I have many priceless memories of LFS. The ones I mention I probably have the replays of, but they were in S1 days - when mrt was very popular and there were a LOT of great racers and races to be found.
1. I remember the first MRT race I won. After leading 3 laps, with my legs shaking from excitement, the 2nd place racer passed me. I stayed on him for the next lap and passed him at the start of the 5th ( last ) lap.
He passed me soon after, and I kept on him. It was Fern Bay gold.
Nearing the last sections of turns, I made a classic racing pass, pusing inside on one turn, backing off a pit, and squeezing down inside the next ( opposite turn) - sensing he would probably push a bit too hard
Banshee56 had joined the server on the last two laps and was cheering me on, and he had been one of the first friends I'd made on LFS, and one of the first people to 'show me the ropes ', so it was a great feeling.
2. MRT on blackwood with Necavo. We raced a two car, 5 lap race where we literally passed each other at least twice on every lap, sometimes more - spent more time running wheel to wheel than one behind the other. I was so pumped up at the end I had to quit the game. Lol. I couldn't imagine anything comparing to it, at least at that moment.
To me, these kinds of moments are what seperates LFS from all other sims. I have no real memories of such real 'racing' with any other sim, and I have hundreds of similar memories from LFS. Don't know if it's the game, or the people it attracts. I suspect a bit of both.