ZCT300 - Sirius

[alanrotoi]

I've never thought about zct300 until 2023 or 2024 It looked so far... and now it's the present. Who will win? Who will come? How many we'll be on the track? I hope to see many historical pipsqueaks, not only champions. Everybody racing this track!

[HerrNove]

The scenario here needs a team of cryptologists.

* Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?
* Are there flags in the north-east and south-west corner? If they are, what do they represent?
* Does the scenario south of the north-east flag represent the Canis Major constellation, to which the Sirius star belongs?

And I am sure there are other details to be found.

[alanrotoi]

Are those flags Argentina (or El Salvador or Nicaragua) and Netherlands?

[Duplode]

Are those flags Argentina [...] and Netherlands?

Correct

[HerrNove]

Oh, I thought it was Paraguay's flag like Alan suggested in the chat, and that the map took place on the border between the two nations, on the banks of the Paraná.

[Alain il professore]

The scenario here needs a team of cryptologists.

* Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?

Ancient Romans wrote 300 = CCC. But this is not Sparta.

[HerrNove]

The scenario here needs a team of cryptologists.

* Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?

Ancient Romans wrote 300 = CCC. But this is not Sparta.

Oof, so obvious in hindsight!

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[alanrotoi]

Fortunately it's a bit quiet these days. Is everybody saving a super shortcut or a different car? 🤔

[Duplode]

(Reproducing the announcement from the front page)

This Saturday, ZakStunts and the other stunts.hu sites stayed offline for the better part of the day, from early in the European morning up to now, around 22:30 on Budapest time. To avoid compromising anyone's entry due to a hosting (or timezone) misfortune, we are extending the deadline by one day, that is, up to 2026-07-26 23:59:59 Budapest time.

[Duplode]

With minutes to go until the deadline, it's a good time to talk about the track map!

Sirius is the intro track of Eye In The Sky, the album by The Alan Parsons Project. It is also notable as entrance music in sports, and in particular it was used that way in the World Cup 2026 group stage first round. Accordingly, the map pictures a World Cup classic: Argentina versus Netherlands, which also happens to be a clash between great Stunts nations. Besides the flags you spotted on the southwest and northeast corners, the shore on the south half of the track is loosely shaped like the Argentina coastline (the city would be Buenos Aires, and the beach, Mar del Plata) -- except that on the other side of the River Plate instead of Uruguay we have Netherlands-reminiscent lowlands.

Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?

The three Cs drawn with vegetation stand for the number 300, as @Alain il professore noted. A reference to Daniel3D's competition, though, also fits very nicely to the concept!

Does the scenario south of the north-east flag represent the Canis Major constellation, to which the Sirius star belongs?

It also turns out that, in Greek mythology, Sirius is Orion's canine companion 

Oh, I thought it was Paraguay's flag like Alan suggested in the chat, and that the map took place on the border between the two nations, on the banks of the Paraná.

This is a cool idea!