Mille Miglia Challenge

The Mille Miglia Challenge is a Saturday Special Event hosted and organized by RBDK. It is the closest thing logistically possible to the Mille Miglia in AC over a single evening.

If you want to join, please sign up and keep an eye on the Google Document for more information.

Event Background - "The Spirit of the Rules"

The Mille Miglia was a road racing event that existed from 1927 to 1957 covering a thousand miles through Italy. The race was run more or less like a modern rally with a co-driver reading the charts and telling the driver what sort of corner was coming up, and the event took 2 days to complete.

That would be cool to do, but it is not really possible to do in Assetto Corsa.

So what we'll do instead is a sort of imitation of the event. The Special Event will be a co-driverless road race covering some very long Assetto Corsa tracks. What tracks? You won't know until we start. Much like the real event you won't know the roads, and instead of a co-driver you have a magical mini-map which you should probably set up in a way where you can see what's coming next.

The event will (probably) be about 4 very long tracks or point to point routes with a total time of completion just over 2 hours. There will be waiting time - we need everyone to finish. Note that tracks will be extremely long and for time constraints you will need to drive carefully so you don't have to reset your car. If you crash out within 10 minutes of setting off, a reset will be allowed. Any time after you will be retired for the sake of others and receive the same time as the slowest finisher plus 5 minutes.

The event will take place in 1970. That means any car up to 1970 is allowed with some very simple restrictions, see the technical rules below. The original race was run in fast open sports cars of the time like the Mercedes 300 SLR, Ferrari 315S and Lancia D24. Not in the F1 machinery of the time. What I will recommend you is that you pick a nice handling car that maneuvers well in 1st and 2nd gear, no NOT waste your time looking for a speed monster or a track monster. The roads will be small and twisty and you will be hating yourself in an overpowered monster, or simply crash out and retire. You will need headlights.

I will emphasize again, you want a car that drives nicely at low speeds. Feel free to show up with a monster of a race car from the age though, as long as you don't bitch and moan 5 minutes in when you realize you've made a big mistake.

Another recommendation is that whatever car you choose, go try it out and crash it. Drive it off of things. Jump it. Figure out if the suspension can take it, because if it can't you're going to be fucked even if you're careful!

How Do I Connect to the Server?

See the doc for details apart from this important bit: Pass is "IREADTHEWIKI".

Race Format

4 individual "races". To keep timing simple, this event will be run in a similar manner to the Pikes Peak event where the "practice time" of your completion is your run time. This means DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE THE START AREA.

I REPEAT DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE THE START AREA.

Don't drive like an idiot, and pay attention to the flags.

Don't flip Marko Tulska. Unless it's Flip Marko Tulska Day or if flipping him would be really funny.

Track Limits

Feel free to run wide on corner exit, just expect to be called a faggot and insulted in public especially if you wreck someone because of it.

Skins Guideline

Your car will be yours and yours alone. Submit the skin you want with the car. There will be no skin packs between events, but you will also only have a single car on the server of the one you pick. That means the server will NOT require booking mode.

FAQ

- Presence on Mumble is not mandatory, but highly encouraged.

- While the series is open for anyone to join, please practice until you feel comfortable around the track before joining the race.