Kyoto 400 Application Period Closes Thursday at 23:59 GMT.
- February 11, 2012 by Cameron Corns

The Inaugural Kyoto 400's participant application period remains open until Thursday, February 16th at 23:59 GMT. All applications submitted after this time will be rejected. The deadline for skin submissions is the following day (17th) at 23:59 GMT and the deadline for receiving the proper license distinction through MPR submission or participation in an Official Practice Session is at the same time also on Friday the 17th.

First organized in GT1 championship with the restrictions of MOE and only with cars: FZR and XRR, 2 pit stops without obligations, 1.30 hours or the equivalent in number of turns.

February 10, 17, 24.. March 3, 9, 16, 23, 30.

The final round of All-wheel-drive Winter Series using the slower car RB4 GT was held at custom racetrack Aston Club Cross. The difficult track didn't gather too many drivers - only 12 drivers took part in qualifying,but just 9 of them actually started. The fastest in qualifying once again was Reno from spdoRacing,who clocked 3:04.06 around this 5.1km long part tarmac,part grass surface track with huge width variety. This bonus point for fastest lap in qualifying practically sealed the AWS RB4 Master title,as noone else could overtake him in standings,since Fade was absent from this race.

Ramon Blauwhoff of spdoRacing Claims IndyCar 250 Glory.
-February 8, 2012 by Cameron Corns

The IndyCar 250 was taken home by Ramon Blauwhoff of the Netherlands and spdoRacing. His number 24 car stormed through the field after being involved in a crash on the 43rd lap of the race and never fell out of the top five again. At the line he defeated the second place vehicle driven by Remco Majoor of Scuderia GP who also hails from the Netherlands by 0.04 seconds.

If there is one thing to start bragging in CL15, it definatly will be the fact that we have the highest perforamance density in the history of the CityLiga. So many strong drivers do CityLiga the honor that it looks very promising for the season.

The international drivers play a big role. Many came and especially many well-known. CL invited for the first time drivers from the international scene, an experiment, that seems to be succesful. But also many prominent German names are on the list, some of them in their premier season.

Finally after over one year of changes in my life i am proud to release PURE RACING! In the time after my last lifesign i thought about my voting concept and i came to the result, that this would be connected with a lot of time and many config changes every week. Time i better use to keep the server free of cheaters, wreckers and other idiots. And after i read the topic on LFSForum about structured racing servers, i came back to the original idea to make a CTRA like server system. This system is not meant as a CTRA copy, its meant as a tribute to the good old times we had on these servers. For the start of the system i will provide 5 Servers:

Second Annual IndyCar 250 Streams Sunday Starting at 16:00 GMT.
-February 2, 2012 by Cameron Corns

Live Coverage of Realistic NASCAR's IndyCar 250 kicks off at 16:00 GMT on Sunday, February 5th with qualifying. The race is slated to take the green flag at 16:45 GMT. This 250 mile race on Kyoto Ring Oval in the FO8 (135 laps) is expected to last a little over an hour and a half after beginning with five pace laps.

LFS Colombia's Copa GTTD starts February 8th. This 6-round championship will have 12 races, 2 per round, one short 15 minute sprint to determine the field for the main 45 minute event. We will be using the UFR and XFR restricted by 20% to intensify the competition in a class we call NGT2. We expect intense wheel-to-wheel action on all races. For more information visit LFSColombia.com.

Aston Grand Prix was the 5th round of 8 of All-wheel-drive Winter Series,but it was the last road course. The 8.8 kilometers long Aston GP track is the longest configuration in LFS,and the pole position was taken by Reno with a laptime of 2:38.87,which is just 0.49 seconds off from the best official laptime. Championship leader Fade took the other front row starting position,losing just 15 hundreths of a second to his teammate.

For the second month of the year, the day switches to Wednesday to avoid other leagues and events on other days in the week.

Following events will come to you:

In the final hours of Monday - how could it differ to past seasons - the action heated up and ignited the fire of CityLiga 15 right away. After 1.253 Grid Qualifying laps, the field of currently 84 competitors spreads over 3 Grids of 27 drivers and a very small wait list. (for detailed information watch the graphic).
The field itself is extremely dense, as the fastest 28 drivers are within 1 second, the following 28 drivers in a further second and hardly anyone is not within 5 seconds of the top drivers.

Realistic NASCAR Gears Up for The Kyoto 400.
-January 28th, 2012 by Cameron Corns

Preparations for the Inaugural Kyoto 400 are well underway for Realistic NASCAR. The new and more in depth Realistic NASCAR Rulebook has been completed and gives competitors a visual explanation of some of the rules that might be confusing to some competitors while also improving greatly on the quality of the text which will allow Realistic NASCAR to operate in a way which it never has before.

Round 4 of All-wheel-drive Winter Series was the second rallycross round - we visited Fern Bay rallycross 2 kilometers long configuration to race with RB4 GT. 15 drivers came for qualifying,7 of them - made a debuth in AWS,unfortunately one of them left the server before the race. Reno took his 3rd pole position with a laptime of 1:10.90,which is just 0.31 seconds behind current world best effort,series debutant Master #21 set 2nd best laptime also within 1 second of WR to take other front row position.

'Fünfzehn' (or in the writings for the standard alphabet 'fuenfzehn') is the German word for the number fifteen (15)In fact, this number has got its sense to introduce into this little article, as the upcoming CityLiga season will be season 15 using Live for Speed S2. League racing since 2004 means a lot of tradition and many many races in the history books. The next 10 races are already scheduled and if you are ready for monday night racing, you can put your fingerprint into this book, as CityLiga officially opened the sign ins for season 15.

CL15 schedule:

In his view back over the past season, the author likes to use numbers, as they reveal things still to be discovered. Why should it be different this time? Additionally to the 'usual' statistics further data in form of the CityLiga elections 2011 and the 'general' poll, dealing with the past CL14, was collected. Well, enough said, we switch to the numbers, who, as we know, don't lie.

We're starting with the results of the CityLiga elections 2011:
Both categories 'driver of the year' and 'improvement of the year' Cali got the most votes. With ca.

Xcite Cali is the Champion of CityLiga 14. After his victory, he answered to some questions about the season, his team and his Live for Speed career:

Congratulations to your championship, Cali! You competed in many seasons and you were always showing a good performance, still you have been seperated from a race win or the championship by atleast one step. What was different this season?
Thank you very much! That's true, I was on the edge, this time however I advanced in general and produced less mistakes. Moreover I changed some specific things. I trained differently, more precisely and I improved my setup creation skills.

LfsTurkish DemoGP League (2012) - Short Summary;

First of all hello to all of you friends. You have started the preparations for the organization of the league as soon as possible so we know to save the long developments. The players will popularize the game more and more fun to make this organization had decided to build the foundations of an environment. Your participation in creating an environment more enjoyable with each passing day, refreshed enthusiasm growing. Organization join you will become more fun.

For round 3 of All-wheel-drive Winter Series we went to tight and twisty streets of South City,where race was held at it's longest configuration - 4 kilometers long City Long. It was the second round using the faster car - FXO GTR. Unfortunately only 8 drivers took this NewYear City Challenge and attended for this race,series leader Reno arrived at server,but never joined. Best of them - the serbian spdoRacing representative Fade,who took pole position with a laptime of 1:29.62,also Kars managed to beat one and a half minute mark with his latest attempt to secure front row start.

STD Championship is a league consisting of 7 rounds of XFG and XRG racing on different tracks - 4 original tracks and 3 open configuration tracks. League was made to hopefully bring some of the best old memories from IXFGC, but adding another car for XRG fans. Everyone can participate in the league as long as they obey the rules. Each round will have a 20 minutes long qualification, after which followed by ~15 minutes long sprint race and ~30 minutes long feature race. The league will provide you with a driver, team and nation standings.

With qualifying featuring the best 32 teams who made it through pre-qualifying, topping the sessions was always going to be challenge. The class split saw 13 GT1s take to the track, My3id Gaming's Tomek Nogiec going quickest 10 minutes into the qualifying hour with a 2:37.87. LowLandLions' best time came at same point, Mattias Wentjärvi unable to improve on his 2nd place time in the remainder of the session, which would be beaten by a couple of teams.

Some teams decided to do single lap runs, others concentrating on completing a stint in the allowed time.

Today, January 1st 2012, Realistic NASCAR Announced the Kyoto 400. This 400 mile oval event on Kyoto Ring Oval with the XR GTR will occur on February 25, 2012. Pole Qualifying Day will occur the previous Saturday (February 18, 2012) and will include qualifying and duel races which will determine the starting line-up of the Kyoto 400.

Applications are now open. Much like New Dimensions Racing does for their Kyoto 250 and Kyoto 500, applicants must register, prove themselves on track prior to Pole Qualifying Day and create an event skin in order to be eligible to participate.

Dear LFS Racers,

We hope you had a good year in 2011. In June we released 0.6B, the best version of LFS so far. Since then we have been continuing to work towards the new tyre model and the S3 upgrade which we plan to release after the physics update.

..and its finale lived up to its expectations. For the last meeting of the season, the competitors visited Westhill to beat the NGTs around the reversed configuration - or better not beating it around that track due to the very own problems of this car class, the tyre wear. The provided black gold by Live for Speed is either to weak to withstand the forces these dwarfs produce or tend to fall victim to the boredom and freeze over.

Round 2 of All-wheel-drive Winter Series was held in fast and winding track of Kyoto Ring GP Long Reversed using the second car of series - RB4 GT. This round was slightly more attended with 16 drivers taking part in qualification,allthough only 15 of them started the race as 3rd place finisher of round 1 - Fuller - left the server before start. Second pole position in row was taken by Reno with an impressive laptime of 2:50.55 which is just 0.67 off the official world record in this 7.4 kilometers long track.

While many may be in the mood for Christmas, we are looking forward to when that is over, as that means we get to compete in the MRT Cup. This OWRL tradition starts right after Christmas and takes us into the new year. We found three open layouts that look exciting to race on. The season starts at Aston Cup, a combination from Club and Cadet, then moves to Fern Bay Cup which gives the Club layout a bit extra lenght and variety. The winner of the cup will be decided at the infield of Kyoto, as Kyoto North is our first 2012 event.

The OWRL started in 2004 as a MRT only league.