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Excellent work, @HerrNove and @llm ! It's taking me forever to be able to sit down and play with Restunts, but anyway I can't wait to try the improved build process!

1. Argammon
2. Duplode
3. KyLiE
4. MiDiaN
5. Alan Rotoi
6. Spoonboy
7. Frieshansen
8. HerrNove
9. Zapper
10. Mortimer McMire
11. Mark Nailwood
12. dreadnaut

Excellent work! These lap time comparisons with varying grip/surfaces are very interesting.

As you can see from the screenshots taken with Bliss, for both track types there is a base asphalt path and two symmetrical paths on dirt and ice surfaces for better comparison although these can surely be biased by the game's steering bug.

One way to eliminate bias that could be more convenient than e.g. reversing the tracks is testing on the Mindscape 1990 game version -- with it, left turns aren't faster than right ones.

Audi or Mercedes? 🤔 This is not the first time the Audi Quattro runs along one of the DTM cars. In ZCT217, for instance, the Audi Quattro and the BMW DTM stayed at close quarters for pretty much the whole race.

Speaking of projections, the PTB update at the end of public days (and 360 hours from quiet days) has just been posted. While having half a dozen pipsqueaks in contention for PTB +1 is a pretty realistic scenario, only Frieshansen has a chance of reaching PTB +2 (margin at midnight: 31:44).

The rankings have been updated for ZCT283! Argammon and Frieshansen have reached personal best ratings in this round. Another highlight is Alan Rotoi being back into the 2200s range, not having dropped points in any race from ZCT275 on. There is also plenty of action going on below the surface: though HerrNove, MiDiaN and Raskolnikovik still need a few more completed races to enter the rankings, they are already making good progress and stacking up points. Below is the updated evolution chart:

Updating the calendar with @dreadnaut at ZCT291. 11/12 

A few post-race notes...

@Argammon 's infield carpetcopter on the final sector was the cherry on the cake, consolidating a lead whose buildup was well underway. At the midpoint between the two final banked corners, Argammon's split time was 1:16.80, while Alan's split with the Lotus (converted to the Diablo bonus) was 1:17.97, and my own split with the Diablo was 1:18.30.

In a race of details, it feels fitting that the second place was decided by 0.05s separating two Lotuses. In fact, @alanrotoi and @MiDiaN were within a quarter of a second of each other through the whole track!

There was a very even split of PTB time between the pipsqueaks on the podium: 358:39 for MiDiaN, 354:11 for Alan, and 353:53 for Argammon -- eighteen minutes between the latter two! Elsewhere on the PTB chart, @Frieshansen will start ZCT284 less than an hour away from PTB +0.5, while @KyLiE and @Spoonboy will also bring substantial amounts of carryover.

With the final week underway, does anyone dare to bet about cars? Is the Lotus domination about to be confirmed?

Pinning this topic (now with the updated GitHub link in the first post!) for extra visibility.

In related news, I have moved my Restunts fork to GitHub as well: https://github.com/duplode/restunts . There you can find the mods/daf-museum-edition branch, with the UI patches for the DAF museum exposition. Next step for me will be setting up @HerrNove 's Wine build process here.

Sounds like a great event! And it's very nice to see the good folks at high-voltage.cz keeping tabs on the activity here and featuring your mod!

Quick notes on the midnight PTB update: Alan has guaranteed PTB +1 but can no longer reach +2, the margin discussed above having been exhausted. Argammon is about to get PTB +1. Current leader MiDiaN already got PTB +0.5, and has a viable path to +1 in this race if he can hold the lead for a few days more. Everyone else would need to move upward to remain in contention.

@HerrNove I think they do, especially when a map lends itself well to exploration -- thinking of ZCT268's triangle valleys now 

These are all interesting theories (the musical notes one is a good idea for some future terrain, and the face one is quite astonishing!  ), but none of those things were consciously added. Something that was planned: the road pattern at the northwest is made of peaks on the horizontal plane, while the hill pattern at the southwest is also made of peaks, but in the vertical plane.

Other things I noticed after the race start: the start/finish line and the final corner are in the middle of the map. Also, the "eye" lake and the "headland" little hill are symmetrical relative to the "beach" line that goes behind the banked corner after the split:



These weren't planned either!

To achieve that, he can afford to lose no more than 29:43 of PTB time in the remainder of the race

Three days later, Alan's margin at midnight was 14:39, having been halved by the millisecond war.

This is very good news! Besides easing collaboration, it also gives our shared coding a visible presence. The Restunts repository, in particular, should be useful as a reference for the various mod and project forks -- and also, bringing it there also moves it away from Bitbucket, which no longer looks reliable as a free host.