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Wait, the Plus races did counted in the championship! They had an average point so the three races counts as one.

Indeed; it's just that incorporating them into the season scoreboard like that nowadays could get a little awkward, or at least I feel like that (and of course I could be wrong about it!).

Either separate special race (like Plus 1-2-3 in 2002) or ZCT300, I suggest to restrict the car choice to LM002 - back to classics.

It would be cool to have non-championship "Plus" rounds in that vein, though we'd have to build the support for that on the site. I like the idea of doing it on ZCT300 as a LM002 race, too!

To ensure a LM002 race we wouldn't even need to suspend the bonus system; liberal adjustment of the coefficients for that specific race should suffice. I guess we'd also want to keep the LM002 out of the rotation between ZCT294 and ZCT299, to avoid having a spoiler race earlier in the season (that, too, can be achieved through scheduled usage of admin coefficient adjustments).

I don't know what car this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0bJsuh2aY

Chevrolet Impala, 3rd generation from the early 60s. (Rotoi's Impala, BTW, is a 2nd generation one.)

Nice, I'll try it out soon.

Orthogonally to the other proposals for PTB I would suggest to not carry over the time bonus across seasons: at season start every driver should be on a blank slate.

I agree, and I'm fairly sure we won't have that. Inter-season carryover was an acceptable compromise under the old LTB rules, but it really isn't so with PTB.

No pics, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a Mercedes SL (R129) parked next to me the other day.

While the race is still on (seven hours to go! plenty of time to get a lap in  ), here goes a bit of background on the track. It is a Stunts adaptation of Rouen-Les-Essarts, a former road circuit which hosted a few editions of the French Grand Prix in the 50s and 60s. Here is some on-board footage showing what it was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIfa0w1lxQ . The Torino was a period-appropriate choice for this race, but also, as @alanrotoi noted, it turned out a very good fit for the sinuous nature of the circuit.

That's not great 🤦 Specifically for the ratings evolution, there's the interactive graph instead -- but even without that I probably have dozens of Imgur images sprinkled across my posts...

Here is the ZCT291 update of the rankings! Personal best ratings were attained once more by HerrNove (crossing the 2000 points threshold!), MiDiaN (taking the second place in the current ranking!) and Mortimer McMire. Below is the updated evolution chart:

Come to think of it, there are echoes of 2007 Raikonnen vs. McLaren. It will be an impressive feat if McLaren manages to fumble the driver's title -- it's surely not beyond them!

Summertime

Does anyone remember some particular replays that has the "can't fast-forward" bug? If not, I guess we should be able to find them automatically. All competition replays are supposed to finish successfully, while a bugged run would either crash or never cross the finish line in repldump.

I have attached a collection of unstable replays, which I had assembled last time we were doing in-game experiments about this behaviour.

(Side note: While we have eventually settled on taking the fast-forward/repldump outcome as canonical, because it is the one that's consistent across machines, competitions at times were more liberal than that about unstable replays. That being so, the collection includes two examples of replays that can finish successfully on a straight in-game replaying but not on repldump: 13gutix.rpl and C232OVE.RPL.) 

This is fantastic work @dstien , thank you so much! Can't wait to try it out! (Yes, I've been repeating this since the beginning of the year about e.g. @HerrNove 's improvements, but hopefully I'll stop getting sidetracked anytime soon! 😅) No longer needing the IDA-centric workflows and having the 32-bit symbols as a reference should be a huge boon to analysis.

It is a nice idea, and the CCC format fits this kind of event well -- in fact, just the other day I was talking with @Daniel3D about that. So let's make it happen!

i was talking about Stressed and other tools, my system is 32-bit

Stressed should work with Qt 5. That avoids one of the difficulties in building a 32-bit version, as Qt 5 (as opposed to Qt 6) has x86 as a supported architecture. I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance.