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Just found out I'm being kept behind another hour :/

#54 / R. McKenzie / DatHuski Twitch Channel

Should be good, if it needs rejigging just let me know and I'll rejig.

54/Huskii/Ross McKenzie/DatHuski Racing Team

Last edited by Huskii, Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:35. Reason : Name Update

Happy Holidays all! Here is the post for the Round 2 & 3 Results!

Round 2 exists in text only as I didn't get a screenshot at the time!

Round 2:


Note: VM Tzu has been awarded 3rd place, as the driver was still finishing the final lap when the session was vote changed to qualifying

Round 3:



Season Standings:



Preparation is underway for SORL Season 3.0 for the new year, car selection is being considered heavily, as always we accept suggestions and reasons within our Discord server! https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

Hello Everybody! Tonights password is: SORLRND2 and the JOIN button ingame will also work, if you've not signed up do so now to score points this round! Check the OP.

Quote from Aleksandr_124rus :

Regardless of my opinion, I think the market should show everything. And its has already shown quite well, for 10 years Tesla has proved that electric cars are the future, no matter how I feel about it. I think in 10 years, ICE cars will be rare and expensive objects for connoisseurs, and I'm not sure that they can be used on public roads,(if yes, then with big taxes) this is what everything is going to now.

This point is very good, especially about the 10 years ICE cars being expensive, they will also at some point become impractical too, in the UK there's a subsection about 'classic' cars of 20 and 40 years being tax and MOT exempt respectively, but also think about the infrastructure for ICE / fuel burning cars, with ICE cars being less and less common those places must adjust or go, and I think most will, leave and close. Which will make even owning an ICE car difficult and possibly expensive to run too with lower fuel demand meaning lower production and higher pricing (economy of scale)

Hello! I apologise for the lateness of this post, I have been snowed under with real world commitments over the past week of which I've had to find the free time to finalise a thing things within this season.

Firstly! Our leaderboard is up! Names will be added to this as drivers finish races, if you don't see your name, it doesn't mean you're not signed up, it just means you've not yet finished a race.

Find this leaderboard in the first post or here! https://docs.google.com/spread ... 6VEnfeWk/edit?usp=sharing

Hello! Due to a possible error in LFS's messaging system at the current time, the server password will be available within our discord, while I will try to send the forum message closer to the time.

https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

UNDER 24 Hours To Go!!!!

In under 24 hours we will be hitting the track of Aston for the first round of SORL Season 2.5! Sign up to join all the action

Here!: https://forms.gle/MPmYuWGsg7n7i2WY7

Join Our Discord!: https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Hi Mate (a NZ expression for deescalating an argument or conflict)

This is a sim racing platform and so a discussion on power sources for vehicles seems to be on topic, in an off topic area of the platform.

I, personally, avoid Farcebook like the latest plague as 'reasons'.

So, what are your views on EV's ?

Are they the ultimate solution or a bit of a problem themselves ?

Are hybrids a better choice ?

Is a hydrogen powered hybrid a route to follow ?

We here have a company working hard on using hydrogen as a fuel source for hybrid trucks that is a very interesting use of new technology to remove our reliance on petroleum energy.

Your opinion please.

EVs and Alternate fuels were a big part of my first year in college for automotive engineering and at the current spec, I don't think EVs are viable, yet. Will they ever be, ehhhh maybe. It depends on the adaptation and ease of recharging them as well as range. If you're pottering around town and to and from work, quick jumps and can charge at home, cool awesome. Long distance I'd not trust an EV at all.

During my first year we took time to... Theorise the rise of EVs and Alternate fuels looking both at current road-going vehicles and the motorsport world (Did you know Nurburgring 24hr has an Alternate Fuel category?) and the best case scenario is it'd be something like the rise of the ICE decades ago, this luxury high class thing that got adoption by 'lower classes' then the need for fuel exists and more options for refuelling appeared in forms of filling stations, will that happen with EVs? Doubtful. In my OPINION.

Then lets touch on the little topic of carbon reduction, a lot of people say "They're very environmentally friendly!" which yes, they are once driving, but what about the carbon emitted during manufacture, transport, etc. I couldn't find much credible data on this for whatever reason I'm not sure.

Then there's the strain on power production as well, living in a country that's seeing energy prices skyrocket and the possibility of blackouts to ease load burden on the grid, how would we go about fixing that? Disconnect EV chargers and charging from the main grid? That's just moving the problem on one step, power needs to come from somewhere.

Knowing people who own a range of EVs (Teslas' Volkswagens, etc) they are apparently alright cars as long as you remember to plug them in but I hear the same complaint (ish) every time "Charging out on the go is a pain." and I agree with them and can see that, be it the availability of charging or even speed of charging, filling a ICE based car is quick and easy and you're golden, an EV, you can be looking at a long time for a full charge, bearable time for a quick top-up, but if you're on a trip that would benefit from a full charge, then enjoy your stay here (Some places with chargers only allow shortstay! Add a parking fine onto that and you're less golden!)

Then on the EV specific front, amount of available workshops for EVs, at least here you need to go to a specialist, which can be both insanely inconvenient and in a lot of cases, very expensive, gone are the days of driveway work!

Are EVs the future? Maybe, nobody can really tell until its here, alternate fuels could be a good idea granting they are able to fill the void that the eventual removal of petrol and diesel will create, the slow ween off will be fine until a point and really the infrastructure for this needs to move quicker than the demand does.

Its not going to be a quick change, it never will be, some places here are moving in my opinion too quick (some cities banning cars, trucks, diesel vehicles, etc) and there will always be the risk of the movement of policy and law overtaking the position and progress of EV/AF vehicles which will be at best case annoying at worst case massively catastrophic.

Looking at motorsport specifically I am curious of how (much like F1 did in the day) how competition and racing can effect and propel road car development, things such as Formula E, Extreme E and RX-E as well as Moto-E and all the other kinds of electronic and alternate fuel formulas out there.

If I had to give a rough timeframe estimate, I'll likely be in my 40s or 50s (I'm in my 20s now!) before we see any huge meaningful jump forward, but that's the thing of this curve we find ourselves on, we don't see how quick it'll rise, if there are dips and most importantly when it will stop. We'll never be able to wake up one day and go "Right petroleum gone" that just won't work, it'll be gradual, slow and painful.

For Season 2.5 we will be running the Faik Topo Cup! All Information is in the Season Section!

Remember to join the SO Discord! https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

The end of the season has come!

After 6 races of wheel to wheel action the final results are in and the championship decided!

Round 6 Race Results:

The Championship!

A big Congratulations to Onur (CRT7) For taking the title with a dominant season, winning 6 of the 6 races to be crowned Season 2 Champion!

The rest of the table was tight as well, with movement occuring throughout

The Results for Round 5! Blackwood GP!



Thursday will see the final of SORL Season 2. Then we will be announcing "SORL Season 2.5"!

Remember to check out the championship table at: https://docs.google.com/spread ... mxNySTJ0/edit?usp=sharing

And to join the Street Obsessions Discord!
https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

The results of Round 4 are in!

Qualifying Results:



Race Results:



Scoreboard has been updated.

Round 3 Results!

I'm smart and thought I had posted this earlier this week, I forgot. My bad!


Race Results:






Penalties of note:

+5 Seconds to Lalurux for corner cutting. This does not effect the finishing order.

Hello! I apologise for the lateness of this post, after a tight race we've reviewed an incident report that was put in and as such the result will be somewhat different to the below image!

Qualifying Results:


Race Results:


Penalties of note:

D.Karlsson - DT Penalty converted to time Penalty (+18s) as such this driver drops down to 8th position, promoting Lalurux and Soini to 6th and 7th respectively.

Scoreboard will be updated in due course!

This round we're visiting the fast circuit of Weshtill for the National Layout, 25 laps of wheel to wheel racing in the Formula 60. Race 1 at Fern Bay Gold saw some great racing from the drivers, with a 5 car battle for the 3rd spot on the podium!

Password for tonights race will be sent out at 12:00 UTC approx to all signed up drivers.

We hope to see you all on track for the second round!

Remember to join the Street Obsessions Discord to stay up to date with SORL as well as our future events! https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

Hello! while we work on our shiny standings spreadsheet I have compiled a basic one at the current moment to enable drivers to roughly track their standings! (and look at their driver number!)

https://docs.google.com/spread ... mxNySTJ0/edit?usp=sharing

And the race 1 results are attached in the following image!



Thank you to everybody who attended in race 1, we'll be back next week for Westhill National!

Hello! Firstly a thank you to every driver who attended, we had 17 on the starting grid along with 12 finishers, with some close tight racing, the car proving the provide a very compacted field throughout the race.

This post comes with two big updates!

Firstly an update around Stewarding and Penalties, in case any incidents happen on track we have opted to roll out a Post Race Stewarding system, utilising the tickets bot in our Discord server. Drivers will have 24 hours from the end of the event to submit incidents for review.

Secondly a modification to our points system, due to the amount of sign-ups and attendees within our first race we have made the decision to modify the points system to ensure people are properly pointed for their races, this decision was made as our current system only awards points for 1st-10th.

To ensure our points gap remains consistent throughout the new system and the old one, the points will be as follows:

1st: 64
2nd: 62
3rd: 60
4th: 58
5th: 56
6th: 54
7th: 52
8th: 50
and so on until 32nd at 2 points.

Race results will come in due course later this evening.

Remember to join the SO Discord!: https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

We're coming up to our first race of the season and we are excited for it! A message has been sent out to all signed up drivers for people who are signed up and have not received a message please do get in contact with me with the username you used to sign up.

Remember to join in the SO Discord! https://discord.gg/XF4jTyx6Ra

We've made an update to the times of the event. Please see above post for updated timings.

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/100571 SORL has moved to a new thread

The Street Obsessions Racing League is a for fun racing league within LFS using Faik Topo Cup mod. Races will be run on Thursdays with practice starting at 19:00 UTC


Every race is for points, the points table is shown below.

Season Standings:
(No bonus points awarded for any car)

Leaderboard link: https://docs.google.com/spread ... 6VEnfeWk/edit?usp=sharing

1st 64
2nd 62
3rd 60
4th 58
5th 56
6th 54
7th 52
8th 50
9th 48
10th 46
11th 44
12th 42
13th 40
14th 38
15th 36
16th 34
17th 32
18th 30
19th 28
20th 26
21st 24
22nd 22
23rd 20
24th 18
25th 16
26th 14
27th 12
28th 10
29th 8
30th 6
31st 4
32nd 2
DNF / DSQ: 0


All points can be tracked in the spreadsheet, which will be distributed after the first round of the championship.

Rules


1:Follow the rules of clean racing: https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Rules_of_Clean_Racing
2:Be on time for qualification / races (if a driver misses qualification they’ll be placed at the back of the grid)
3:No cheats / hacks of ANY KIND.
4:Respect flags, if it’s yellow be cautious of an upcoming incident.
5:Sign-ups necessary.


Signing Up


Sign ups are required for the league table, anybody can sign up at any time over on Google Forms https://forms.gle/oSsLb5ni4TnYUeSv9 (There are no team sign-ups)

Racing Calendar


Event Times

19:00 UTC - Practice (15m)
19:15 UTC - Qualification (15m)
19:30 UTC - Race Start

Last edited by Huskii, Sat, 3 Dec 2022 13:24. Reason : Addition of Season Standings Link

I mean my life in bangers is just to flip you with your sets <3

Yes, good idea. Some tracks (RX, Rally, Bangers [I will beat u one day Jam >:C] FWD racing, etc could really benefit from this.