LFS on Belgrade International Motor Show

[Misko]

http://www.sajam.co.yu/sajam_eng/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=692&sajam=salon_automobila

Belgrade International Motor Show opened yesterday and will run for next 10 days. AutoPlus, TV Channel where we have live LFS races every Sunday for past 3 months, have set up their studio in Hall 1, broadcasting live from there many times during the day, and on their stand we set up 3 PCs with LFS competition for visitors and AutoPlus prominent guests. Blackwood GP, XF GTI, few mins practice and 3 laps race with RACE_S setup and best race times can bring fastest visitors some nice prizes from sponsors. 3rd PC gathers the results, writes tables etc, everything's been going well, and even if the stand is a bit away from the main crowd we still got quite a lot of people try out that LFS they saw on TV, and explained to a lot of noobs whats this all about and how to drive, and where to get it. :)

Some piccies from our stand (maybe the oldest guy to try LFS?) :)
http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~maki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image001.jpg (http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/%7Emaki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image001.jpg)
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Quite a bit of sim racing is present throughout the show this year. Logitech brought 3 G25s with Playseats, 2 of them on Playstation 3 with some F1 arcade game, and 3rd is a PC where they tried to run GTR2. Funniest thing is that they got so much trouble with GTR2 they called us and asked to install LFS instead, and so we did and also properly set up G25 with shifter and everything, even with our sponsored skins and track ads (Logitech is one of them so I guess its ok). :D So there we go, people can try LFS (demo) in 2 places in the show, and with a great wheel too.

Chevrolet brought WTCC race car of Rob Huff, equipped with BRD FF wheel and pedals integrated in the car, where you can sit inside and drive two laps of Zandwoort (with all the helps on ;)). Guy from Virtual-Games, Nuno Espadinha, is the host there and he said they couldn't even run RACE because of the Steam protection (to even run you need Internet!) so they had to convert the car to GTR2 and are using that instead. ;) I honestly expected bit more, both wheel and pedals had huge deadzones and paddles had to be disabled because of some screws, but nevertheless it is cool to sit in tight bucketseat and have trouble to get out of the racecar. :)

I'll get you updated with more pics and movies in next days...

Oh btw, thanks to DoN for the posters, and to TeazR for making us the skins on a short notice. :thumb:

[Boris Lozac]

Funny story with the GTR2 :D i am going there tommorow hopefully..
This is one of the biggest auto shows in this part of the Europe, so it's a great place to show of LFS, because there is a lot of car enthusiasts like that cool grandpa on the photo ;)

[Aquilifer]

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http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~maki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image001.jpg
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So now I know what Santa Claus does after Xmas :eye-poppi

[LFSn00b]

So now I know what Santa Claus does after Xmas :eye-poppi:ices_rofl

[N I K I]

LFS is starting to be popular everywhere :thumb:

Damn that man is OLD :D
(:Dpenzioner?:D)

[Scawen]

Great! :) :up:

[Vykos69]

looks damn cold, everyone is driving with jackets on :D great stuff, guys!

[marecare]

Very nice, guys... we had lots of good laps (better than 2 minutes per lap :D)
looks damn cold, everyone is driving with jackets on :D
LoL, it's not so cold... you can't blame Santa... ;)

GO GO GO LFS!!!

[Damo74]

http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~maki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image005.jpg

OK, I'm feeling some sort of caption competition coming on......

"Walls and oncoming traffic are bad mmkay?"

[hrtburnout]

Wow! Live For Speed ftw!

[joen]

hehe, Go Santa!

Great promotion for LFS guys :thumb:

[cmckowen]

Super work guys!

Nice one!!! :D

[a n d 1]

Very good Job Milos :)
Love ya my gayfriend :razz:

[Blackout]

Great! That Santa is so cool! :D

[Richard Torp]

good job m8..:thumb: Very interesting..:)

[FOGlegsy]

http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~maki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image005.jpg

OK, I'm feeling some sort of caption competition coming on......

"Walls and oncoming traffic are bad mmkay?"


"watch out raindeer in turn three!"

[loopingz]

That's cool ! :thumb:

[Davo]

http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/%7Emaki/files/lfs/sajam2007/Image004.jpg

"Damn noobs wrecked me on turn 1!!"

Awesome stuff guys.

[LFSn00b]

Sorry, couldn't resist :D

[nesrulz]

hehe, LFS FOREVER! :thumb:

[Bob Smith]

"Damn noobs wrecked me on turn 1!!"
:D

[Geladric]

I thought it would be funny to take that pictures. Thanks to marecare for the camera. :thumb:

LFS Rulez!!!

[Chriskart]

Awesome! :)

[Jertje]

What you need is a "Beat the Alien" contest.

1. Put an Alien in the racing seat with his own set-up and have him do 10 laps.
2. Record best lap, and set it as the time to beat.
3. Challenge people to try and beat the time for $5,- (ish)
4. Give them a nice incentive prize, such as a $250.000 car, or a $20m company.
4. Profit!
5. Donate the money to something LFS related ;)

[Misko]

Hmm thats actually interesting idea because lots of people first ask us "how much for having a go?". And of course its free. :)

Today was naturally quite bit more crowded than yesterday, and tomorrow I'd expect even more being the Sunday. We didn't stop for 6 hours, and there was always someone waiting in line. I think we were live on TV 2 or 3 times today with car import company bosses having their races (Subaru beat Renault in the final corner), as well as visitors races. I forgot to take pictures to upload, there were some interesting characters today as well. :) It was interesting to watch very young kids, age 8-9, their reactions to slides were really quick and good, while majority of the people were always late to correct and kept going left and right until they crash or slow a lot. :) BTW, current best lap time is 1:39.22 set by young kart racer Petar Janjić.

Logitech is still running LFS with G25 (not going back to GTR2), only they took out the H shifter as kids were kinda abusing it. :)

[NotAnIllusion]

RACE_S setup :( Sounds awesome though! :D

[Misko]

RACE_S setup :(Well, if anyone has a "noob friendly", believable and not too slow setup feel free to share. RACE_S can be unstable under braking if people don't keep it fairly straight, but its quite nice and convincigly understeery under power. Fast setups with locked diff are not really good for this purpose. RACE_S is also nice as everyone has it and can practice at home. :) Its really not bad I think, but if you have something better we'd be happy to try.

[N I K I]

Give them BL1_DuCK's WR set :shrug:. I don't see anything bad in that setup :tilt:

Nice project... :scratchch I wonder was there something like this on Paris show?

[NotAnIllusion]

Well, if anyone has a "noob friendly", believable and not too slow setup feel free to share. RACE_S can be unstable under braking if people don't keep it fairly straight, but its quite nice and convincigly understeery under power. Fast setups with locked diff are not really good for this purpose. RACE_S is also nice as everyone has it and can practice at home. :) Its really not bad I think, but if you have something better we'd be happy to try.
I see your point about the understeer, hadn't thought of that. I gave it a quick go and came up with the attached setup. I think it lacks the authentic stock feel but certainly isn't a hotlap set :tilt:

[Bob Smith]

Misko - that's where my easy race setups come in. ;)

Or would if I'd got around to updating them since patch P, they're not so great on the current tyre physics. Sometime this year I promise...

[Boris Lozac]

Here's some pics i captured on Auto Plus channel.
That is "Toyota Serbia" chairman, he's curently 3rd in the "LFS Business league competition" and you can see the joy on his face knowing he progressed to the finals ;). He said that he will try and beat Renault in LFS, because they can't hold up with them in F1.. :) and also commented how awesome LFS is...
I put some hot babe too, can't hurt ;)
More pics coming when i go there myself...

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[George Kuyumji]

Some months ago there has been a Race coverage or something along those lines on TV in Yugoslavia, or was it Croatia? Anyhow it looks like the Yugoslavian LFS community is alive, well and enthusiastic :thumbsup:

[BlackEye]

You are probably thinking about OPS league. It has live coverage every Group 1 race on TV in Serbia and across Europe on [insert name here Misko] satellite channel.

Btw, Yugoslavia does not exist (sp?) any more ;)

[Misko]

Yep thats the same thing, and its still going on, every sunday 21-23h live LFS races on AutoPlus channel, OPS and DEMO leagues. Just tonight we did another demo race, and this time from the TV studio in Belgrade Fair (Wireless Internet fortunately works). :) We're not talking much about it here cause we can't show you much, but maybe we will start internet video streams soon.

Today was another very busy day, lots of people on the stand, and again 4 times live on TV about LFS + live demo league race in the evening, its really going great.

Some experienced LFS-ers drove today and times have dropped to 1:35.xx. I didn't have the time to try the new set NAI have posted, and for few fast people it wouldn't be fair to change now even if for anybody that drives for the first time it wouldn't make any difference, so we're sticking with RACE_S. :)

[Misko]

Today was the last day of LFS on AutoPlus booth, we had finals for business league as well as for visitors. Final races were quite exciting indeed, but also we had a very special guest today - Miloš Pavlović, World Series by Renault driver for Draco Multiracing! He was by far the best LFS noob we've seen there, and, after watching so many people forgetting to brake and going too fast and stuff, we were impressed how he learned the track in just 3-4 laps by just driving sensibly, like on a real track - slow at first then gradually speeding up and feeling the car along the way. His time was 1:38.5 after those 10 minutes (2nd best first timer was about 1:40).

Unfortunately photographers weren't there at the time, but TV cameras got many things happening there, and I hope we will show you some videos soon.

[Misko]

Here are few screenshots (excuse the interlace):
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