Released 2020 Rally New Zealand

[ajnz1]

Hi all, after quite a few years of building Amateur tracks based on real Rally New Zealand special stages, using BTB and Zaxxon's method I decided to pack them together to create a complete Rally event

The other big motivator was after COVID caused the cancellation of Rally New Zealand this year, something had to be done

Please note: the tracks are Amateur and are not perfect or professional by any means, they do give a sense of the types of stages Rally New Zealand is famous for.

The event consists of a total of 257.62 km over three days, 15 special stages in total. Stage lengths vary from 5.06km to 32.10km.

Rally itinerary is as follows:

Leg 1, Friday, 75.17km:

9am, SS1, Shakedown, 5.06km

11am, SS2, Brooks, 13.60km

12:30, Service A

2pm, SS3, Cassidy, 22.2km

4pm, SS4, Waipu Gorge, 11.09km

5:30pm, Service B

6pm, SS5 Mititai, 23.22km

Leg 2, Saturday, 46.40km:

9am, SS6, Waipu Gorge Reversed, 11.1km
11am, SS7, Cassidy Reversed, 22.2km
12:30, Service C
2pm, SS8 Brooks Reversed, 13.6km
4pm, SS9 Shakedown Reversed, 5.06km
5:30pm, Service D
6pm, SS10, Mititai Reversed 23.22km

Leg 3, Sunday, 107.27km:

7am, SS11, Te Akau, 32.1km

9am, SS12, Maungatawhiri, 6.7km

11am, Service E

12noon, SS13, Whaanga Coast, 29.67km

1pm, Service F

2pm, SS14, Te Akau Reversed, 32.1km

4pm, Service G
6pm, SS15, Maungatawhiri Reversed, 6.7km (Power Stage)

All tracks can be found here, either as a complete event or individual stages:
Rally NZ via OneDrive

If it is of any interest, my best total time to date for the event is 2 hours, 46 minutes and 32 seconds.
(Not repeating stages to improve time and running realistic damage).

Cheers, AJ.

 

[mufcaleksi]

hey! awesome work dude! I just drove one stage and now I'm downloading others to drive the whole event soon. Anyway, Racedepartment is pretty dead in terms of RBR user reach, could you post this in a couple Discord servers? You'd 100% get a lot more downloads and people enjoying these. Here's links to the servers https://discord.gg/zkVWR7g2pe and https://discord.com/invite/ATk42e8

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Holy Clap!

I advise you to also post it in the RBR forum!

 

[Jack Hintz]

Hey mate, this is fantastic. I know a few guys that would love this, I"m downloading it right now. I'll be in touch

 

[mufcaleksi]

I've driven them all now. The stages made in 2020 are way better quality than the older ones. You will see yellow sky in Waipu, Mititai and Maungatawhiri, that is fixable by changing the sun settings by copying settings.ini file from any of the other stages to their folders. Great job, thank you very much for these!

 

[TheSimNoob]

What happened to the download link? It leads me to an error page.

 

[fefobna]

What happened to the download link? It leads me to an error page.

Idem for me...

 

[Altarf82]

yeah no download available anymore

 

[mufcaleksi]

I'll pack the files again with fixed sun settings and NGPCarMenu metadata, just a moment

edit: NEW Download link here

NZ_rally_2020

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[Pedro Henriques]

the surface traction feels weird. Like its either too slipery or too grippy, doesnt feel like other rbr non btb gravel stages like australia for ex. Are all btb stages like this?
Does anyone know more about it?

 

[ajnz1]

Thanks mufcaleksi, I have reposted and download the edited version to try as well.

 

[ajnz1]

the surface traction feels weird. Like its either too slipery or too grippy, doesnt feel like other rbr non btb gravel stages like australia for ex. Are all btb stages like this?
Does anyone know more about it?

I agree, some of the BTB stages have very low grip!
I played around with different surfaces for the gravel roads from a few different X packs to see if there was a difference, some of the texture properites are set for "road" and some "gravel", the "road" ones seem to have lower grip levels.
Also if I make the surface of the road too rough / rutted / high camber it also makes the car quite unstable and unpredictable.
Lastly, not sure how to confirm but some people sugest RX plugin / BTB stages can cause RBR to load the wrong tyres? Running RBRWRONG+TYRE.exe may help as well?

 

[Xaus1969]

Wow . Only found out yet. Know what to do this week. Thanks