As some of you might have guessed already, Genuine Racing will not organise a follow-up series to GT1 Challenge. With the rather standardised event format we have these days, we're actually in a position to launch another season of any of our leagues tomorrow if we wanted to. However, we have collectively decided, that we are no longer going to run a series in a sim that has clearly stagnated massively when it comes to developing the key areas of a racing simulation, and has also, for a grand total of almost 6 years, failed to produce regular updates, or updates at all at times. This approach has clearly driven a lot of the top drivers out of LFS into other simulations like rFactor (2), iRacing or Assetto Corsa, and we can't blame them or it either. You go where the people are, where the competition is and the longevity is, if you jump ships too late you're going to be left alone.
For the most part, the drivers who have supported Genuine Racing leagues and events have been a great addition to our series and have mostly been very loyal to us as well. We would like to say "thank you" to all of them for having made all of these championships a huge success. A league can only ever be seen to be as good as the drivers actually competing make it seem! Because of the loyalty that's been shown to us, we actually wouldn't mind continuing, but for the reasons mentioned above we won't until a major content update is released.
To finish off this announcement we would also like to thank cargame.nl, QServerHosting.com and Van Der Mark Transport Rotterdam who have all contributed to put us in a position to run these leagues! And I personally would like to thank all people who have contributed to running Genuine Racing leagues in the last 2.5 years:
• Jack Atkinson
• Stuart Baker
• Mihai Balan
• Ricardo Costa
• Dave de Beer
• Phil Diaz
• Ben Dubray
• Thilo Falkenberg
• Matthias Fieseler
• Chris Ford
• Klaidas Gasiunas
• Robbin Heijerman
• Michael Heuskel
• Krasimir Ivanov
• Joonas Koskinen
• Elvis Libietis
• Francois Maris
• Jonathan Palmer
• Jonathon Provost
• Valtteri Pitkänen
• Joona Rantala
• Sascha Riegler
• Julien Schein
• Jan-Ole Schreiber
• Matt Streeter
• Henri Tanskanen
• Otto Taskinen
• Alen Terzic
• Henk van der Mark
Thank you again to all of you! This will be it for now.