May have been suggested before, but I'd love to see proper wheel-to-wheel impacts. What do I mean, you ask? Well, this for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhxlJe_sk4

or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93G243PZLcA

Basically, any wheel-to-wheel contact would result in someone becoming airborne. It might give open wheel racers a little more incentive to be cautious and defensive.

Anyways, just a passing thought.

I can't get the activation email either.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. I've only been around LFS for a little less than a year, but I'm very impressed with its progress and how interactive the developer/player relationship has been.

You guys realize Atom completely edited his original post, right?

It was nothing but spam in its original form.

Results from today's event:



Thanks again to everyone who raced!

Haha, this is pretty cool.

Results from this afternoon's event. One more tommorrow, it might be the last one until Round 1!

It's not so I can accomodate more people, it's so I can accomodate people from different parts of the world.

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Pair of events this weekend? Is that saturday and sunday?

There are no scheduled events for this weekend (www or portal), but there are events anyway?

Yes, and yes. They'll be very casual events, just for fun.

There isn't any way to be 100% sure someone isn't cheating, unfortunately. Unless someone slips up or I come across some kind of incriminating evidence I really won't have any reliable way of knowing. If you have any other ideas on how to accomodate everyone, I'm more than willing to hear them.

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Nice, but what I don't really understand is 'early' and 'late' events. For 'late' event stages will be known already?

You'll have the option to compete in one or the other, not both. They'll be running identical stages. Theoretically it's possible to 'find out' the stages for the late event, but anyone found to be cheating in this manner will be immediately disqualified from the championship. It's the only way I could accomodate people from both sides of the globe as well as make sure a server filling up won't destroy someone's chance at points. The times for both events will be combined to determine a final finishing order. It's not perfect, but the best I could do without shelling out more cash (that I don't have) for a bigger server.

SimRS is proud to announce its inaugural Stage Rally Championship (SRC)! This eight round championship is a first for the Live for Speed community. From the tight streets of South City to the unforgiving dirt of Fern Bay, competitors will see it all before the final flag flies! The action begins June 16th and doesn't stop until September 22nd. Championship events are only open to experienced competitors (those who have competed in atleast two non-championship events). The preliminary schedule is as follows:

• Round 1 - June 16th
  
• Round 2 - June 30th
  
• Round 3 - July 7th
  
• Round 4 - July 28th
  
• Round 5 - August 11th
  
• Round 6 - August 25th
  
• Round 7 - September 8th
  
• Round 8 - September 22nd

Competitors are encouraged to take advantage of the SimRS Portal located here. Portal entries will be given priority status over those who 'show up' the day of the event. The SimRS SRC will feature 'Production' class cars only. On the day of a championship round, competitors will have the option to compete in an 'early' or 'late' event. The 'early' event will begin at 17:00 GMT, while the time of the 'late' event has yet to be determined. Competitors may not take part in both. Each round will feature five different stages which will not be announced prior to the event.

I'm back! I'll be hosting a pair of events this weekend just to get back into the swing of things.

17:00 (GMT) @ [SimRS] Stage Rally

Now that I'm done with the hustle and bustle of school for a few weeks I can really get all the loose ends tied up for the championship!

For as long as rally exists, there will always be stupid spectators. I marshal at a variety of different rallies on the eastern coast of the U.S. and I've just about seen it all. There is only so much we can do to control a crowd, assuming these people were even within eye shot of a marshal. That's why I prefer doing time controls now, I don't have to deal with airheaded/drunken spectators.

If anyone happened to watch the Rally Argentina television footage, there was a scene that clearly showed two spectators crossing a part of a stage... narrowly avoiding one of the WRC cars. This happened at the famous water crossing section where I'd imagine there are tons of well-trained marshals.

In case you missed it the other time I posted it (I forget which thread it was in actually), the tentative championship schedule is as follows:

Round 1 - June 16th
Round 2 - June 30th
Round 3 - July 7th
Round 4 - July 28th
Round 5 - August 11th
Round 6 - August 25th
Round 7 - September 8th
Round 8 - September 22nd

(All Saturdays @ 17:00 GMT/UTC)

Well, I'll be spending the next two weeks in Ireland. I've been working on organizing some stuff for the upcoming championship, but I'll probably have a couple of events prior to get interested drivers 'caught up' on how the events run (I'm not allowing inexperienced drivers into the championship events). I may have a set of events the weekend of the 26th/27th. I go to a lot of real road rallies too during the year, which is why I haven't had many events lately! Just hang tight, hopefully it'll be worth the wait!

If anyone else is interested in organizing events, contact me by email ([email protected]) or on MSN ([email protected]). I'd also like to start doing bi-monthly rallycross events once I get back from overseas!

You'd probably get a better response asking here.

Nope, watch from the car behind. The tire barrier gets smashed and a tire goes flying into the rear of your car.

I'll be visiting Ireland in two weeks... if I fire up LFS while I'm over there does that make me a an Irish LFS driver?

Quote from duke_toaster :

Wrong. I like NASCAR, or I would if it raced at more shorter tracks.

Try reading that again.

Quote from Riders Motion :

If you don't like tarmac, then why did you bought this game? Buy Colin McRae instead

CMR and RBR don't feature rallycross.

Quote from lococost :

Hey, Xeno, stop polling and give us a frigging championship, I'm starting to get bored

Patience, the earliest it'll start is June. I have finals this month and I'll be in Ireland for two weeks of May. Here is the preliminary championship schedule:

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June 16th
June 30th
July 7th
July 28th
August 11th
August 25th
September 8th
September 22nd

Alright, so what happens if people have legitimate concerns and bug reports?