Quote from flyingripper :

aweeeehhhh its dizzy d!!! heheheh south africans ftw!

ahem yeah anyway, im pretty much in the same boat actually. im new to lfs and currently just learning tracks with the fbm....which really involves just chilling on the ctra single seater 1 server and learning whatever track its on. stealing setups is awesome :P and im just in it for the fun right now, dont really want to feel obliged to anything........

which is what i wanted to ask. serious teams, serious racing. 95% of the drivers i see have team tags. is there that much of an obligation if u;re within a team to do whatever they're doing and whatnot? i dont have much time lately, and definitely will have much less in the coming months, but i am interested in the whole team-benefit thing, altho dont want to be committed really.

i currently find stealing setups from other quick drivers works well, so for now im just enjoying the lfs buzz (i usually race rfactor), so im unsure if i really DO want to be in a team.........plus having a team tag in ur name looks lame

edit: ooooo peterules? is this the same peterH that accused me of cheating in the rfc beetle championship??! i race as "thebarber".....sigh, south africans and their lag! actually that brings me to another point. being from this country, the lag isnt all that great, and in lfs i find that being on servers with large grids is highly unstable and i lose connection a number of times. this wouldnt be great at all in a team setting, i am sure :P does this rule us out of endurance races and stuff? :/

Depends which gay ass tag is in your name

Theres no obligation to any team really, if you were a decent driver then you may be required for the odd event, but really if you cant do it or dont want to, theres little anyone can do, trust me ive tried many a time

What teams do want is active members, not people who come and go as they please and might not be seen for weeks on end. We have our fair share of inactive drivers, members who a few years back you'd race with day in day out, all of them go back 4-5 years of LFS and just moved on due to real life commitments, or just move continent (Canada to Dubai). They're like family now, but you'd have to be pretty stupid to ask someone to be part of something if you werent going to see much from them, and they were flakey when it came to LFS. Either that, or you'd have to be one hell of a driver, lets put it that way
Plenty will take you without giving a damn about basic things, those teams start on Monday, close on Tuesday, and on Thursday its back with a new name looking for new drivers for another "new up and coming team"

So will teams make demands of you being available, not likely, but they'll expect to see you frequently, proper (that rules out ~90% of them ) LFS teams want drivers who are commited to racing in LFS, which means no getting bored of LFS and deciding to not tell anyone your latest fad is 'CoD17:Yes were really doing WW2 yet again'.