Quote from scania :

How would I join the track designer team?

There's no track designer team. Make your own layouts, publish them onto the Autocross Layouts subforum and the series will consider picking your layout(s) for future seasons

One for the history books - check out the race on VOD on Simbroadcast's channel!

Under 30 minutes to the start of Mini Monaco event!

If you are unable to race, event will be livestreamed by Simbroadcasts, found here - https://www.twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

It's Monaco baby! Race on later today, 22nd March 2025 at 1500 UTC. See you there for the 5th Running of the Mini Monaco GP on Live For Speed - and the first on the brand new 1:2 scale track!

Race info: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2119860#post2119860

monaco intro sequence

Layout Racing League is around 11am for American timing, might work for you too.

The other more popular leagues should fall around 5pm your time, shouldn't be an issue either. e.g FM GTi, RTFR, WRC RALLY, EGM masters

We go racing at Monaco today; and at a new, scaled version of the historical track! Join the prestigious event when it happens here on Live For Speed - catch updates here: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110186-Layout-Racing-League-2025%3A-Announcement-%26-Schedule

Race info; https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2119860#post2119860

EVENT STREAMED BY SIMBROADCASTS



BROADCAST INTRO SEQUENCE

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Sat 22 Mar 2025, 03:09.

monaco global teaser 1

Cool! Let's see what the devs say. Seems promising

Quote from ricebug :

I can provide laser scan data of Taebaek Speedway Circuit in Korea.

My company is working on acquiring 3D data for smart city construction using radar and lidar. Also, the company's management is very interested in motorsports, so we are carrying out laser scanned track files as a fun project.

The Taebaek Speedway is a small circuit in Korea with almost the same record as Tsukuba Circuit in Japan. We conducted laser scan in 2023 and currently distributed the track file for free for Assetto Corsa.

This is legally acquired data, and I think it is possible to provide it for free with the appropriate license.

It would be great if we could play Taebaek on LFS, the best simulator. What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wFlt7yxCPk

Thank you!

Yongtae Kim, Mobiltech, Korea

OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS PENDING

NOTICE : From Round 4 onward, Race Report will be a more concise, 1 minute read format for easier information digestion.
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It is a welcome return to the famous Scawen's Racetrack circuit, as Layout Racing League heads to the forth round of the exciting 2025 calendar!


Qualifying Result

The newly re-teamed Suforr, now driving for Born2Race, nabbed pole position by 4 tenths, ahead of the pair of Winner's drivers dod1slaw and kyr1l. Race Green fielded four drivers, with the pair Mandula and NOSLE coming in 4th and 5th respectively. SRP Master, YES Motorsport's Sobis and B2r Twincam put in good efforts in the twisty track to get into the top 10. A close qualifying for the midfield set the stage for an exciting race!



Provisional Race result

The race

RACE REPLAY: Replay

21 race-focused drivers took to the green for the race, with Suforr initially losing the lead to an extremely fast staring kyr1l. Kyr1l would lose the lead 3 laps later, and subsequently spectacularly crash out of a podium place, at the tunnel entry. Further back, a classic Lap 1 Turn 1 chaos saw SRP Master tangled with Twincam, putting both drivers down the pack, although both managed to recover to decent positions, both finishing higher than when they started.

Newcomer Owen too spun out after contact at the start, although continued on to a P13 finish. Returning driver GT4tube stalled at the start and retired soon after, as did another new driver, Cing.

The race was a test of focus and patience, with plenty of drivers stuck behind others, forming long trains. Pit strategy came to play, with some choosing to stay out such as AirAttack's Sean, while others chose to pit at different times to get into clear air, such as Sobis, and Mandula - the latter having a race full of ups and downs, still finishing P3, testimony to his pace.

There were battles up and down the field, from front to back. nickmusi, Jam616 and Javier were in close proximity for most of the race, giving a real show. Unfortunately in contrast of fortune, Winner's Rubi suffered hardware issues and retired with 7 laps to go, however it was nothing compared to YES's Sobis, who, after his brilliant strategy putting him in the top 5, ran out of fuel on the line, dropping down to P10.

However it was no stopping the race-winning machine, now in his new home of B2r, Suforr took a commanding victory ahead of dod1slaw, with Mandula coming P3 even after two spins mid race. His teammate NOSLE was close behind in P4, followed by brilliant drivers by Twincam, Sean and M@ci3k in P7. Race Green's Redbot tailed his teammate in P8, with Master in P9, and the gas-guzzling Sobis rounding out the top 10. Winner's Rubi capped of the final points position!

Layout Racing League returns on 22 March 2025 for Round 5 – 5th Running of Mini Monaco GP! This is one race you will certainly not want to miss!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Fri 14 Mar 2025, 14:58.

Following.

Have the same issue, but not as frequent. Occurs at the most random time, although doesn't affect game crashing - just all cars disappear or all incoming data e.g veh position or chat pauses.

Quote from BeNoM :

Have always had this issue too (I'm on gigabit internet), was fixed a little when regional downloads got added but still very slow. I think it's just something we're going to have to live with for now.

Damn... that was the answer I knew was going to come up, but didn't want to believe because perhaps the truth sucks

Is it an client (user) thing, LFS host issue, or just us being far-away countries that cause these issues? Because neither of our countries have poor networking infrastructure or capability. That's the only bit I'm frustrated with, why with all the tech we have that stuff like this still happens.

Is there a fix? Something that either we or dev team can implement? Or is it something that is just part and parcel of how packets/network works

- Frustrated, male, mid 20s, asian, no banana for scale

Quote from Lucas McFly :

Here

Regional dl as always on by default, never turned off.

As of right now, it loads the mods fine as intended, half a second per mod as someone suggested. But also, LFS.net site has no latency issues.

I noticed when LFS website is slow, the issue arises in the game when retrieving the mod data. The website's mod list is also slow to load, affecting the game directly...

Qualifying has begun

Relive the action-packed race back in 2021, courtesy of SimBroadcasts!

Quote from johneysvk :

tried switching regional downloads?

connecting to say JaR definitely doesn't take that long for me.
each mod takes 2-3 seconds to download max

How to swap to Regional downloads? Fyi LFS.net page loads slowly (5s) for me too. Only it, other pages e.g Youtube, reddit, literally any other mainstream site loads instantly. Not the first time either... starting to think its LFS packet issue.

Edit: timed out again, this time mod list could not load, and had another error.

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Fri 7 Mar 2025, 16:54.

> Over 80gb space on LFS drive
> Not running the benchmark as last time I did that to previous HDD it fried it ; currently using relatively new branded SSD
> Network 2gbps fibre

Quote from cuni :

Just tested it after cleaning up all the mods and joining a 40+ server with mods, downloaded all 30 mods in 10 sec without issue.

Maybe its a local issue, check your LFS drive if there is free space (or enough free space, 10% of Capacity).

To rule out Hard drive problems run a disk benchmark (https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/) and for network bandwith a speed test (https://fast.com/) maybe...

Probably more like a bug report.

This only occurred very recently, probably a week ago. PC and internet/isp has not changed.



Before the issue, I could easily load into (mainly) cruise servers within a handful of seconds, even with skin and mod download, as intended. Now, each skin takes something like 10 seconds and a mod vehicle takes 3 minutes to download - of which by the time the process is finished the server slot is taken up and I get the "Did not receive OK" error or Host is Full.

Sometimes, if a mod takes too long, it gets that Fatal Net error. No clue what that means either.

Hopefully there is a iterative update to fix this, and that it's not (again) a country-specific thing with the ISP. My ping is stable once connected to any server, so doesn't seem to be an issue on my end.

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Mon 3 Mar 2025, 14:46.

OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS PENDING
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The Skye Circuit, crafted by fellow layoutter Sinanju, played host to Round 3 of Layout Racing League, and drivers had much fun with battles throughout the grid!


Qualifying Result

It was Team Winners dod1slaw who grabbed pole from TAV's Suforr by a narrow margin, trading fastest lap throughout the entire qualifying session. Maty14 represented Master Race Car, with an impressive 3rd in front of Race Green's NOSLE and then S1DUS's Rik, who had minimal practice. AirAttack's Sean made a surprise entry in 6th, ahead of DLV. Total of 15 cars took qualifying, missing some key drivers whom could not make the event - still, the racing itself proved to be spectacularly good!


The race start

It was an good getaway and eventual win for TAV's Suforr, who passed polesitter Dod1slaw and never looked back, holding a strong lead as the rest battled for position behind him. Early spins from Raicyl and Radibiserow saw them drop out of contention, while contact in lap 1 through the fast chicane between NOSLE and Maty saw the latter drop to 7th, while Rik battled DLV and the recovering NOSLE for the opening few laps.

With subtle loss of aero from dirty air, drivers were encouraged to follow closely behind, which made long battle trains a spectacle to watch, in particular, a 5 car train for P3 held by NOSLE. A crash from TAV's Shini put him out of 13th and brought out the Safety Car, of which some drivers elected to pit, while others not - Suforr, NOSLE and Sean elected to stay out to try to build a gap.


Early safety car



Safety Car ended and immediately produced a spinner when Rik was facing backwards after car contact - the second of three spins he had, eventually recovering to a P2 finish after great late-race pace. Suforr was never challenged, leading from Lap 1 till the end, after having a big enough gap for a pit stop, courtesy for hard-fought battles for second place, led by the widest Skip Barber car driven by NOSLE.


Aeroplane crash

At the mid point, the five-car NOSLE train was at its peak, and through the chicane, a side-by-side battle turned sour when contact saw the Race Green driver gain some much-earned breathing space, with dod1slaw and Sean regrouping, albeit having lost a place each to Rik.



A podium of varying degree of effort

Eventually, dod1slaw found a way past NOSLE and took P3 to the flag, a far distance behind the rapid S1DUS's Rik in P2, who, in just 10 laps, closed a 16 second gap to just 6. With a couple of laps remaining, Race Green's NOSLE blinked first and made his compulsory pit stop, and with some fast overcut laps, AirAttack's Sean managed, just, to snatch away P4.

No one however, could stop Suforr, who claimed win number 2 of Season 5, a well earned victory in possibly an unexpected scenario.

P5 and P6 went to the Race Green duo of NOSLE and M@ciek who both kept each other honest in the final few laps, with Rubi narrowly missing out on snatching 6th from the latter right on the line. MRc's Texas finished in the points down in 11th, the last of the runners, having had zero laps of practice prior to joining - a valiant effort.


Provisional Race result

Layout Racing League returns on 08 March 2025 to a familiar and extremely fun venue - Scawen's Racetrack. One of the legacy layouts, certain to produce some fiesty racing. See you then!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Thu 27 Feb 2025, 15:50.