that was close!
  • Duplode
    Woohoo! Enjoying the moment after a fine season which was in play to the very end, from @Seeker1982's first win to @CTG's late surge. Thanks to Cork's Crew and in particular to @Overdrijf (nice job snatching the fourth place at the last!) for the support through the year, and making sure the team trophy stays at our headquarters for one more year. Will we face brand new challengers on that front next season, as rumours suggest? Looking forward to keep racing you all in 2021!
  • CTG
    @dreadnaut: season's standings table is sorted by SUM - by default, even in the closed seasons. Could you please modify it to REAL? Thank you!
  • afullo
    Congrats to all the podium holders, and to my team: with 212 points, it is record for the Rolling Stunts, beating 205 of 2019 and 194 of 2018 (sound like Borg drones lol Cheesy)

Dec 14

  • Stingray86
    Yes @KyLiE, you are good racer and have 2021 Newbie league in the bag! But 2020 is my newbie year so I had to edge over the line first even by 0.05! Congratulations to all the champions and good luck in 2021 Smiley
  • KyLiE
    Thanks @Stingray86, same to you! Smiley

  • 2020 Season finale!

    The checkered flag comes down to close ZCT233, and with it the 2020 season comes to an end. And what a season!

    The competition opened in January with a green field: Marco, the 2019 champion, had decided to reduce his involvement, leaving space to the runner-ups from last season. 2019 ended with four racers within 16 points, and indeed the first race of 2020 saw the same four racers squeezing on the podium: Duplode, Seeker1982, and Overdrijf sharing the third position with dreadnaut.

    A few weeks later, while the world out there was going a bit crazy with pandemics and whatnots, all had changed: the competition had become a bloody three-way battle among:

    • Seeker1982, with strong regular replays;
    • CTG, less constant in his participation, but ruthless in the LTB battle; and
    • Duplode, focussing all his efforts on strong final replays.

    The three dominated the season, collecting most leading-time bonus points, and victories. Among these I'm honoured to point out Seeker's first victory on ZCT225, which makes him the 24th ZakStunts race winner!

    Marco, FinRok, and Alan Rotoi also made appearances, taking a podium step with little apparent effort, to then disappear again. But no-one else got even close: if last year we had 7 different winners, 2020 saw the triumvirate at the top, plus one victory by FinRok, and that's it.

    What followed was a surprisingly balanced season, with no clear leader all the way through, up to the last race. While Duplode reached the end of November with a small lead, the maths showed viable routes to the 2020 title for all three.

    But ZakStunts is not only about the champion title! A number of secondary battles developed during the year:

    • a friendly feud for the fourth place between Overdrijf and dreadnaut, begun with a draw in January, and stolen won by Overdrijf by one point;
    • the mid-scoreboard skirmish involving Stringray86, Heretic, and afullo, also joined by KyLiE, later in the season;
    • the low-scoreboard more civilised contest among Cas, KaoS, Leo, Straycat, and Stan 286XT.

    And the winner is...

    So... what happened? Who won? Well, ZCT233 saw CTG collecting most LTB hours and all the bonus points, but alas it was not enough! Duplode went full nuclear submarine with his final quiet replay, driving four seconds faster than the others, and maintaining a tiny lead. He brings home the 2020 title only two points ahead of CTG, and three from Seeker. Congratulations Duplode! ?

    Really, really strong results from CTG and Seeker1982 as well! I have never seen a season with three racers so close to winning the title.

    Side scoreboards

    The team competition was not as close, but Rolling Stunts believed for a while they could grab the title this year. Alas, a small gap repeated over multiple races means a larger gap at the end, and Cork's Crew held on to the trophy! Great teamwork there between Duplode and Overdrijf, well done! ?​

    Impressive work also from the new team of this year, Traction Faction! Great race coverage, and a ton of points. (Not in a team yet? Visit the Team Zone!)

    Looking now at the Newbie Championship, we had Stingray86 take the lead after a couple of warm up races at the end of 2019. The first half of this season was maybe easy for him, but he had to fight against KyLiE and Straycat for the rest of the year. And fight he did, sealing three more victories, and bringing the newbie title to Australia. Congratulations Stingray, I'm looking forward to see you climb the main scoreboard! ?

    GAR

    The GAR scoreboard is as usual unofficial, and there is no actual trophy. Gentle-pipsqueaks race for the thrill, and have little interest for these numbers.

    —Now shut up dreadnaut and give us the &%"# scoreboard!

    Racer GAR score
    Seeker1982 143
    Duplode 97
    KaoS 61
    Stingray86 55
    dreadnaut 54
    KyLiE 48
    Stan 286XT 48
    Straycat 32
    Marco 32
    Cas 28
    Zak McKracken 23
    CTG 9
    GTAMan15 3

    Almost a perfect season for Seeker1982, with a single point missing, collected by Duplode. Uneven coverage means that consistent pipsqueaks rise up on the list: well done KaoS, Stingray86, and Stan!

    With Marco and FinRok missing, however, Seeker might not have a challenge! Maybe some of our Aussie friends will raise to threaten his lead?

    Also...

    Last but not least, I'd like to point out that Stan 286XT, our resident "wrong car" expert, has completed his second season without missing a race. Well done Stan! ?

    What happens now?

    The main competition will be on break for a few weeks: season 2021 is scheduled to start on the 10th of January. In the meanwhile, stay with us for other events:

    • Race 4 Kicks is running an F1 endurance race until Boxing Day, go and sign up! The McLaren Honda for the race can be downloaded from the website.
    • There's a live race planned for next weekend; join us for this different and exciting event!
    • Running ZakStunts is a community effort. You can contribute with a guest track, a race report, and suggestions are welcome ?
    • Feeling wordy? Tell us about your 2020 season by writing a short article. Please do, you'll love re-reading these in 5 years and more!

    A final thank you!

    I can't close this post without thanking all of you for the great participation and support this year! The old grumpy pipsqueaks, the new fast drivers, you make ZakStunts, and my day.

    Fasten your seatbelt, and godspeed! ⛵

Dec 15

  • Stan 286XT
    the low-scoreboard more civilised contest among Stan 286XT I have a pc clone 286 640kb of ram not fpu I have to save floppy can't format : /s I can't use 4DS1.1 why? Is the same of ST1.1 INCORRECT STUNT VERSION (are the same) on my pc is better 4ds I can't use
  • Stan 286XT
    However whit my modest hardwere I am 7° on GAR competition!!!
  • Duplode
    @Stan286XT Have you ever tried the 1991 version of 4DS? Here's a link to it: http://scr.stunts.hu/files/utils/4D_Sports_Driving_v1.1_Feb-25-1991-20190602T183716Z.zip . As far as we know it is compatible with ST1.1, and maybe it works better on your hardware, though it's admittedly a long shot. It is interesting that there are performance differences between the 1990 versions and ST1.1. I wonder if there are any useful experiments about that do be done by playing with DOSBox settings...
  • Duplode
    @Stan286XT I just thought of a second thing to possibly try. You mentioned having to save replays to floppies. Is your problem with ST1.1 that it is too large to fit on a floppy? If so, it is actually just the ZakStunts package which is larger (~2MB), because of the uncompressed data files for the custom cars. In that case, you would be able to run the plain ST1.1 package linked from the Stunts Wiki (http://downloads.pigsgrame.de/STUNTS11.ZIP , 1224 KB), which has only the 11 standard cars, and then add and remove custom cars as you need them for racing.

Dec 16

  • GTAManRCR
    @Duplode I figured out, that 4D Sports Driving v1.1 Feb-25-1991 cars' handling are fully identical to Stunts v1.1, only the borders are different in some screens, like the track selection, when borders are blue, instead of red in Stunts v1.0, v1.1, and 4D Sports Driving v1.1 Dec-13-1990
  • GTAManRCR
    @Duplode And 4DSD91 is compatible with Stunts v1.1
  • CTG
    @dreadnaut: great season summary, thank you! Just a sidenote: we had 4 winners thid year, as @FinRok won ZCT229.
  • dreadnaut
    I had noticed that, but I've updated the article and made it explicit. Thank you @CTG!
  • Seeker1982
    I just wanna congratulate @Duplode for winning the final race and championship. As I wrote before I'm still a GAR/OWOOT specialist rooted in SimRacing (currently Assetto Corsa Competezione) -> Duplode, CTG and FinRok are all a level beyond me in the "normal"/RH-championship. Happy new year year and merry christmas everybody Smiley

Dec 17

  • Duplode
    Thank you @Seeker1982; looking forward to your title run in 2021 Wink Merry Christmas to you too!
  • Duplode
    Happy birthday, Zak!
  • dreadnaut
    Indeed, happy birthday Zak! ?
  • dreadnaut
    Come and join us for a live race this Saturday, midday in central Europe! Bauhaus (2020-12-19)
  • afullo
    Happy birthday Zak!

Dec 18

  • Cas
    Happy Birthday, Zak!!! :-D And by the way, I already posted my track in the forum for tomorrow! Two tracks is better than one Smiley

Dec 21

  • Cas
    Guys, remember that Race For Kicks still has a race running till the last minute of Christmas! Don't miss it Cheesy
  • Alan Rotoi
    Congrats @Duplode for another championship!!

Dec 22

  • Duplode
    Thanks Alan!

Dec 24

  • Cas
    We're nearing Christmas and in some parts of the world, it'll be very soon. So I wanted to wish you all have a Merry Christmas and spend some good time with your family or friends, as much as you can within the possible in this very strange year!!!! Smiley
  • afullo
    Thanks, and Merry Christmas to everyone of you!
  • Duplode
    Merry Christmas, everyone! Smiley
  • CTG
    Happy BÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ... erm... merry xmas! Grin

Dec 25

  • dreadnaut
    Merry Christmas! ?
  • Overdrijf
    Merry Christmas folks!

Dec 26

Dec 27

  • Duplode
    I wish you a great AC season, @Seeker1982; I'm sure you'll light up their scoreboards! Please do show up sometimes to say hi and/or remind us what a proper GAR lap looks like Wink
  • CTG
    I put my money on Poo's championship title. He's always crying because of the RH addicts, although he's one of them. Cheesy
  • CTG
    @Seeker1982: too bad, you were always a tough opponent. Have fun with noRH!
  • afullo
    From cherry chassis to cherry picking Tongue hope you can do of your best in both ACC and GAR, Seeker! Wink

Dec 30

  • Duplode
    Happy birthday, Roy Wiegerinck!

Dec 31

  • Stan 286XT
    Good years at all!!! Next year I try to find a olivetti m290
  • afullo
    Thanks, and happy new year to everyone of you. Hoping that 2021 will be better under certain aspects...
  • dreadnaut
    @KyLiE and @Stingray86 might be getting ahead, so Happy New Year everyone! Looking forward to 2021 ?
  • Duplode
    Happy new year, everyone! And good luck with the Olivetti, @Stan286XT! Smiley
  • CTG
    B Ö Ö Ö Ö Ö F F ! ! !

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