Round 4 Driver's Briefings

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All drivers entered to the 2025 E-Challenge are automatically assumed to be attending every round, so a proactive "yes" confirmation is not required this season.

Drivers must provide a "no" if they cannot make a round, or they risk being dropped from the series entry list, and will have to re-enter.

Because we understand that things come up last minute, we give some extra time to tell us the "no" - if you will miss or do miss the round you have until 23:59 UTC on Monday, 24 February 2025 before entry list purge processing takes place.

Race Day passwords should have been sent to all competitors. If you have not recieved it, please ask Jonathon.provost AND dekojester

Use this format:
no/number/username

example:
no/47/michal 1279

Round 2 official results and points posted!

For February and March 2025, the second through sixth rounds of Layout Racing League and the entire 2025 MRc E-Challenge Feature Races are part of the Champion of Layouts classification.

Regulations for this classification are attached.

Standings after each weekend's results are made official are below.

After Weekend 1 (LRL R2 and ECH R1F)

The following penalties have been applied post event by the stewards following reports from the Race Director.

Race - Car NektariosK - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Crossing pit exit blend line (Lap 15 - Pit exit)
Race - Car ZFRL*LG-mies - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 22 - end of lap)
Race - Car VM.J@nuary - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Crossing pit exit blend line (Lap 33 - Pit exit)
Race - Car RG^M@CI3K - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 7 - entry of T1)
Race - Car [SyN] tBug - Back of grid start for the next attended round & 5 championship penalty points - Spectating from on track without permission (1st Offence) (Lap 7 - T1)

Last edited by dekojester, Sat 15 Feb 2025, 20:17.

Quote from jokuhemmomummo6 :

Not sure if you are aware already but just noticed that the trackers columns are...

That is a bug I apparently made when I did some work on the columns for LRL, I will look at it soon.

For those who have not yet put their skin name in their entries:

Please upload your skin to LFS as you would usually, then PM jonathon.provost and dekojester with the name as you have it, and we will add it to your season entry.

All drivers entered to the 2024 E-Challenge are automatically assumed to be attending every round, so a proactive "yes" confirmation is not required this season.

Drivers must provide a "no" if they cannot make a round, or they risk being dropped from the series entry list, and will have to re-enter.

Because we understand that things come up last minute, we give some extra time to tell us the "no" - if you will miss or do miss the round you have until 23:59 UTC on Monday, 10 February 2025 before entry list purge processing takes place.

Race Day passwords should have been sent to all competitors. If you have not recieved it, please ask Jonathon.provost AND dekojester

Use this format:
no/number/username

example:
no/47/michal 1279

Please provide the following in your protest:

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions: Qualifying, Race; Servers: Main
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day)
Car(s) involved
Location of Incident
Brief Description of Incident

Protests are due by 16:00 UTC on Sunday, 9 February 2025

Penalty Log

Qualifying

Race
NektariosK - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Crossing pit exit blend line (Lap 15 - Pit exit)
ZFRL*LG-mies - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 22 - end of lap)
VM.J@nuary - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Crossing pit exit blend line (Lap 33 - Pit exit)
RG^M@CI3K - Drive Through converted to 11 second post-race penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 7 - entry of T1)
[SyN] tBug - Back of grid start for the next attended round & 5 championship penalty points - Spectating from on track without permission (1st Offence) (Lap 7 - T1)

Last edited by dekojester, Sat 15 Feb 2025, 20:17.

Supplemental Regulation for LRL 2025 Rounds 2-6, making those rounds part of the 2025 Champion of Layouts.

Supplemental Regulation for the E-Challenge - E-Challenge Feature Races part of a Champion of Layouts championship.

Round 1 official results and points posted!

Quote from johneysvk :

Session Servers: Main, session - Q
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day) MPR 16:35, 18:10 etc.
Car(s) involved: fasthewei
Location of Incident: sc1 chicane
Brief Description of Incident: deliberately cuts chicane to gain laptime

No Further Action - Protesting Driver does not have standing to protest (not directly involved or impacted by an offence)

Quote from johneysvk :

Session Servers: Main, session - Q
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day) MPR 25:50
Car(s) involved: DriftingAbdalsk
Location of Incident: T7? (right into WE1 infield)
Brief Description of Incident: drives wrong way causing crash

Car DriftingAbdalsk - Series Probation - Causing an avoidable incident, Wrong Way, Unsafe Rejoin (T7? (right into WE1 infield))

Quote from johneysvk :

Session Servers: Main, session - Q
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day) MPR 26:05
Car(s) involved: fasthewei
Location of Incident: T7? (right into WE1 infield)
Brief Description of Incident: sits on track instead of spectating after abovementioned incident, causing a crash.

Car fasthewei - Back of Grid Start Next Attended Round, Series Probation - Causing an avoidable incident (T7? (right into WE1 infield))

Quote from cuni :

Session Servers: Main, session - Q
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day) MPR - Didnt save MPR, but it was in the last 5 min of the session
Car(s) involved: fasthewei
Location of Incident: t6
Brief Description of Incident: deliberately cuts t2-t4 complex, rejoins ahead and keeps going without checking mirrors for t5 and t6, eventually ruining my qualifying lap

Car fasthewei - Laptime Invalidated - Course shortcut (t6)

Quote from Scawen :

A quick bit of Sunday work, I've added the ability for admins to edit anyone's...

Do you ever sleep?

Thanks ! This helps the simple clerical things where we know the intent, since it's there minus a typo or two.

You're the man!

Please file any protests from any of the races today.

Provide the following, or it may be rejected:

Session of Incident (Heat + Run group, or Final)
MPR Time of Incident
Cars Involved (numbers)
Brief Description of the Incident (without editorializing)

You have until 23:59 UTC on 3 February 2025 to lodge a protest.

Date: Sunday 2 February at 20:00 CET / 19:00 UTC
Track: WE1X - Westhill Custom Rallycross

Welcome to Round 5 of the 2024 MRc RX Championship.

The event will start with a 20-minute free practice session. All drivers wishing to take part in the day's rally MUST take a lap during this session to be added to the attendance list. Failure to do so, will result in you being prohibited from taking part in the round. For the avoidance of doubt, one time of your lapcount going from 1 to 2 will add you to the entry list.

Please use the Free Practice to get familiar with your selected car and the layout.

At the end of free practice, once you've taken the chequered flag, please return to the servicing area.

Qualifying heats (1-3) will be run without wind and will be 3 laps.

Heat Race Gridding:
Heat 1 will be a random draw of entered competitors.
Heat 2 will use your Heat 1 RACE time.
Heat 3 will use your COMBINED Heat 1 and Heat 2 RACE times.

Each run in a heat will be gridded so to have not more than 5, nor less than 3 racers. Heats 2 and 3, are gridded slowest to fastest - slower cars run first, faster cars in the last heat runs.

After all three heats are completed, the BEST TWO OF THREE Heat RACE times for a driver will be added. Ordered fastest to slowest, the top 16 advance to the Finals.

Automatic Assignments:
1-5 to A-Final
6-10 to B-Final
11-16 to C-Final

WINNER of C-Final advances to B-Final.
WINNER of B-Final advances to A-Final.

All finals runs will be with random wind and will be 4 laps.

Official Classification:
You are classified based on your highest completed final.

1-6: A-Final
7-11: B-Final
12-16: C-Final

If you are disqualified from a final, you will be placed at the bottom of that final, and still earn points for that position.

If you do not advance to the finals, you are not classified for the championship.

There will be no pitstop/reset available during the race, nor will there be no mid-race join, if a car flips and is stuck on his roof, the car will spectate within 5s, this so others don’t crash into the wreck.

Straight Acceleration Zone:
On race start you are required to stay within the white lines either side of your grid spot. Once you have exited that lane, you can change your line.

TeamSpeak:
We have decided to require TeamSpeak attendance for the rallies, for effective communication. For future seasons, you will be prohibited from attending if you're not in TeamSpeak to at least listen, but for this round, we will give some grace. As always with NDR events, you will need to have the ability to LISTEN, talk is not required. We will create team channels on request - PM me here on LFS forums, or on Discord to get a team channel made.

We use TeamSpeak 3, get the client here if you need it, our server address is teamspeak.newdimensionracing.com

Round 4 results now official.

Something for the "nice to have", not needed urgently, but a way to have an example/tooltip for a field, to give an example of what we want for some fields.

Thanks for the work on it!

Hello racers!

The E-Challenge is back for it's 5th season!

Michal Malek (michal 1279) persists in being the man with the grand plan, and we at NDR are happy to partner with him and Sim Broadcasts to bring you another season of the LFS version of Formula E!

The E-Challenger EVO mod will be used once again, and will still be restricted in races to 301 kW of power, but you'll be at full 350 kW in Qualifying and the Qualifying duels. As with the last season, we are making Race 1 a Sprint race, where energy conservation is not the name of the game, we will see what you can do without having to worry about making your batteries last the length of the run. To further spice things up, the All Wheel Drive (AWD) version of the E-Challenger EVO will be up for grabs in the sprint race, as well as the first part of qualifying. The Feature Race will remain the standard stretch the batteries to go the distance.

It worked so well last year that we are using the live settable Player Handicaps that were added to the sim after the 2023 season to on-the-fly give you the Attack Boost, the same way it's been done before in Formula E. You will have a target zone to drive through to activate Attack Boost, which will give you 4 minutes of full 350 kW power. You'll get one activation in the sprint and two of these activations in the feature race session.

The experimental weather system remains the same, and is unchanged. You will be given a weather forecast ahead of each round, and then wait to see if we're any better at predicting the weather than the real meterologists you listen to for your weather.

All races will be streamed live by our good friends at Sim Broadcasts

Last edited by michal 1279, Mon 27 Jan 2025, 21:19. Reason : typos

To enter the MRc E-Challenge 2025, sign up on the LFS Leagues page giving your requested car number, real name, and team name (if representing a team).

Any number 2-99 is free for selection. Number 1 is reserved for the previous seasons champion, Imran Azhar (BeIleBoy)

NOTE: You can use a pseudonym in place of your real name for privacy reasons. Please make it legitimate sounding, but does not have to directly relate to you if you wish. We will get your LFS Licence Name and nationalty from the League Signup system.

Signups are open NOW, and will close at midgnight UTC prior to race day, and not open again until two hours after event conclusion.

Licence Requirements for Drivers

No NDR Licence Grade limitation.
You will need an S3 LFS License to participate.

View current signups here

Please post any issues you have with the signups here. We will approve each signup, and reach out directly to you if you have an error needing corrected.

Per the regulations, you are required to run a skin with specified elements. This season, we are requiring the following:

• Car number on the nose of the car, oriented to be read facing the car from the front, and on both rear wing end plates, facing the outsides of the car.
  
• First three initials of the driver's surname must be on the endplates of the top of the roll hoop structure
  

The series logo, the NDR logos, and SBTV logos are provided for your convenience. Get SBTV logos and usage guidelines here.

Please upload your skins to LFS, and add the skin name, everything EXCEPT the file extension to your signup. You can also post your skins here, or screenshots of your car with skin here.

Last edited by dekojester, Mon 27 Jan 2025, 20:44.

Attached are the rules for the MRc E-Challenge 2025. Please review them. The NDR Sporting Code is in effect with this series.

Update 7th February 2025 - Rev 4 - Included definitions of E-Challenger EVO AWD, specified sessions each car can be used in and their restrictions, added requirement for skins on both cars to be identical for each driver.
Changes marked in red

Last edited by Jonathon.provost, Fri 7 Feb 2025, 08:16.

Calendar of Events

1. Round 1 - Mexico e-Prix Circuit - LA1X - 9 February 2025
   Sprint Race: 16 Laps | Feature Race: 27 laps
   WEATHER TBD, Low Wind
   
2. Round 2 - Berlin Tempelhof Circuit - LA1X - 23 February 2025
   LAPS TBD
   WEATHER TBD, Low Wind
   
3. Round 3 - Portland International Raceway - LA1X - 9 March 2025
   LAPS TBD
   WEATHER TBD, Low Wind
   
4. Round 4 - Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Circuit - LA1X - 23 March 2025
   LAPS TBD
   WEATHER TBD, Low Wind
   
5. Round 5 - Sao Paulo Street Circuit - LA1X - 6 April 2025
   LAPS TBD
   WEATHER TBD, Low Wind
   

Event Timetable

17:30 UTC Free Practice - 20 minutes
18:00 UTC Qualifying - 10 minutes
18:17 UTC Qualifying Duels - 30 minutes allotted
19:00 UTC Sprint Race
19:45 UTC Feature Race

Every round broadcast live by Sim Broadcasts: https://simbroadcasts.tv

Last edited by dekojester, Wed 12 Feb 2025, 23:03.

Scawen,

Thanks for these changes, I think what you've done now is a great help.

Not sure how the system is storing numbers, but also if you need any help with the code, I might be able to help with some if needed.

Manual open and close of entries is fine for now - it's no different than we've done the lsat few years on our events.

Once I've used it a bit, I'll make some notes, and save them for springtime. Keep up the great work Scawen, I appreciate all you're doing

Points are now updated following Round 3.

Official results available, and rally tracking has been added to the Round 3 sheet.