Qualifying format will be adapted as follows due to only 21 entries:

Q1 Determines bottom third of those present in qualifying
Q2 Determines middle third of those present in qualifying
Q3 Determines top third of those present in qualifying

Sessions remain 20, 15, and 10 minutes in duration.

Penalties may be issued for seriously impeding another driver's lap.

Qualifying password has been applied to the server. All competitors have been PM'ed, but there's still room for a few more competitors

Registered competitors have been PM'ed for qualifying which will take place Sunday. If you did not receive a PM from me regarding this and you were registered prior to this message please contact me via PM.

Thank you

Quote from Casner :

Is it possible to miss qualifying and still participate in the race?

This depends on the number of entries, but currently the answer appears to be yes. If we have over 30 entries this may change.

I added the following rules clarification to the opening post. It reads as follows:

Quote :

Special Note: Commitment "cones" on pit entry and exit referred to in the rulebook will not actually be cones in this event. Instead the commitment "cones" will be indicated by two yellow chalk lines meeting together at arrow heads. Competitors must treat these as they would the commitment cones as outlined in the rulebook and not drive over them or around them on pit entry or exit. Penalty for this infraction during competition will be the equivalent of a drive through penalty.

Any question(s) regarding the rules (or rulebook) for this event please post them here and I will attempt to answer them as quickly as possible.

Edit: I also added a track map.

Last edited by Cornys, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 02:13.

Free Practice 1 for the Live For Speed Grand Prix will be an hour and a half long starting at 13:00 GMT on Sunday 27 July 2014. Registered competitors only will be permitted to attend this free practice session.

Password and server information will be the same as for qualifying, and will be PM'ed to all registered competitors prior to the day of the event.

The top lap times in this session will receive the best garage stalls for the first qualifying session. Subsequent qualifying session stalls will be determined by the previous session's top times.

Last edited by Cornys, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 01:15.

Scawen, I'm not really technical, but rather practical, so here is a short list of things that are (seemingly to me) very simple (and seemingly practical) that could greatly improve LFS. They probably shouldn't be too high on the priority list, but these things I feel have decent support from more-or-less the whole community:

1. Larger Rallycross and Autocross on track "grids" - why limit the field to 24 or 16 when other tracks do have 32 grid slots. (I mentioned this already to support from you and a few other forum members)

2. Support for spectating/pitting/timing out and continuing race progress. How aggravating is it to do a 24 hour race and see the winner displayed as 24th 200 laps down because he timed out in the 12th hour of the race. Perhaps turning this feature on or off would also be a good idea. Many racers feel that endurance racing is LFS's biggest strong point, and this would only improve that. (PS: the driver who times out would be required to continue for race progress to be saved, so a teammate taking over would not be an option to escape time loss from a time out)

And, one NON-practical point:

Moving forward I feel that dynamic track surface conditions would be the best possible improvement to LFS's racing on all levels. Practice for 1 year and simply replicate on race day (because it will be exactly the same conditions) and you'll dominate. This means that those who haven't been around for over 6 or 7 years will always be behind the curve in speed and practice, and this drives away new comers with discouragement. If the track surface changed with traffic, temperature, weather, ect. it would constantly be a moving target, and this would encourage new comers to compete with the old "guard" of LFS, because they'd be more competitive in comparison.

I still feel that new content would be the best thing for the near future, but looking beyond that I think that from a marketing stand point dynamic track conditions is where the best improvement in profitability and quality of simulation is. Working on appearance is certainly important as well. I'd say go after the one that is easiest to complete, and I'm afraid the answer is appearance.

Last edited by Cornys, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 00:48.

All registered competitors have been added to an official entry list

This link will automatically update as I enter new entries at this URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... 20Prix%20Entry%20List.pdf

Quote from cuprum :

Any skin request?

None, but the [WR] Rulebook does have one section regarding skins that applys to all Worldwide Racing Events. (Title XII, Section I)

Quote :

12.1
In all Worldwide Racing Series Sessions, skins are not permitted to have content that would be judged unsuitable for those under the age of thirteen (“13”) years old.

Quote from edgars2229 :

I'm playing lfs for 8 years and layouts are getting really boring due to small autocross place. I guess it's super easy to make autocross like 3 times bigger, just a big square with asphalt, that we can create much bigger and faster layouts! This will also attract new players!

I like this idea

-Added registration thread link
-Event added to LFS Event Calendar

General Discussion regarding all sessions of the Live For Speed Grand Prix should be posted here

Event Information & Schedule: https://www.lfsforum.net/showt ... php?p=1863095#post1863095
Event Registration: https://www.lfsforum.net/showt ... php?p=1863097#post1863097

I think, if anything, this proves that the Cold War has simply been sleeping, and is far from dead. (But I don't think anybody ever thought differently for too long).

Geopolitics teaches us that Russia will continue to be an agressor (I have nothing against Russian people, no offence to those of you on here who are from Russia). At the same time, like all countries, the United States fears lossing its influence and wealth that it holds so dearly. The American people are more or less ignorent when it comes to finance (as an average), and we (as an average) go bonkers if our cost of living goes up (gasoline, oil, natural gas, electricity, clothing, ect.), but yet we moan if jobs are hard to find and moving over seas to where it is cheaper for companies to opperate. Our own people don't realize that these two tendencies are connected.

Also, I don't think many people realize that higher transportation prices would be one of the best things for our job market. Manufacturing jobs would not move half the world away to save money (because higher transportation costs would off set any manufacturing savings), and as Mexico's economy has improved thanks to NAFTA, so will all of Centeral & South America's if the FTAA goes through (very slowly, and Mexico's can still improve vastly from today's status)

Fact of the matter is that the American people are very greedy. They expect the government to be greedy for them, and it's only a small faction that cares about.. well.. much of anything moral until after the fact. History does show this. Vietnam, Afghanistan (2x), Iraq, Korea, ect. all shows that the US gets into wars for little reason that has little to do with the US other than economic reason.

WWII was the only time that we got involved with a war which we should have, and I personally think that was the United States' greatest moment in history. It's all been down hill from there even as we have esentially "lead the world" from that point.

I'm not at all a fan of Communisim; I'm not a big fan of Capitalism (it's just barely better than Communism), and I'm not real fond of socialism. Where does that leave me? I'm not sure.

I'm not very patriotic, sorry.

Last edited by Cornys, Mon 21 Jul 2014, 01:09.

Entry List

Drivers interested in competing in the Live For Speed Grand Prix need to answer the following promt on this thread AND have submitted a hotlap time on LFS World for BF1 at South City Town Course (SO5) faster than 1:02.501 (prior to race day)

Qualifying Information will be PM'ed here to all accepted competitors on or before 05:00 GMT on 26 July 2014. Race Information will be PM'ed to all qualified competitors prior to 5:00 GMT on 2 August 2014.

Registration will remain open until this timer reads "0 seconds" on July 27th at 18:00 GMT: http://www.timeanddate.com/cou ... stration+Closes&csz=1

Registration Prompt:

* - Indicates a required field. Drivers without a Team Affiliation please indicate this by typing "(none)" in this field.

Last edited by Cornys, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 22:43.

Track Map

The 1st Live For Speed Grand Prix will take place on Saturday 2 August 2014 and begin at 18:30 GMT (countdown to race start).

Registration Thread: https://www.lfsforum.net/showt ... php?p=1863097#post1863097
Server: [WR] LFS Grand Prix
Pre-Qualification Password (open for all interested): speedy

Rulebook: https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... 20Official%20Rulebook.pdf

Further information will be PM'ed to all registered and approved competitors.

Qualifying will be held on 27 July 2014 beginning at 18:30 GMT.

Qualification Format
Q1: 20 minutes in duration. Starting positions 20 and back will be determined in this session.
Q2: Q1 times wiped off the board. Session will be 15 minutes in duration. Starting positions 10-19 will be determined in this session.
Q3: Q2 times wiped off the board. Session will be 10 minutes in duration. The top 10 starting positions will be determined in this session.

Race Format
Car: BF1 (unrestricted)
Track: South City Town Course (SO5)
Race Duration: 83 laps (261.118km) OR 2 hour time limit (Red flag time included)
Tyres: R2 & R3 compounds only (may not mix compounds).
Start: 1 formation lap (uncounted) followed by a standing start.
Restarts: Single file rolling (not double file). Please review [WR] Rulebook Title III, Section IX.
Deviations from typical [WR] Rules: Pitlane will remain open whenever possible under Safety Car. There will not be a free pass rule (Disregard Title III, Section X, Article 1) for this event, but Wave Arounds will still be granted (Title III, Section X, Article 2).

Special Note: Commitment "cones" on pit entry and exit referred to in the rulebook will not actually be cones in this event. Instead the commitment "cones" will be indicated by two yellow chalk lines meeting together at arrow heads. Competitors must treat these as they would the commitment cones as outlined in the rulebook and not drive over them or around them on pit entry or exit. Penalty for this infraction during competition will be the equivalent of a drive through penalty.

Last edited by Cornys, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 02:14. Reason : Fixed qualifying time and date (sorry for any confusion)

http://news.msn.com/world/us-o ... st-russia-on-downed-plane

So, what should the US do about it? I'm always of the opinion that we should just isolate when possible, but I don't see us doing that.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

nope XD

Yup, I was certainly wrong there

Scary crash for Aleshin after getting trapped beneath Montoya's car in the rain. Tire stategy everywhere, and it would be interesting. Bourdais claimed his first win in years in Tornonto race #1.

Bourdais is my pick for race #2 as well. He didn't change over to rain tires, and I think that's the winning strategy.

Is there any way to move the grids of the rallycross tracks up to 32 capacity? (And Autocross). I'm asking this due to a few instances in which track capacity being increased at these places would have been useful. (NDR's AU1 LFSCART round comes to mind)

Not a major thing, but seems on the surface to be a very simple thing?

Thanks a lot for the update, and look forward to hearing more in the future

German Grand Prix: 1959


Crazy

Hamilton will have a lot of ground to make up tomorrow.

Quote from Mustangman759 :

That race was 10x better than last years. And extremely packed! Don't what tk's crew was thinking. Gw for Montoya

TK's strategist was betting on at least one more caution to help him save fuel, but it never came. TK would have been just fine running out front the whole race like he did, because even though he would have needed to pit before lap 176 the others still would have pitted on lap 194 or earlier. All teams would have made the race on 6 stops, and that would have been the end of it.

From TK's side it was a bad choice for their situation. Those guys in the back had the right idea though.

I was impressed by this race Ready for Iowa tonight after officiating some football (soccer) games

Great battle between Vettle and Alonso. Had Vettle not yielded to Alonso in that left right complex twice they both would have wound up in a heap rather than 5th and 6th. Disappointed in Alonso's driving with regard to that, but still a great battle. Vettle displayed great race craft in this battle.

Quote from Mustangman759 :

Pretty fast, until you watch the CART Michigan races lol.
Anyways inbound to Pocono!

Enjoy the race Wish that I lived a few hours closer to the race track, or I'd be there with you

Quote from F1 mainiac :

LOL! Kasper doesn't have a team =) That is why he said ''Error 404: Team not found''

I know, but the same is true for me, so I put "Worldwide Racing"

I really enjoyed watching Pocono qualifying today. You could see the drivers really fighting the cars at speeds around 220-230 MPH. I also liked seeing 2 lap average being the time of record.