I'd just like to add, many thanks to Sonicrealms for helping us out with setups all the way through the last few weeks

Unfortunately Passo, if you get stuck in the gravel I ain't helping you out!

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Boothy? Useful? Kind? Did you bribe him with more Aldi products for his PC or something?

I heard they do cheap wine, or would that be too classy for you?!

Jager ftw.

nice race overwiev

jagger :drink:

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Jager ftw.

Chris knows the score. Maybe next year we ditch the blue for orange and go racing Jager-style!

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Chris knows the score. Maybe next year we ditch the blue for orange and go racing Jager-style!

Tim isn't a fan of any colours other than cyan. And since he created SRS initially, I doubt he would be amused with a change to orange.

Overthrow, perhaps?

I think we'll be safer with the blue, although using the team's full name might be more appropriate in future:

The ex-Storm Racing Sim Racing Society supported by Sonicrealms Racing, or SRSRSSR for short.

And dont forget the Race Server!

SRSRSSRRS

No no that would be:

SRSSRSRSRSRS

I'm starting to resent the alphabet...

or just put it down plain and simple: RSR

Wouldn't that require a "DB" as well?

Here at SRS, we're no strangers to the unusual: we pioneered the Head-to-Head Racing series, as well as the popular Dash 4 Cash system. This isn't your average racing. SRS's official birthday is 28th July 2008, so we are running an (initially invitation only) event with three different car classes on track at once 10 days prior: July 18th.
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SRS was founded in July 2008 by Tim Beaudet, Eduardo de Souza and Michael Passingham,
Visit www.simracingsociety.com for more SRS-related news and events.

On Saturday July 18th, Sim Racing Society held an invite-only, multi-class, 1 hour event at Aston Club Reversed to celebrate their first birthday; which officially falls on July 28th. The classes involved were the LRFs (FZ5, LX6, RAC), the TBOs (FXO, XRT, RB4) and the STDs (XFG, XRG). Eight teams took part, with each team having one car in each of the classes. A mad concept, it was shown to be a viable and exciting way of running a race in Live for Speed.



The teams who took part in the event included Sim Racing Society (running special birthday skins), CoRe Racing, two Concept Racing teams, iCON Racing (with guest driver [SR]Pete, after Sonicrealms got their timezones mixed up), StarLite Racing (with guest driver wilko868), and the Race Sim Radicals (the only team to run the LX6 in the LRF class).



Each class was given 7 minutes of the qualifying session in which to post their times. CoRe Racing's R.Osza took the pole position in the LRF class. The TBO class was headed by Concept Racing #1's Twinflow. STD's pole-sitter was CoRe Racing's Rick de Jong. As the lights went green for the 1 hour race, the race was expected by many people to be somewhat chaotic. They were all happily proven wrong. CoRe Racing's R. Osza and Concept #1's Troy battled it out for the lead in the LRF class, with a number of exciting momens when lapping the slower classes. In a twist of fate in the dying moments of the race, R. Osza was held up by his team-mate and STD class leader, Rick de Jong. This took place at the quick chicane; extremely unlucky for both drivers. As a result, Troy was able to make a huge amount of progress up to the rear of Osza's car and the lead was not decided until the final corners of the final lap. In an unbelievable piece of driving, Osza had to take to the grass at over 100mph when trying to overtake Troy and pass STD's 3rd and 4th drivers, Joe Keaveney for iCON and Passo for SRS. In the end, it was Troy who took the victory in class by less than a second, much to the annoyance of Osza, who had lead the majority of the race. The only retirement of the race was SRS's de Souza, whose power was cut with less than 20 minutes to go, effectively taking away 1/3 of SRS's potential points haul, sitting in 4th position. The incredible passing maneuvre performed by Osza can be found on youtube.



In the TBO class, the FXOs (with 3% restriction) naturally made poor starts and Concept Racing's Twinflow was left in the dust by CoRe Racing's Tommy Østgaard.Twinflow eventually caught and passed Tommy and lead for most of the race, taking victory in dominant fashion.
In the STD class, CoRe's Rick de Jong was able to use the XRG's power to get away well from the line, and kept the lead up until the chequered flag. The most notable battle of the class was between iCON's Keaveney and SRS's Passo. They were battling for third position for a large proportion of the race (interrupted every lap by the faster classes) and ended up crossing the finishing line less than 1/10th of a second away from one another. Keaveney managed to take the final podium slot behind Concept #2's Eisbaer.



The overall winners of the event were Concept Racing#1 whose drivers won two of the three classes. Full results can be found here. Replays of the event can be found here.
With no race-ending shunts, and no controversial incidents, SRS are extremely happy to have called this their birthday event; summing up their attitude to racing, teamwork and friendship. See you next year!


SRS was founded in July 2008 by Tim Beaudet, Eduardo de Souza and Michael Passingham,
Visit www.simracingsociety.com for more SRS-related news and events.

Nice write up, was good fun and mixed classes was a blast.

Great story, but not "Ozsa", it's "Osza"

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Great story, but not "Ozsa", it's "Osza"

Noooo! I double checked and still got it wrong

Nice write up.

As the sun rose on July 25th 2009, nobody knew that it would be SRS's most successful day of racing in their 363 days. Contrary to our name, Sim Racing Society, it was actually in real-life racing where we triumphed. Real-life is, arguably, more important than Sim Racing. But don't tell anyone!



Scott MacDonald, James Barrington and Michael Passingham were there to represent SRS at the LFS UK Kart Meet, held at G-Force Karting, South Wales. There would be ten teams, each made up of three drivers, parcitipating in two races; a 1 hour mini-enduro and a 3 hour full-enduro. In the mini-enduro, Passo started the race and was able to reach a high-point of 2nd in the standings, having started 8th. Mackie drove second, and kept us on the podium in a consistent drive. CountBazley was to drive the final stint, and to the shock of everyone at the meet, brought the kart home in 3rd position, netting SRS their first ever endurance podium position.



In the full-enduro, Passo once again started the race. This time, he started from 3rd on the grid and managed to take the lead in a dramatic first stint; the most notable part of which involved a multi-car pile-up at the top of the circuit, which ended in a violent collision, breaking 2nd place driver's, Becky Rose, left-front wheel. Escaping the drama, Passo was able to pull out a lap lead over the field after his first stint and ended the stint with his number plate in his hands, waving it dramatically at the timekeepers. The race began to settle for the next hour, with a final surprise greeting the drivers in the final three stints; we had a different kart to drive! While we cannot admit that the kart we originally drove was much better than all the other karts, we will freely admit that our new kart was a "pile o' crap". Despite this drama, SRS managed to bring home the bacon in 2nd position; another SRS record smashed!


After the drama and physical strain of racing, it was time to head back to the host's (jasonmatthews) house and "recover" from the tiring day's racing. Obviously, the use of alcohol for this task was required.
On a serious note, on behalf of SRS, I would like to thank all of the organisers of this event and everyone who turned up for a fantastic day's racing!



If you're interested, you can watch a video of the weekend, made by Passo.



SRS was founded in July 2008 by Tim Beaudet, Eduardo de Souza and Michael Passingham.
Visit www.simracingsociety.com for more SRS-related news and events.

Nice write up and video.

Nice write-up once again, keep it up!

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After the drama and physical strain of racing, it was time to head back to the host's (jasonmatthews) house and "recover" from the tiring day's racing. Obviously, the use of alcohol for this task was required.

And who fell asleep on the couch?

Whats more uncanny is that I'm becoming more and more like Earl Hickery when having my photo taken

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Whats more uncanny is that I'm becoming more and more like Earl Hickery when having my photo taken

Oh WOW! Someone please draw on Earl Hickey's moustache! You could make some serious cash out of being his lookalike. Just grow some more head hair.

Well everyone, I am back! Woo!

Thanks for all the luck and support. I was able to get online a few times here and there through-out my adventure. And what an adventure it was. I will try posting up some sort of story here when I get a chance, and yes I realize I have been here for two-weeks as it is without this post and my story but I will write something up.

Currently I need to watch Michael's real life video of the karting event... Had some great laughs already from the first 10 seconds, and I am writing this post while it (hopefully) downloads itself a solid buffer so I can watch the rest without interuption... Yea, right.