Very nice r4ptor

Great video Teemu

The most anticipated endurance race of Live For Speed was held this weekend. This was the fifth edition of the annual Racing Minds 16 hour race.

It was the first race for the team under the SAVAGE SimSports tag, so it was crucial for us to put in a strong effort and leave our opponents with a good first hand impression. We entered with a XR2 in the GT2 class.

Magnus Björndal drove the qualification session and after an impressive performance he qualified second with a lap time of 3.34.70, with the heavily favored team of LowLandLions being only two tenths faster, taking pole position.

Magnus was also the driver set to start off the race, doing the first two stints. The green flag was waved and the race was on. We got off to a good start and Magnus and LowLandLions quickly pulled out a rather significant gap to the rest of the cars in the class. After a few lap it was clear that we were lacking top-speed compared to the LLL car, due to higher downforce settings. However, Magnus showed no mercy and was glued to the rear of the LowLandLions car and with around 10 minutes left in his first stint, he bravely overtook LowLandLions, putting SAVAGE SimSports in the lead of the GT2 class.

At the two hour mark Rickard Gustafsson took over the car, still leading our class. It was clear that the drivers of LowLandLions were faster than most of our drivers. Late in the third hour LLL showed why they were the favorites to take the win in this race and passed Rickard. But pace isn't everything, you can go a long with consistency. And that came to show when the LLL went off track in T1 and got stuck in the gravel. Rickard passed them and SAVAGE SimSports was back into the lead.

When Ditlev Errebo took over the car, we were almost 50 seconds ahead of LowLandLions. Even though Ditlev put in a solid performance, LLL regained the lead late in the 6th hour. But with LLL only being 8 seconds ahead of us, we still felt quite confident that we could still take the win.

Thomas Lönn was the fourth driver in our car, only doing a single stint. Unfortunately we were unlucky and Thomas suffered from engine-damage and struggled with the car throughout his whole stint, doing whatever he could to keep up, but causing him to lose a substantial amount of time.
When Magnus Björndal got back in the car, we decided to accept the +1 lap penalty for rejoining the race to get our engine-damage fixed. This would obviously put us even further behind, but we really had no choice. Luckily Magnus put in another great performance and decreased the gap significantly, however the chances of taking the win were still looking bleek.

During the late night and early morning stints both Magnus, Ditlev and Rickard put in great efforts trying to regain our lost time. During the 12th hour of the race, Rickard unfortunately slipped and missed the apex of the chicane and hit the opposing wall. This lead to an extra pitstop, again costing us some valuable time. At this point we realized that our chances of winning the race was pretty much non-existent, unless LowLandLions had a disconnect or major damage.

Now it was all about keeping the second place. The Serbian Racing Team, the car behind us, was still far behind, so we felt very comfortable about the situation still. When we crossed the finish line and the checkered flag was waved, we were still placed second, one lap down from LowLandLions and two laps ahead of The Serbian Racing Team.

We are very happy about our performance and result here, we achieved our goal of ending in the top3, so a strong second place was very satisfying. Hopefully we will be able to win next year.

A huge thanks to the organizors from Racing Minds, Tommy Østgaard for the livestream and to Björn Schenke (aka. b0rn) from Team Evo for making our 16H car skin. And of course a big thanks to all the participants.

Last edited by Flame CZE, Thu 18 Sep 2014, 15:42.

Quote from turbofreak :

Manager: Magnus Björndal (Turbofreak)
Vice Manager: Ditlev Errebo (wildstyle)
teamName: SAVAGE SimSports
car: FZR
number: 02
drivers:
- {nicce, Niclas Dahl, Sweden}
- {boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {pigh83, Thomas Lönn, Sweden}
- {turbofreak, Magnus Björndal, Sweden}
- {wildstyle, Ditlev Errebo, Denmark}
- {sjoenne, Lars Justesen, Denmark}

Updated

teamName: SE Racing
car: FZR
number: 2
drivers:
- {Turbofreak, Magnus Björndal, Sweden}
- {Wildstyle, Ditlev Errebo, Denmark}
- {Boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {Pigh83, Thomas Lönn, Sweden}

Last edited by turbofreak, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 20:37.

Skinpack
Saw that our skin was not in their skinpack so i added that one

#2 Ok

#2 SE Racing linup edited
New lineup

teamName: SE Racing
car: FZR
number: 2
drivers:
- {boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {Turbofreak, Magnus Björndal, Sweden}
- {Pigh83, Thomas Lönn, Sweden}
- {Sjoenne, Lars Justesen, Denmark}

Last edited by turbofreak, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 12:59.

Great video Jens

teamName: SE Racing
car: FZR
number: 02
drivers:
- {Boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {Nicce, Niclas Dahl, Sweden}

Here is my 1/8 buggy
Durango DNX408

http://www.magnus-bjorndal.se/IMG013.jpg
http://www.magnus-bjorndal.se/IMG082.jpg

Last edited by turbofreak, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 11:00. Reason : Updated skin

teamName: SE Racing
car: FZR
number: 02
drivers:
- {pigh83, Thomas Lönn, Sweden}
- {boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {Nicce, Niclas Dahl, Sweden}
- {Turbofreak, Magnus Björndal, Sweden}

Last edited by turbofreak, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 20:22.

Grats Imol

Manager: Magnus Björndal (Turbofreak)
Vice Manager: Ditlev Errebo (wildstyle)
teamName: SAVAGE SimSports
car: FZR
number: 02
drivers:
- {nicce, Niclas Dahl, Sweden}
- {boom1, Rickard Gustafsson, Sweden}
- {pigh83, Thomas Lönn, Sweden}
- {turbofreak, Magnus Björndal, Sweden}
- {wildstyle, Ditlev Errebo, Denmark}
- {sjoenne, Lars Justesen, Denmark}

Last edited by turbofreak, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 18:18. Reason : Added drivers and changed teamname

Thanks guys

Grats

Grats guys

LFS Licence Name: Turbofreak
Real Name: Magnus Björndal
Preferred Car Number: 2
Team Name: ineX Racing

Voted

Grats Reno

Name : Magnus Björndal
LFS Username : Turbofreak
Number : 2