Work tomorrow ... thats 00:30 in Stockholm .. so i just hope for som more practise sessions, one more to go

Count me in, need some laps for sure
Dont have a skin yet, but I hope its ok with the team skin!

LFS Username: sjoblom
First and Last Name: Mats Sjoblom
Country Code: SWE
Desired Car Number: 44
Team Affiliation: Independent Racing Mates
Gender: Male

Hotlap uploaded.
Laps ongoing.
Hoping on 2 additional practice sessions.

Last edited by sjoblom, Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:07.

Will there be any more practise sessions?
... discovered this rather late so no idea to apply if no more practise sessions

When will the race start on Sunday ... as last Sunday or?
Maybe an update of the official schedule would be good!

Does "Cancel" mean the redflag position is the final result?

Car #32 (P.W) is lagging heavily ... dangerous to be close to it ...

Quote from DeathItself :

I think it has more to do with people not wanting to get stuck behind a slower driver and be able to run their full pace, but yeah testrace was a mess I got hit from all sides ... I think

Exactly my point, but not the way you interpreted it!
This is 6hr race, NOT a single hotlap.

Only poor racers get stuck behind slower drivers, skilled drivers pass in a clever way without crashing the slower driver!

Or should we just drive off-line recording our 6hr race and upload it to the admins? Sure noone would get stuck then ... but not much of racing either ...
... racing 6hr is more than just hotlapping and getting pissed of if some slower driver is ahead of you

Quote from CrAZySkyPimp :

Yes, cars are supposed to get lined-up after the last turn. I was the one too fast on the buttons today.

Great decision
Was rather ruff racing at the testrace ... hopefully drivers shape up and realize this race is going to last 6hr:s ... so its no victory won after 3 laps ...

Quote from reason0809 :

... the double file up is a bit dangerous there if everybody just brakes in the very last moment for the last turns, you end up in his rear end and same goes for the following drivers, that's why my rear was totally smashed ...

Maybe the line up should be done AFTER the last left U-bend in order to avoid this mass crash we saw today ... no way to get a descent line up in that U-bend imo! The guys in the middle and rear will be suffering hard in the start due to the mess then

IRM is very pleased with our result ... whatever it is finally .. tracker don't match the reality we think

Both me and Cawwa had some good moments out there, but also some moments in doubt when out lapped cars were fighting like crazy in spite of being several laps behind ... not really the behaviour to expect in a league like this.

I also would like to encourage drivers to use the side view more! Both me and Bertil were slammed into the wall on the oval and thrown out on the grass, due to drivers short cutting the racing line. Imo u have no right to just sidebanging cars when passing them ...

Well, that was just some reflections, let's make next event a more clean racing event with less safety cars involved

CU on the grid in some weeks friends

TEST event for practicing new rules in TR

In order to try out the new rules for TR we will start S20 with a TEST-event! If there are any considerations after this race, minor change might be done before the start of S20

New rules are described below.
Major differences is shorter Quali and longer race time. Quali is done without any visit to the garage, only changes allowed should be done in pit square.
Note rules regarding which server You should do your Quali on!

Pls read the new rules below carefully, and make sure you understand the meaning of them!
Admins will be on the servers to answer all the questions :-)
Feel free to place questions in this forum as well!

CU all on the upcoming S20!
Mats Sjöblom, TR-admin


Track: Aston Club (AS2)
Car(s): XFG / XRG
Qval: 15 min (no telepit)
Laps: 52 laps
Vind: None

Pitstop: No mandatory pit. Pitlane open the whole race

WR XFG: 1:21.41
WR XRG: 1:20.77



SCHEDULE
=========
19:00 - 21:00: Warm up
21.00 - 21:15: Qualification
21:30 Race start
Estimated race length 1:10


QUALIFICATION
============
Garage is CLOSED during Q.
- ALL setup changes, tyrechanges and refueling during qualification MUST be made on the pitsquare in the pitlane. You are NOT allowed to go into the garage and change your setup.
- If your car becomes undrivable you MUST go into spectate mode (shift-S) or into garage (shift-P). Your qualification session is then over, you are NOT allowed to rejoin (shift-J) a qualification session.

Violators that rejoin the Q will have to start the race from the garage on server B (if B are in use)

Qualification is held on 2 servers, A and B.
A-server: Aimed for average and more skilled drivers.
B-server: Aimed for average and less skilled drivers.
B-server: Also aimed for drivers never driven TR before and late arrivals that has to midjoin the Q.

Drivers that fail to follow this conduct of honour and misplace themselves on the wrong Q-server might be taken out of the qualification by TR Admins

General Q behaviour.
- ALL drivers MUST check the "minimap" for upcoming drivers driving there hotlap.
- If you are on outlap/inlap you MUST let drivers on hotlap stay on their racing line and let hotlap driver pass in a safe way.
- Its recommended to let faster drivers pass if you have "lost" your hotlap, otherwise normal racing rules applies if both drivers are on a hotlap.

Qualification protest are treated the same way as race protests.

RACE
=====
NO mandatory pit.
You are free to go to pit of your own choice.
Rejoin race are NOT allowed after reset or spectate (shift-R/shift-S).


MISC
====
Changes to come:
Every race event will be posted on the LFS official forum www.lfsforum.net
An official evening training event will be held every week.


Would you like to participate?
Despite TR being a league, you are not required to partake every week. Simply join the races that sound fun to you! Every week a new sticky thread will be created at TR's forum.
Login is required. When warmup session begins the password is sent via PM, after the account signup is closed.

Amongst those who have signed up, we go by first-come, first-served.
For more information and signup, please visit the Torsdagsrejs forum !
Current race thread is named the same as this tread!
You must register yourself on the liveforspeed.se forum in order to be able to sign up for this race!

WELCOME!

teamName: Independent Racing Mates
number: 15
car: FXR
drivers:
Mats Sjöblom (sjoblom) / Sweden
Bertil Holmberg (Cawwa) Sweden
Micke Fyhr (Citywidemicke) / Sweden
Hans Melin (nobreaks11) / Sweden
Ronny Rönning (Znabb) / Sweden

#15 Independent Racing Mates
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1523787#post1523787

Well one of those days at work for IRM
Cawwa disconnected twice early in the race ... and his backup (me) was having dinner then ... so then it was many lost positions for the rest of the race!

LFS were behaving very strange first hr of race ... i couldn't even connect t the main server in spite of my internet connection was doing OK!

Well, I took care of the last 1½ hr stint and since the tracker was down there was no way to know the real position, just had to give way for every blue flag appearing

Tried to do my best with the blueflag and let you through in a decent way, hope there aren't to much complaints on it

Hopefully LFS remote will work better next time and the streaming broadcast will not be full ... see u on the next race

Seems like many drivers has problem with their LFS connection ... might be a problem on the LFS main server .... i experience that i cant list servers very often now!

Quote from Mustangman759 :

official server is up, dont forget to confirm and to post skins.

IRM is still not in the list of confirmed teams, but we have confirmed and posted skin!

@deko
Is it OK to attend Test race with 2 IRM cars. Cawwa is gonna drive, and I feel it would be fun to challenge him on the track

Same skin as earlier rounds:
http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... d=109667&d=1287853415

teamName: Independent Racing Mates
number: 14
car: FXR
drivers:
sjoblom, Mats Sjöblom, Sweden
Cawwa, Bertil Holmberg, Sweden
Citywidemicke, Micke Fyhr, Sweden
nobreaks11, Hans Melin, Sweden
Znabb, Ronny Rönning, Sweden

14 Independent Racing Mates; Bertil Holmberg, Mats Sjöblom, Hans Melin, Ronny Rönning, Micke Fyhr

Last edited by sjoblom, Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:48.

teamName: Independent Racing Mates
number: 14
car: FXR
drivers:
sjoblom, Mats Sjöblom, Sweden
Cawwa, Bertil Holmberg, Sweden
Citywidemicke,Micke Fyhr, Sweden

Same skin as earlier rounds:
http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... d=109667&d=1287853415

Quote from Cawwa :

Omg what a noob mistake we did. A rather good position went to almost last position due to fail driver change. At the top of it we did another stop to swap, but of course forgot to change the pitinstructions. Poor Sjöblom had 100% fuel and double new tires ... not so strange he messed up his buttons and managed to press the pitlimiter and a DT of course ... sigh. The good point was that we had enough fuel to the end ... hehe.

Yepp, those double new tires had really GREAT grip At the end of my stint I had only 55% fuel so the car was quite light then
Well, IRM has to call in the kids in our team to avoid mine and Holmbergs senile behaver ... i will tell our youngster Micke (only 39 yrs old) that it's up to the kids in IRM to protect our honour now!

That speeding in pit was so stupid ... G25 only has 2 wheel buttons and after our pit chaos I pushed the wrong button (=speed limiter off) when i was gonna tell Holmberg that I finally had the car in my command!

hmmm .. wonder if our Team Manager Ronny will sack me and Bertil after this pit spectacle ... Bertil and me might be teamless tomorrow

First FX2 on 9:th place .. and GravT is a real skilled team for sure!
Then its 13:th and 15:th.
Are the restrictions really up2date regarding the FX2 ... ?

Unfortunately my wife came up with a last minute IRL event which prevented me from anticipate in the races on Sunday ... hopefully there will be more of this another weekend
Will tell wife to stick to TV then