The trophy goes to Three Jump (Triple 7 Racing) who dominated the league through out the season. Though one error occured, Round 1 Main Race...results, second but still congrats

Thanks to Ace, Triple 7 Racing, Burnoutcrew and to all who participated

Quote from Fordman :

So you are extending the race length so people will have to pit to change tyres, but they may run the risk of not changing tyres if they wish. Is that what you are saying?

Do you really want them to run the risk? What if, there caused an accident because of naff tyres due to not pitting as they "thought" they could do it

No, bad choice of words from me there. What I want is to give a choice for the drivers, lets say there are Mark and Joe compiting in the league. Mark decides to go in aggressive way and makes fast good setup where tyres last for 15 laps (in 20 laps race) so he drivers in his limits and does 1.46.xx laps in race and does a pitstop. But Joe feels that he's not that kind of drivers and he's in his best when he does constant lap times (high 1.47.xx) for a long period and he doesn't do mistakes. He makes his setup that way that he is bit slower and has harder tyres but he doesn't do pitstop. End results might be quite even with different strategies.

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Also, just another thing to throw into this, is it worth keeping it an XFR/UFR league?, I can imagine the turnout for next season for the UFR will be less than this season, heck we only had 2 UFR drivers in this season!!!, the UFR is just not a popular car, not to mention a HECK of a lot slower than the XFR.

Quite true.

Possible league names then :P
XFR Trophy
XRL (XFR Racing League)

Quote from vtx :

Too bad i missed this league, but I really wanna join for the second season. Can I already sign up for it?

Not yet. Signups for season 2 will be opened next week.

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I would hate to see the Mandatory pitstop dropped, as this always adds that little unexpected excitment in to a race.

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I would say that the removal of the mandatory pit is a bad thing, having a pit means its not ALL just about racing, but the pit is there to mix it up a bit, my opinion, keep the pit.

Better explain what I was after there. The reason for the 5 mins addition > 2-3 laps more > riskier to finish the race without doing any stop with the same setup as people used this season. Damn I explained it so much better to Dan earlier, now I don't find the right words but I guess you get the idea. This is based to my experience with XFR, my setups and races. So it would be quite likely that people still do pitstops, but those wouldn't be forced ones.

Quote from kidzer :

Gonna have to miss tomorrow's race, my net connection is having issues, unlikley to be fixed by tomorrow.

Ah sorry to hear that

But I have good news when it comes to 2nd season of this league: it's reality


PROVISIONAL CALENDAR

ROUND 1 | 03/11/05 | 20:00 CET
Aston Club
Sprint: - laps Main: - laps

ROUND 2 | 10/11/05 | 20:00 CET
Kyoto National
Sprint: 5 laps Main: 23 laps

ROUND 3 | 17/11/05 | 20:00 CET
South City Town
Sprint: - laps Main: - laps

ROUND 4 | 24/11/05 | 20:00 CET
Aston National
Sprint: 5 laps Main: 21 laps

ROUND 5 | 01/12/05 | 20:00 CET
Blackwood GP
Sprint: 7 laps Main: 33 laps


POSSIBLE RULE CHANGES

-Main Race lenght is set to 45 minutes (5mins longer)
-No mandatory pitstop in Main Race

>gives more freedom for your race strategy -go slower and don't do a pitstop or vice versa


What you all think? I want to hear your suggestions. Should some track be dumped or replaced to some another one, two or three week break between this season and the next one (first race 27th October or 3rd November), rule changes?

But still one race to go in this season, will 3J continue the domination, who takes the 2nd spot in the championship

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Good races last night, marred by some pretty hefty lag, not sure why.

That was a pity that there was lag but next week's race should be on a good stable server again, still thanks to T7R guys for their server and Ace too for the first two rounds

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How's things looking with this little league, any chance it may develop into something longer-term?

Maybe. The biggest thing that I have no server to use after the next race, if that solves than season 2 is a possibility.

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So...

do you guys think there is still space in the league for me?

Yes there are. Still few free places left.

Thanks Dan for noticing that, I didn't. Like said its not a bad violation since he changed the car to slower one, btw Richard you know that you should try to go faster and not the opposite but it is against the rules. So here's the penalty: to his Sprint Race total time has been added +10 secs and to his Main Race total time +30 secs.

Revised result Updated standings

@AndyB
Yep, it's 7pm UK

@Scoop
Check your pm's

A quick look at the LFS World and it seems that people are doing 1:46.xx-1:50.xx times. Most of them bit under the 1:50 margin like mine.

I'm really worried about my tyres aswell. And like that's not enough, the walls are awfully close there too :scared:

Quote from AndyB :

Hope there's still room for more racers, I'll keep an eye on what's going on.

There are still few places left

Quote from danowat :

Looks like my times are pretty consistant, wonder if thats a good or bad thing...., also, just goes to show you how much faster the XFR is, well over 10kph faster on the top end :banghead:

Dan.

Thats the reason you did so well. You didn't wondered on the sand and wasn't involved in any crashes. You were on your lever all the time . I would say its a good thing.

btw people, you can still take part on this if you want.

I like the idea .

Though I think that best suitable cars for this would be the slower ones like GTi/GT and UF1000. You can't avoid small touches in such a short race and if the cars would be formulas, small touch and the race is over for those who are involved because high speed of the cars. Slower cars are much more forgiving in those situations.

Good race all and congrats to three_jump and -freak-

results are up http://members.surfeu.fi/pikkih/league/

Quote from danowat :

How are you going to announce the server and password for tonight?......

Via email so check your inboxes all if you haven't received any emails, pm me.

Quote from -freak- :

Hey, I signed up, too !

But will this league start with only 8 racers ?

greetings from germany, dom

Not sure, kind a depends on you guys, do you still want to race? At first i thought that no but than again, 8 is better than no league at all.

Only 8 signed up so far . Come on now, still time to sign up

A league where only the true race cars are allowed: XF GTR & UF GTR

-Four rounds, each round consists two races

22/09/05 Kyoto National
29/09/05 Westhill International
06/10/05 Aston National
13/10/05 Blackwood GP rev

-Quali (10mins), sprint race (10mins) and main race (40mins)
-Races on Thursday evenings at 20.00 CEST
-Cars -XF GTR or UF GTR, your choice
-Rules and more info here: http://members.surfeu.fi/pikkih/league/rules.htm

If you want to take part sign up here: http://members.surfeu.fi/pikkih/league/signup.htm

Any questions, ask here