The French League, also called by Frenchies the "Ligue FR", is a friendly league running since the earlier years of LFS on LFS France. It was originally founded by MT-Shark, and since 2008 it moved on the Gcomp plateform build by Gai-Luron, which is also know for his LFS Lapper. It has been managed and ran by many hoster/admins (Shark, Loconstant, Quaid, Momo92i, Worm...), but since 2013, System (Kova.) stayed in charge of it, and has never stopped it despite the lowering grids.
Basically made for french talking people, it has always allowed strangers of another nations to compete in, without any restrictions.
The concept is to take part to a certain amount of events which is an average of 10 to 12 events per season, among which you have 3 jokers, which mean you can miss or fail 3 events during the whole season, they won't be counted. Each event is made by more or less than 4 weeks of pre-qualifying, in which you compete to set your fastest lap on the designed combo at the server, in order to set your grid position. The pre-qualifying ends the night from Sunday to Monday at midnight, french time. And then the following monday at 9:15 pm french time, takes place the race for about 30 mins.
Yesterday evening was held the last round of the 2025 Summer Tour hosted by LFS France. Middle of summer vacation, the attendance wasn't the best but still 7 drivers had the courage to fight the long Ritonbourg's path that was using the longest Westhill's countryside roads. It's DLV who got the pole position in the money time in front of Donald, showing one to the other that they wouldn't give up for the title fight! The minister of laps, Daf, got the 3rd place, in front of System. KingJr was 5th in front of Mitsu, while Cyk was completing the 9 drivers grid as we were missing 2 at the start time : Papator and Aposki.
Race 1 :
DLV took a good start, so did Donald, but behind them, it's System who picked the best starting card and got rid of Daf on the grid, and was closing on Donald. But 3 corners later, drama in the title fight! DLV and Donald were in a tight battle side by side approaching the 5th corner, when it came into the braking zone, they touched, but it seemed just a little love slide. Somewhat, their cars didn't tolerated that! DLV's car went to sleep on the side, while Donald's went for a hug with a light pole. And for DLV, that was infortunately a necessity to use a reset to get back on the wheels. And System wasn't asking that much of a red carpet to take the lead of the race in front of Daf! But at the end of the first lap, the GUM Garage's driver made a big mistake, hitting a concrete pole on the rear of his car, ending up in the grass, leaving System into a impressive escape. Behind, DLV and Donald were on a recovery mission as they already passed Mitsu a couple of seconds later after their adventure, and then KingJr and Daf quickly on the second lap. A lap later, it was the poor Cyk who was DLV's next victim, while Donald had to pay more effort to get rid of him. But then that was all the title fighting pair could have hoped of, as System had a impressive matress of over 10 sec leading gap. And that's how the FSR Team's boss claimed his first win of the 2025 Summer Tour! DLV finished in second, in front of Donald. Cyk, Daf, KingJr and Mitsu were completing the results. After the race 2, DLV has been given a 30 sec penalty following his reset, per his asking. He's demoted to P4, offering Donald the P2, and Cyk the last step on the podium.
Race 2 :
Prior to race 1's result in reverse order, Mitsu was starting on pole in front of KingJr, Daf, Cyk, Donald, DLV and System.
The grid took a clean start, and was making a tight pack of 7 drivers. Inside this group, DLV was the one making the most interesting move as he was already into 4th mid lap, knocking at the door of the Top 3 group. Infortunately for Mitsu, his leadership went over into the 6th corner as he smacked a corner indicating pole, leaving KingJr and Daf into the lead. But DLV was here like a sneaky fox ready to jump on his piece of food, and he took perfectly the drafting of these 2, to take the leadership at the end of the 3rd sector! What a move from DLV!! Behind, Daf took the second place while KingJr infortunately touched with Donald, and then he tried to hold the 3rd from System, but the FSR Team's played it safe while KingOfIce's son took too much risk that costed him his position. As we were entering the second lap, System got the best from Daf's position. Infortunately for our minister of laps, despite all the practice, the races aren't rewarded well for him as another incident with a concrete pole sent him to P6. That promoted Donald into P3 as he passed Cyk at the same time. The Lituanian driver then tried to chase System for the second place and keep his hopes alive, but System didn't failed into second, improving his personal best lap, laps after laps, making the top 3's gap stable. The only battle in the field was to put into KingJr and Mitsu's account for the 5th place. On the last lap, Mitsu seemed to have the advantage, but he had a 30s penalty to come for a reset... And then DLV took the last win of the season, his 3rd for this 2025 Summer Tour. System complete a 1-2 FSR finish into the second spot, while Donald take the last spot on the podium. Cyk finish 4th, meanwhile Mitsu crossed the line in front of KingJr, but the latter was given the 5th place thanks to Mitsu's penalty. And then came Daf into 7th.
System is the overall winner of this 3rd round with 199 points! DLV and Donald are again tied up, this time for second place with 197 points! In the championship, what more of a suspense that DLV and Donald scored the same amount of points when they were already tied up after the second round?! After some quick maths wins wise, it's indeed DLV who's succeeding L.Rydh and became the 2025 Summer Tour's champion! Indeed, the FSR Team driver has scored 3 wins* (round 1 race 2, round 2 race 2, round 3 race 2), and that's one more than Donald* (round 1 race 1, round 2 race 1). System and his regularity finish 3rd, only 2 points behind DLV and Donald. On the team side, FSR Team is crowned in front of GUM Garage and Texas Drivers.
Here we are, we want to thanks everyone involved, as far as in track and off track. Now it's time to seriously take a little breathing brake, and start to think about the "Ligue FR"'s return in September. Until then, have fun!
* : round 2's semi finals wins aren't counting, as the semi finals offers the ability to qualify for the final. Same apply for the small final race, as it's a logical "suite" from final's result.
