119, but 109 atm are active. I was not satisfied to rest ten due too hard for suspension, BF1 could not manage to make even one lap.
Thank Scawen and Eric for making this possible! Waiting to see some updates for mentioned track areas
Names are not hard, it simply comes with the name similar fashion as I make layouts. No plans, nothing copied. Just I get IDEA, then I make it, then I try it, and name comes after while.
Round 34, Midnight racing in Europe with four racers and three different cars. LLM.Sobis ( LFSW: Sobis ) Hits the finish line first and takes 6th win on his Flat Out! Series! career. He led all thirteen laps and was the only one who did not repair his car. That risk did pay him well and was clearly on top alone.
2nd place is taken by fastest racer in Round 34. UM21 did select 1XF and proved that car indeed can challenge 1LX. However, forced repair on mandatory pitstop did cost somewhat 25 seconds and was stuck on behind other 1LX racer for several laps. Clear 2nd place for him though.
3rd place is taken by first timer, Jam 616 ( LFSW: Racon )! He did select same car as winner, but pace was simply not enough and ultimately he broke his car on 8th lap, as suspension "scattered to red". Forced repair, but still on podium. Well Done!
4th place is taken by PopnLoch ( LFSW: PopnLochNessMonster ). 3rd attempt did give a result and receives points, with double! His 1XR was clearly most fastest car in top speed, but overall pace was not enough. Also repairing the car in mandatory pitstop did cost him a podium. 1XR could easily survive all 13 laps.
That's all! 4/4 finishers, as expected! Now highlights!
The start grid. No one was even close to UM21's pole position time, and starts from 1st place. That will change pretty soon as green comes out. 1LX is far superior on acceleration!
After Turn 1.
On first laps, racing was real! Battle between 2nd-4th. Sobis escaped already!
Video about it!
UM21 finally escapes from Jam 616's 1LX. Ironically, Jam was really a jam! Congratulations! You are now known simply as Mr.Jam!
And so he goes straight to pitlane as well. UM21 is first guy to make mandatory stop.
PopnLoch manages to overtake Jam. Suspension is dead.
At same time Leader is doing also pitstop, Jam is going to make pitstop as well at same lap.
Almost PopnLoch managed to lead one lap, close call.
Due the night @ Europe, pretty sure he is partially right. ( EUROBEAT INFESTATION! )
TRIVIA
2 new guys managed to receive first points: Mr.Jam and PopnLoch.
Only four racers did involve to Round 34
Despite big gaps, all four cars were very equal to each other, at least on short races!
UM21 did hit pole and fastest lap, Sobis won the race and led every lap.
No !flip commands used.
Stats and points will be updated later ( When I am typing this, all of sudden I got task to do and I have to go off )
Thank you for participating this round! Next round will be on this week's Thursday @ 19:30 UTC. Cars and track absolutely random, selected number is 84, what it is? Stay tuned!
I admit I got annoyed because I got banned from that server because some other guys did crash to each other, while me driving cleanly. I got also banned because... well, no reason lol.
Have been in that server before with some good racing, seems not anymore possible. But it is not the server's fault or anybody else, just administration in that server getting butt hurt by someone poor racer making too harsh contact, making a result several racer being banned, and yet still quality there is not increased.
Funny, so... any good rallycross servers?
EDIT: Sorry, no .mpr because I already entered to another server, so no temp.mpr available. Let the fame speak instead of.
EDIT: I know Finnish rally server, but instead of doing point-to-point, I would like to see to do some laps.
Cars and track are now locked on server. See you on midnight!
EDIT: It has turn out, that all 4 cars are matched equally each other, which is very nice to see! 1LX being slightly faster compared to other cars. ( 0,4 seconds faster per lap time, making 2:43.1x while others 2:43.5x - 2:43.7x. However, 1LX seems to be hardest car here to nail the lap time )
Hmmmm... but MKRYDR absolutely has point, while this thread is indeed a bit rant.
Anyway, where you have been? ( You all ). Let's go already to the LFS! You too MKRYDR, come on! Let's not be sad now and make our moods even worse, I will do in some point a harsh but healthy attempt and report this in being locked.
COME OOON! <--- ON ALREADY! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I go for layouts in single player, later.
By the way, due the several things happened in other servers, this server is getting people nearly all the time, so now, if you are looking some racing with full throttle with people on, here is now your chance.
Several unexpected events happened in race of Round 33, but probably one expected, as Sobis hits 2nd time in his Flat Out! career Grand Slam! Ultimate performance did prove that all but one, could not really stand a chance. Sobis ( LFSW: Sobis ), representing as Last Lap Motorsports team, collects 15 points more and 12 points for his team. Pole Position, Fastest lap and every lap he led, he could not done really much better. Congratulations!
2nd place goes to UM21. Setup was slower than Sobis' set, and laptimes were nearly 1 second slower each. Only drafting could bring him to go sub 1:15. The fear of suspension wearing off was high for him, but no repairs needed. Due the mistakes by other racers, 2nd place is for sure good place to finish.
3rd place goes to R.Kardol. This racer's familiarly called as Rik, had some battles between UM21 and Willi on early laps, but pitstop with repairs selected on ruined his result for plausibly better position. However, due the mistakes by Y.Laprevotte and Willi, 3rd place is most likely a satisfaction for him. Podium is podium!
4th place is taken by T.Soini. Once again he managed to finish the race, despite having pretty much same story as nearly everytime, confident run, but not enough speed. Still, as always, finish is better than DNF.
Surprisingly, Willi did "only" get no higher than 5th place. Having a weird take-off on lap 16, which has slow motion video about it, was absolutely at least podium pace. It was unfortunate drop-off for him, as being probably LFS Bug, Willi did hit a mysterious, invisible object, which can happen if perfect angle is performed towards to down. There is also similar fashion to get actually slightly more speed from landing, but it happens more rarely than hitting and getting off. Anyway, finish is finish!
9 Qualifiers, 8 of them did start, 5 of them did finish. Over 50%! Now, highlights!
Start Grid
And the start video itself.
Beautiful picture taken from after Turn 1, and the moment when first lap is completed! RedBot (LFSW: redbot_ ) goes immediately for mandatory pitstop.
First DNF happens at this point: SHOON ( LFSW: FernandoFixa ), goes too fast and drops off. He ultimately goes to the garage, but rules says once you go to garage or spectate, the DNF will be permament, regardless of being it blocked or not.
Battling for 3rd place was sometimes insane! 3-wide at finish line.
Uh-Oh... Y.Laprevotte is out! Losing control on final S-turn and didn't attempt to try to get back on the track, DNF!
Shortly after, Pack is depleted, UM21 goes for mandatory pitstop
Statistics in somewhat 50% of the race completed. ( Atm T.Soini is for mandatory pitstop, which is not seen in picture, being overtaken by RedBot at this picture, driving on 5th position. )
This is the issue of unfortunate! Check this out as Willi gets weird contact and drops off. He managed to get back on the track by two !flip commands.
Oh no... on last lap, he gets off and has to DNF by LFS deciding for not finishing the race... Another unfortunate moment, and another retirement for his career in Flat Out! Series! Too bad.
TRIVIA
Race was shorter than usually.
First time RACCAR is seen.
Qualify pace and race pace was similar, but not everybody decided to go for same pace, due the fear of suspension not holding to the finish.
We saw one new racer: SHOON ( LFSW: FernandoFixa )
Despite layout were judged to be easy, it was quite tricky for RCC.
EDIT: More to mention
Willi have collected now over 300 points.
R.Kardol's first podium place.
Statistics and points will be updated shorty.
Thank you for participating this round. Next round will be on next tuesday, and it will be MIDNIGHT, which will gather double points. Let's see how many people will enter then. 00:00 UTC, that actually means that round time from 19:00 UTC, will be 19 hours earlier, so, if you are planning to enter on Round 34, absolutely when UTC hits from monday to tuesday, round will start.
Selected number is 72. Yes, 72 did also draw this midnight time, double points! Stay tuned!
Ahh, so it does not have any issue about licensing, but more like I thought in other hand about it would be unrealistic.
But then again... lol
EDIT: I did read more about the thread and indeed it is not at all about license issue, so I wonder how I got that in my head even though I am supposed to be aware it's not that at all lol. Brains malfunction
Was original plan to be S3-server.
S2 and S1-licensed users will still be able to visit on the server, if all requirements for certain license is met, for example, if LX4 car is open, you must have S2-license to use it. Same thing with tracks.
So in overall, if combo is S1-track with S1-cars only, you can join to server with S1-license. But for obtaining full feature of this server, you must have S3-license.
It can be even Demo licensed people joining to server, but needs to have no layout, only max guests: 15, and demo cars and Blackwood track with no reverse or open configurations.
When most of people successfully joined to Round 32 as planned, it was already dramatic moment before the START, as rolling start was the good idea to hold for "The 250" Class. One of the racers did not really understand the concept at all, despite it was explained at least twice, he gets 1-race suspension, and will be expired till he next time attends to qualify.
Also, once GREEN is appeared on top left in chat box, you are allowed to go full throttle and overtake immediately. This had some minor confusing as one of the racers did not overtake as had a chance to do so. Sure, it could be also a plan to go straight to bump drafting, but that did not go as planned.
ALSO, one of the racers did DNF right after GREEN did appear, by losing control. Shame, he could have done good result big time! Maybe next time mate!
But ladies and gentleman, we have... ONCE AGAIN... NEW WINNER! AND I AM GLAD TO PROVE HE FINALLY DID IT!
JAY FROM FINLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!
Excellent performance! OUTSTANDING SOLOING! The pace was incredibly fast and everything was calculated in just right! Sure, Y.Laprevotte and T.Soini could catch him easily by bumpdrafting, but T.Soini planned not to go full speed on the "drop zone"! Maybe it was wise decision as several people had suspension problems right away. However, Jay led all 16 laps, and started from pole...
...BUT COULD NOT TAKE GRAND SLAM! Fastest lap was taken by Y.Laprevotte. However, congratulations Jay! And welcome to the winner's club! Time to take some more wins to catch Mr.Flat Out!, isn't it?
Haaa! The 2nd place is taken by Y.Laprevotte. This Mr.Seahorse showed about capabilities of being a serious threat to Jay's victory pace. However, bad decision at start and difference of the strategies between him and T.Soini didn't pay off. 11 seconds was enough to find out about Jay's maximum attack straight away from GREEN. Anyway, another podium! Well done!
3rd place is taken by Mr. Steady a.k.a. "The Supersteady". T.Soini simply refused to go every time flat out trough the drop zone section. Would have pay off well, if Leader's suspension would had collapsed. This time, winner simply nailed his setup, pace and strategy.
4th place is finisher is most likely new, fresh winds arrived to Flat Out! Series!, as DMACK×Gevin (LFSW: Sandisck ), first timer, managed to see finish line! DMACK×Gevin will be the 25th racer who will receive points from the series! He did even chose worst car from The 250 class, as FXO Turbo was not enough fast car in 32x Boost layout. He recognized too late about the rules and car was locked due having already set a laptime in board. Ultimately his rear suspension collapsed totally, but with great skills and behavior of being front wheel drive did secure to finish the race. Magnificent!
5th place is taken by the creator of Flat Out!. XF GTR was totally not the car to select, and several suspension damage problems almost ended his race. However, when only 5 racers did finish, being lapped several times does not matter, as points are thing which makes things change. Could have been worse though...
Yay! Time for some highlights!
Very first one, this guy is the one who gets suspension. RACER ( LFSW: Octosquad ) failed big time to understand some certain methods of rolling start. He did jump to the several positions higher than ordered, eventually did drop off the track. He also did go to pits and coming back to race, as going to garage or spectating and coming back to track is strongly forbidden. Blocker was not activated, but that does not mean to break some rules. He eventually DNF by simply giving up.
The moment when GREEN appeared! Otherwise the start was appropriate, despite RACER still on the track.
Video about it... videos, as you might find out something odd. ( Not really hard to find it out! )
The black FZ3, driven by Morrocoldope ( LFSW: adibfaklani ), did hit those bumps and lost control straight away. Panic Shift S did end his race already before it really started! Only Green did appear. Shame, could have been really good result!
RedSuns•Popn ( LFSW: PopnlochnessMonster ) and LawB LIKE ( LFSW: MartynasL ) had some collision on drop zone. Starting lap was not good for them either. However, no penalties received, as bad visibility and simple unmeant mistake.
Meanwhile in the lead: UM21 is going to pits, setup was absolute disaster and XF GTR in generally was not enough fast in this track.
More drama! LawB LIKE ( LFSW: MartynasL ) is overtaking DMACK×Gevin (LFSW: Sandisck ), but too much speed will make some taxes. DNF at the end.
Not much to go, situation looks like this:
As UM21 was far behind due suspension problems. He is getting lapped by Jay. However, attempt to gain some draft will cause some dramatic moment... an epic save! Cold tires are cold, no grip in other words!
As, three XR3 cars were going on their own, in back, positions 4 and 5, drivers are refusing to go to pits and going to risk their race. Both drivers have already suspension problems!
Outcome is drastic! Mr. Flat Out! is out of the race! Suspension did not hold any longer... only 2 corners left. As could not steer at all, DNF is the only solution! Very unexpected!
TRIVIA
Jay won 1st time!
1st time The 250 is seen on action!
First time race suspension is received.
GT3 was faster on this kind of layout, but outcome could have been different, if race was 2 laps longer.
No XRT or RAC is seen, which is big surprise. Also no FX3 is seen in action.
New racer did receive points: Sandisck
11 racers did start. FZ cars were no good at all here.
EDIT: More to mention...
We saw 5 new racers, one of them managed to receive points.
Only one !flip command used, UM21 had to use.
3rd time we see a rolling start.
First time a layout is used in both normal and reversed version.
First time FXO Turbo is seen on action.
Stats and points will be updated soon!
Thank you for participating this round! Next round will be on this week's Thursday, and will see single car on action. Car and layout is random. Find out more in Wednesday! Stay tuned! Good racing!