That concludes our coverage of OEC5, thanks for watching along. Congratulations to both class winners and we hope you all enjoyed the coverage. Thanks to Thilo for organising a fantastic championship.

The team are live for the finale: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

Director and lead commentator: Jack Eyre
Co-commentary: Chris 'CSF' Ford
Commentary Liaison: Chris McElroy and Thilo Falkenberg

Enjoy the show!

Quote from przemek21061995 :

The link to the survey shows: 404 Not Found

Thanks. I've added a direct link to the survey instead for now. Will update the link again later.

Original link fixed.

Last edited by mbutcher, Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:00.

Hello racers,

New Dimension Racing are conducting a survey to gauge Live for Speed community interests in 2020. Our aim is that the results of this survey will directly impact the future direction of New Dimension Racing and the activities that it offers to the Live for Speed community.

We expect the survey to take between 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Please consider each question carefully and provide as much information as you can.

This survey closes at 23:59 UTC on Friday 11th September 2020. A summary of anonymous results will be published shortly afterwards.

PRIZE DRAW: We are running a prize draw once submissions close. For your chance to win a £12 LFS voucher (or a £12 cash prize for S3 license holders), check the prize draw box at the end of the survey*.

Take the survey

Thank you for your participation.

Please keep this thread strictly on-topic.
Survey results and results of the prize draw will be posted once all submissions have been processed.

*Prize Draw Terms and Conditions: £12 License upgrade voucher for demo, S1 or S2 license holders. £12 cash prize if winner
 is an S3 license holder. Prize draw will be held when the survey closes at 23:59 UTC on Friday 11th September. An email address is required on the form in order to contact you and arrange your voucher/cash prize. Good luck!

Last edited by mbutcher, Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:24.

Live stream replay for round 31: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qB7w96UvE



Qualifying start @ 6:21: https://youtu.be/q_qB7w96UvE?t=381
Race 1 start @ 33:10: https://youtu.be/q_qB7w96UvE?t=1990
Race 2 start @ 1:02:39: https://youtu.be/q_qB7w96UvE?t=3759

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:17.

Live stream replay for round 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MVYWz9aEo



Qualifying start @ 6:05: https://youtu.be/V3MVYWz9aEo?t=365
Race 1 start @ 30:14: https://youtu.be/V3MVYWz9aEo?t=1814
Race 2 start @ 58:23: https://youtu.be/V3MVYWz9aEo?t=3503

Quote from Excellent15 :

mouse+pedals are superior. would use it irl no doubt. Is it faster than wheel? Yes, but no. I do use it, and i do get pretty damn competitive on it. It all comes down to muscle memory, grind, and how good you can adjust setups/predict car movement.

Do you use mouse and pedals regularly? Damn.

Quote from joaopaulopt :

Just one thing I didn't realize, is providing support to events leagues paid for free?

It is possible that we can do some work for free, however, due to the nature of the service we are providing, we do normally charge for it. We discuss the needs of a project with each client and then create a bespoke contract for them. We are flexible and do not want money to be an obstacle for series organisers. What we ask is that anyone wishing to have their event broadcasted simply get in touch, tell us what they need and we will do our best to accommodate.

Quote from KevinRacer :

So i was trying to do custom onboard cameras on TV director, i did add the line 0.6U=cvw and did the said cvw7 folder, i added the XXX_incar/front/rear.cvw files and put the car name instead of the X's. What i dont get is how am i supposed to do those 3 custom cameras ? The only one that seems to work is the front that gives me the custom camera i set in lfs itself. Am i missing something ?

It's currently only possible to have one onboard angle with LFS TV Director reliably. I'm not entirely sure why, but it is old software that is no longer maintained and there have been several new versions of InSim since then.

Hello Racers,

In April 2020, we announced Sim Broadcasts, a race commentary and broadcasting service for events and series in Live for Speed. We have since enjoyed more than three years of fantastic racing, and in 2023 we completed our 300th broadcast. During the tumultuous year of 2020 we were lucky enough to partner with a number of series organisers to provide coverage of their racing action and are grateful to them for allowing us to develop as a team at the beginning of our own journey. Since then we have been able to take on more and more projects as our technical infrastructure improved and our https://simbroadcasts.tv/about grew. Looking ahead to 2024 we have set ambitious targets and will be broadcasting more regular championship coverage than at any time previously on our channel.

We thought we would take the time to introduce ourselves properly to make the community aware of what it is we are doing and what we have planned for the future. We also hope to make event and series organisers more aware of how they can book broadcasts for their own races. For those of you who are hearing about us for the first time, we are streaming regularly on the Sim Broadcasts Twitch and YouTube Channels and you can keep tabs on the races we are covering on our broadcast calendar.

Our Journey So Far

Over the years, many great series have come and gone, some of which will forever exist only in the memories of the drivers who took part in them. The friendships, rivalries and racing drama, lost to time. Of course, back in the heyday of Live for Speed, race organisers such as New Dimension Racing were organising regular coverage of their series, with voices and drivers, whom some of you may be familiar with nowadays in professional motor racing, series organisation and commentary. In more recent times, large series such as CityLiga, which attracted 3 grids worth of drivers on a fortnightly basis would have their own dedicated livestream, capturing the racing action, saving it so that it may be enjoyed again in future. These broadcasts were only made possible thanks to a dedicated team of people close to the core of each of their respective series. There has never been a team of people dedicated to providing live coverage of the action to more than one series at a time in Live for Speed. As such, a lot of great racing action will never be relived. That ends now.

Sim Broadcasts was formed to make event live streaming available to more series than ever before in Live for Speed so that the action may be enjoyed by more than just the drivers, and savoured after the event. Our dedicated team have been working to improve the quality of Live for Speed broadcasts, providing a familiar, yet customised viewing experience for a plethora of different series. Now with 300+ broadcasts behind us and partnerships with 20+ series organisers, we are able to offer regular coverage of a large variety of different racing action to private and public audiences, promoting series, increasing the participation and exposure of what Live for Speed has to offer. We have also started broadcasting in iRacing recently, but Live for Speed continues to dominate our calendar and the demand for our coverage is stronger than ever.




Our custom broadcast software for Live for Speed is in ongoing development, offering a rich viewing experience without distracting you from the action. Our advanced camera system provides a suite of different onboard, track-side and blimp cameras, capturing the racing action from more angles than ever before. We have a number of different projects in the works to improve not only the race broadcasts, but also systems to compliment the racing action for competitors and series organisers, in the form of live-timing and detailed live analysis of the race. We are always on the lookout for feedback and would love to hear what you think of our broadcasts so far, what you have liked, and what you think could be improved. We are still relatively small compared to other esports broadcasting businesses, but with your help, we are working to continually improve the quality of our service for our audience.



Commentary and Broadcast Services for Event Organisers

If you are organising a racing event, we would love to hear from you, especially if you are considering the idea of sharing the action with the sim racing community. We can cater to any and all racing events in Live for Speed, whether that be a one-off event, a sprint series or a full endurance championship, we would be delighted to work with you. For endurance championships we now offer a highlights package which can provide a summary of a previous round's action for your audience and competitors. During an event we offer expert commentary, custom graphical overlays including a dynamic timing tower, integrated with our advanced camera system as well as a means for drivers and teams to participate in mid and post-race interviews. Your broadcast will be available to watch immediately on Twitch and the following day on our YouTube channel. For a full list of our current services and details on how to request your broadcast, please visit our website. We are also recruiting if you are interested in joining our growing team!


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Last edited by mbutcher, Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:29. Reason : Updating for Dec 2020

Thanks for everyone who came to have an interview, it was a great race to watch and commentate on. Congratulations to the podium finishers.

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon, 3 Aug 2020 20:04.

Round 1 Highlights:



Round 2 Highlights:

This and the remaining races are being broadcast from https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts - You can find last night's stream there. It will be on YouTube later today.

Past broadcasts from the series are available on the Buggyra Racing Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/user/BUGGYRAbrand/videos

Live stream replay for round 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEiKTkGwzso



Qualifying start @ 6:08: https://youtu.be/kEiKTkGwzso?t=368
Race 1 start @ 23:56: https://youtu.be/kEiKTkGwzso?t=1436
Race 2 start @ 51:00: https://youtu.be/kEiKTkGwzso?t=3060

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:54.

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:38.

Live stream replay for round 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9v6lFqI9pY



Qualifying start @ 9:10: https://youtu.be/n9v6lFqI9pY?t=550
Race 1 start @ 32:25: https://youtu.be/n9v6lFqI9pY?t=1945
Race 2 start @ 58:00: https://youtu.be/n9v6lFqI9pY?t=3480

Last edited by mbutcher, Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:19.

Hightlights from round one of OEC5. Sign ups are still open for round 2!

Quote from cargame.nl :

What is EMS1? Electronic MotorSports?

Cannot find anything about it @search engines :s

Only references to paramedics stuff

*AMS1 - Automobilista 1

Shout out to Lucaf, this was a fun layout. Fun racing today folks.

He makes some good points. Niels knows his stuff of course and I do wonder what he could do if he was let loose on the LFS physics.

Those times seem good. I think we will see the benefits of a longer combined pitstop time for the UFR this round. Impressive work, really.

It is impressive isn't it. Bring on round 2 next weekend!

Live stream replay for round 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYsglYd0qkU



Qualifying start @ 4:00: https://youtu.be/tYsglYd0qkU?t=240
Race 1 start @ 25:00: https://youtu.be/tYsglYd0qkU?t=1500
Race 2 start @ 52:22: https://youtu.be/tYsglYd0qkU?t=3142

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:16.

I meant the lighting really. Light bars on pace cars has been suggested somewhere before I'm sure. Pretty sure that was a Degats special.

Quote from borja_s13 :

Looking really good. Awesome work devs, keep it up. I just would like to see how cruise servers, like TC will look on police chases on night

Spoiler - click to reveal

Hope it looks like how ClasK_03 rendered:

That's actually impressive.