On Saturday July 18th, Sim Racing Society held an invite-only, multi-class, 1 hour event at Aston Club Reversed to celebrate their first birthday; which officially falls on July 28th. The classes involved were the LRFs (FZ5, LX6, RAC), the TBOs (FXO, XRT, RB4) and the STDs (XFG, XRG). Eight teams took part, with each team having one car in each of the classes. A mad concept, it was shown to be a viable and exciting way of running a race in Live for Speed.



The teams who took part in the event included Sim Racing Society (running special birthday skins), CoRe Racing, two Concept Racing teams, iCON Racing (with guest driver [SR]Pete, after Sonicrealms got their timezones mixed up), StarLite Racing (with guest driver wilko868), and the Race Sim Radicals (the only team to run the LX6 in the LRF class).



Each class was given 7 minutes of the qualifying session in which to post their times. CoRe Racing's R.Osza took the pole position in the LRF class. The TBO class was headed by Concept Racing #1's Twinflow. STD's pole-sitter was CoRe Racing's Rick de Jong. As the lights went green for the 1 hour race, the race was expected by many people to be somewhat chaotic. They were all happily proven wrong. CoRe Racing's R. Osza and Concept #1's Troy battled it out for the lead in the LRF class, with a number of exciting momens when lapping the slower classes. In a twist of fate in the dying moments of the race, R. Osza was held up by his team-mate and STD class leader, Rick de Jong. This took place at the quick chicane; extremely unlucky for both drivers. As a result, Troy was able to make a huge amount of progress up to the rear of Osza's car and the lead was not decided until the final corners of the final lap. In an unbelievable piece of driving, Osza had to take to the grass at over 100mph when trying to overtake Troy and pass STD's 3rd and 4th drivers, Joe Keaveney for iCON and Passo for SRS. In the end, it was Troy who took the victory in class by less than a second, much to the annoyance of Osza, who had lead the majority of the race. The only retirement of the race was SRS's de Souza, whose power was cut with less than 20 minutes to go, effectively taking away 1/3 of SRS's potential points haul, sitting in 4th position. The incredible passing maneuvre performed by Osza can be found on youtube.



In the TBO class, the FXOs (with 3% restriction) naturally made poor starts and Concept Racing's Twinflow was left in the dust by CoRe Racing's Tommy Østgaard.Twinflow eventually caught and passed Tommy and lead for most of the race, taking victory in dominant fashion.
In the STD class, CoRe's Rick de Jong was able to use the XRG's power to get away well from the line, and kept the lead up until the chequered flag. The most notable battle of the class was between iCON's Keaveney and SRS's Passo. They were battling for third position for a large proportion of the race (interrupted every lap by the faster classes) and ended up crossing the finishing line less than 1/10th of a second away from one another. Keaveney managed to take the final podium slot behind Concept #2's Eisbaer.



The overall winners of the event were Concept Racing#1 whose drivers won two of the three classes. Full results can be found here. Replays of the event can be found here.
With no race-ending shunts, and no controversial incidents, SRS are extremely happy to have called this their birthday event; summing up their attitude to racing, teamwork and friendship. See you next year!


SRS was founded in July 2008 by Tim Beaudet, Eduardo de Souza and Michael Passingham,
Visit www.simracingsociety.com for more SRS-related news and events.

Last edited by Mp3 Astra, Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:28.

The one you've found is more than adequate for LFS, and quite a lot of other games, I'd say.

Blackbird04217, the creator, is still on his giant walk and should be back in late September (find out more at www.simracingsociety.com). While there aren't any plans to bring the server back this year, I wouldn't rule out seeing it again sometime, even if it's only for a couple of weeks of reliving the great memories. The insim application is far from finished with a few bugs that need ironing out; until then it would be impossible to have a totally automated server as it would often require the admins to come along and restart the application.

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Toll charge may be £5.20 according to my team-mates, but hey you get to get out for FREE!!!!

Anyway we have devised a schedule for the day, though this may vary slightly depending on how the day is progressing.

10:00 - 10:30 Arrive at site
10:30 - 11:00 Kitting out and briefing.
11.00 - 11.30 Practice (10 mins each)
11.45 - 12.45 Mini Endurance - 1 hour race (1 x 20 minute stint each)
12.45 - 13.00 Break
13.00 - 16.00 Main Endurance race - 3 hours race (2 x 30 minute stints each)
16.00 - 17.00 Individual Sprint Races (3 x 10 minute heats with a 10 minute final)
17.00 - Whenever - back to Jason's for those staying the evening.

Note : we will be using the practice session at the start to not only familiarise ourselves with the track, but also check the karts out. Each driver will get a chance to see if their kart is either faulty or slow, any problems can be rectified by pulling in to the pits and telling the marshall. They can then take the kart to the mechanic, who will fix it. We have been assured that the karts are all in good order, but you know how these things work, there's always one kart that runs like a pig!!

Well up for it!

Oh, now I have something useful to say; from what I've seen, your skins are probably the best looking of any team in LFS. Although I would like to inspect them closer...

I'm trying to think of a metaphor to describe this union of Mercury and XFusion... But I can't think of one. Love the promo vid though! Good luck.

Call of Duty 4 and 5 are always worth a blast. Although, they have been around for a while so you will get killed a lot when you go online. It'll be a frustrating start.

Well, the two races were certainly very intense. I was caught up in a number of very close battles and definitely changed my driving style. I was much more aggressive than usual but didn't overstep the mark. The nature of the track requires one to be very robust which is exactly what I did; and I managed to get a pair of 12th places. Not stunning, but I had lots of fun in the process.

I think what really helped this event was the invite-only status. All the drivers had respect for each other and I don't think a single person left the event angry due to someone else's bad driving; which is a very rare thing in LFS events.

Quote from AjRose :

Anyone have a replay they can post up?

Quote from J@tko :

Replays

My Quali one is probably fubared. I timed out [thank you Vista] and had one occasion of EPIC lag

Grrrrr

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DfolJEsnZs

Imagine me there going 'holyshitholyshitholyshit'. Because I was. Amazing stuff!

Great fun, missed out on 3rd by less than 0.1

Concept Racing #1 are the winners. Replays up in a bit. Well done to all class winners, CR, CR and CoRe.

Thanks for coming!

I hope I can get some laps in tomorrow; now I know I can actually make it to the the event. Doesn't look like I'll be under much pressure to put in a properly quick lap

But anyway, I like the circuit and I think, as long as I don't find a stupid place on which to flip over, I should be able to score some decent points.

Website says it's currently 'outside' of the season. Off-season? Silly-season?

E: V1racer.com is completely down.

If he shouts 'surprise', there's no problem.

That's like waking up in the morning for me... Try harder next time.Actually, I'd do that in a UF1, no problems.

In other news, what track textures are you using? [Oh, Vegas Las is the video maker; that question is for him]

How the bloody hell did the whole thing get sold-out (not including NGT)?! I guess we'll wait until next year...

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Really? Personally I find it quite awquard to watch.

It makes me giggle :chairfall

Jordan and Coulthard are like chalk and cheese who dislike each other. It makes fabulous telly

Just a small one from me; it would be nice to see time stamps on chat messages (as an option). It would probably be useful for league admins when dealing with chat messages (maybe) and useful for me, because I like time stamps. Probably not a priority.

Yes, I was joking

I race my UF1 with no roof. Am I still allowed to join the server?

It has the inlays you can see in the highlights reel.