Even in the opening laps it was clear that #64 Martin Kapal (Flame CZE) and his SAVAGE SimSports teammate #23 Jaroslav Dohnalik (Fast Jarda) would be serious contenders for the race win. At the drop of the green flag Dohnalik, pole sitter #32 Patrick Hall of Race Green Autosports, and IndyCar 250 champion #52 Tomas Koreny of rForce broke away from the field leaving #96 Rony Kronpuss, Kapal, and #26 Filip Klier of rForce behind in a second pack a long with the rest of the field behind them.

Unfortunately, early in the running Thomas Korney would time out, and Patrick Hall would scrape the wall.

Just after the end of Grid Qualification and before the first race, it is time for our short look at the favorites of the new CityLiga season. Especially well-known faces are present again and this facts reheats some everlasting duells. Again many great drivers sigend up and one can say this is the International German Championship of Live for Speed, especially since the season again features the best Germans and the one or the other top driver from the rest of Europe.
The following text lists drivers, who, in the eyes of the author, can win the championship or at least fight for it,

***** 36-3id J.Holmes

Demo Team Race (DTR)

Competition teams, qualifications 30 min ,race 10 laps + 1 pit, stage Blackwood GP , car: only XFG.
Date of race: 03.03.2013 21:00 , server: Demo Team Race ,

Before everyone starts (to continue) their preperations for the kick-off of the new season, we have some more things to say. About 24h after the end of the Grid Qualifications we find the results of it here: http://cityliga.de/uploads/cl17/cl17_grideinteilung.html.
CityLiga 17 will start with three grids of 28 drivers each, sothat 9 of the 93 sign-ups have to start their season from the waiting list.
The field is relatively close after this first show-off (3s instead of 3,5s in CL16's Grid 1) and the first race starts directly at one of the GQ combos.

Patrick Hall (FalconBridge) of Canada will lead the field to the green flag in his number 32 Race Green Autosports XRR after he turned a lap time of 38.62 seconds (172.636 MPH) in qualifying. Starting along side of him after running a lap time of 36.64 seconds (172.547 MPH) will be Martin Kapal (Flame CZE) in his number 64 SAVAGE SimSports XRR from the Czech Republic.

Qualifying Results: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19870068/Realistic%20NASCAR%20Cup/Kyoto%20400%202013%20Qualifying%20Results.pdf.

Just past the half way mark of CityLiga 17's Grid Qualification, one might notice that the 72 sign-ups differ over the prevailing opinion "LfS is dead"There is still plenty of room for more interested drivers, who want to compete every monday fortnight with like-minded, fellow racers.
The participents are as diversified as always. 11 nations and 23 teams are represented by CL-/LfS-veterans and fortunately also rookies, who average at 30 years of age. While the ones probably can't live without it, the others tackle their first adventures of organised league racing.

Realistic NASCAR has been preparing for the Kyoto 400 for the greater part of a month, and this Saturday (February 10) the green flag will fly over Kyoto 400 Qualifying Day. Out of the 44 drivers registered for the Realistic NASCAR Cup Series only 21 have obtained session credit thus far. Out of those 21 only 15 have already obtained the two credits required to participate. There is only one practice session remaining on Saturday, just before the Kyoto 400 qualifying day.

Entry List: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19870068/Realistic%20NASCAR%20Cup/Kyoto%20400%202013%20Entry%20List.pdf.

On Wednesday, 23rd January, the GenR FBM Championship 2013 season kicked off on Blackwood GP. The drivers had to master 57 laps for the race making it a bit harder to balance speed versus tyre saving. Pole position went to Joonas Koskinen with a 1:12.110. Valtteri Pitkänen made it an all Vortex eSports front row. After the start, it emerged to be a two way battle between the pole sitter and James Peace. The battle intensified with three laps to go when both collided losing valuable time and causing troubles for Koskinen who suffered a left rear puncture a few corners later.

A new season is started for an institution of the german LFS-scene. The CityLiga is opening their gates for the 17th time. Every driver, beginner or veteran, is invited to participate on mondays every fortnight. We offer one of the biggest starting fields in LFS, three grids in the last seasons. This enables you to find opponents at exactly your skill-level for exciting races.
Altough CityLiga's main focus is still the german LFS community, we opened for international drivers seasons before and became bilingual in german and english.

Hello everyone,with tons of fun we are re-introducing the Sim Racing Portugal League!
This League will be aroung 1 class and two model cars (XFG & XRG) and 5 rounds,being the last one a time attack!!
All players are welcome,so feel free to join and spend good moments with us!
More Info´s on SRP Forum!

A Virtual Torque anuncia seu primeiro campeonato da temporada 2013, o "F1 Grand Prix 2013"Será um campeonato composto por 6 etapas, em 5 pistas mistas e 1 oval, com o BMW Sauber F1 com 10% de restrição.

As etapas serão quinzenais, aos sábados às 20h30. As inscrições já estão abertas. Não perca tempo, faça sua inscrição e se prepare!

The OWRL MRT Cup 2012/13 has been taken by Xcite C. Winkler. With 6 podium finishes, C.Winkler took the cup using both consistency and speed in a season that remained close until the final round. The Xcite driver took the lead in the second event, after early leader SRT Flip retired from the main race at Aston South after an spectacular crash. Flip had taken an impressive win in the main race at South City Town, starting from 7th on the grid to take the victory with more than 7 seconds to spare after 24 laps in the nimble MRT5.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Dear Reacers,

We, Genuine Racing, are going to organize a FBM Championship from 23/01/2013 - 17/04/2013 (5 rounds, on Wednesdays)The series originally was going to start around mid-October, but had to be delayed due to other duties. Now we invite drivers from the LFS community to our cup. If you are interested, you can sign-up for the championship on our forum in the respective thread.

1. Season Schedule
Round 1: Blackwood GP - BL1 - Wednesday, 23 January 2013.

New Series Brings LFS Its Biggest Oval League Since LFSCAR

The Realistic NASCAR Cup Series takes the green flag on Sunday, January 6, 2013 with the IndyCar 250. This will be Live For Speed's biggest oval series since LFSCAR finished its 2nd season in 2007.

What starts right after Christmas and promises action packed events right into the new year? Open Wheel Racing League's MRT Cup of course! Beginning 27 december, the annual tradition in the Open Wheel Racing Leagues starts at South City Town using a layout adding a chicane in the final corner. From then one it is on to the open layouts. The second round 29 december takes the drivers to the the short Aston South track before the season finishes the first saturday in 2013 on Fern Bay Classic, incorporating the mini oval in the FE Green layout. The layouts used are available from our downloads sections.

CityLiga 16 has ended. The unanswered question who becomes CityLiga 16 champion was answered off-track prior to the season's finale already. 3id J.Holmes was not able to compete in the final race, so ﾒ C. Winkler was awarded his second championship within three seasons. Congratulations!
Instead of cruising to his overall win, he wanted to celebrate by winning Round 9. So he chased his former teammate CoRe Chris, who trained well enough to be in reach of a race win. After a lead change, initiated by the mandatory pitstops, the two produced a thrilling duel.

Hello racers,

There is a new feature on LFS World, which is the Encounters tab in the Racers & Hosts online window.
It will list all the people you have met online the past 90 days (although recording started 5 days ago at the time of writing, so much more data is still to be collected).

The ETCC GTR League has been a good league to take part in the admins have learned a lot and are now starting up a ETCC GT2 League we have a website for the league just go to www.lfs-etcc.com and click on the GT2 League. We are getting teams involves with the league so if you are interested then email the Admins at [email protected] or post in the signup section for the GT2 league on the forum.

The tracks and dates for the GT2 league:
list of tracks and dates for ETCC GT2 season 2013.

The 2013 GT1 World Series, organized by New Dimension Racing, visits Fern Bay Gold this month for the 2nd round of the series. It follows on the heels of a controversial Round 1 at Blackwood Grand Prix, which saw the race shortened to 130 of the scheduled 160 laps due to server failure. Major controversy came around Lap 50 in that race, when a mistake by the administration team led to several cars unjustly being lapped. The race was also marred by several Safety Car Interventions. Genuine Racing (GT1-Pro) took the overall and Pro-class win, and Stig Breeding Program #1 (GT1-Am) took the win in the Amateur Class.

After the first five races of the World TBO Championship Series the championship comes down to the final race of the season. The Short Course 150 will take the green flag at 16:50 GMT on Sunday, December 16, 2012. Following this event, the championship will be awarded to Joe Holmes, Nikifor Dakovic, or Isaac Price. All other drivers have been eliminated from the championship chase.

Battling for the lead on the first lap of the Westhill 207 Championship leaders Nikifor Dakovic and Isaac Price made contact that lost Nikifor multiple positions and time, and caused enough damage to force Isaac Price to pit.

Hello LFS Racers,

We have released a new version of LFS with a much improved multiplayer system. While using the same physics as 0.6B, it provides a much smoother, more reliable and interactive online experience. In previous versions there were often delays and lags on busy servers, but the new one works in a completely different way. We are still working on the new tyre physics and additional content, but had to take some time out from that because some hackers found a way to go online with no user name.

If you follow Formula One - and if you have an interest in simracing, you probably do, to some extend - you may have heard the news of young Finnish prodigy Valtteri Bottas racing for Williams F1 in 2013. Bottas' name might still be obscure to F1 circles, but his reputation is great in the junior racing world, where he has taken many prestigious titles since his car racing career kicked off in 2007.

A more unknown part of Valtteri's recent past is his short lived interest in the Live For Speed simulator.

The winter is comming,in Northern part of Europe it means snow and slippery road conditions.

The Westhill 207 has been moved back by two hours in order to avoid conflict with the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix which was also scheduled to start at 16:00 GMT. Obviously the FIA will not move their race, so we at Realistic NASCAR has moved ours. Qualifying for the Westhill 207 is scheduled to start at 18:00 GMT which should allow all of our competitors and viewers to get their fill of the conclusion of the 2012 Formula 1 season and move on over to sim-racing.tv or Realistic NASCAR Server and join in on the semi-final round of our hotly contested championship.