Was great racing!

Last race was best for me, a couple of 1:22's and could give most a fight for position. (before losing the position..) I must admit the reversed grid option is frightening when everyone faster is behind and comming, but guarantees an edge of the seat race.

You people are really fast. Also good clean fair racing.

Not sure why there weren't more people, the track sure is challenging and exciting for the lx6, and even when you won't drive for the win you'll have a good time. I noticed some people that weren't fast enough to win were quick to leave the server. There's no reason for that, also with these multi-races, every race you get faster. (Nothing will improve your drivingskills like an hour in the lx6)

The LX6 rules.

Great! Going to try to make it.

Racing in a league sounds like a lot of fun to me and something I hope to do in the future.
But being almost new to LFS so far I have no clue what leagues I could join, etc. But i hope to figure some of that out comming weeks and sign up for one.

After reading this post in the afternoon I went on Volvolandia tonight (from around 8:30 till 9:30 Holland time) and could do 3 races. Races of 7 laps, SO town course Rev.

Some real good fun! Started out with lx6 (LFS-licenced for about two weeks, but GPL-addict for the past 8 years, so the LX6 is by far my favourite car, although a bit underpowered ) but as most others were driving lx4'rs (some other guy asked lx4 or lx6? , they said lx6 if you can handle it..ehh) , and you can kinda aim and shoot the lx6, i was going too fast compared to my skill, getting upto the ultra fast leader Renku, figured doing something stupid would make me look like an even bigger noob then for driving the lx6 when the others are lx4'ing.

After race switched to lx4, quickly tried to transfer most of my settings from lx6 to 4 (i ignored the lx4 so far in Lfs..) and off i went.
That sucked, now i couldn't hide my lack of skill. Out of ~7 people (if i remember right) the leading two (Renku and Iron) built a lead on me after lap one, never to be seen again. Them doing 1:30's and 1:31's, me doing 1:33's. But could take 3rd place.

Next race was good but a little stressfull. This time the same two leaders blasted off, but getting the hang of the track i could now sort keep number two in sight. In (i believe) lap 3 he went wide for the left hairpin following the back straight, me nearly spinning off as well watching that but could recover and take second place, with the fast guy (Iron) now on my tail. Pressure! All goes well, manage to get down to low 1:32's and one 1:31 high, and i have about two seconds between us in the last lap, where i mess up the fast third gear right corner following the really fast 4th/5th gear right halfway the track. Pressure! Pressure! :eye-poppi and the fast guy can now sort of draft, i rev the thing and put my head down behind the computer (i get over exited) to avoid extra drag and just manage to take second. Wiping the sweat of my face. Geez.

Nice.

Good that some motorbike numbers already got mentioned, because that also gives a good indication of what's possible even with normal aspirated (non turbo) engines.

With productionbikes you see 4 cylinder litre powers hitting 180 bhp nowadays, and 4 cylinder in line 1000cc's revving upto 12.000 rpm. (that's pretty high..:schwitz

Although a roadcar's engine is made to last higher mileage and longer service intervals compared to most bike-engines, say 100K kilometers/60K miles is still possible with such a bike-engine before revision is needed in most cases, when treated well.
Another reason car-engine bhp's are usually much lower is because that gives the engine more and a more pleasant torque-curve for a car..

With turbo's you can double, perhaps tripple horsepowers, also on bikes, for example there seem to be a lot of turbo'ed Hayabusa's (gsxr1300's, perhaps some bored to 1500 or even bigger) around, with horsepowers going upto 500 bhp or over. Those probably won't last very long..but for racing that's not always a requirement either.

So the bhp's the LFS cars put out is just too low.

I believe there's a Hayabusa powered Caterham, the LX6 is probably based on that. (It's rev's, power, six speed gearbox and "feel" certainly seem to match to me.)

Also this is my first post on the LFS forum, hi all. Hope it works.
(Found out about LFS about a month ago, licenced a week ago. Love it , used to be addicted to GPL.)