I can't understand what is better for me. I am 15 years old, so i think... i am too young for serious racing in LFS with 20 - 26 old guys.
At moment i am very good at drifting, but in racing i have skils but i am not so stable in angry racing.

I need your opinion, what is better for me. Drifting or Racing for 15 old kid?

I'm too 15 and do racing...where's the problem?

There are plenty of people 16 years and younger who are extremely competitive racers in LFS. Just do whatever you enjoy most.

Problem:
In my age Drifting have more fun than race, because race is much harder in my age by racing with 20 - 26 year old guy (In Latvian Community, i'm the youngest)

Quote from PioneerLv :

I can't understand what is better for me!

Eating broccoli and wearing sensible shoes.

Verry funny...

I'm 15, I've been in Fusion.Racing for a few months now. I love to race - simple as that. You don't need to be a certian age until you can compete with the big guys, you just need to be as good as them.

Im 15, and it dosent matter really, it depends on ur interests. Im karting alot nowdays (Im actually quite good at it XP). In LFS, I can drift, but i prefer racing.

"What is better for 15 years old racer?"

Easy answer, you already said it yourself

I wish someone would of told me that 15 year olds shouldn't race because i was entering the STCC just as i turned 15....

Miss choice 3: Learning in school and play around with girls

bought S1 when i was 11, mostly drifting since then

I started playing LFS when I was 17 in October, 2002, right around when I got my driver's license.

Before that I was racing in a league in Motor City Online.

If racing is too difficult right now, and you feel you want to get better, just practice, and know that it won't happen over night.

Racing, it will get better and you will gain better control of car and yourself even it takes bit more at first it will reward you well at the end.

Age is not really an issue.

Some of the most mature both on track and off track in the forums here I have found to be of a young age. I have countlessly been amazed when I find out someone is of sub-driving age.

Jakg, W.Gooden, C.Modoff (is it C? cant' remember. and where have those guys been anyways...), infiniti, possibly Cropsy, are just a few names that were of a young age when I "met" them on the LFS servers in the last 2.5 years. I think I can add mcintyrej to the list as well now that I see he is 15. Never raced him, but I believe I can recall his posting on the forum to be quite mature.

I also fly online with a 14 year old from California. Another one I was surprised over when I heard him for the first time on Teamspeak. Flew with him for a few years before I found out his true age.

Many of the "kids" here on LFS and on the flight sim servers come out to be more mature than many of the adults.

To answer your question.... Race! Don't get caught up with the immature crowd of the "drifting" community. I put "drifting" in quotes because not all are the Fast and the Furious kiddie drifters. There is a community of well mature drifters out there who are practicing the true art of drifting as a proper motorsport and not the FnF "I'm so 1337" style drifting.

I also tried "Drifting", and tbh racing is far more fun. If you're member of a clan, then, it's fun^2!

racing is fun... but drifting is better... nothing like powersliding around with the kids of LFS


also just to clearifiy 99.9 % of drifters are kids.... i organic style drift ( also known as a vairable style to suit every corner... quite passive and very relaxing imo )

Quote from PioneerLv :

race is much harder in my age by racing with 20 - 26 year old guy (In Latvian Community, i the youngest)

Not true IMO. Age has nothing to do with how good you are in LFS.

They probably have more practice but they arent faster just because they are older.

Driving in real life helps me avoid accidents in LFS.

First played this when i was 15 and raced. 16 and still racing

I'm 15 and I do both, been doing both since I was 13-14. I've gotten pretty quick, I can stay top 4 throughout races if my FPS situation works out good. Age is really a factor when it comes to online games like LFS, it's all about maturity level.
~Bryan~

Wasn't rudi turbo 15?

I started at that age back in 2002.

You're never too young to race. Heck, I started playing GPL when I was 12. I don't really see an issue with a lot of the younger racers here, a lot of them are faster than I am...

Quote from 96 GTS :

You're never too young to race. Heck, I started playing GPL when I was 12. I don't really see an issue with a lot of the younger racers here, a lot of them are faster than I am...

Er... they didn't have computers when you were..... oh, wait a minute, they didn't have computers when I was 12! :bigeyes2:

(well, really they did, they actually did. I remember drawing a smiley face at about a 12x9 resolution. Boy, that was something, really something! Who would have thought, drawing smiley faces at 12x9 would later turn into looking at naked chicks at 1600x1... er, never mind.....)

In the real world, racing gives you skills you'll be able to translate to driving on the street.

Drifting gives you carpark showoff skills and a propensity to extensively "modify" (i.e. stick plastic crap to) the exterior of your car before applying any engine/handling improvements

Both disciplines, in the simracing world, give you the ability to type swear words with one hand and drive with the other.