The OWRL, the league dedicated to bring the best open wheel racing in LFS, continues to evolve its schedule as we now prepare for this year's seasons. First to start is our 14th season using our famed division system, in which Div A will race Formula V8 and Div B will alternate between the Formula XR and the Formula BMW. It will start in February. Next up is the 2009 running of our OWRL F1 Series. The season will start in April, but the first of the test events already have been held.

With a total time of 06m15s67' (stage 1: 03m14s12' and stage 2: 03m01s65') Klouczech (Czech Republic) KXR team achieved the victory in the 1st date ahead by 0m04s84' to Pablito (Uruguay) team SAT and for 0m06s13' to C.Lefrançois (Canada) who completed the podium.

The first stage had been in the hands of C. Lefrançois, second was Pablito and located very close Klouczech with 03m13s62', 03m14s03' and 03m14s12' respectively.

This Saturday the 24th of January, the legendary Masters of Endurance 24 Hours of Aston Grand Prix will get underway. Since 2005 this race has been the highlight of the series and a highly anticipated tradition for the Live for Speed community in general.

Championship points are doubled for this race, which means that at this point the championships in both the GT1 and GT2 classes are far from decided. In GT1 F1RST Racing GT1 is leads with #low Racing and Spdo Racing GT1 close behind, while the SK Gaming, n1Racing (new to the series and performing very well), and Mercury Racing trail a little behind.

Race About at Aston Club Reverse was a great car and track combination that proved to be extremely tricky. Through-out practice it was obvious some people had a handle on the beast, which could be under-steering in one moment and over-steering the next. It was shocking that I, (Tim Beaudet), would be eliminated after qualifying not even making the event, by only a tenth of a second. From that point on it was an intense event with some finishes closer than the precise timers used to track the cars.

American Nolan Scott from the CoRe racing team was the man of form last weekend as he opened his account in the iTCC Touring Car ChampionshipHaving qualified through with the fastest time from the Reserve Shootout, Scott then repeated his pace in qualifying for Race 1 with a time of 1:37.xx that was simply too hot for the rest of the field to handle.

Following Scott onto the front of the grid was his Head-to-Head rival from the previous day, Rudy van Buren from the Netherlands. Van Buren struggled to find clear track space in qualifying, but eventually was able to put in 1:38.xx to complete the front row.

NDR are pleased to announce that Sign ups for the 2009 edition of the Kyoto 250, 'The Great LFS Race', are now open. The race will take place on the 7th March this year.

We have entry requirements to try and prevent a repeat of last year's n00b fest:

HL Racing and Automovilismo Virtual with the support of RedBull Mexico present HL Rally Layouts 2nd. Edition

After warm-up session the racers hoped back in their cars for two amazing qualifying sessions. The pressure was intense, only 1 lap to make your time, and your time had to count. 30 people attempting to qualify into only 16 positions. As it turned out the top sixteen were close to being within 2 seconds of each other. Not quite as close as expected but with only one lap to perform your best, its a lot to ask from the average racer. Not Nolan Scott, who steals pole by 0.03 seconds over David Williams.

Round 1, Round 2 and Semi-finals were all protocol for the two finalists: Nolan Scott (BigTime) from Core Racing and Rudy van Buren from F1RST Racing.

The signup for the first UER Touring Car Masters is open. The UTCM is a classic championship with 10 events with a length of 2 hours. Planned is a grid with 28 drivers. The races are intended for the GTR class of LFS.

To slow down the dominating FZR a little bit we have decided to allocate it with a extra weight of 20 kilogramms. Aditionally there will be two pit stops and you have to change your tires two times a race. The events take place at sunday in a rythm of two weeks, the first race is on Sunday the 2009-02-22. We hope for many participations.

The 2009 iTCC Touring Car Championship begins at Westhill International circuit this weekend, on Sunday 11th January 2009. The meeting is scheduled for 3 x 25 minute races with a reversed grid for the third race which should ensure an exciting finale to the day's racing!

The event will be covered in the iTCC broadcast starting from 1800 GMT (UTC), with the commentating team led by Jonathan Palmer from the New Dimension Racing team. You can catch the broadcast at http://www.iconracing.co.uk/itcctv.htm or at http://www.mogulus.com/itcc from 1800 GMT (UTC).

With just one week to go in voting for the LFS Community Awards, there are a number of close fights ongoing. Who will win the titles of Driver and Team of the Year? What's the best public server for racing? For drift? For cruising? Who's the oddest dude on the forums? All these questions and more will be answered in a week's time!

So, if you haven't voted, make your voice heard! All polls can be found in the special LFS Community Awards subforum.

Hello Drivers,

Playerzone Team wants to announce it's first GTR International ChampionshipWe'll race every 3 weeks, using the top-class cars, for a total of 8 events. During the races, 2 Race Directors will oversee the event, and there'll be Safety Car and Mandatory Pit-Stop.

Hello racers,

LFS France is proud to present you , its new Championship: International Championship 09.
This league is based on TBO and has 6 events. All races run on Wednesday once a month, and qualification servers are opened 24/24.

spdoPaddi has won the MRT Cup. In the final round at Fern Bay Gold Paddi dominated the event by winning the first race, then scoring another podium finish despite starting 8th with the reversed grid. Even by winning the second race, SpeedCore.GTR_PT trails Paddi in the standings by 49 points, almost a race win. Speedcore's young talent gapped Xcite | Fireball in the standings with his victory.

Paddi laid the basis of his first MRT Cup win by dominating qualifying and Race 1 at all three events.

The My3id FZR-GT2 driven by Niall McEvoy and Martijn Bont, and the TDRT FXO driven by Simon Mathei won their respective classes at the NDR Xmas Event 2008.

The race enjoyed a clean start, with everyone getting through T1 with minimal contact. Already at this point, My3id were pulling away from the battling K.O Racing and FRO FZRs. Seidler in the [noobs] RB4 took advantage of the 4WD's superb traction to take an early lead in the TBO class.

Dear LFSLA's members, we are glad to announce, as the result of the joint venture from "Liga Internacional" (españa) and LFSLA, the launch of the "LFSLA vs L.I. challenge event II" which will start Sunday, january 4th ath 19 on clock (GMT -02:00) at the Aston Club track, with the FOX car.

There are no limits for the ammount of participating racers and the purpose of the event is to enjoy the experience of racing with euro racers (most of them spanish) in a respect and polite single race challenge.

Team Rock Racing, will organise a really cool event for it's members and friends!
There is going to be a championship.

We called it TR&F Bangership.

A 2008 season of Czech vs. Slovak Cup finished today by the last race driven in Blackwood with Formulas BMW.

The race length was set on 23 laps and all Czech and Slovak participants were trying to race as fast as possible to improve their point rank. Before the race, Czechs had 181 points and Slovaks had 175 points so nothing was decided.

Hello Racers.

We are sorry to have to announce that the VW Scirocco will not be released this week as planned. Unfortunately we are unable to continue working into the following week, and it has turned out impossible to reach the required standard in the time available.

So our tournament is gaining momentum and the third race is already waiting.

This time will drive the only formula in LFS Demo version. Third stage is unique in that it will be a record number of laps (36)The track is very well known to our players in the tournament Guess which one it is? Yes. It’s "Blackwood Grand Prix track (BL1)Some interesting information about track and the car. I would like to say that the track length is 3.8 km, and the world record on this track with FBM belongs Bawbag and he is 1:12:08. Talking of the car, it simulates the real Formula BMW which is also entitled racing series.

Hello LFS Racers.

We are pleased to announce that we plan to release the new VW Scirocco in Live for Speed during the week ending Friday 19th December.

The MoE admins are pleased to announce two skinning contests in the leadup to the 24 Hours of Aston Grand Prix race, scheduled for January 24th, 2009.

After many weeks of preparation the ICON Racing team are pleased to announce their plans for a touring-car race series taking part in early 2009. The championship will be a 'Touring-Car' race series using only the FXR, which is restricted at the air-intake by 32% to give around 320 BHP.

The intention of this series is to give the racer an enjoyable and competitive race series that is run to similar rules as the BTCC and WTCC touring-car championships - and to give the viewer an unmissable spectacle to watch live on their PCs.

After a long summer and fall lay off since the successful GTReMix and Looney Cup Series, Dark Side Racing is back with a new, very special series to begin Sunday, January 11th, 2009. The Dark Side Racing Road to F1 Series.

Unlike other series, this series will not utilize only one car. The series is designed to resemble an LFS open wheel racer’s “career” from newbie to veteran with races starting in the go-cart like, MRT and progressing up through all the open wheel cars with events in each car. There will be 2 events in each class, 2 MRT, 2 FBM, 2 FOX, 2 FO8, and finishing with 2 in the ultimate super car, the BF1.

We here at New Dimension Racing want to be the first to wish everybody in the LFS Community a very Merry Christmas. And so, we’re holding a Xmas Endurance Event on Friday 19th December. It’s 2 hours long, dual-class around the historic Blackwood Grand Prix Track. We’d like as many people to team up as possible forming 2-man teams. It’s ok though if you want to stay as a 1-man team, but you’ll still have to make a mandatory pit stop.

Information about the event is detailed below: