This is my 3rd attempt at making this thread... hopefully i don't mess up the poll again.

I am planning on starting a Formula XR league soon but so far haven't planned much. I want to know peoples' ideas and preferences to race length, race dates, race frequency, number of races, tracks to be raced and how many people are interested!

I am putting up a poll to see how interested people are in all of the standard race tracks in LFS with a wr of more than 1 minute in the FoX as of now and depending on how popular each track is we can decide on how many to include.

Please vote for all the tracks you would like to see, but if you only want for example, a 5 race series, don't vote for 10 tracks . The poll will close in a week.

Races will be held on the 20 person spdoRacing server which should be up and running tomorrow.

I voted for:

SO Town Course
FE Gold
KY GP Long
WE Int'l
AS Club

Also (and I know it goes against your wr > 1min rule) I'd like to submit a 'write-in' vote for SO Classic because it is a good rythm circuit and would make a great season finale with Town Course beginning the series.

I wanted to put SO classic in there since i have the wr and its probably my fastest track, but i don't think with 20 cars it's long enough really :/. Any accidents in the chicane are a real nightmare with a lot of cars too. If a lot of people agree with you though maybe it will be different.

I chose (if it is ok):

Blackwood GP
South City Long (REV config is cooler imo actually... and good for T1 starts)
South City Town
Fern Bay Gold
Kyoto National
Westhill International
Aston Historic or Aston Grand Prix

I mostly picked tracks better suited for this car. Tracks like AS National are great, but don't have enough turns in it to make it exciting. The ones I chose there are a good combination of speed, turns, and pass opportunities by way of straights or accidents from the challenge it presents . Gold is questionable, but still fun for that car.

Good luck with the league Josh :up:

I voted for:

Blackwood
SO Town
FE Gold
KY National
Westhill
AS Club
AS National

Good luck josh!

What days are best for people? I need to know that too. Does anyone know if there is some sort of calendar or something showing dates of races from most of the leagues run for LFS? Would be useful to avoid too many clashes.

It'd be good to have it on a Saturday evening as it's the best time for most people I think.

I'm gonna go through all the popular leagues and see what days they have events, and then when we have decided what tracks to race in 6 days when the poll ends, i will make a schedule up and people can say how good it is for them.

Remember the OWRL run's on Saturday late afternoons/early evening. I would race after however. Or even look at setting it alternate weeks to this event.

Was just having a small brainwave about racing on the shorter tracks. What do people think about having a couple of sprint races (10 racers in each race for example) with each racer racing in one of the sprint races, and having the sprint races on the short tracks. So on one evening we could have two sprint races on SO Classic followed by a main race with everyone at SO Town. That way people who specialise at the shorter tracks or just prefer them wouldn't get left out.

If there is a really large turnout have 2 heat races with the top 10 from each moving on to the Main Event.

Mondays!!!!

It seems that leagues are always fixated on weekends yet if you run this league on Monday nights there will be hardly any conflicts.

Set the server to the designated track for the week leading up to the race then hold qualifying and the race back to back.

Yeah, I will definately have the server on the next track to be raced that way people can practice together. I'm not sure about heats though because I think it will be hard to find 40 people dedicated to doing a league. With the UKLFS FoX league i think even just with 20 we had the odd person turning up to races not having done any practice on that circuit.

I'd suggest mid-week josh. With a qualification where the drivers have to come within a percentage time. Also maybe a short sprint-race followed by a longer race.

Qualification would be a good idea, like Chris said, with a percentage time.

I was thinking about using percentages for qualification the other day but then say if we use two qualification tracks and you have to submit times for them, you may be slow on them but really quick on others. Unless we said something like you have to be within 104% of the sum of the quickest person's hotlaps to get into the league, and then maybe do a hotlap for each race to make it into the online, pre-race quali for the race... which sorts positions, if you get me.

Dunno if that was hard to follow.

Hmm or maybe we could have two sprint races with half the drivers in each (presuming we have more than 20 sign up) and have 20 from those two heats qualify for the main race which could follow.

I think the figure you suggested of 104% is cutting down the field too much tbh. I think rules and regulations really need to be thought through, then as a league it needs to be advertised around the LFS community professionally and try to attract some of the best racers avaliable.

I filled in the calendar on the Speedo Racing forum with all the league races i could find, and it seems that mondays, tuesdays and thursdays are the most seldom used days. Please if you are interested in joining the league can you post your preferred day and time for the races. eg Mondays 20:00 GMT.

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...advertised around the LFS community professionally...

Sorry don't know any profesional advertising people . I'll have to do.

Yes, you know what I mean.

My preferred date/time would be tuesday evenings at say 8 o'clock. What you have to understand though is people will often have things spring up out of the blue in the week so you will have to devise a system that cater's for this assumption.

Quote from Chris_Kerry :

Yes, you know what I mean.

My preferred date/time would be tuesday evenings at say 8 o'clock. What you have to understand though is people will often have things spring up out of the blue in the week so you will have to devise a system that cater's for this assumption.

What like a reserve list? Can't move the race or something cause 1 person cant make it...

Yeah a reserve list maybe. What I meant was like you can't really implement say a 1 race ban for missing races rule etc etc.

I voted for various tracks, including, Blackwood, Fernbay (Gold/Green), South City (Town), Kyoto (National), Aston (Club and Historic).

I would love to do this league, and to be honest I don't REALLY mind what day of the week. I think if I had to choose I'd say Thursdays, around 7pm (8pm race start). Mondays and Wednesdays would be a bit more inconvenient for me, but I guess I could rearrange around it

It seems my uni social life will be something like this:
Mondays: Pubs!
Tuesdays: Pub Quiz
Wednesdays: Pub/Club (Cheese night, gotta love 80's cheesey music!)
Thursdays: Asian Fight Night (Not my scene!)
Fridays: Nothing to do on a regular basis

So yeah, Thursday or Friday best for me!

I'm interested in participating in this league. Would just like to know where can i singup?

Next time I see tuusita on msn (probably later today) i will ask him if he can make some sort of PHP signup page which shouldn't be a problem for him.