What is coming for 2025

Happy New Year to you from OZNZ Sim Racing.

It is long past time for a News post and an update for OZNZ Sim Racing's intentions for 2025.

Kicking off the year

To start the year we are running (not the) Toyota FR Oceania Championship, taking the Tatuus FA01 to five iconic New Zealand racing circuits.

Information for the series can be found HERE

Assetto Corsa

We intend to continue racing in Assetto Corsa in 2025.

Although new titles are on the horizon, Assetto Corsa is a reliable title that has served us well and will continue to do so for a while yet.

Assetto Corsa EVO

In two weeks time, Assetto Corsa EVO will release into early access.

Our anticipation for this title is that it likely will not be feature ready for us to use as the primary title for the Sunday racing league.

That being said, OZNZ Admins will be picking the the game at release to begin assessment.

We hope to do some 'Potato' testing to see if the title runs well on older hardware as a consideration for members who do not have the latest PC hardware.

With the announced Free Roam feature in AC EVO, we hope to deploy an OZNZ dedicated server for members to jointly roam and explore the Eiffel region (assuming the free roam has dedicated server functionality).

We will keep everyone informed of progress and are crossing our fingers that AC EVO is a title with the potential to enjoy a long shelf life like Assetto Corsa.

Discord

We will be working on updating the Discord server to improve the onboarding process for new members. The current arrangement seems to be a contributing factor in the slow down on new membership for OZNZ and that comes with a reduction of grid sizes. Discord now has built in onboarding and it should be an easier process for new members to join the group.

Some roles may be adjusted, but the overall channel structure is likely to remain the same, so existing members shouldn't expect to see much change.

Final Thoughts

We are looking forward to 2025 and spending time racing with you all. As always, we welcome input from the community, so please do not hesitate to provide suggestions, whether it be for series ideas, website or discord update suggestions, or anything else that might come to mind. Happy New Year everyone. May you enjoy much success on and off the track!

Daylight Savings coming to an end this weekend

It always seems to come as a surprise, but for those parts of Australia and New Zealand that observe Daylight Savings the clock rolls back an hour tonight (3am April 3rd)

As usual, race timings will change for some of us with the changing of the clocks.

For areas that DO NOT observe daylight savings (QLD, WA, NT, etc) All sessions begin 1 hour LATER Practice: 6pm AEST

Qualification: 7pm AEST All other areas that DO observe daylight savings

No change to session start times

Practice: 6pm AEST (8pm NZT)

Qualification: 7pm AEST (9pm NZT)

Daylight Savings: Australia

This weekend it is Australia's turn to roll the clock forward an hour and kick off Daylight Savings for the Summer months. The clocks move forward from 2am Sunday morning (03/10/2021) Race timing is affected for some members, so please read below to find out how Daylight Savings affects you. Daylight Savings Observed - Australia: No Change.

We base our server timings on Sydney, so there is no change for anyone living in a state/area of Australia that observes Daylight Savings. Server will be live for Practice at 6pm AEDT with Qualification and Racing starting from 7pm AEDT.

Daylight Savings NOT Observed - Australia:

Start 1 Hour EARLIER. States/areas of Australia that do NOT observe daylight savings will start 1 hour EARLIER on the clock for Sunday night racing with Practice going live at 5pm AEST and Qualification and Racing starting from 6pm AEST. New Zealand: NZ returns to regular timings for Sunday night racing. The server is live for Practice from 8pm NZDT and Qualification and Racing start from 9pm NZDT.