With the inaugural ACF1 season now well under way it seems like a good time to take a look at the emerging championship contenders and find out what makes them tick. First up, we take a look at Flag-to-Flag newbie Remco Majoor – a seasoned racer who has already shown that he’s capable of dominating our league.
You’ve appeared out of nowhere and started winning everything. Who are you, and what on earth do you think you’re doing?
I started playing racing games as soon as I got my first computer and console, so I picked up the feel for racing cars pretty early on in my life. Sim-racing started for me when I was about 11 years old, starting in LFS and from there I pretty much immediately joined a racing team and participated in the top leagues of LFS. I started at the back of the field, of course, but soon moved through the ranks. After I joined a top team I moved all the way up to the top and in 2014 I won the junior championship.
Last year I won the kyoto 500, which is the biggest oval league in LFS and got my ‘A’ licence in both oval and road in iRacing. I feel LFS has become outdated and Assetto Corsa is coming along, so I am looking to find new challenges.
You’re quite an experienced hand, then. What do you think of our little league?
At first I was sceptical about the skills of the drivers and the quality of the league, because it’s based on a relatively ‘arcadish’ game.
I have been generally surprised though. Aside from Rhobium some FSR drivers have joined and although there are races where I am faster than them, there is still enough pressure on me that I make mistakes.
Imola really showed what Rhobium had in him. We were both at the limit and doing pretty much the same lap times. Due to my own mistake I lost that race though, it could’ve been a nice battle.
For the next time Rhobium causes Remco to make a ‘mistake’. (Assorted plungers optional)
So, you must have your sights set on winning the ACF1 championship? How do you rate your chances – You’ve still got Mystro to contend with.
I set my chances on winning very high in this league. I do have to remind myself that the best 12 races count. So Mystro still has a good chance indeed.
It’s hardly surprising, you come from such a rich racing heritage, with the like of Jan Lammers and Christijan Albers. On the subject of your heritage, what do you think of Frisians? Idiots, right?
They are from a different country, but want to be part of ours, so they are weird yes.
Away from Sim racing, what makes you tick? You’re not 12 years old or something, are you?
I’m just a normal human being learning car mechanics and I have a social life as well – which sometimes gets in the way of my sim racing. I’m interested in cars and my beautiful girlfriend.
Finally, any shoutouts?
I do want to shout out my girlfriend, Sharon, who supports me through hard times and supports my sim racing. She completed her first lap around the nordschleife and only went off once. She also manages to handle the 9C at 100% boost around Spa in 3 minutes.
Now that’s my kind of woman! Thanks to Remco for agreeing to take part. Next up, I’ll be talking to FtF mastermind, Rhobium.
First off, we’re delighted with the improving standard of driving in the ACF1 league. We all find it tough, but now we’re getting more comfortable, there are fewer incidents to examine making everyone’s life better :)
The ACF1 league stewards would like to report a few recent clarifications and alterations to our rules.
Reprimands & Position Penalties
We have introduced a smaller 1 position penalty, to deal more fairly with small collisions or unfair overtakes. It also acts as a reduced penalty for drivers who do the right thing by giving the position back after a larger accident.
We’ve also renamed our official warnings to reprimands. Similar to the real sport, drivers who pick up 3 reprimands in a season will get a 1 position penalty. Every 3 further reprimands will attract an increased penalty.
In certain situations we may now give just a verbal warning for a first offence, for example where an unsafe move on track doesn’t hurt anyone, or for rage-quitting.
Corner Cutting
The track cutting detector app has been updated to v1.41 – we just added a bit more info to make life easier for the stewards. You’ll need to download the updated apps package for this weekend’s league race:
For the avoidance of doubt, in Assetto Corsa we follow these thresholds for penalising track limits violations:
4 warnings: reprimand
8 warnings: 1 position penalty
12 warnings: 2 position penalty
16 or more warnings: a larger penalty or DSQ in severe cases.
Substantial corner cuts or illegal overtakes are treated more harshly. We also monitor corners where obvious cuts might not be detected by the app, and any nonsense warnings given where you spun off will be discarded.
Reporting Incidents
We’re really pleased with how many drivers have helped us out by reporting incidents they were involved in. The best way to do this is now by sending a private message to @YuckierDragon, the head steward.
Thanks to everyone for your support. Here’s to a fun league season!
Because of the unique way stracker has been developed, we had some issues updating to the most recent version, in the hope of avoiding the horrible mid-game failures we’ve been experiencing during league races.
To sidestep the issue we’ve started afresh with a clean database. We’re hopeful this will return stracker to stability. Our previous statistics remain in the old database and we may yet restore them should we figure out what was broken.
Server IP Addressing
The dedicated server may be offline for a large part of tomorrow because of some IP address changes that have to take place. I hope to have it operational by early evening.
