All entries added. Entry list may be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... 3/2013%20Entry%20List.pdf

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

Entry Number: 72
Car Selection: XRT
Real Name: Jordan Lavrikov
LFSWorld Name: imudilaskyline
Team Name: Last Lap Motorsports
Nationality: Estonia
Notes:

This entry needs to include driver side before competing.

Last edited by Cornys, Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:56.

Blackwood 200 @ Blackwood GP Reversed (BL1R)
61 laps on a track 3.307 kilometers (2.055 miles) in length.

Qualifying (25 min.) at 15:00 GMT on Sunday, September 1st
Pace lap begins at 15:35 GMT on Sunday, September 1st

Weather: Cloudy Afternoon with Low Winds

Pit Window: LFS Lap numbers 11 - 52 (race laps 10 through 51).

A four tire (tyre) pit stop will be required as in all rounds of the 2013 World TBO Championship Series. Race control will open pit lane inside of the pit window and it will remain open when possible regardless of track condition.

Discussion of this event may be made here . Anything other than race discussion will be removed and may be subject to penalty.

Quote from RandomnessInside :

Yeah sue me for stealing your idea like 4 months ago.

Anyways you're more than welcome to take part in this series!

Plan on it if the times work out Looking forward to it

Quote from JackDaMaster :

http://www.justin.tv/besweeet52

Thanks a lot Jack

Quote from UncleBenny :

On TV its on Fox Sports 2, which I know on Time Warner is part of the "Time Warner Sports" package which most people do not get. I actually have it, but I can't find the HD version of the channel, which is total crap. I assume someone will be streaming it online.

Okay, thanks. Yeah, I don't get it

Until I find a stream I guess I'll listen to this: http://www.bristolmotorspeedway.com/fans/bristollive/

Quote from UncleBenny :

Ridiculous that one of the bigger races of the year is getting preempted by PRESEASON football. Especially considering no one worthwhile will even be in the game by the time the race is starting anyway. I like football...but come on.

I contacted Columbus ABC (since that's the one that I get where I live) and received an e-mail stating that the station was obligated to show the football game, and not the race

In any event, does anybody know where I can find the Modified race tonight on TV/Stream?

http://espnmediazone.com/us/pr ... hannels-in-seven-markets/

ABC stations (7 of them) won't carry the IRWIN Tools Night Race. 6 of them will move it to ESPN, but Columbus, Ohio has moved it to a different local station (the CW) which is a pain in the butt.

I'm going to the race anyways, so it won't matter, but I hate to see network TV stations drop the race. Columbus's dropping of the race period is pretty bad though.

Thanks Rony . I haven't really had time to look around lately. Don't intend to step on anybody's toes

Thread Closed

Being that I was going to try and start an MRT league on Wednesdays before I was referred to this thread by Rony, you can assume that I'm interested

No reason for me to create another league. If the event times are right I'll be there

I was looking at starting a MRT series on Wednesdays around 16:00 GMT OR Saturdays at 14:00 GMT. 30 min events after 15 min of qualifying on tracks like Aston Cadet and Fern Bay Club among other typical and open configuration tracks.

Input is welcome. Looking for fun and hard racing for all.

Comment if interested please

(Never mind, league like this already exisits. Information regarding that league may be found here: https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=82760 )

Last edited by Cornys, Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:39.

Registration for the Blackwood 200 on Sunday, September 1st will remain open until 14:00 GMT the day of the event. No exceptions.

Reminder that a team will score points for their two highest points earners, so be sure to have at least two team cars in each race of he series to contend to the team championship.

I will be away on August 23rd and 24th for the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races in Bristol.

Glad to see Vickers in the Cup Sereis again full time, but Dillon..

Well, in any event . We get to see Ambrose try and make it three in a row at Watkins Glen in the Sprint Cup today starting at 17:14 GMT. As stated before, he's on the pole. (Line-up)

Ambrose was only 17th fast in final practice though, and Edwards topped the charts. http://www.jayski.com/stats/2013/pdfs/22wgi2013prac2.pdf

Owen Kelly who also came over from Australia is making his Sprint Cup debut.. He's been strong in his 2 starts in the Nationwide Series. 2 starts, 2 top 5's (both at Road America)

Last edited by Cornys, Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:05.

Quote :

Dominant (adj.) - occupying or being in a commanding or elevated position.

From there it's open to one's opinion of what that is exactly . By definition, just winning a championship would put a driver in a "commanding" AND "elevated" position. I wouldn't call that alone dominant myself, but, by definition, it actually is.

Last edited by Cornys, Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:40.

Quote from amp88 :

He didn't 'dominate' V8 Supercars in either of his championship years. There's absolutely no doubt he was among the best drivers in the series at the time, but his performances in 2003-2004 shouldn't be described as domination. In 2003 he won 6/13 rounds and won the championship by 186 points (about 9% of his points total). In 2004 he won 11/26 races, finished 2nd in a further 4 and 3rd in a further 5. He won the championship by 238 points (about 11% of his points total). Compare these numbers to the 2002 championship winning performance by Mark Skaife. Skaife won 7/13 rounds and won the championship by 658 points (about 30% of his points total).

I'm not trying to minimise Ambrose's achievements in V8 Supercars at all. He was a great driver who was always at or near the front in good equipment. He also showed on a number of occasions that he was a thinking driver who had a degree of spare mental capacity available for strategy whilst driving as hard as necessary. He didn't 'dominate' V8s in 2003 or 2004 though.

Yes, that's true, but in 4 years of competition he finished 3rd, 1st, 1st, and 3rd in points. That alone says a lot . Especially winning the championship in his 2nd and 3rd seasons

Jimmie Johnson finished 5th, 2nd, 2nd and 5th in his first 4 season in the Sprint Cup with a total of 18 wins in 144 events (12.5%). Sebastian Vettel finished 8th, 2nd, 1st, 1st in his first 4 seasons in Formula One with 21 (11 in year #4) wins in 73 races (~28.75%).

By those standards Ambrose was still very dominant as far as motor sports are concerned.

Last edited by Cornys, Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:22.

As always, as the battle for the lead heats up, ESPN/ABC goes to commercial . There is almost always a lead change during a commercial

Abrose on pole for tomorrow's race as he attempts to win Watkins Glen for the 3rd straight year.. To be fair, he dominated V8 SuperCars, so what could be expected. The series' in my opinion are pretty similar in tallent

After the first return visit to a race track with the Gen-6 car, I must say that the racing has been much better at most venues. The only exceptions that I have noticed so far are Darlington, Charlotte, and Indianapolis (not much worse). All other races have been better I beleive over the Gen-5 COT

Hopefully, the returns to all tracks will be as much improved as the return trip to Pocono. It was a pretty good race last weekend, and the one in the early summer wasn't half as good.

Benny, are you going to Bristol again this year for the night race? We renewed our seats for both races from last year (Allison, E, 21)

One small change! A four tire (tyre) pit stop will be required in every round of the series this year. This will hopefully help the tyre wear experianced by the RB4 and FXO become less of an issue. This also will allow XRT competitors to be more agressive on their set-ups.

Pit windows will be decided upon at a later time, but the first few laps and the last few laps will see a closed pit lane. Race Control will decide when the field is spread out enough to warrent pit road to be opened. The close of the pit window will be announced prior to each race.

We will also leave pit lane open in the event of a safety car so that there is a limited advantage to pitting before or after a full course caution flag.

Reminder: The team championship awards points to the two highest finishing entries from each team! Make sure your team has at least 2 entries in the field each and every week. More can only be to your advantage (unless they cause your team a points penalty through misbehavior, which shouldn't happen in the first place).

Quote from nikopdr :

League racing lacks a lot of rally/rallycross action, and it would be nice and refreshing to get some for a change. Last time I remember something like this happened was SimRS, which suddenly ended somewhere in 2007..

https://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=366

Quote from nikopdr :

Also, drag racing would be quite a neat idea. Altough it would require somewhat 1000+bhp cars and different venues for it to be interesting.

https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=79807 , but not with a boat load of HP or different venues.

Quote from Franky.S :

we should actually use open config for once.

Go for it . I'm game for anything at this point

What is an UFB and a XFB? (I've never really used custom cars)

Well, I'm looking to hold a one off racing event sometime for the community. Looking for what drivers want and what times. Don't really care what car or what track it is or even the distance of the race (under 48 hours please! ). I just want to see an event that hopefully will excite a few members of the community. Not really sure what days I'll be avalible from week to week, but I'll do what I can with times and dates

Why not try something new, different and interesting. Will it be FZR at the Fern Bay Oval? Will it be XFR at Aston Cadet? What will it be? Post what car and track combination you'd like to see (as well as distance) and post if you see one that you like. Post as many as you'd like. I'll take the most mentioned ones and put them into a poll after we get a good number of comments .

If it takes 30 days to get enough variety of track and car combinations... so be it.. we'll wait 30 days to put up a poll

I'm going to leave my suggestions out and let the drivers choose . I like crazy and unique, but you guys have shown over and over again to me that you usually don't (Figure 8, Demolition Derby, Drag Racing, Last Place Elimination, Rally X, ect. events and leagues have all failed in the past when I tried them )

Last edited by Cornys, Mon, 5 Aug 2013 03:13.

In the oval street stock division I was actually able to have quite a few clean races once I got into the top tier of that 'Rookie' Series. (6 month free trial) $0.00 invested in it

In general though, 90% of the drivers were trouble on road and oval races.

I think that many of the people here who organize events would rather keep to themselves. This is the only way they can be certain that the events will go the way that they feel they should. . This is the main reason that centralization fails on here.

The freedom that iRacing lacks is GREAT here on LFS, but we could use a little help that was lost with the SPDO Database . I would like to see us here at LFS have something like this website ( http://racing-reference.info/ ) for our events, but that would be asking a LOT.

Tell me a website like that for LFS wouldn't make you want to be a part of every league race possible.

Last edited by Cornys, Mon, 5 Aug 2013 03:16.

Yeah, at least there actually was something visible on the track there.. unlike often times . Generally there would have been more of them, but because the TV contracts are all secured, they will be less common I think. The Brickyard didn't have a debris caution, and it only had 3 real ones

Don't prove me wrong NASCAR, but I think this issue will slowly disappear. At least the ones where TV can't find any debris will disappear. If there's something on the track, they usually throw the caution

Interesting race so far . Other than Jimmie dominating, but there's some good racing between positions 10 - 20 .

Much better than the Ickyard 400 last week

Quote from Framaris :

Just to be clear on this one, GenR do not want to compete with anyone as league organisation (we only compete on the track as drivers), starting to organize leagues was just our last step to achieve in LFS, also we felt like we could do something different, so we are trying to offer different ways of racing and avoid what you guys are already doing as much as we can. But more importantly we want to keep friendly relationships and we try to compromise as much as we can, that's why we had a join venture with Thilo on the NEC and we are always working closely with Deko from NDR for the planning of our leagues. But of course it is not always possible to compromise with everyone, though if I remember well we've moved one of our races to accommodate you last year!

I didn't mean to single you guys out by any means. What you do is great for the community. It's nice to have another league organization running and putting on high quality events . We all should move and accomodate one another. I changed my plans in order to avoid you guys this year . I want you guys just have full grids just the same as I want to. I think all league admins feel that same way, and it makes it nice around here

Quote from Eclipsed :

Seeing so many LFS league experts hanging around in this thread,would like to see some opinions what went wrong with Grand Turismo Allrounder Series (link still in my sig),where average attendance is just over 6 per round. It's kinda filling some gap - GTR sprint racing,is this gap there for a reason?

I try to organize more simple events and not top-seriousness leagues,trying to find something different and not overused,even not targeting full grids (would be happy though),but lately everything turns into host team inner battle or "beat-the-Niki" show. Wondering if this has something to do with the "current state of LFS" or I'm doing something wrong? I have a plan to launch new and also very simple league,where would be used in forum poll voted single car for all rounds,not sure if it's worth to bother,don't want to end up with a triel (not sure if it's an actual word,ment is like duel but with 3) with teammates again.

Honestly, Rony, I don't really see where you went wrong either .