today first races of the Formel BMW side Cup. qualy in 30minutes from this post.
The track is Blackwood, so that should be familiar for most

yup. Register on the site, it works like most other forums basically.
When logged in you can see the server details on right side, below the chat box.
Rest is explained in the rules, but if you have questions then just get onto server a bit earlier and ask (also for setup sharing etc)

If it helps, you only need to pass one car to progress in the lessons (with bronze rating) Not all cars.

me too sometimes

Hi
It is complete FBM Cup with six race days. But at ABnl is always two leagues in parallel, with seperated points:

1) The normal s3 main league.

Ten races, mixed selection of cars and tracks.
Always same format: 20 min quali, 45 min race with mandatory pit stop.

2) A side Cup.

Often with a motto or special rules:
Sucess ballast, longer or shorter races, rallycross, custom tracks etc. (Basically races that do not fit into the main league.) This runs every third sunday.
This time it is FBM cup, in format of two races (sprint & main) and a randomly choosen finisher of the mainrace gets to pick the next track.

hm you're right. (but it is always so much clicking )

anyways, today starting in ~45min from this post: Formel XR at Aston Grand Touring reversed (AS6R)

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. Unfortunetly there is no way to prevent LfS programmaticly from showing the blue flags.

There is now a command to set lapcount of drivers. So after a disconnect admins can give back the lost laps. It was used in same races, seemed to work good..much better than always wrong blue flags.

Somewhen earlier this year hotlap tracklimit checks got stricter and some times were removed. But even if that lap was still listed, look at WR charts, the top-10 times (or even whole first pages) for all tracks are always wheel and mouse is exotic minority.
And that is in a mode that kinda favors mouse due to its unlimited retry nature.

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I've played LFS one all 3, mouse keyboard and wheel, and I'm much faster with mouse and even beat quite a lot of wheel users online.

When and on which tracks would that have been, because in online stats you basically have no laps counts.. There are only few tracks/cars where you even have more than ten laps and your laptimes are all slow.

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If you don't belive you can look through the forum posts and WR's.

People say lots of things in forum posts and WR's with mouse are super rare.
In theory hotlap would be perfect for mouse because there is no reacting required, only memorizing. Rather believe in race results, like mpRes statistics.

Hi

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I am using a KB and Mouse and when using these setups the rear would spin around without any warning or feel.

With keyboard/mouse driving those cars is harder. A ffb wheel gives feedback so it is possible to react before the car spins because you feel it coming. With mouse it is more of a surprise and when you see the spin it is already too late.
One can learn that too, but the process of blind trial & error is slower than feeling it naturally with wheel.

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I even set the engine braking to 0

Yes, that could be one setting to adjust.
But just to make sure: It is "engine brake reduction", so you would want a high setting to have less engine brake.
Also try to shift gears down later. (Maybe even do not shift down for a turn at all until the exit, and then gradually shift down earlier)

Noise = music in the menu?
Or noise = sound of cars when you join a race, meaning the menu displays normal but in race it turns black?
Needs more details..some common problems:
-check/install graphic card drivers
-test if other games/3D software works
-plug monitor into correct port (into graphics card, not the mainboard's onboard graphics)
-check/install directX
-Press shift+F12 to toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode. Maybe it changes something.

Welcome all new drivers
If someone is looking for a place to start racing maybe visit: www.absolute-beginners.nl
It is weekly racing with varying cars and tracks.
This sunday evening new season starts, but can join mid-season too:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/90144
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http://absolute-beginners.nl/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15316.last

First race of new season today at 19:30 CET - 1,5 hours from this post

that was good track

From quick look it gives the vectors, from which you can calculate yaw. And from yaw changes over time you can derive yaw rate.

Insim has functions to set a car's position now. But it is more to to move cars out of sand traps and such.
While in theory it seems possible to use LFS as a visualisation of external/foreign physics, it would be very crude.

Insim, Outgauge, telemetry-export ( https://www.lfs.net/programmer/raf ) etc all give some very detailed data, but nothing suitable for the realtime "back and forth" you seem to plan.

Maybe have a look at TORCS? http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

hi
the layout will be the same as on server?

changed server, see chatbox on site

Today, while next season is being prepared, a special event:
"Mario Kart" racing on a modified SouthCity track, with moving haybales and drivers can deploy obstacles.
Idea and implementation by GeneralPurpose and xx151, see this post for details:
http://absolute-beginners.nl/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15091.10#post_15299

Usual time: 19:30, which is ~50minutes from this post

I use Ubuntu on a bit more powerful laptop but MINT would be okay choice too. Both are good & popular distros.

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My next step would be to burn the iso to a DVD, which I would have done already, if I still had DVDs at home

Not really an answer but from USB there are more things that can go wrong. DVD is guaranteed to work.

That is some mixed list..
WipeOut and HiOctance seem misplaced in a list of car games.
Mariokart, Stunts, RBR, Re-Volt, NFS series, Micro Machines,.. all great games. (LFS too obviously) But completly different styles and time periodes, impossible to pick a best one.

Season of main league already finished but still one race left in the Cup:
3 x 24 laps with the Formular XR. At Fernbay Club.