The summer social series is back for 2016-17, we're not sure yet what we're going to be doing but we're opening registrations for it now. Maybe we'll run something from the test night that didn't make the cut for 2017 but was still popular.

General Information:
Series Title: CANZ Summer Social Series 2016-17
Proposed period: November-February
Day: Thursday nights ~9PM AEST
Category: Social
Number of Drivers: 22 (single lobby)
Points System: 16-to-1 (16 points for 1st place, 1 point for 16th and lower)
Team Points: No
Teams Required: No
Rounds: However many we feel like running
Races: 2 or 3 per night in different cars and classes
Time Period: Start date - 17/10/16. End date - 9/02/17
Qualifying: Nope, random grids for days mate
Time Trials: N/A, 22 maximum
Rules: While it's social, and a bit of "rubbing is racing" is allowed, try and keep it civil.

Vehicle Information:
Vehicle Details: TBC
Upgrades: TBC
Tuning: TBC

Livery Information:
Whatever you like

Stewarding Details:
No stewarding - Social Series do not need stewarding


Qualifying:
No qualifying


Race Formats:
10-15 minute sprint races.


Rounds and Tracks:
TBC


Pit stops:
N/A

Registration:
#17 Scav3nger
#2 MRN3Drifter
#13 z00lu (occasionally)
#170 Doc
Caderz
Woebegone6
Chaos 7h30ry (occasionally)

News on this front is getting a bit of traction as the date for closing entries draws near. A couple of weeks ago Maranello Motorsport announced that Lowndes and Whincup would be steering a Ferrari together, and today BMW have announced Mark Skaife and Russell Ingall are teaming with Tony Longhurst to take on the 12 hour GT3 event.

This field is looking incredibly competitive, with a fair share of local and international talent. Should be a good race.

Everyone's favourite subject!

I'm curious to know what your standpoint is on DLC and the modern expansions for games? Do you like the Season Pass approach? Do you like the microtransactions to cover giving stuff away for free? Did you prefer the good old days when expansion packs came out with a plethora of new content on a disc? Is there another system you think would work better?

Personally I don't mind the microtransactions as long as two criteria are met:
1) They're not in your face about buying shit all the time
2) They don't unbalance the game by locking better content behind the payment (and not provide another method with which to acquire the better content, i.e. actually playing the game)

I think Rocket League is doing it well with the crates and free maps, though it would be nice if they had some kind of trading system so I could trade crates for items I actually want from people who have unlocked stuff they don't want (that I might want) but want another crate to try their luck again. I personally feel the Rocket League approach works better than, say, the Halo 5 approach because in Halo 5 all the items are in a single massive pool of potential items. Every time you unlock a REQ pack you're rolling a random chance on (in a gold pack) 8-10 items from a pool of hundreds, and even then you're only guaranteed one or two "premium" items (the one-time unlock stuff vsersus warzone guns). In Rocket League you have about 16 items to roll a random chance on in each crate, but only get one item, so you might say the odds are similar but I find the Rocket League system better with smaller groups of items.

I dislike Season Passes, you never really know what's going to be in them so you're paying for content you might not like in advance, I think the last season pass I bought was for Forza 4.

V8sonline or V8Supercars Online Premier Series Bathurst 1000 is on tomorrow (Sunday) starting at 11.30am. Thanks to my teammate he has qualified the team in the top 50 and ill be competing in the race! I'll be racing against some of the best Aussie sim racers.

Qualifying for the grid, support races and the shootout is on tonight at 6pm EST
- I'll be qualifying and doing the 7pm support race
The race is on 11.30am EDT tomorrow

Stream Link -
http://www.iracing.com/live/
https://www.youtube.com/user/v8sonline

My team is All Star Motorsport Red Holden Car #669
Car
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AhxktgdZDY7YghxvQN9baK4MC4c6

Thought I'd fire up a thread for this since it's an ongoing rollout. For those that have a service already to discuss speeds and for those that are yet to receive the service to discuss the rollout.

I'm planning to turn one of my Raspberry Pi's into a speedtest checker, make it ping a speedtest.net server every hour and record the results so I can compare my current cable service to NBN when it's finally rolled out in my area. I think we're still a fair way down the list because of the cable service though. In saying that there's news today that Optus' cable network is being scrapped as per the initial 2011 deal made with Telstra/Optus for their HFC networks so I'm not sure how that will factor in for me. The reports suggest they're replacing the HFC with Fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) which would be better than the FTTN most people seem to be getting. That's only for Optus though, given we also have Telstra cable in our area I'm wondering if they might try and shove us onto that instead.

Hopefully we get FTTdp because it would be better than the HFC, it would mean less copper than FTTN, and would be cheaper to upgrade to FTTP in future as the fibre runs down the street rather than to a box at the end of the street before the copper takes over.

If given the option I think I'd offer to pay extra to get at least 50/20 on the down/up spectrum. The download speeds have been fine for me at 30Mbps so I don't need much more than that right now, but I really do need the upload speeds and would be prepared to pay the extra $10-20 to get them.

Figured I'd start this thread seeing as it's a day or 2 away I'm super excited for the journey story mode as well as Pro clubs and super league cant wait. I started the demo and you can already tell the game is lifelike with frostbite engine, players look realistic and the there is talks that there's pyro in the game such as flares(haven't seen any yet)

Alrighty, seeing as though Bathurst is less than 2 weeks away, and heading into the last few months of racing. I thought it'd be cool to set up thread, where we can discuss anything related to the Supercars series. It also includes driver team moves in the off season, seeing as though there's still a few drivers without seats next season.

You can also talk about stuff which happens in the support categories aswell.

So to kick things off the 'Harvey Norman Supergirls' have shown off their new striking livery on their Nissan Altima for Bathurst.

Round 9, Long Beach, Stewards Briefing
October 15th, 2016

Teams and drivers are advised of the following information contained within:
Qualifying Procedure
Starting Procedure
Corner Cutting and Track Extending Ruling(s)
Pit Entry and Exit

All information contained in this stewards briefing is created with the purpose of ensuring we have stable events, so CANZ administrators appreciate that everyone follows this information along with adhering to the CANZ sporting regulations.

Qualifying Procedure:
Qualifying for Round 9 of the CANZ V8 Supercars series will be a timed session of 12 minutes. No shootout session or group split will be required for this circuit. As this is a street circuit, collisions will be turned OFF for the qualifying session.

Starting Procedure:
For the first race, a standard start will be used. Should a reverse grid race be run, a standing manual start will be used to set grid positions.

Corner Cutting and Track Extending:
Refer to the following image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long_...ircuit.svg

Turn 5 it is permitted to run over the yellow kerbing to the first yellow marker. If your right-side tyres are not touching this yellow kerb you will be deemed to have cut the corner.

Turn 6/7 you are allowed to run it out to the outside of the red line as the racing line suggests it.

Turn 8 you must keep two wheels in the lines

Turn 9 you must keep two wheel in the lines

If anyone needs imagery to help visualise these corners let me know so I can generate some.

Pit Entry and Exit:

For pit entry, please communicate early that you will be entering the pits as it is a tight entry to pit lane off the last corner. As it is very tight I will not enforce that you have to be within the blue lines but you must clear to the right of circuit if you intend on pitting. As always you cannot pit at the end of the first lap unless you have damage, and you must not pit on the last lap and finish the race in the pit lane.

For pit exit, remain to the right of the blue line until it ends. Don't forget to communicate!

Any questions, pop them below!

I did some scout laps to determine if I need to put anything specific in a stewards briefing, fastest lap was a 1:23.692