At the end of the december,Race Green Events will start the 14th season of it's longest running yearly league - the one where only all wheel driven cars are used and the one where very different track types are used. Last 2 seasons produced repeating champions - in both 2023 and 2024 overall champions scored their 2nd AWS drivers championships,so the league is still in search of it's 12th different series champion. Or 3rd 2-time champion - or maybe even 1st 3-time champion. With increasing number of low power AWD cars in LFS's mods list,we can run more mixed surface rounds without fear of ending up with tyre overheating torture races,so this season half of the rounds will be run as part of Cross Challenge,while the real tyre overheating torture will take place in South City.
Season starts at the end of year in Blackwood,where Blackwood RXGP will be the 1st of 3 Cross Challenge rounds,this season running with the slowest car ever in the particular round - the 103 horsepower Prodigy AWD might sound easy to run,however everyone will be tasked to pull out of the car everything to be fast on mixxed surface track. Once again South City will be ground for highest powered car of the season - this season it is an Adda once again,but a very different car hailing from different era. The 610 horsepower V10 engine of Adda AR-Eight V10 can accelerate the rather heavy car quickly,however the road tyres will force drivers to take care in turns to bring the car home after 28 laps around Town Course.
Both middle rounds of the season will take place in Westhill - first we will return to dusty 600 meter oval,which is once again set to be rounded 100 times in Green 100. The weapon of choice is a car well known from RandomCar - Imprezzive B2,a 345 horsepower 2-door sedan hailing from Japan. Westhill Street Cup has been run for 8 seasons with RB4,this year we decided to give the car a break and bring back car originally designed for rallycross - XF EGTR-RX AWS Spec has been updated once again,losing some power and gaining some battery size,still the range is about half a lap short of race distance,so drivers will have to make some calculations to use energy wisely around the 10 kilometer Westschleifenring.
Last 2 rounds brings the season in final stretch as championships should be decided in these - the only unchanged AWS round will be run as 5th round this year. Winter 200 as always will be run with FXR around Kyoto's Oval for 200 kilometers - cooperation with other drivers is not an option,but a need for good results. Best place to end the winter season is in warm tropical island - Fern Bay will welcome AWS drivers for the last round in it's Rallycross circuit,run with a K-car type Chorus Attendanze XT-Z 4R,which last season produced plenty of excitement despite having just a 660 cubiccentimenter engine with 63 horsepower.
AWS once again will be run on sundays,however an unexpected change in LFS calender forced us to change originally planned start time for rounds 2 to 4 to avoid clash between 2 leagues - these 3 rounds will be started 1 hour earlier than others in their original start time of 18:30 UTC. The season starts at the end of old year and will keep the usual bi-weekly schedule to finish at the first sunday of march. Once again 4 individual awards are awaiting for their new holders and 2 team/nations awards where everyone can help their team or nation for better results - should be motivation for most to take part in AWS 2025!
Full information and signups at AWS forum section: https://www.lfs.net/forum/463