LFSCART & LFSCART Light Summer Series: mid-season review

The LFSCART and LFSCART Light Series passed half-way point 10 days ago. Both league are held by New Dimension Racing, and are following the same schedule: LFSCART Light is held on Friday nights and is a support series of LFSCART, run on Saturday nights. As Tiger Express has had a huge involvement in both leagues, with more than 6 cars entered in most events, we decided it would be worth to publish an article about the team's situation with 5 rounds to go.

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LFSCART



Tiger Express would start the season with Yann Laprevotte, Mike Saidl and Dominik Engel at Tiger Express Motorsports, and at White Tiger Express Motorsports, Lims Chebbi, Vince Verstreken, and sometimes Niko Puntola and Oskari Rinne. The season could hardly start better, with TEM grabbing the teams' championship lead at round 1 at Kyoto National, as Mike won the first race of the season after an overwhelming fight with Sonicrealms' Sebastian Hutchinson.

Sadly nothing would work correctly afterwards. The second round, the Jamaïca 200, saw a triple retirement for TEM(time-out for Mike and Yann, crash for Domi) while the two WTEM cars of Lims and Vince Verstreken would both finish outside of the top 10. It would be the 1st retirement in a serial of 4 for Mike: the Czech driver would retire at round 3(at Westill International Reversed), would get crashed out at round 4(Speedweeks 400), and would get a time-out in the round 5, the famous Kyoto 500. Meantime the rest of the team would be struggling to get decent enough results to make TEM and WTEM stay in contention for the final podium positions in the teams' championship. It worked well in the Speedweeks 400 as Vince Verstreken would fight for the victory with the oval master Dan Sanger, before an unfortunate mistake in the penultimate lap putting him out of contention for the victory - but the Belgian driver could save the 2nd place, in front of Domi. The 2010 Kyoto 500, 5th round of the season, wasn't that much good for Tiger Express on the other hand, you can see the report here.

Fortunately Tiger Express was back to business for the come back of road courses in the 6th round at South City Town Reversed, with a double podium: Mike winning and Domi 3rd. This was partly thanks to the absence of the two championship leaders, Sebastian Hutchinson and Liane Solfrank.



At the championship we now have Domi 4th, 85 points behind Seb Hutchinson, but only 7 points from Simon Cattell in 2nd place. Mike is 5th, 3 points behind Domi. Lims is 6th, mainly thanks to his regularity and his Kyoto 500 top 10; he can still contend to a championship podium. Yann and Vince are further down, in 8th and 12th places.

At the teams' championship, TEM is now in 2nd place, 97 points behind Sonicrealms(1 win=50 points), which means that TEM is still in contention for the title, but would probably have to rely on a few weak rounds from Sonicrealms. In 3rd place comes WTEM after getting in front of Epic Racing, mainly thanks to Epic's Liane Solfrank taking an LFS wide break before round 6.

Drivers' quotes:

Dominik Engel(currently 4th at the championship, 2 podiums): "LFSCART started off rather well for me, with a 5th place at Kyoto National and even a chance for the fastest lap of the race. Fern Bay was more of a struggle for me. I had controller problems, my force feedback just went away completely and I spent the whole race spinning and crashing in almost every place, so instead of disturbing all others on track I decided that it would be better to retire from the race. Westhill was by far the worst round though. I had a very good start, was 5th, but then desaster, I put a wheel on the grass and crashed into the wall, luckily I could catch up during a SC period after I repaired damage. Then, after the SC, when I was trying to make my way back up, I had a rather odd incident with Matt Kings, which put me into the walls in the same turn I crashed in before, which meant again a pitstop for repairs. Then, just before I was gonna go a lap down I had a powercut and was sitting in darkness for about 5 minutes or so. The Speedweeks 400 went rather well for me I must say, although I am not sure whether I should be happy or sad about achieving my best result so far on a oval track. A 4th place is something I really didn't expect before the race, and it even became a 3rd place Simon's penalty, but I still couldn't be happy about it really. The Kyoto 500 was another one of these oval adventures which I'm really not fond of. If you wanna know more from me about that, take a look at the Kyoto 500 report. Anyways, I'm hoping for good results in the coming road course rounds."

Lims Chebbi(currently 6th at the championship): "Not a too bad season for me, it could of been better if my LFS hasn't minimized at least once in every single race between round 1 and 4. Due to this issue I've lost opportunity to score more points. Anyway, I've fixed this issue for the next part of the season, so im looking foword to fight hard and remain in the top 5. It's a good thing for me that the Kyoto 500 has double points, without this I wouldn't be in that brilliant position."

Yann Laprevotte(currently 8th at the championship): "I'm a bit frustrated that I have had 2 time-outs in 6 races, including one in the Kyoto 500, while I'm not often concerned by this issue. But that's life I guess. I lacked from pace in general anyway, so this 8th position at the championship is quite representative to my season so far. I hope to gain a few places later, and help TEM in its quest at the teams' championship. I must also say that I'm very happy by my team-mates' results and motivation so far"

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LFSCART Light Summer Series



In LFSCART Light, Tiger Express' main weapon is called Sascha Riegler. CoRe Racing's latest sign agreed in switching to TEM after the 3 first rounds of the season driven for Sonicrealms. With 6 wins and 9 podiums in 11 races, Sascha is in an extremely comfotable lead in the drivers' championship, 130 points in front of the runner-up, meh Racing's Simon Cattell. Domi and Mike are part of a big chasing group between 2nd and 7th place, grouped in 26 points: they will try their best to fight for the podium positions. The 3rd place runner of the inaugural season, Yann, is only 12th after a very disappointing season start. Niko is 14th despite he has taken part to only 3 rounds so far; he probably would have had the opportunity to do well if he competed to the whole season, with 80 points earned in a fantastic 2nd place in the SpeedWeeks 250, a double-points round.



The teams' standings are currently very tight, with three teams able to clinch the graal: Sonicrealms Racing, meh Racing and Tiger Express, all grouped in 27 points. The latters should be clearly advantaged by the presence of Sascha Riegler in their roster, especially since the 3 next rounds are on road courses. Also, small mention to WTEM, currently in a very satisfacting 4th position, 92 points behind the leaders, Sonicrealms: a final podium position could be possible in case of weak results for one of the 3 leaders.

Drivers' quotes:

Sascha Riegler(championship leader, 6 wins, 9 podiums, 4 poles): "Except for the first round at Kyoto National, I managed to reach the best result I could do in every round so far. And since there wasn't a consistent opponent in the league, I have a confortable lead in drivers championship allowing me to focus on the team championship with Tiger Express Motorsports. We made a great progress in the last races and closed the gap to Sonicrealms Racing in the standings after already being more than 100 points behind them. With now 6 road course and 3 oval course races ahead, we have a realistic chance to overtake them in the standings and I'm optimistic that we can do so."

Dominik Engel(4th at the championship, 1 podium): "Well, had a rather good start into the season, even got a podium at the feature race at Fern Bay Black. However, my luck changed dramatically after that. Qualifying for Westhill was rather bad for me, I didn't manage to get any good time on R1 tyres, so I went out on raceset which put me outside the top 10 on the grid. Then when the race started in T1 I got hit by Ori Antika, and ended up on 30th and deadlast position after I recovered. After that I made up 20 places, finishing in 10th place. The feature race wasn't incident free for me either. I had a collision with Kaique Piropo which sent me into the air in the chicane. I got some suspension damage on the left rear due to that, but because there was a safety car and I couldn't test how badly the damage was affecting me, I just continued on racing. Not pitting turned out as a mistake and I crawled to a 15th position in the feature race. The race after that, the Speedweeks 250 was probably my low point of the season thus far. Not far into the race, being on 7th place, Mike had an incident in T2, went over the grass and put alot of dust into the air. And because of that dust I wasn't able to see where his car was. When I finally saw it I swerved to the right to avoid him, but with that I crashed into the buggy T2 wall and went airborne. Because I couldn't get my car back to the pits on my own I lost 2 laps. Later on in the race, I had an incident with Liane Solfrank and Oscar, which sent both of us, Liane and me into a DNF. The round before the 500 was nothing special for me really. I had a good position in both, the qualifying and the feature race, but failed completely in the feature race and could only manage a 16th position yet again. Luckily there won't be any oval rounds for some time now, quite looking forward to the roadcourses again and hoping for some good results there."

Yann Laprevotte(12th at the championship): "The 5 first rounds have been really disastrous for me, with 4 retirements in feature because of 4 different incidents, including once in Fern Bay when I flied in the airs from 5th place in the last lap after a weird lag. Anyway I think I'm now going in the right direction with 23 points gained in the last round in date at South City. I hope to carry on like that for the next road course rounds. Once again, I mainly focus on the teams' championship, because I think we have a clear chance to get the title."

Lims Chebbi(25th at the championship): "I've started the season with some incidents and also that i haven't attended to one round, this means that I haven't scored many points so far, so I decided not to worry about the driver standings anymore, and concentrate on scoring as many points as possible for WTEM to try and get the team in the podium alongside TEM for the final teams' standing."

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International GT Championship: mid-season review



The IGTC was one of Tiger Express' priority in 2010, but unfortunately, it turned to be a nightmare, with bad luck, track incidents, pace and consistance problems all together. For those who are uncommon with the endurance side of LFS, the IGTC is a league that features 4 hours race in GTR on LFS' widest tracks, with a 8 hours race at Aston Historic as a finale. It is probably LFS' current most prestigious league, far behind the Masters Of Endurance of course.

The 2010 season began at Blackwood GP, but unfortunately it was no good for TEM. An unfortunate time-out from Mike ruined all hopes for a good result. Then it was all about Vince Verstreken unconsistancy, crashing several times... TEM finished 21st in what remain a very difficult batism of fire. Round 2 at Kyoto National was not better though: TEM ended the race in the first hour after an incident with Smoking Team in a race to forget. Round 3 saw a good performance for Mike in qualifying, with the 3rd time of the session. Mike then did a good job in his stints, battling for top 5, but Domi couldn't match his pace during his stint unfortunately, but TEM still managed to get its first proper result of the season with a 10th place. Round 4 at Westhill saw once again Mike doing a good qualifying session for the second time in a row, with a 5th place. There was an opportunity to do well as Mikedid a good first stint and made the good choice while pitting under SC, but an incident with the lapped car of E-Team ruined everything. Tiger Express then decided to retire from the race several tens of minutes later after Domi felt too much bad on that track and crashed on his own several times. All hopes for a top 15 were gone after the collision with E-Team anyway. The position at the standing is pretty much representative of TEM's first season half:23th.



With 3 rounds to go, TEM hopes to have a fresh start on new bases. Inferno's Radek Muller has been called to help the team to get at least a few top 10 before the end of the season.

The next round at Kyoto GP will also see Tiger Express getting a second car under the name of White Tiger Express Motorsports. It will be driven by the very experienced Frenchmen Yann Laprevotte and Lims Chebbi, who represent 718 race starts on spdo Database on their own. If Yann already has had a small taste from the IGTC after two races driven with Chris Wilkinson in 2009, Lims has never driven GTRs in a high level. Yann and Lims will be driving the FXR, and will be running with the Earthdreams livery used for Tiger Express' first ever official endurance race, the 3 Hours of Kyoto GP, counting for the GTAL championship. "Our aim is just to drive for fun in a competitive environment" said Yann. "We know that driving the FXR means that we will be off the pace at Kyoto and Aston, but we hope to enter in the top 15 at least once."

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Thu 22 Jul 2010, 22:50.

Wow you used punctuation. I had doubt about my spontanious decision to accept the challenge, but now that you actually show some respect towards me, by making it at least a bit more comfortable to read, sets me in a good mood. Your Pm's so far were lacking massively in that regard - just like in this thread.

You are probably right about my pace, which makes it even more of a pointless challenge, but im a racer at heart and will be there. Good for you that you've just had an official race on that combo. How about a different car, for example the LRF class? In this case we could do it even this weekend.

You seem to have the impression that i dislike LFS, which is utter BS... why am i here and bothering...
The reason that i don't drive that often is simply time and plights IRL. You wonder why i do skins then? it is relaxing and I enjoy it. I have a flexible time schedule doing that in my spare time. I can stop skinning when im out of time and can finish it another time.
That won't work if i'd commit to a league... If i compete in a championship, i want to attempt in every race, which is simply impossible for the foreseeable future.

BTW, It's not just about a "perfect logo". I did not comment on the rest of that skin, because it's his interpretation; mine would look different, but that doesn't matter, because the requester likes his version obviously. To make it clear: It would be a judgement on his creativity converting a livery from one model to another model with very different shapes. All i did was commenting the technical side of his work - there is nothing wrong by doing that, or is it?

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After all this I don't even need this skin anymore FXO series i over(well sort of) so couldn't careless if i didn't get one now lol

So whoever would have spend even 1 hour, would have simply wasted his time, eh?

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p.s i'll put it on here so if anyone want to see jazz get his arse kicked they can watch lol (i hope)http://www.worldtimeserver.com ... y=24&Mon=7&Y=2010 pick a time..... and then we can workout a server

Since you get so much joy out of kicking ass and motivate people to race, I challenge you with the underused LX6 for example, this weekend.

LX6 @ Fe4
Sa 24.07.2010 10:00 -14:00 UTC = Sa 24.07.2010 20:00 - 00:00 AT
Or Sunday.

Last edited by JazzOn, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:47.

Added the following to clear up things:

The people attending to the HF1S should use skins from the official livery of the team+year they choose.

For example, if you join Stewart 1999, you should have a Stewart 1999 skin with the number you choose on it.

Promo Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLiIXHkX6g

The HF1S is a series which tries to play in the scene of the 20th century Formula One. Since it's based at the older F1 cars, we will use the Formula V8 as car. The drivers can sign up to a team with a specific year from between 1960-2000.

The goal is to have a short summer league of Formula V8's with skins from the old F1 cars, fair and fun racing, and also an extra for the drivers.

The people attending to the HF1S should use skins from the official livery of the team+year they choose.

For example, if you join Stewart 1999, you should have a Stewart 1999 skin with the number you choose on it.

We will have 5 Grand Prix' in the Summer and 1 test race.

The test race is supposed to happen at Wensday July the 21st at 20:00 GMT+2 (Dutch Summer Time)

The race calender you can find here:
http://www.teamrockracing.com/ ... 06cebab4a0e03d2496362ecff

To give a special twist to this summer championship, the will be a small award for the top 3 at the end of the championship.

Position 1 will receive 10€
Position 2 will receive 7,5€
Position 3 will receive 5€

This money is donated by Walter Lemmens from Team Rock Racing. The money will be send to the winners via PayPal.

To sign-up or for more information, go to:
http://www.teamrockracing.com/ ... 06cebab4a0e03d2496362ecff


Kind Regards,
Team Rock Racing

Last edited by rockclan, Sat 17 Jul 2010, 18:43.

Hey guys,
I am in search for someone to make me something which may be kind of weird.

Can someone make me a Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britiain Tim Harvey template?
Basically I want the outlines of the skin, but I don't want them coloured in, because I would like to make a team skin out of it.

I would also like it if you didn't merge the sponsors to the skin, because I would like to keep the Loctite, Michelin and Mobil1 sponsors but not the others.

So yes, a template with changeable colours.

I guess it would be made something like this:

Make outlines
Colour them in, but don't merge them into the outlines, so the colour can be changed.
Keep the sponsors but don't merge so I can choose which ones I want.

I hope someone would be willing to do this for me, I know it must be hard to allow someone to edit your skin but I would be grateful if someone did allow this!

Regards,
Jake

Example:
http://www.racingexposure.com/ ... 2010/02/HarveyE180210.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com ... 4442783435_3ae8fea440.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/v ... 443571354/in/photostream/
I realize one of them is Michael Meadows's car, but they are the same livery except for sponsorship.

Last edited by jakeeatworld, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 21:59.

First skin upload... (I have loads offline, but in the past they've just been for me, But I might upload the Monster Energy ones.

OK, so if Monster Energy moved into F1 fully, I reckon they might take on Button or Hamilton. Well, hopefully a British driver.

Clearly then, they need a livery. I am now drinking 50 cans of Monster a day in order to finance the idea.

I've done Monster skins for the XFG,XRG,FBM,LX4+6,UF1,UFR and XFR. I'll be starting the next one soon.

He can't put them on his car. Just choose a new livery in the pit menu and you will find all your skins from your lfs folder.

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d5232.html

Collector's Edition Content Details:

• Gran Turismo® 5 game
  
• Exclusive limited edition 1:43 scale diecast 2009 Nissan GT-R Spec V with custom Gran Turismo livery designed by Polyphony Digital, produced by well-known collectible car maker Kyosho
  
• In-depth 300-page car-lover’s guide written by the experts at Polyphony Digital, covering everything from the history of the modern automobile to driving techniques and game reference material
  
• Custom etched Gran Turismo key chain
  
• Voucher for five (5) exclusive high-end cars with custom Gran Turismo livery and performance upgrades
  
• Numbered certificate of authenticity
  
• Custom collector’s packaging
  

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Yes, but take 10 ovals for Nascar, 10 'dirty' made up rally tracks, 10 imaginary asphalt tracks, and that leaves us to 10 real, usable tracks, at best..

He said more than 40 though

And all the Nurb courses would be considered 1 track even though, there are quite a few in it.

The recent news does seem disappointing emotionally, but if you let things cool down and think about it logically it's a non issue. And we haven't even seen everything and know what the full game will offer.

Thundering down the Ring at midnight with other people online is going to be sweet


I wonder about the customization of the standard cars. It will be at least GT4 level, with wings and wheels (but better off course), but there might not be extensive bodywork options like the premium versions. I hope at least for a basic livery editor and paint shop. Even preset decals you can place on the car like some Japanese drift games will suffice. Just so that every car online is unique

Quote from anttt69 :

Is it possible to run a game from a flash drive on the PS3? My disk drive does not read disks. I suppose i could transfer the contents from the disc to flash mem at a mates house then transfer that to my hard drive.?

Im kinda doubting that will work though.

buy a 2nd hand PS3....

Last edited by CoolColJ, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 23:37.

you can download it from the main site now - 123mb
http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/news/d9380.html

Collectors edition has some extra goodies, might be worth my while to get it me thinks

- Sylish, premium packaging,
- exclusive 1:43 scale diecast Nissan GT-R Spec V,
- an in-depth 300-page car guide,
- a GT-branded key chain,
- a voucher for five DLC cars ("regular" cars only with special livery and extra exclusive performance parts)
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Nissan GT-R GT500, McLaren F1 etc
- a numbered certificate of authenticity.

Last edited by CoolColJ, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 23:55.

I needed quickly my own skin for screenshot competetion this week so i made this R32 like skin Its complete but i want to create special drift version and made them both available for public (if anyone interested ) together

That white one is same with my drift livery on it

I was trying to be sarcastic, but it failed i guess. I mean whats the difference between an "LFS" skin/paint-job/livery and a real car that has been painted.

Or like 5tag said, using a 1024px skin, print it out and slap on a real car?

Hello. Me and my friend Jetec need our skins for LLSS. Mine number is #35 and Jetec's #58. Mine real name is Jesse Telkkälä and Jetec's real name is Roope Leppänen and we are from Finland. I don't have time to do skins and I don't have skill to do skins and i have only Paint. Our colourwishes are lightgreenwhite or something like that or if you have better colourideas, just put them and show skins for me. And oh, our LLSS team name is Gentles on circuit, don't forget to put it.
And oh, in LLSS car is FOX, so remember do skin to FOX.

LLSS skinrules:
1. Cars entered by a team may be presented in substantially different liveries.
2. The livery must contain the car number on the nose and on the rear wing side plates. The driver's name and his national flag must be put onto the sides of the driver cells.
3. The official logo provided by the series' officials have to be put onto both sides of the air box. (i have it, if you wanna do skin ask msn on pm)
4. .If two or more cars of a team have substantially identical liveries, the rear wing side plates shall have different colours.

Don't worry, i upload skins to LFSWorld.
And oh, if skinrequesting to league is forbidden, just pm to me.

Happy skinning!
~ Jesse

As requested: Madmike's latest RX-8 livery



Skinfiles

Last edited by Schuppor, Fri 21 May 2010, 10:50. Reason : crappy fake lights removed

THANKS MAN!!! That really saves me some time which I can use to do the loads of NFS-logos on that livery...

OK, I need help. I can not recognize the Sponsor on the very rear on left side of the car . The one under the speedhunters logo. I know that it starts with "TURBOS..." but that's it. madmike.co.nz is down or under construction atm. Maybe someone can help?

http://ll.speedhunters.com/u/f ... e/2010/livery/mazda_5.jpg

http://ll.speedhunters.com/u/f ... e/2010/livery/mazda_4.jpg

lol @ the crash between the mini and the 1series beemer.... the beemer has porn in the livery !

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Skin for #03 Yann Laprevotte - Thanks to Thunderhead

Sticking on that special livery for the final round

So, you are basically after a 90s Ferrari livery for FOX or FO8 ?

I would be surprised if they do not exist already, I think you should have a look through the finished skins threads.

WARNING: BIT OF A CHALLENGE

Right bit of a long shot but is anyone able to make a render featuring TEN FO8's for a team shot of our new livery?

If so, much appretiated, you brave soul!

I have misunderstood your post, I thought that you wanted a livery from a real car replicated onto an LFS car.

I am sorry, but I cannot do what you are asking.

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Please could you post some pictures of your car.
I presume you want the skin for XFG ?

HELLO! upload photos immediately. I need to do then a livery to be applied to print real machine.

Hello everyone, my name is Luke and I am Italian.
I joined this forum because I saw many cars with different liveries.
I do racing with a Peugeot 205 Orange, wondering if anyone is able with some graphics software to make my Peugeot livery or skin REPSOL.
Thank you!
If sending pictures of my car.

Hello everyone, my name is Luke and I am Italian.
I joined this forum because I saw many cars with different liveries.
I do racing with a Peugeot 205 Orange, wondering if anyone is able with some graphics software to make my Peugeot livery or skin REPSOL.
Thank you!
If sending pictures of my car.