Sim Racing Society Birthday Celebration!

[de Souza]

http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=87446&d=1246147943

G'day ladies and gentlemen!

This is an almost-invite-only fun teams challenge race to celebrate SRS' first birthday. We'll invite some teams that we enjoy racing with, and as they confirm their participation (or not) we'll open a few spots for other people to sign in.



So this is how it will work:

- 1 hour race at Aston Club Rev to be held on July 18th, at SRS:Race Server
- each team will have to drive one STD car, one TBO car and one LRF car;
- wanted: 10 teams with 3 cars each = 30 drivers on track;
- points will be distributed as 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for each class;
- the team with most points summing all classes will win an official "congratulations" from us.



Schedule (estimated times):

18:00 UTC - 25 min qualify
18:30 UTC - 1 hour race



Traffic guidelines...

- Cars being lapped must stay on racing line! It is the faster cars' responsibility to do a clean pass maneuver.
- If a car that is lapping you makes an passing attempt, do not defend.
- Use common sense!



Some other points...

- The FXO will have 3% intake restriction. Any other car should be used without any restrictions. If someone proves that a car must have some handicap to be balanced, we'll be happy to force it.
- Wasn't invited but want to race? Post here.
- Wanna join but don't have a team or your team doesn't want to join? You can create a fantasy team to drive this event, but as I said, there aren't many spots for non-invited teams.
- If there's more interest than free spots, we might pick at random.
- We reserve the right to not allow specific drivers to race, just because.



Well, that's it. If you're confirming your team participation, we'd like to know the line up and what car you guys are using if possible (not obligatory though). If you're in the non-invited lot and want to take part, please post here.


Confirmed entries:

01. Sim Racing Society (de Souza/FZ5, count.bazley/XRT, Mp3 Astra/XFG)
02. CoRe Racing (Töki (HUN)/FZ5, Tomhah, Rikje/XRG)
03. Concept Racing (troy/FZ5, AdamLFS/FXO, Der Butz/XRG)
04. Race Sim Radicals
05. Sonicrealms
06. iCON (Hypothraxer, Laser171107, Joe_Keaveney/XFG)
07. Concept Racing #2 (Bean0/FZ5, Hotmail, Zapphord/XFG)
08. StarLite Racing (EliteAti/FZ5, Kristjan.J/XRT, wilko868/XFG)


Interested in joining:

01. SimRacing Lithuania Team
02. Last Lap Motorsport
03. Clockwork Motorsports

[Mp3 Astra]

(I have a nice image for you)

[evilpimp]

Shaweeet :d

[pearcy_2k7]

Aw man, this sounds a hoot but i haven't got my G25 anymore :(

[bunder9999]

nuts, another weekend event i can't make... :(

[GreyBull [CHA]]

That sounds really nice, and I'd be happy to take part if I have the opportunity:)

[oldnavy]

uh, looks nice, but not much chanches to get invitation :(

[niels1]

Nice Idea, as said in pm I get back to you asap. Cheers for inviting RSR. :thumb:

[de Souza]

;1198198']That sounds really nice, and I'd be happy to take part if I have the opportunity:)

uh, looks nice, but not much chanches to get invitation :(

Stay around, there will be free spots. Right now we're giving priority to the invited teams but as soon as we have a better idea of how many teams we got, we'll ask for people to sign in.

It's generally a good idea to say your team is officially interested - makes our work easier as well. :tilt:

Nice Idea, as said in pm I get back to you asap. Cheers for inviting RSR. :thumb:

Our pleasure!

[oldnavy]

SimRacing Lithuania Team officialy intrested to join :smileypul

[aobrien]

Experion Racing would love to take part if the chance came:thumbsup:

[niels1]

RSR is taking part of this race of festivities. :D
Cool we see you all on track :thumb:

[de Souza]

:D Keep it coming!

I know it's early but does anyone have an idea on what cars you'll be driving?

[CSF]

If invited I am sure we can put 3 drivers out. :)

[de Souza]

Is Jason away or something? :)

[CSF]

Sigh, he is old and has probably seen the PM, been dragged off by his daughter for some reason and forgotten about it. :razz: Any chance you can sling it my way too? :)

[de Souza]

:)

[oscarhardwick]

I know that the team that i am in would be interested should a spot become available, we are last lap motorsport, we could run one or two teams, and we have people like myself, D.barber and vinnylegends, me personally, would love to race with you guys and have a fun race. PM me if anything is possible.

thanks.

Oscar.

P.S: will talk to the drivers mentioned, and then give car and driver line ups.

[Blas89]

Send me a piece of cake and a brasilian chick, du.

[de Souza]

Send me a piece of cake and a brasilian chick, du.

Haha I can send the cake, but the chick you'll have to get yourself! :razz:

[greg_slideways]

du, can i get a peice of the cake? :x But on topic, U guys think a fantasy team can have meez in it? Eh :shrug:

[de Souza]

You mean we?

That's how it works: you (whoever that is) tell me you want to race with team x (and its drivers); I tell you if you can race or not. :tilt:

[EliteAti]

Starlite racing is officially interested in participating in this event. Is there :cake: too? :D

[lizardfolk]

Clockwork Motorsports is interested in joining

[Bean0]

As requested, CR's lineup...

Der Butz - XRG
AdamLFS - FXO
Troy - FZ5

[de Souza]

Thanks. :)

I still have a couple of invites pending answer, gonna set a deadline for friday. If those teams don't answer, I'll open their spots for others.

I'll keep a list of interested teams in the OP as well.

[banshee56]

CoRe Racing is planning to participate. :nod: Thanks for the invite! I'll submit our line-up soon. :thumb:

[de Souza]

If those teams don't answer, I'll open their spots for others.

Ok we have two extra free spots. One of them will be granted to a second Concept team, the other will join the public spots. :tilt:

There's still time if you want to take part, just post here. I'll set another deadline for Wednesday - the day we'll decide who goes in and who doesn't.

I'm still waiting for the line ups, you know. :D

[Bean0]

Our second lineup...

Zapphord - XFG
Hotmail - TBO
Bean0 - FZ5

Also, I updated the previous one :)

[EliteAti]

Updates about this one? :D

[de Souza]

Had a problem yesterday, will update this tonight. :)

[de Souza]

Well had the same problem yesterday (lack of internets), seems ok now.

Anyway, updated the OP and I'm glad to say we have 8 confirmed teams to race Sunday. Still considering some other options as of now, but 24 cars seem to be a very good number in that short track.

Most of the teams have line ups now, go check to see who you're racing against. There's still time to try to get in by the way. :tilt:

[oscarhardwick]

Well, LLM are still very much interested, if the place still stands,I cant make it, so should we still want a place, i guess another member of LLM will be in touch.

thanks.

Oscar.

[Gil07]

Here's SR's lineup :)

XRG - Peterules
XRT - junkan
LX6 - Rudy van Buren

[niels1]

Here is RSR lineup

AJ rose LX6
Cueball XRT
Stablex XFG

See ya all tonight :)

[J@tko]

Gratz to everyone - some great racing, including fighting for the race win on the very last lap :thumb:

Results: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tX2y2fLo_baj3kfNT71qd1g&output=html :thumb:

Thanks to all competitors, and Happy Birthday SRS :)

I'll get the replays up soon :thumbsup:

[Wilko868]

My connection fails.

I'm gutted, could of done decently in that.......

[Mp3 Astra]

Great fun, missed out on 3rd by less than 0.1 :D

Concept Racing #1 are the winners. Replays up in a bit. Well done to all class winners, CR, CR and CoRe.

Thanks for coming!

[Kristjan.J]

That was one crazy race. First I was losing my hope to finish on podium in my class but then everything changed. Tommy did some weird moves there and I got past him, also got past Pete and then it was time to cruise. Was going 1.14 low and 1.13 mid/high most of the time second half of the race. Had no chance to catch up the two FXO's in front as these were by far faster than XRT there. Came in as first XRT and I'm pretty pleased with my results. It was a fun race, thank you SRS for making this and happy birthday once again!

[J@tko]

Replays (http://www.filefront.com/14070483/SRS%20Event%20Replays.zip)

My Quali one is probably fubared. I timed out [thank you Vista] and had one occasion of EPIC lag :(

[de Souza]

Good stuff, my race was going quite nice, could've finished from 3rd to 5th, as me, bean0 and EliteAti were close all the time.

Did one mistake at the middle of the race that cost me the 3rd place, but was around 1-2 seconds behind bean0 and catching up (I think).

Was really really hoping for a fight but then the power went down. Pretty insane as I'm using a notebook plugged on a 19'' monitor - everything was ok, but the monitor suddenly died... I thought "oh noes hope I didn't take anyone out with me", but the router died too obviously and I timed out.

Anyway thanks for coming everyone, there's more next year. :nod: And thanks J@tko for taking care of the children. :D

[Hypothraxer]

It was a very nice race even though I was on my own all the time. And for some reason I always encountered the slower cars in that uphill chicane. Appear somewhere else next time! ;)

[Töki (HUN)]

http://users.atw.hu/tokihun/srs.jpg?atw_rnd=2011741992

Insane last 3 laps, too bad I lost it. :) Thanks for the clean racing Troy :thumb:
Thanks for SRS for organizing this event, was fun.

[Gil07]

Whoopsie, we messed up the times, so only Pete got to race... Sorry guys! :schwitz:

Still, Happy Birthday! :thumb: :D

[J@tko]

Insane last 3 laps, too bad I lost it. :) Thanks for the clean racing Troy :thumb:
Thanks for SRS for organizing this event, was fun.
Indeed - going either side of XFGs as you overtook them [including overtaking Passo on the grass :schwitz:] reminded my of Hakkinen and Schumacher at Spa in 2000 :tilt:

[EliteAti]

Indeed - going either side of XFGs as you overtook them [including overtaking Passo on the grass :schwitz:] reminded my of Hakkinen and Schumacher at Spa in 2000 :tilt:

Check out me and Bean0 overtaking AJ in the early laps, that was even closer to Häkkinen / Schumacher at Spa 2000 :smileypul You might want to check it out :D

E: 1st lap > 2nd lap main straight :)

Second last lap, back straight IIRC

EDIT: Might have been 3rd last lap. Or the last lap

Last lap ;)

[Töki (HUN)]

Indeed - going either side of XFGs as you overtook them [including overtaking Passo on the grass :schwitz:] reminded my of Hakkinen and Schumacher at Spa in 2000 :tilt:
Can't remember TBH, we took over so many cars. :tilt: Gimme a time code.

[troy]

Yep was a crazy finish, thanks töki for the great race and congrats again to SRS was a great event I'll surely be there next year again. :P

[J@tko]

Can't remember TBH, we took over so many cars. :tilt: Gimme a time code.
Second last lap, back straight IIRC :razz:

EDIT: Might have been 3rd last lap. Or the last lap :D

[TexasLTU]

Yep was a crazy finish, thanks töki for the great race and congrats again to SRS was a great event I'll surely be there next year again. :P
You're sure they won't close up tomorrow due to slow development of simulator? :D

[count.bazley]

First of all, I would like to thank everybody for turning up today for what turned out to be a very fun race. I had never really driven the TBO's before so I wasn't too bothered about my pace, I managed to hang on to Pete until about half-distance but was probably too cautious when being lapped and when lapping so eventually I finished quite a distance behind.

Once again, thanks to all who raced and here's to many more years of Sim Racing Society. :)

[Töki (HUN)]

Second last lap, back straight IIRC :razz:

EDIT: Might have been 3rd last lap. Or the last lap :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DfolJEsnZs

:D

[J@tko]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DfolJEsnZs

:D
:thumb: :D

[PMD9409]

License plate stood true.

[adamlfs]

Wow that was some pass there Toki.

I have to say thanks to the SRS team for hosting such a great event. And Happy Birthday.

I wasn't sure if I would be up to pace for this race, after doing some practice laps early on I found the 3% hard to deal with. Once doing an hour practice together with Reintjan we managed to gain some time and get used to the 3% restriction.

I was really worried about the quali, since im not normaly a one lap master. But wow I pushed the car like hell on my 4th lap and it paid off, taking 4 tenths from Reintjan :smileypul.
The race was really intense on the first few laps. I felt that the XRT would get away from me, but I knew I had to push in those first few laps to gain an advantage.

But to take the win for the TBO class. I wasn't expecting that. Great race to all, I had no trouble passing or being passed by anyone

Top racing :thumb:

[Mp3 Astra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DfolJEsnZs

:D

Imagine me there going 'holyshitholyshitholyshit'. Because I was. Amazing stuff!

[peterules]

It was a very very fun race and a totally new experience for me in the TBO as i'm usually found in the Single Seaters. I had all of 3 minutes to sort myself out with a race set from swapping to the XRG to the XRT. But from start to finish was a great adventure for me.

I had many cars overtaking, as well as me overtaking the STD's. I'm really suprised i lasted the whole race tbh and want to say thanks to all the drivers for one of the craziest but cleanest races i've had so far. I've never ever seen so many radical overtaking maneuvers in my life lol!!

Keep up the good work SRS and Happy 1st Birthday!!!

:yummy:

[AjRose]

Check out me and Bean0 overtaking AJ in the early laps, that was even closer to Häkkinen / Schumacher at Spa 2000 :smileypul You might want to check it out :D



Yep, That probably looked cool we split them fast :)

Anyone have a replay they can post up?



Great event! I wish I hadn't been to stubborn to get out of the LX6 though lol :p But I had no fuel in the end anyway. I ran out before the first split on the last lap and R.D.Long bumped me a little and I stopped about 50ft after the S/F.

[Mp3 Astra]

Anyone have a replay they can post up?




Replays (http://www.filefront.com/14070483/SRS%20Event%20Replays.zip)

My Quali one is probably fubared. I timed out [thank you Vista] and had one occasion of EPIC lag :(

:)

[AjRose]

hehe. I just saw it as I was scrolling down the page to check this post ;)

[der butz]

That was some stunning race!

Thanks to everyone involved! Thanks to SRS for hosting this, happy 1st birthday from me as well!

I've been fighting Passo in the first few laps, some corners we were side by side while we were being lapped by tbos and lrfs! Was awesome! Then I tried adapting Passo's cornering speed. It all went terribly wrong, my times went worse and worse. Eventually I could race my own race again, but you quick xfgs were simply too far ahead already.
In the end we made 1st, thanks to the great races of Troy and Adam!!!! YAY!!!

Now make an invite-only league, exactly like this event!

greetz

der butz

[niels1]

That was a stunning race, clean fair and more importantly fun. It was my first time in the XRT racing a hour which in the end I was rather pleased. I came last in the class but due to the multiple classes it kept it interesting. I span out in lap 3 or 4 cant remember excatly, after that it was a solo run to the finish.

Happy Birthday guys :balloons::smileyrai:huepfenic:leb::rock_band

[de Souza]

Good to see people enjoyed it. :shy:

Gotta think about next year, will be hard to do something different again. :scratchch

[J@tko]

Good to see people enjoyed it. :shy:

Gotta think about next year, will be hard to do something different again. :scratchch
IMO the idea worked very well. The only bad thing really was that you had FZ5s doing 160mph trying to overtake an XFG doing 100mph into T1, which was sometimes a bit scary but actually, with the calibre of the drivers we had, really wasn't a problem :)

Nice and easy to tot up the results too :thumbsup:

[Mp3 Astra]

I think what really helped this event was the invite-only status. All the drivers had respect for each other and I don't think a single person left the event angry due to someone else's bad driving; which is a very rare thing in LFS events.

[de Souza]

Yeah... But then again there were cars everywhere, I don't think after 20 minutes or so you could do a clean lap at all. And I didn't see or hear about any accident, which is quite impressive and just shows how good (fast or not) these guys are.

The speed difference was really scary, I found it hard to judge as I came near the T1 braking zone and there was slower cars braking - you come so fast and show a nose, but in the end they brake a lot later and the cornering speed is more similar than you'd expect, so it was usually safer to pass after the corner.

Quite nice to storm through the s/f straight with all those slower cars battling. :D

[der butz]

yeah, you're right there :-)

Plus if I saw someone fast coming behind me I always tried to leave room to breathe for both of us - even in the corners.
So the fast were careful, the slow were friendly, the event turned out great!
Never had so much fun and excitement in a single multiclass race!

greetz

der still excited butz

[niels1]

Agreed there were some moments which were rather scary or on the gde. But due to skill and showing respect to one and other made the race go as it was. Never seen a 1 hour race with multi classes without any crash. Welltbh I spun out :shy: not really a crash. Again the respect and skill of drivers made the difference. For instances try a lap at FM Fox server, I always leave there rather pissed off bcus people dont show respect. Skill part well what can I say there........................ there isnt much around on these servers. Point is, it was a very clean and friendly race, that has been a while I have seen one. Indeed a rare moment.

[Bean0]

Yep, an excellent race last night. I totally agree with the above, it was a pleasure to race with all involved.

I spent most of the race battling with Ati, catching the slower classes at better or worse spots caused the gap to vary but it was always close. Shame de Souza timed out, it could have been a 3-way fight for a lot of the race :(

[Mp3 Astra]

Race Report (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1218412#post1218412)