🏁 A New Steward Joins the Grid: Michael Masi Signs for SAFE-TRACK!
Big news for the SAFE-TRACK community — after what you might call a quiet couple of seasons, one of the most talked-about names in the history of race control has found a new home. Please give a warm welcome to Michael Masi, SAFE-TRACK’s brand-new race-control steward for Assetto Corsa Competizione. Yes, that job title. No, he promises the last lap will be fine this time.
Before anyone panics and starts drafting an angry forum post: our Michael doesn’t actually have the final say on anything. He is an AI race-control co-pilot for our ACC servers — he watches your races, spots the incidents, and hands a tidy little dossier to a human steward who makes the real decision. Think of him as the world’s most patient assistant: he never sleeps, never needs a coffee, never argues on the radio, and — crucially — every call he suggests gets double-checked by a person before anything happens.
What Michael does for SAFE-TRACK ACC
- Reviews every ACC race — he reads the penalties the game hands out (cutting, wrong-way, trolling…) and works out what actually happened.
- Reads the room — he scans the in-race chat for “#7 rammed me!” or “report car 23” and figures out which driver is really being called out.
- Picks up your reports — file an incident in our Discord #incident-reports and Michael reads it, matches it to the right driver, and opens a case.
- Checks the telemetry — laps that are wildly off a driver’s own pace are a good hint that something happened out on track.
- Knows the history — a first-timer and a repeat offender with the same incident don’t get treated the same way.
How he keeps it fair (this time)
- He only ever proposes. Michael never bans, kicks or DQs anyone by himself — a real human steward always makes the final call.
- He’s calibrated to us. He learns from how our stewards have actually ruled in the past, so he matches the SAFE-TRACK bar instead of inventing his own.
- Every ban gets a second opinion. Before a “ban” is even shown to a steward, it has to survive a strict double-check — the weak ones get softened to “keep an eye on them.”
- He can’t watch the replay. So when a report is really a “you had to see it” video moment, he doesn’t guess — he flags the driver for a human to review the clip.
The result? Cleaner racing across our Assetto Corsa Competizione grids, faster follow-up on incidents, and stewards who spend less time digging through logs and more time actually running the show. Michael does the paperwork; the humans keep the wheel.
So whether you’re trading paint in a midweek ACC public lobby or fighting for a championship, know that someone — well, something — is keeping an eye on the racing. Welcome to the team, Michael. We’ve heard great things. Mostly. 🏁