Awaiting final confirmation of Official Results for Round 6

Car #11
3rd driver - B2r Spiky LFS username : spiiiky (Patrik Hlinka)
Skin name LX6_OECRegen2020v3

Awaiting driver confirmation

https://www.lfs.net/forum/472-Layout-Racing-League

I guess you can say LRL series races in Australian/Austrasian friendly times. Our events start around 1515UTC (qualifying)

We're not Australian though.


Also, you've posted in the wrong forum section - General Discussion would be more appropriate (can a mod help move the thread? tq)

Qualifying Results

The baby UFR, better known as UFBR, was a car totally new to the field at Monaco. Having tasted tarmac previously using the UF1, it was tippy-toes for most of the runners following Free Practice. A shock turn of form was seen with Jereloco briefly topping the time sheet early on in the session, only beaten by championship leader Trespasser, who once again set the pace in his Team Rock Racing car. Closest championship Michal was able to put in a clean, unobstructed lap to line up on the 2nd row alongside Born 2 Race's Rayman and Race Green's Mandula, both of whom were on the pace. FFM's Number made a return to the series, lining up 6th ahead of Jamin, a series rookie and fellow B2r driver Twincam. SIDUS Gabor capped off the top 10, with Air Support's Azyer making a return down in 12th, and M@ciek in 15th after a troubled session.



Unofficial Race Results


The second start, after a red flag

A short run down into Turn 1 meant that the start was crucial for all the drivers. The flag dropped, and the field entered the first turn, only for cars to trip over each other and create a 4-car pile up on the exit, resulting in TC Racing's Elmo turning turtle, bringing out the red flag.

The race restarted, this time, cleanly, with the drivers taking it cautiously on the opening sequence of corners.
Mandula got ahead of Rayman after a little arm wrestling, with Number following suit, and Elmo going around the outside at Turn 2, to drop the B2r driver 3 spots in under a sector.



Down into Turn 3, a light tap from Azyer saw Jamin spin around, with the domino effect causing Cooper to stamp on the brakes and spin out himself. Further down the road, PitlaneRacer, who had skillfully made his way up from 18th into 13th, was the first victim to over-enthusiasm, tripping over the walls at Rascasse and ending up turtle on the exit - bringing out the first Safety Car!




The proximity of the field meant only Jamin and MRc's KIG made their way to the pits for the ultra-early stop. The rest of the field, carried around and pitted the next lap. Leader Trespasser and most behind followed him in, except for nearest rival Jereloco, who was on the alternate strategy, hoping to stretch out a lead and pit later on. Meanwhile, further back, Number had made an unsafe pit entry, chopping across Elmo's car, forcing him to brake, earning the FFM driver a Drive Through Penalty. As the drivers emerged from the pit entry, a race-breaking situation between Rayman and Trespasser saw the latter just emerge ahead - crucial for the race at the point in time!



The restart saw Mandula leapfrog his teammate M@ciek into 5th, whilst Gabor got a jump on Elmo down the front straight; which would turn out to be too much of a jump, for he would be penalised for passing before the Start line. Trespasser made short work of Jereloco and was soon stretching out a lead, as we have seen all too often. HR Cooper and ATR's Cabezon made their stops whilst Team GG's Simgintas had a little spin fighting within the pack.



A lag spike by Mandula saw him punt Michal out of 4th, an unfortunate situation for the man in 2nd in the standings. Azyer made a move on KIG for 17th, drawing alongside and past into Turn 1. As the field rounded onto lap 9, it was prime stint groove as the field spread out, but it was not long before the barriers claimed another victim - this time, MRc's Shamz, clobbering the Swimming Pool chicane and ending up against the wall, upside down. Safety Car was out!


Deja vu! Car stranded in the same position as B2r Rayman, a year before!

In the chaos, Azyer suffered the first mechanical retirement of the season, with a burnt out clutch in his UFBR. HR Cooper also rolled his machine just past Rascasse, again showing the precision needed around the principality. The race restarted yet again, with Trespasser leading Rayman and Mandula with Number, who had yet to serve his penalty, ahead of Michal. Jereloco had fallen back into the mid pack,





The field bunched up as the drivers battled for real estate, with Jereloco keen on moving forward after dropping from the lead, into 10th. As the saying goes, "Safety cars bring Safety cars", and this was never more evident, with Number, who was running down the leaders, going upside down at the Swimming Pool after a mistake. Midway through the race and the action continues, with Jereloco fumbling with his controls, causing an innocent Simgintas to spin around and get collected, losing positions; mind you, under Safety Car!



Green flag saw Simgintas making a position up after his incident, passing M@ciek into Turn 1, whilst Air Attack's Ahmetaj made spots into Turn 2. A few spots ahead, Twincam was holding off a aggressive Jereloco, sustaining taps left right and center. Gabor served his Drive Through, which cemented him 16th, in last place, with some catching up to do. Up ahead, Cabezon ran wide out of Swimming Pool, tripping over the nose of Naga, who sent the Argentinian into a spot of ballet at Rascasse.

As the field finally spread out and drivers found a rhythm, battles started to emerge, with the main ones being Mandula, Rayman and Michal for 2nd, and the shambles unfolding in 7th with Jereloco, Ahmetaj and Twincam, who had been given the fist and also a shove aside, dropping him behind both.



With the fuel load burning down, Mandula found his turbo button and scampered away from Rayman and Michal, who were now engaging in war - going side by side into any corner possible, tussling hard and fair for the last spot on the podium, until unfortunate contact occurred at lap 21, sending Rayman into a spin and stranded at Turn 3, following which a t-bone by an unsighted Jereloco sent him on the right direction. Rayman dropped way back into the clutches of his teammate in 5th, with Ahmetaj pulling ahead on pace.



With just 5 laps to go, Simgintas clattered over the kerbs and was another DNF in the race, bringing out a Safety car. The field bunched up for one final go, and Trespasser, who had pulled a huge gap prior to the caution, pulled away from the field as Mandula tried to catch up. Michal ran with him in 3rd, as Twincam gave the big hurry up to Ahmetaj for 4th.





Just as we thought we could get a feisty green flag sprint to the end, a clumsy manouver and mild lag saw Jereloco send Naga skywards, resting against the outside wall, and; you guessed it, bringing out the final Safety Car, concluding the action-packed race under yellows, with Trespasser taking a dominant, yet frustrating win ahead of a triumphant Mandula and Michal, who keeps the championship gap alive heading into the next round. Twincam recovered well to finish 5th, just behind AA's Ahmetaj in a brilliant 4th. Rayman finished 9th after his unlucky tangle, with Gabor driving a clean second half of the race to pick up 10th. Jereloco, who was once leading, ended up last of the finishers on the lead lap after a poor second stint.


We can thank the huge turn out for this eventful and exciting event, and we'll see you for the next round at Fern Bay for the Fern Bay F11 circuit with the RB4!


Official Driver Standings


Full race results and Driver's Championship Standings can be found at https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1955979#post1955979
Join us next time on the 8th of August for Round 7 at F11!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 03:28.

Thank you all for participating in the 2nd running of the Monaco GP!
A fun, yet comical race as always around the streets, we will look into running a car different from UFBR next time - or, better yet, give your feedback on the event!

Was it run well, were the Safety Cars timely, and would the UF1 (ran in Season 1) be a better option moving forward?

Once again, hope you enjoyed the event and see you next time for Round 7!
8 August 2020 RB4

Qualifying is only minutes away - Practice session is now underway at layout Racing League server.

Qualifying is only minutes away - Practice session is now underway at layout Racing League server.

Race day - today, 25th July, Saturday! Just a few hours till we roll at Layout Racing League server. Qualifying begins 1515 UTC!

Quote from Tomislav531 :

Where snow?

Next lfs update

Skin for #11 Regen
Filename LX6_OECRegen2020v2

q: 16:30 UTC, r: 17:00 UTC

able to take first 1.5hr +/- or however the fuel takes me, then split stint

Able to do any car except UFR

Air Attack Multiclass and OW Licence Racing are Free-to-play open servers. TC have their cruise and also Fragmasters host FM GTi, FM Fox and other weekly events, same with MRc.

Buggyra runs their official league monthly GTR league, and there are other serious championships running at the moment like TRR

Layout Racing League (LRL) are having the second season (Season 2020) and are a "less serious (?)" championship - no signups required and an open fun season. Next race up is Monaco https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/94502-Monaco--25th-July-2020

Anyway, there are plenty of stuff to do on LFS, just find what you love! Happy racing.

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Fri 17 Jul 2020, 16:45.

Qualifying

Defending champion Pete from TC Racing took time out of his schedule to partake in this race, and even though he had been out for nearly a year, he showed none of his skill had left him, putting his XRG in 3rd just ahead of SIDUS's Gabor. Trespasser set the pace early on as we were expecting, however, Michal slowly paced himself and soon traded positions with the TRR driver, with both drivers neck and neck in time, with Trespasser just grabbing the pole by the smallest of margins. The Race Green duo of Redbot and Mandula remained inseparable in 5th and 6th ahead of World Class Lion's T.Soini. LCS-R Onur qualified in 11th ahead of Elmo, with PitlaneRacer bringing up the rear.



Race



With two XFG's in front of him, Pete was looking to get a jump onto at least the rear of Trespasser - however, it was evident that the launch of the top 2 were perfect, and the field headed past Turn 1 as they were, with Pete having to duck back behind Michal. Further back, Onur had made a bad jump, and was swamped by the field as they headed into the lap, with the only challenge coming from Michal, who briefly drew alongside Trespasser.



The end of the first lap saw JJD come through the pits for an extremely early stop, with the intentions to leapfrog his rivals, however, a slow out lap, contact with the walls and slow pace saw his intentions nullified.
Meanwhile, Pickard had begun to pick his way past drivers, going clean around the outside of Soini to elevate himself up into 6th, and to set off to chase the Race Green cars ahead. The other Race Green car of Maciek also found an invoice past Soini, with a clean pass entering Sector 3.

At the front, Trespasser set the blistering pace he had showed during practice and qualifying, edging away from 2nd placed Michal as Pete and Gabor set after the MRc driver.



The midfield battle was between Gabor, Mandula and the charging Pickard, all 3 were close together and Gabor swapped positions with Mandula as the pair fought up front.



As the drivers settled into a rhythm, it looked as if it would be a great tussle for the podium, until JJD brought out a Safety Car after flipping off track coming under the final sector bridge. With most drivers past the pit lane entry, no one gained much, with all the drivers peeling right into the pits for their "cheat" stop. To the shock of most, Pete had forgotten to set "damage off", which resulted in a long stop, and would eventually bring us one hell of a battle to the flag!



The restart saw an even getaway by all the drivers, with Pete missing the jump slightly and falling ever so slightly back into the clutches of Maciek behind. The TC-R driver soon set his sights purely on the cars in front, and muscled his way past Mandula and set after pressuring Gabor and Pickard for 4th. The battles kept going, with Pickard and Gabor tussling and the latter blasting past after a run in with the wall by Pickard saw him drop back.



The final lap saw PitlaneRacer turn turtle at Turn 1, however, no Safety Car was called as the field was already half-past. This allowed us a full battle, both for Pickard and Pete, and Mandula with Maciek. It was a close battle from Pete who had now put his car up into 5th after his earlier pit stop debacle - and was now right on the rear of Pickard, who was overheating his rear tires. However, there was no way past and both held station to the flag. Maciek was also stuck behind his team mate, with the passing opportunities exhausted.

At the front however, it was a dominating performance from our current championship leader Trespasser, who extends his advantage over Michal!





Full race results and Driver's Championship Standings can be found at https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1955979#post1955979
Join us next time on the 25th of July for Round 6 at Monaco!

Quote from mbutcher :

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

Very much so, although Trespasser could do with a bit of competition

A reminder that the server is always open and up! Get your tires on the track in practice now!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Fri 10 Jul 2020, 14:33.

One of the favourite circuits and also an historical one makes a return to the LRL calendar for Season 2020 - and it delivered as usual with excellent racing!




Qualifying

Heading into qualifying, it was evident that run-away championship leader Trespasser would be absent from the round - thus, fan favourite Michal from team MRC was expected to make the most of a grid position. However, it was Born2Race's Ayoub who took the challenge, setting the pace right from the start of the session ahead of team mate Twincam. Michal soon found more pace and pole was set to be a straight out dog fight between the two, until Pickard set a fastest lap mid-way through the session - he would miss out on the pole after Ayoub beat him by the finest of margins. Further back, JJD, Race Green's Maciek and TRR's Salminen fought for the spot on the top 5, with the gaps being ultra tight; a good sign for the race!




Race



With a track position key around the track, the drivers were weary for the start - the race kicked off with Ayoub getting jumped by Michal and Pickard off the line, with Michal challenging and getting past to the lead, whilst Pickard ran wide and dropped down the field. JJD got up to 3rd in the chaos, and TC-R's Elmo, after a brilliant start, found himself on the gearbox of Pickard in 6th. Further back, Air Attack's Berdy found himself in a fight with Maciek, going into the tunnel side by side, whilst LFS Team Hungary's Lacko picked off positions after starting last. M.Linde and Salminen got together down into the Sector 2 left hander, dropping back but recovering well.


Ayoub getting past Michal for the lead

Ayoub managed to get past Michal for the lead shortly after and set off to make a gap, whilst the drivers behind were caught in a log jam behind JJD in 3rd; with M.Linde getting past into Turn 1 and bringing a few drivers with him. Meanwhile, Lacko, who was already up to 10th by the 2nd lap, dueled with Zeinberg77, and both misjudged the braking into the Sector 2 left hander, with Lacko coming off worst. Meanwhile, the momentum loss for Zeinberg saw Jereloco and LCS-R's Onur slip past.



As the race stabilised, Pickard, who was now up to 3rd, slowly clawed onto the back of Michal, who had now dropped off the pace of Ayoub. Maciek was now chasing Elmo for 5th, and Twincam and Salminen were locked in a battle for 9th. That was until Twincam made an uncharacteristic error into the penultimate corner down in the tunnel in the same spot as Michal in Season 2019, crashing out and bringing out the Safety Car! This saw the pit-stop sequence filter out, with most of the drivers down from 7th making the split decision to take the cheat stop, with the leaders hussling around the lap to lose little time as possible during their own stop.

To Twincam's luck, he managed to get himself free and continued on, pitting due to damage and dropping one lap down.



The restart saw Ayoub mistime his launch, catching up to the Safety Car too quickly, resulting in Michal getting a storming run down into turn 1, bringing Pickard with him, with the pair tussling it down into turn 2, piling on the pressure until Michal ran wide coming out of the tunnel, losing his lead and giving the positions right back, with Pickard slipping into the lead and covering off Ayoub. Lacko slid past Maciek for 9th in the recovery drive, whilst Elmo had gotten past JJD and up into 4th, only to make a mistake to let him past again.



As the race drew to an end, Elmo capitalised on an error from Salminen to get into 5th, only to succumb to the pressure and spin out exiting the tunnel, letting Linde and Lacko past - only for the latter to outbrake himself, dropping behind the TC-R driver, and setting a battle to the flag, of which the LFS Team Hungary driver would win. Further back, Zeinberg, who had driven a messy race thus far, held off Soini for the better part of the race, whilst Jereloco and Maciek fought for 8th, with the pair swapping paint to the end.



At the front however, it was Pickard who came out on top to claim his first victory in Season 2 of LRL, a well fought victory with the likes of Ayoub and Michal. Behind the top 3, JJD finished in a worthy 4th ahead of Salminen and M.Linde, both of which performed excellent on their debuts. Lacko fought up to 7th from dead last, and Elmo finished in 10th.




Full race results and Driver's Championship Standings can be found at https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1955979#post1955979
Join us next time on the 11th of July for Round 5 at 9397 Erebus!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Fri 10 Jul 2020, 06:51.

Quote from MrJonttu :

I would really like to know how did that happen! :3

https://i.imgur.com/HZro5ue.mp4

Knock yourself out

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Here's a hot lap showcasing the capability of the set - notice how...[snip]

Was looking for an explanation of how the set works, and I've found the most ideal video to explain how to drive it..



Basically he explains everything - it needs a predictive steering style, huge lock, good rear compliance (which the set has) and a new driving style. None of the rear skidding power sliding technique.
And it's true, for GT2c at Aston I nearly made a no-stopper work, until from a spin caused a puncture.

Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but let's see what the new tire physics update brings. Hopefully it reduces the 4 wheel drift/mario kart style the current handling model promotes...

Quote from TermiCompeticion :

"The username is banned"

I had an account (bymotta) and one day turned on the pc, opened lfs and said on all servers "unauthorized connection"
I created another account because I thought it was a problem from the previous account, and now it says "this name is banned" and the account is new, any solution?

Well, going by the fact that "bymotta" has 0km travelled, either you were caught hacking or you were seen using/talking about a cracked version of LFS somewhere in the community. Might be wrong, but I can't find any other reason unless your IP is linked to a previous address that DDoS'ed the LFS master servers, or someone clicked the wrong username to ban.

In any case, email the devs at https://www.lfs.net/mailus if you feel your ban was unjustified and you had done nothing wrong.

Quote from mbutcher :

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1954925#post1954925

Yeah I'm aware they aim for that but I doubt it'll follow through, if it does I'll be damned

Quote from mbutcher :

Yes. Especially considering it's likely this will be released with the new tyre physics.

Juicy. Just like the new lap times...
Although I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be released in two separate stages...