Live for Speed

Grzesiek Zabielski · Mar 2, 2008

I want to show you my first skin for LFS. Its Mazda from Japanese JGTC series as you see. What do u think?

prevs
http://bp2.blogger.com/_I8Sof45BEBc/R8cWrWWcIDI/AAAAAAAAAPo/eG8zRE8wo6U/s1600-h/2.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_I8Sof45BEBc/R8cWsGWcIEI/AAAAAAAAAPw/c1BmOQ1CxIs/s1600-h/3.jpg
http://bp0.blogger.com/_I8Sof45BEBc/R8cWs2WcIFI/AAAAAAAAAP4/XGZja0Rn2DE/s1600-h/5.jpg

skin
http://bp0.blogger.com/_I8Sof45BEBc...oBk2qphjbD8/s1600-h/XRR_REAmemiyabysnejki.jpg

Thilo Falkenberg · Jul 6, 2014

At least one driverchange is required in that race ;-)

April Dillon · Jul 6, 2014

I figured it'd be necessary, but you'd be in trouble if the software didn't support it!

Thilo Falkenberg · Jul 18, 2014

April Dillon said:
I figured it'd be necessary, but you'd be in trouble if the software didn't support it!

I guess we would have known in advance after organising leagues in Live for Speed for 10 years.

By the way: Qualification has started for the event. It runs from 16th July 2014 22:00:00 UTC 'til 24th July 2014 21:59:59 UTC. The qualification time of a team is the average of all team driver's best laptimes. Each driver may at max. do 10 laps, counting from the point where you cross split 1 on a timed lap. The server details can be found on the CityLiga boards. Sign-ups are still possible.

Qualification tracker: http://tracker.ice-wolves.de/event/show/1086

Thilo Falkenberg · Jul 21, 2014

Last one out turns off the light, but who becomes CityLiga 18 champion before? GenR Otto or CoRe Cali? The livestream for the finale will deliver the answer, starting 18:15 UTC.

http://www.simrace.tv/tv-guide.php?extend.1107

Thilo Falkenberg · Sep 8, 2014

Live for Speed now has a motorsport world champion!

http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2014/Van der Mark a Dutch hero in the making

(And an overworked website http://www.lfs.net/ )

Jan Mikuž · Sep 8, 2014

It's unbelievable how long the fan base, community has lasted with this sim and the forums are lively as ever. Shows how great of an impact it had initially, i guess.
No new content or progress in years,many set backs, yet people still stick around and faithfully,passionately follow the slow development process. And even still play it online.
It has quite a cult status.
Doesn't matter if the new S3 content comes in 5 + years, doesn't matter if they only add 1 car and 1 track, I have the impression they'd still sell thousands of copies.

Marco Versele · Sep 8, 2014

Yes indeed, it proves the pioneer's role of this magnificent sim at that time.
The more it still can relatively compete with nowadays sim games regarding immersion for the die hards.
And this for a 3 person's developer's team!
However, it is a pity of the slow progression rate. But I still play it eagerly!

Jan Mikuž · Sep 8, 2014

Haha, it's quite funny to see people i raced 5+ years ago with still being very much active and taking part in the forums over there. It was so much fun, and the racing was intense and fair.
And the multiplayer system is seamless,efficient and very lightweight, which i liked a lot back then when it was my main racing software...Great times.

I have a look in the forums every now and then to check if there's anything new going on.
I gave it another quick go a couple of weeks ago.The graphics is a bit aged and the sound is probably also inferior to anything sim racing related that's available today, but the main ''pillars'' still work and the driving is fun, immersive,exciting....It's still a high quality sim racing software imo.

Thilo Falkenberg · Sep 11, 2014

Dear community,

the summer break is over, the winter term is about to start! Eight race mondays with different combos, among others one that is voted by the drivers, are on the CL19 program. As usual the new season will feature multiple parallel servers, which are looked after by the race admins, so that every participant can compete with similar leveled competitors.

Race calender:
Fr 12.09.- Mi 24.09. GridQualification LX6@FE3r & NGTR@SO4
29.09. Race 1 GQA LX6 @ Fern Bay Gold reversed
06.10. Race 2 GQB UF GTR & XF GTR @ South City Long
20.10. Race 3 RB4 GT @ Blackwood Rallycross West
03.11. Race 4 XF GTI & XR GT @ Kyoto Oval reversed with chicane layout or FXO Turbo & XR GT Turbo @ Kyoto National or GT2 @ Kyoto Grand Prix with Boothy chicane
10.11. Race 5 MRT 5 @ South City Classic reversed
24.11. Race 6 FZ 50 & Raceabout 06 @ Aston Club
08.12. Race 7 Formula V8 @ Westhill International
15.12. Race 8 GT1 @ Aston Grand Prix reversed

It is planned, that the next series of LFS Report will be published!

http://www.cityliga.de/

Thilo Falkenberg · Sep 18, 2014

Announcing the 2014-2015 New Endurance Challenge!

OVERVIEW

After a year's break the New Endurance Challenge returns for another season with plenty of improvements being made since it last ran in July last year. It might not be as new as it once was, but there is more endurance and maybe even a bit more challenge! There are only four races instead of five and they're spread over 3 months, but apart from the last round all races have been significantly increased in length, with the longest race being eight hours long!
Based on the feedback and impressions we got, we simplified some things. On the organisational side, pre-qualifying will be a thing of the past, with entries now being managed through entry and waiting lists as well as race-by-race confirmations instead. The drivers' championship has also been scrapped, which means that only the teams' championship remains. Though clearly the most noticable difference is the lack of a secondary car class, all teams will all be using the same car class in each race.

All teams are welcome to apply for a spot in the series, there is no limit on how many driver may race for a team, but each team must list at least two drivers on it's application with a maximum of four drivers competing in each race.

BALANCE OF PERFORMANCE

Round 1 - GT2
FZR: 19% air restriction
FXR: 21% air restriction
XRR: 23% air restriction

Round 3 - TBO
FXO: 6% air restriction
XRT: 2% air restriction
RB4: n/a

Round 4 - NGT
UFR: 16kg of ballast
XFR: n/a

The FO8 during Round 2 will remain unrestricted.

SERIES SCHEDULE

Round 1: 28.11.2014 - 29.11.2014
6 hours of Fern Bay Black (FE4)*
Cars used: GT2 (FZR, FXR, XRR)

Round 2: 09.01.2015 - 10.11.2015
1000km of Kyoto Ring GP (KY3)*
Cars used: FO8

Round 3: 06.02.2015 - 07.02.2015
8 hours of South City Long (SO4)
Cars used: TBO (FXO, XRT, RB4)

Round 4: 20.03.2015 - 21.03.2015
4 hours of Aston North (AS7)
Cars used: NGT (UFR, XFR)

*Events will be run with a chicane layout

All race distances do include the formation lap.

EVENT TIMETABLE

Friday 18:30 UTC: Qualifying Group 1
Friday 19:00 UTC: Qualifying Group 2
Saturday 16:00 UTC: Round 1 Race Start
Saturday 17:00 UTC: Round 2 Race Start
Saturday 14:00 UTC: Round 3 Race Start
Saturday 18:00 UTC: Round 4 Race Start

The full rulebook, applications and skin kit can be found here in this forum section too. Feel free to sign up! Everyone is welcome!

See you on track!

Link to
-Applications
-Rules
-Skins
-Genuine Racing on Facebook

Thilo Falkenberg · Jan 18, 2015

Dear LFS-Community,
Following a short winter break we are back for the 20th S2 season of Cityliga! A grand-total of 10 events are scheduled for CL20, as always with all kinds of different car and track combinations. It goes without saying that yet again there will be multiple servers running in parallel, all of them looked after by admins, so that every driver finds himself within a group of roughly equally strong opponents.
The biggest change for the first 2015 season is the new Grid-Qualifying system. Instead of a single GQ with the first two combos, there will be four Grid-Qualications with the first, fourth, seventh and tenth combo respectively. You can find more information about the new ruling in the rulebook in the Grid-Qualifying tab.
The dates for the new season are listed below. More information can be found on the race calendar page.

Race Calendar:
Tue 20.01.2015 - Fri 30.01.2015 : Grid-Qualifying 1 : FXO + XRT @ KY2
Mon 02.02.2015 : Round 01 : FXO + XRT @ KY2
Mon 16.02.2015 : Round 02 : GT2 @ AS7
Mon 02.03.2015 : Round 03 : XFG @ SO1
Tue 03.03.2015 - Fri 13.03.2015 : Grid-Qualifying 2 : FO8 @ SO5
Mon 16.03.2015 : Round 04 : FO8 @ SO5
Mon 30.03.2015 : Round 05 : LX4 @ BL1r
Mon 13.04.2015 : Round 06 : FBM @ FE3
Mon 14.04.2015 - Fri 24.04.2015 : Grid-Qualifying 3 : FZ5 + RAC @ WE1r
Mon 27.04.2015 : Round 07 : RAC + FZ5 @ WE1r
Mon 11.05.2015 : Round 08 : NGT @ K32
Mon 25.05.2015 : Round 09 : UF1 @ AS1
Tue 26.05.2015 - Fri 05.06.2015 : Grid-Qualifying 4 : FOX @ FE4r
Mon 08.06.2015 : Round 10 : FOX @ FE4r

You can sign-up to CityLiga via cityliga.de

Cornys · Jun 23, 2015

The new Westhill environment is amazing

Held a few races on it, and everybody enjoyed it.
It's certainly an upgrade over the old content, even if it is only one track.

Thilo Falkenberg · Aug 25, 2015

Finally the sign-ups are open for the Open Endurance Cup. Teams can now apply for the first season.

The season will feature a race at the new Westhill National reversed track and two well known tracks in the world of Live for Speed endurance racing: Kyoto Ring Grand Prix Long and Aston Historic. Before the serious buisness starts, a test race will be held at Aston North reversed, giving everyone a chance to get a clue how the race events will look like.

2 Hours of Aston North reversed (Sun 30 Aug 2015: 16:45UTC qualifying, 18:00UTC race)

4 Hours of Westhill National reversed (Sun 13 Sep 2015: 14:45UTC qualifying, 16:00UTC race)
4 Hours of Kyoto Ring Grand Prix Long (Sun 11 Oct 2015: 14:45UTC qualifying, 16:00UTC race)
6 Hours of Aston Historic (Sun 8 Nov 2015: 13:45UTC qualifying, 15:00UTC race)

Six classes will be offered: The GTRs, the NGTs, the LX6, the RFCs (rest of the LRF class), the LX4 and the TBOs. The teams can choose before the event in what class they want to participate. All classes score points to two classifications: The Open Endurance Cup for Teams and the Open Endurance Cup for Drivers. A formula, as used in the VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring, will ballance the class results, so every participant has a chance to compete for the Cup, no matter what car he drives in.

Further information is available on lfs.net/forum.

Now it is your time to sign-up! Go to LFS.net/leagues and apply for a spot for your team and announce your choice of car/class in the corresponding thread.

carloscasas · Oct 30, 2015

TESTING LFS with Oculus Dk2, OSW and bodyshakers

Thilo Falkenberg · Nov 16, 2015

All great National tournaments return after 4 years and so does the Nation's World League. This is the schedule of the second season:

Round 1* (Sat 21 Nov 2015) LX4 at Blackwood Grand Prix (BL1)
18:00 UTC - 28 laps tourist trophy (p3)
18:50 UTC - 28 laps race (p3)

Round 2 (Sat 19 Dec 2015) Formula XR (FOX) at Westhill National reversed (WE1r)
18:00 UTC - 15 minutes qualifying
18:20 UTC - 51 laps race (p6)

Round 3 (Sat 9 Jan 2016) UF Baby-R (UFR w/45%) at South City Sprint 2 (SO3)
18:00 UTC - 15 minutes qualifying
18:20 UTC - 27 laps race (p3)
19:00 UTC - 27 laps race (p3)

Round 4 (Sat 30 Jan 2016) FZ 50 (FZ5) at Kyoto Ring Oval reversed (KY1r)
18:00 UTC - 15 minutes qualifying
18:20 UTC - 57 laps race (p6)

Round 5 (Sat 6 Feb 2016) TBO** (FXO, RB4 & XRT) at Fern Bay Rallycross (FE5)
18:00 UTC - 15 minutes qualifying
18:20 UTC - 21 laps race (p2)
18:45 UTC - 21 laps race (p2)
19:10 UTC - 21 laps race (p2)

Round 6 (Sat 20 Feb 2016) GTR** (FXR, FZR & XRR) at Aston Grand Touring reversed (AS6r)
18:00 UTC - 15 minutes qualifying
18:20 UTC - 3 hour race (p12)

*race format to be confirmed
** balancing subject to be announced
(pX) point factor, showing how many points are awarded in the race

Link to the forum: www.lfs.net/forum/344-Nations-World-League
Link to skins and skin rules: www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88494-Season-2-Skins
Link to sporting rules: www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88499-Season-2-Sporting-Rules
Link to the sign-ups: drivers - www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88487-Season-2-Drivers-Gathering / nation - www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88493-Season-2-Sign-Ups

Thilo Falkenberg · Nov 29, 2015

Dear Cityliga participants and LFS community,
as the highlight of Cityliga season 21 we are going to do another endurance race. This will be an eight hour race on Fern Bay Black Alternative (FE41) with the GTIs and TBOs open for everyone. It will take place on the 12th December 2015, eight years after the current physics were introduced to LFS. We would like to invite all LFS drivers, teams and generally everyone who's been waiting for another endurance race for some time now. No matter how old, experience or quick you are, you don't even have to have taken part in Cityliga before to be welcome here! All informations and additional threads (skins, qualifying, ...) will be added gradually, so keep this post bookmarked as your main source of informations about the event.

Rules: please read & understand the rules LINK
Track: Fern Bay Black Alternative (FE41x) (Download Layout)
Cars: GTI - XFG + XRG[+30kg] | TBO - FXO[+4%] + XRT + RB4
Qualifying: 4th December 0:00 CET - 10th December 23:59 CET 2015
Race: 12th December 2015 15:00 CET (14:00 UTC)

Registration: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88489
Skins: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/88562

For practice purpose we provide a server:
CityLiga Grid 3
password: city8Hliga

If there are any practice races, they will be anounced here.

Feel free to ask here if something is unclear or unknown to you.

Thilo Falkenberg · Dec 6, 2017

New Dimension Racing was founded ten years ago. This will be celebrated with a racing evening in Live for Speed with the TBO class at Blackwood Historic on Dec 30, 2017 at 18:00 UTC(=GMT).

Hello Race Fans!

New Dimension Racing are pleased to announce a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of New Dimension Racing, the TBO Challenge (TBOC)!

The series was originally created by the IMA team, which former NDR Member (and still NDR Friend) Chris "Wilko868" Wilkinson and company ran in 2009, before Chris brought it as part of New Dimension Racing.

We have decided that a revival event for the TBOC would be a great end cap for 2017, and a perfect way to celebrate 10 years of New Dimension Racing. We will run the event on Saturday, December 30th, with qualifying starting at 18:00 UTC. The event will take place at Blackwood Historic, with the Sprint Race being 16 laps (52.8 km) in distance, and the Feature Race being 26 laps (85.8 km) in distance. Sign ups, rules, etc will be forthcoming in separate threads.

We hope you join us!