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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVaV8ZG...e=youtu.be

The Enduro Prediction Competition is back! Everyone who wishes to participate, will make their predictions on a variety of areas revolving around the Enduro season that starts this weekend at the Sandown 500. You will earn points for getting predictions correct, in some cases they may be worth more points than others. At the end of the enduro season, your points will converted to TSG Points and deposited into your accounts.

A new feature for this year is betting, you can opt to bet a percentage or fixed amount of your TSG Points for a bet you think is a sure thing.

Sample bet:
Pole position: Shane Van Gisbergen BET: 300 points


If Van Gisbergen gets pole position, you earn the 100 points plus 300 additional points for the bet. If he does not, you lose your 300 points (all calculations will be made at the end of the enduro season too, so be careful that you may run into negative TSG Points if you bet, and lose, too much).

1. All predictions must be placed by Thursday 11:59pm EDST, at which point the thread will be locked.
   
2. In some cases points will be awarded to the person(s) whose prediction is closest - e.g. if the first safety car comes out on lap 10 and no one predicts this correctly, the next closest prediction will get the points.
   

A place for non-TSG videos made in gta.

Starting with this Horizon 3 trailer recreated using GTA V.



https://youtu.be/i_Rphts2iJk

The rumble game mode would be great fun if it weren't for the frame rate / lag issues. But not sure if it is isolated to rumble because I was having similar issues in Standard as well. Anyone else getting these problems?

So attempting to bring discussions from the FB chat over to the forum regarding race replays and other YouTube content to help build the community, here is my take on a few things:

Here is a breakdown of time taken to creat the race replays I produced for RGL:

Footage capture: 30-50min per race
Initial editing: 2-3hrs per race
Graphic content: 1hr per race
Pre-commentary editing: 1hr per race
Commentary: 30min per race (not allowing for any stuff ups where you have to redo it)
Final edit: 30-40min per race
Render: up to 1.5hrs per race (this would vary depending on PC specs)

Then upload to YouTube .......BUT;

In order to have championship standings etc accurate on the video, all stewarding needed to be complete and all database entry upto date. This also meant allowing time to settle any disputes with stewards findings.

At the height of it all, I was doing two races per round with approx 2-3 week gaps, so you add all that up, then try and fit that into your weekly routine.


Going forward, the option of doing it all live via spectator mode will only work with Project Cars unless Turn10 fix the Hud in Forza. Obviously doing it this way and reducing the graphic content to bare minimum will enable replays to be created much faster. This also applies to Rocket League.

Next year if there is any chance for me to do some videos of project cars I will.


OTHER CONTENT:

With the DVR system on the Xbox, we now have the opportunity to easily share moments in games that we could compile for top ten plays and/or fails for various games we play. An example would be someone scoring an awesome goal in rocket league, then getting the Xbox to record it. As soon as possible after that, you can share the video with whoever is compiling them to make a full video of such moments.

But again this needs someone to champion it and make it happen. Obviously it needs to be someone with a capture card. It would mean picture quality is slightly reduced but it's better than nothing.


I could very well do most of these things listed above, but I have dedicated a lot of my time over the past 8 years towards such things, and I have other things I want to do, including game more (something you can't fit in if all you are doing is creating YouTube content like this)

Happy to hear suggestions on different ways forward

According to some, the news that the PS4 Pro will not include an Ultra HD Blu-Ray player is a bit of a misstep. However it may not be as bad as it sounds, but for a $399 USD price point those that want a UHD Blu-Ray player in a console now look to the Xbox One S instead.

Considering, however, that the digital age is approaching at a rapid pace (not that our country's internet infrastructure is keeping up with it) the move not to include a UHD BluRay drive somewhat echo's Microsoft's initial plan to have the Xbox One be always online and push for digital games over physical media.

One thing is for sure, it will be interesting to see how the numbers for the One S, with Scorpio on the horizon, and PS4 Pro, after this announcement, play out. I can see a few people being disappointed with this decision but ultimately I feel the decision wouldn't have been made without a hint that UHD Blu-Ray's aren't being taken up as quickly as content producers would have liked.