Onwards to 2018!

We've made it through Christmas and we're fast approaching New Years Eve and 2018.

If you are wanting to compete in the Toyota Cup starting on January the 7th, we suggest you sign up now to make sure you have a place on the grid when the engines fire up on Sunday night.

Seeing as it's the holidays, you might find yourself sitting at home having a nice relaxing time. Perhaps it would be a good time to create your very own custom livery for the Toyota Cup so you can submit it before the cut-off date of the 2nd of January.

Information and Sign up for the Toyota Cup is HERE

Custom Livery submissions can be made HERE

In the mean time, there is plenty of fun to be had in the holidays.

The OZNZ Assetto Corsa servers are currently live. You can get in some early practice for the Toyota Cup, or jump in the Mazda Cup car of the Tatuus FA-01.

The guys are also sinking their teeth into Star Citizen Alpha 3.0. Despite the obvious performance issues of the un-optimized Alpha build and the various bugs, there is lots of fun to be had and OZNZ Space Corp members are thoroughly enjoying themselves playing the game.

OZNZ Trans-Tasman Classic

Welcome to the OZNZ Trans-Tasman Classic!

In this series rivalries will flair as we race back and forth across the Tasman Sea.

Choose your allegiance when you sign up to represent your Country!

Updates/Notes:

None

Required Downloads:

Livery Pack now available for download!

OZNZ Google Drive

Track Downloads

Barbagallo

Google Drive

Highlands Motorsport Park

Google Drive

Eastern Creek

Google Drive

Pukekohe Park Raceway

Google Drive

The Car:

Ford Escort RS1600 (Standard Content)

Race Structure:

2x 25 minute timed races.

Random Grid for Race 1, Full Reverse Grid for Race 2.

Official practice opens at 6pm (AEDT), Race 1 begins at approx 7pm (AEDT)

Rounds:

For this series we will be running 4 points rounds.

Round 1 Race Date: 28/01/18 Track: Barbagallo Raceway (Mod Track) Race 1: 25 minutes Race 2: 25 minutes Track Surface: Fixed 100%

Round 2 Race Date: 04/02/18

Track: Highlands Motorsport Park Short (Mod Track)

Race 1: 25 minutes

Race 2: 25 minutes

Track Surface: Fixed 100% Round 3

Race Date: 11/02/18

Track: Eastern Creek (Mod Track)

Race 1: 25 minutes

Race 2: 25 minutes

Track Surface: Fixed 100%

Round 4 Race Date: 18/02/18

Track: Pukekohe Park Raceway (Mod Track)

Race 1: 25 minutes

Race 2: 25 minutes

Track Surface: Fixed 100%

Series Points Structure: In this series we are counting points back to 30th position. Points will be allocated per race.

There will be a secondary points table where Australian and New Zealand drivers points will be counted as team points towards the Trans-Tasman Classic National Trophy.

Race Rules/Restrictions:

Car Setups

Setups are open for this series as there are limited setup options on the car.

Pit Window (All races) The Pit is open any time for pit stops. There are no restrictions on the pit window.

Fuel Usage Fuel Usage will be set to REAL for all Races.

Tyre Wear Tyre Wear will be set to REAL for all Races.

General Lobby Settings The following Lobby settings will be used for all Races. - Full Damage - Factory Driving Aids - If the car has it in real life, you can use it.

Cut Tracks For this series, we will be enforcing the cut-track rules.

Drivers must keep 2 wheels within the white lines at all times, unless otherwise specified.

Race Rules With the exception of any rules specified above, all OZNZ Sim Racing General Rules apply for this series. The rules can be found on the Rules and Regulations page.

Discord ALL drivers MUST be on Discord for the duration of the race, even if you do not have a microphone. The server password will not be available to anyone not present on Discord. Discord Details can be found HERE

Submitting Custom Liveries

To submit your custom livery for the series, please zip the livery folder and upload it to google drive (or other cloud storage service) then post a link to your submitted livery in the following forum thread.

Livery Submissions

Series Sign Up

To sign up for the series, please click HERE

Driver Signed Up: 20

FunkyGib 22 AUS Lime-Black Gemonic 48 AUS Custom Livery

akaPillarz 84 NZL Custom Livery

Llamafett 07 NZL Custom Livery

Aaron O'Brien 12 AUS Classic Zakspeed 25

Hegz 48 NZL Blue-White

Astral Soul 20 AUS lime-Black

Gonekiwi 43 NZL Custom Livery

Machette 27 NZL Custom Livery

Gratulin AUS Yellow-Black

Erik 81 NZL Custom Livery

Carbo-OZ 33 AUS Orange-Black

Murorder 17 AUS White-Blue

Dravilmir 03 AUS Mexico Green

McRenault 34 AUS Custom Livery

2DoGs 02 NZL Mexico Copper

Slayer 888 AUS Orange-Black

SlimySnake 13 NZL Lime-Black

KarlNZ 425 NZL Orange-Black

TheGrif 12 AUS Lime-Black

We're nearly at the end!

The 2017 Racing Season at OZNZ is nearly at an end.

We have one round of official racing left when we attack Circuit Park Zandvoort in the Ginetta G55 Supercup car for the fourth round of the OZNZ Ginetta Supercup Challenge.

The points table is close throughout the field and there are plenty of positions up for grabs in the two final races of the year!

So what are we getting up to over the break?

Well, the OZNZ AC servers will be setup with some random cars/tracks for people to have a blast in during the holidays.

The practice server will also go live with Track Cycle running the tracks for the Toyota Cup next year.

No doubt OZNZ members will be sitting in Discord just waiting for others to jump in and play some games, whether it be some racing in Assetto Corsa or Project Cars, or people jumping into Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 when it goes live to the PU later this month, or if people are wanting a break from all of the above and just want to jump in and play something random.

The OZNZ iRacing contingent will be continuing on through the break with 2018 Season 1 already in full swing.

But what is coming in 2018?

We return to the Official OZNZ Sunday racing on the 7th of January, with Round 1 of the Toyota Cup. OZNZ members will be rocking around in the Toyota GT86 for three rounds of random grid chaos. With three races per round, only one of which drivers will take away points for. The random grids should make for some interesting racing and only taking points for your single best finish each round should make things extremely competitive on the Championship table.

We are also launching the OZNZ Sim Racing VLN. The VLN is loosely based on the real VLN series run at the Nurburgring Nordshliefe.

In between the regular season racing, we will be attacking the Nordshliefe alternating between the Audi TT RS and the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport. There will be a championship table for all eight rounds of the series, as well as Championship tables for the four rounds in the Audi TT RS, as well as the four rounds in the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport.

If you are wanting to see how the years Sunday racing has been broken down into racing seasons, you can head over to the OZNZ Sim Racing page and check out the calendar to see when we are racing.

As always, we do our best to take lessons from what we have done in the past and take the good and drop the bad. OZNZ has been going for two and a half years and we've been racing in Assetto Corsa for our Sunday racing for the past year and a half.

With this experience under our belts, we're hoping that what we have planned for next year will make 2018 our best year to date!

Thanks everyone for continuing to make this community a brilliantly fun place to be!