The weather forecast for Round 2 is now public. Some imaginative raindrops are expected, so better get used to the road tyres.

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skin e-chalenger-97

Please add the first three initials of the surname onto the endplates of the top of the roll hoop structure when you have a chance.

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Previously I believe it was a limitation of the tire compound and the way they interacted with the bumps of the old attack zone. We wont have the same limitation this time. Maikl can correct me if I am wrong on that part.

The major issue with the attack boost gimmick was that while it was mildly challenging to keep the car straight on the boost strip with slicks, it was nearly impossible to do the same with road tyres. Hence we dropped the rule about mandatory use in wet, as it would screw up all those who had to yet to use some when the rain has started. But since issue is no longer there with different power modes, the rule is no longer needed.

Hello there!

Last year we indeed used both directions for the Berlin e-Prix layout, however this time around we are utilising only one direction in both Berlin races, and that will be the standard, counter-clockwise direction

The closest we ever got to some sort of dynamic weather conditions in LFS was (and still is) the system we introduced in the E-Challenge competition.

Essentially we were mandating the use of less grippy road tyres at specific timeframes, pretending it is raining and the grip is low. Of course no rain was falling down on the track, no game physics had changed, we just run the road tyres because the gods of fake weather system said so.

And considering how small the development team of LFS is and what are the current priority tasks, it is safe to say there won't be any better weather system for quite a while.

Last edited by michal 1279, Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:16.

Greetings gentleman!

It's been quite some time since the final round of the E-Challenge was held, but the real life commitments were exceptionally demanding for all the year for me (and kinda still are), therefore it took until now to conclude the series we held in early 2023.

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who did attend the series and was not put away by its sheer complexity. You guys did provide some awesome racing action across 5 real life track replicas.

Equally I'd like to thank everyone involved in the organization of the series - the New Dimension Racing crew for their traditionally professional handling of the championship and all its dependencies, the SimBroadcasts personnel for providing the awesome broadcasts from all championship rounds, the Master Race car team for giving me the necessary support wherever it was needed, and last but not least, to the Live for Speed developers for their technical support that makes this kind of dreamed series possible in first place.

With all 10 races completed in first months of 2023, let's have a look at the final results so we can officially crown the 2023 champions.

The fight for the overall lead was intense among many drivers, but ultimately it came down to a showdown between the Hungarian Gábor Gyüre and Malaysian Imran Azhar, as they came just 1 point apart into the final race of the final round in Adelaide. Gábor however was able to withstand the pressure and secure the number one spot even after the final race had concluded with late Safety Car. His 294 championship points therefore make him the official 2023 E-Challenge Driver Champion, dethroning Jimi Virtanen, who conquered both previous E-Challenge runnings. Imran Azhar tried his best but his 283 points were not enough for the overall victory, however it was more than enough for safely bringing home the second place ahead of Niko Puntola in third place with 266 points next to his name.

The teams championship was little more straight forward, as the team of Master Race car won with a comfortable lead over the team S1DUS (MRc scored 474 points and S1DUS 377 points). Things probably would be a little bit different if Niko Puntola had not run under the Pacifi.Tech team this year instead of his typical S1DUS affiliation. Third place goes to Race Green Autosports, carrying home 337 points, much improving their overall score from previous years.

Here are the complete results:
*2 worst results from the first 8 races are dropped as per 2023 championship rules




The drivers eligible for the monetary prize will be contacted in the following weeks/months with further details. Apologies for all the delays, however as I mentioned at the beginning, life's been a b!tch for the past year, so please be patient...



Additionally, we made a little bit of secondary awards to point out some interesting statistics and situations we encountered this year.

E-Challenge awards:

Best driver award - Gábor Gyüre
Who would think that? Let's slap another trophy on top of his first place trophy.

Loser of the year award - Imran Azhar
This one goes to the drivers with the most 2nd places - Imran was anything but a loser on the track, however the second one to finish is the first one to lose and Imran was the most frequent competitor to get the silver trophy.

Clean driver award - cancelled...
While this has been a fundamental part of the E-Challenge since its beginning, the time it takes to evaluate all drivers across all events is massively demanding and at this point due to the time constrains resolving this award is out of question. However, we still encourage clean driving and will attempt to give this award a proper go in the 2024 edition again!

Most efficient driver award - Imran Azhar
No one else did stand out in terms of energy management more than Azhar, his energy budget was exceptionally bountiful almost every race and this award is well deserved.

Torpedo award - Scawen Roberts
Scawen had a great time racing with us in the last two rounds, however there were few things not going his way - one of them being trying to catch the Safety Car queue in Adelaide and heavily rear-ending Jared Meade in the process. Luckily no harm was done to either driver.

Aerobatics award - Scawen Roberts
Scawen certainly had an eventful evening in Adelaide - on the last lap of the last race he clipped the inside barrier of turn 8 and went airborne immediately after, performing an exceptionally difficult stunt. Kudos for landing on the wheels and managing to finish the race anyway.

Commitment award - G. Gyüre, I. Azhar, N. Puntola, J. Meade, R. Kronpušs, L. Lucidi, P. Vitor, O. Grigorjevs
This one simply goes to everyone who attended all races in the 2023 edition of the E-Challenge. Thank you all for sticking with us!

Best finish award - Karolis Motieujitis
K. Motieujitis had regular strong finishes, however nothing beats his last lap of race 1 in New York. Coming fifth from the last turn and stealing the podium by 0,04 seconds on the line is definitely something we did watch over and over again.

Best WTF moment award - Yassin Bidal
Sometimes you just don't understand how something had happened - that's possibly the case with Y. Bidal's Mexico City self knockout in race one. It is even more funny if you consider it was still under the Safety Car condition.

Bad luck award - Jared Meade
Jared was having his own race in Singapore, however things completely outside of his control had impeded his drive, as he was hit by a rogue tyrestack from two turns before. No harm was done, but this was definitely one of the weird unlikely events.

Consistency award - Imran Azhar
Imran Azhar once again ladies and gentlemen. With average position of 2,3 and standard deviation of 0,94868 Imran was the most consistent competitor in the series.

Best race director award - J.P.
This one goes to a person that did the best job overseeing the E-Challenge racing. Just posting his initials is enough to let you know who it was

Qualifying hero award - Gábor Gyüre
Unsurprisingly, most pole positions were connected together by Gábor. So here's another award!

Fastest lapper award - Niko Puntola
This year points were offered even for fastest laps. Niko Puntola made the most of it with most fastest laps done by anyone and gets another award.

Best newcomer award - Alan Terzic
Terzic joined the series in the very final round - the newcomer dramatically miscalculated the energy in the race 1, then almost won the race 2. That's quite a progress!


Hope you liked and enjoyed the 2023 E-Challenge, very soon (within few days) we will be back with yet another refined electric racing action as our goal is to further improve this product and make Live for Speed great again! So stick with us, we'll be right back!

You really should use the 'Cloudy' weather option to minimize cars appearing overly bright and reduce shadows

Vehicle mod: MAD SCHUMI 98
Details page: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/CF912B

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

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Accurate recreation of the historic event in Spa.

DESCRIPTION:

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It is 1998 and you have just rear-ended David Coulthard on the way towards Pouhon.
Can you make it into the pits faster than David despite having fewer wheels?
Can you beat the crap out of him before the pit crew separate you?
This is your chance to rewrite the history!

The skin is FO8-compatible; however the technical specs are mostly based on the actual vehicle the mod is inspired by.

Have fun and and overtake backmarkers responsibly!

COVER SCREENSHOT:

Quote from Pasci :

Cool mod! Thanks

I had strange behavior today. But it's not clear to me whether it's a bug in the mod or in LFS.

Track: Blackwood Historic [reverse]
Pit lane: Speed limiter on

Shortly before leaving the pit lane, I received a drive-through penalty - with the speed limiter still on... and rightly so, the speed increased to over 80 km/h?! It's slightly downhill there. But I was already on the gas pedal.

I was also able to reproduce it with the E-Challenger Evo.

Perhaps someone can confirm/verify that too?

Thanks

I had a look at the issue you described, please see the explanation here:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2082546#post2082546

Hello there.

I can confirm this is happening and I believe I know why/how, so I'll try to explain:

The way the limiter works is it cuts the throttle to stop the car from accelerating. It however does not engage the brakes to slow the car in any way. In this particular scenario when the car gets on the downhill slope the limiter stops the car from active acceleration, however as the car keeps rolling down the slope, it gains speed from gravitational forces. While this is obvious with EVs (such as both E-Challengers) due to their very low engine resistance/inertia, you can reproduce it with combustion cars as well. Simply leave the pits and go at the limiter towards the slope. Once at slope, either engage the clutch or go to neutral (this removes the engine resistance from the equation) and the car will start gaining speed despite being at the limiter as well.

So this 'issue' was always there, but was not obvious until EVs were introduced in LFS.
I'm not sure if real life pit limiter would use brakes to slow the car down though, I think this would probably happen irl as well.

47/michal 1279/Michal Málek/Czechia/Happy Birthday To Us!/[MRc] Michal

Quote from RC-Maus :

Think we get email when someone unlocks the game?
Including ip adres.
I'm not worried so far.

May not be the case if the game is already unlocked at the point of attempting to use another account.

Quote from rane_nbg :

Interesting. I vote for option number 3
+1👌

Anticipate a public war over what is considered a turn and what is not

Quote from Antonnio Giovannazi :

I CREATED THIS GROUP FOR PEOPLE THAT WANT TO HELPS DEMO LICENSES PEOPLE BECAME S1, FOR HAVING BETTER EXPERIENCE IN-GAME.

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If you want to help me or other people became S1 you can leave a respond to this forum

These people are usually very helpful with upgrading demo users to S1 level. Please visit the link for more info:
https://www.lfs.net/shop/licenseselect
Hope it helps.

I recall encountering this error once during Crashmaaas event, however I have no idea what could be the cause and failed to reproduce it with any meaningful attempts since.

I see I really need to give more care to my Grand Prix Legend 65 mod and make a 1967 derivation of it so these two can compete together

24h or 4h? Post says 24, regulations say 4...

Quote from Scawen :

Please can you give an example of a pit lane where Formula US 93 (or another mod) speeds in the pitlane due to acceleration?

SUPER GP (https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/999C4D) at Rockingham Oval (or any RO config I believe).

Do a wheelspin out of the pit box and the limiter engages too late for the car to stay under the speed limit.

After nearly 2 years of 'sleep' I can share some bits of development progress I had with this recently.



Looking forward to see some diverse grids

Well, something is definitely in the making:

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2028516#post2028516


but no idea when we will get a chance to use it

This view shows the individual forces for each of the car's axis exerted on the individual wheel.

The colour logic is that the scale from blue to green represents the utilization of the tyre's grip in that direction (blue = 'zero' force applied in that direction; green = you are on the limit of what the wheel can handle), while it turns red the moment you overpush the tyre (for example slip or lockup under braking).
The yellow lines represent the weight pushing down on the respective wheel as you drive.

Some useful imagery can befound here:
https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Advanced_Setup_Guide (section Brakes)

Quote from Avraham Vandezwin :

I don't know how Eric's current tool works, or what else needs to be developed to make it public. I'm not talking about complicating things to waste time.
In my opinion, a 3D track modelling algorithm and a few specific 3D object libraries would produce tracks faster than doing everything from scratch.
No matter the visual resemblance to reality. What matters is the quality of the track. In the track environments, there are always the same things (grass, pits, stands, etc.). A track is not a car . It is totally unnecessary to model everything every time. Having standard resizeable generic objects would suffice. And we would have quality tracks more quickly.

I'm sure the track editor has its own subobject system, after all you can see plenty of reoccuring objects across existing LFS environments.

Quote from Aleksandr_124rus :

Maybe, but I wonder how copyright and licensing extends to tracks? They're not brand names of cars that are manufactured and sold. That's a completely different matter. Like maybe we're allowed to use actual track names? Who would be against that? It's extra publicity for the track owners. Why not?

Well, I recall the first ProjectCARS game had fake names for some real tracks (Monaco and Suzuka spring to my mind) so there are clearly legal limitations to tracks as well.
And the even bigger issue is you'll still have to model whole track by yourself unless some big studio that made it with hard money kindly allows you to use their model...

The handle was removed to improve the handling.