Blancpain 2019 OZNZ GT3 Championship

Amendment:

Apologies. Due to not paying attention to the Calendar properly, we wrote below that we start the season with an endurance round at Paul Ricard which is incorrect.

This Wednesday we will be racing a GT Sprint Series race at Zolder. The round will be 2x 20 minute sprint races.

Original Story:

Assetto Corsa Competizione has been out of Early Access for some time now and with the hot fixes that have been deployed by Kunos we are now ready to go for the Blancpain 2019 OZNZ GT3 Championship!

This coming Wednesday we'll kick off our Season with an Enduro Round at Circuit Paul Ricard, so start driving, pick your car and get ready to roll on Wednesday night.

The Practice Server is live. If you would like access, jump on the OZNZ Discord server and request the password.

For more information about the Blancpain 2019 OZNZ GT3 Championship, visit www.oznzsimracing.com and click on the series poster.

OZNZ Seat Leon TCR Touring Car Challenge Round 1

This past Sunday saw OZNZ Drivers jumping into the Seat Leon TCR and hitting the track at Vallelunga on the extended circuit.

The fast first and second sectors of the track proved a challenge for drivers as they fought to find the grip and perfect braking points whilst not losing to much speed costing the time and position on track, while the tight confines of the final sector provided an entirely different challenge as drivers had to find the right balance of throttle to avoid the front wheel drive Seat under-steering under acceleration.

The pace of the cars meant that the pack stayed quite close for the duration of both race 1 and race 2 and the reverse grid start in race 2 added an extra challenge as drivers battled up and down the pack.

A single yellow flag slowed progress in race 1, but once the track was Green the battle resumed.

With 7 more rounds and 14 more races scheduled for the series we are expecting the racing to only get more intense as drivers find their feet and get used to the car.

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Assetto Corsa Competizione left Early Access last week with a more complete feature set for multiplayer and dedicated servers.

The scheduled round on the 5th of June will be our final Pre-season event before we kick into the OZNZ Assetto Corsa Competizione GT3 Championship starting on the 3rd of July at Zandvoort.

The original plan for the series was for the OZNZ events to take place on the Wednesday night following the real life Blancpain race weekend, running our condensed format of Sprint of Enduro races on the same track used the previous weekend.

As we were unable to jump in and start the series Officially on the 17th of April, we will now be running an adjusted schedule of events for the rest of the year.

We will still proceed with following the final 5 rounds of the Blancpain GT series and we have re-scheduled the 5 rounds that were missed.

The event details will be updated on the website and calendar in the next few days.

Le Tour de Rallye Classique

Our first official Dirt Rally event for 2019 is The Classic Rally Tour.

For this series, we will be jumping into the Classic 70's cars. Drivers will be able to choose from the Opel Kadett GT/E 16v, the Fiat 131 Abarth, the Ford Escort Mk II and the Lancia Stratos.

For our five events we will be heading to Greece, followed by Finland, then Monaco, Sweden and finally Wales.

Each event will be open for a week. From just after midnight on Monday morning night until just before midnight on Sunday evenings, the event will be open for drivers to complete the stages.

Events will be run every two weeks, alternating with our other mid-week series.

For more details at to sign up for the event, you can visit the

OZNZ Sim Racing page of the website, or you can go directly to the League page at Dirtgame.com