Patience - key to success in OLFSL

First round of the oldest active individual championships in LFS - Original LFS League which is now titled "No Frills, All Thrills" was held on 20th of march. Despite Olfsl being individual championships, they also had team standings there so naturally Conquest Racing was in for the "Thrill".

We knew from the beginning that this won't be so easy as it looks. First round took place on South City Town Course reverse using FO8 (450 bhp monster). We started our practice few days earlier so at the starting point we had 5 drivers: Foqs, makao, msk, Gargi and Guru. We made good progress in those few days and was able to bring good qualification and race setups. To add some spice into race, there was low wind for this 28 lap race. Enjoy our coverage.

Quliafications were very crucial as they decided in which pool and from what place everyone's going to start. That is important in such race as this, where there is so little space everywhere to overtake anyone. This part of the event was very fortunate for us, as we ended up in first 3 pools in pretty good places.

Pool 1
We are very proud that 3 of 5 Conquest Racing drivers took part in the best group of so prestigous league. Among the best drivers from whole Live For Speed comunity noone should say that he lost no matter what his result was. The race began without any problems. Nevertheless it's not surprising, because they are not random drivers. They proves their class lap after lap and range of the mistakes they do is almost invisible. At the grid Gargi and msk took 7th and 8th places. Both of them was able to keep good pace during the whole race and haven't dissapointed the rest of the team. At the beginning Gargi gained one position and kept it to the end. Msk hadn't that opportunity, his pace didn't let him to catch the driver infront of him and finnished the race with position he started. Definitely we put a lot of faith in Guru and he did his best again. He started the race from 3rd place, right behind the ex Cq driver: P. Goik (ziomm). Before the race everybody knew that the fight for the best polish driver in this league will be very close. The start went perfectly clean and smooth for the top drivers. Almost everyone on the track followed the driver infront of him like a shadow. Guru was able to keep 1 sec gap to ziomm for very long time. 3id driver made a mistake after 22 laps. At the last corner exit Piotr made a mistake. His rear tyres lost some grip what made him slide a bit. Guru knew it could be his only chance to pass him. At the main straight Adrian used slipstream to gain some more speed and decided to make a pass on the outside line in turn 1. The speed advantage let Guru do it very smoothly and without any contact. Adrian finnished the race on great 2nd position 13 seconds behind the another 3id driver, winner of this round: J. Lehikonen.

Pool 2
Second group was represented by those who were not so lucky in quali but still very fast. Makao was the only Cq member in this group starting in 2nd position. Marcin had a good start and was in control of the situation. He defended his position and bearly made out of small pile up. Kamo did a good job too avoiding spinning cars and was in a good situation for the rest of the race. All three leaders had a good close race. In the mid distance Makao started to improve his times and gainning on the first C. Vourliotis. On 10th lap the gap between those two was smaller than 1 sec. No more than 4 laps later Makao's team mates was ecstatic as he took the lead away from the Greek. Makao's opponent didn't stand the pressure and hit the wall slighlty. Makao took the lead and never gave it away. There was a small tragedy in the race as 8 laps before the finish Kamo's monitor went out and he was forced to retire from comfortable 3rd place while closing to 2nd. Better luck next time.

Pool 3
Foqs was the only Cq member in 3rd pool. It wasn't the fastest group but still very good. Łukasz started very well from pole position. He kept his position and started to enlarge the gap. Behind him starting from 10th place Marcin from ZION Team was climbing pretty fast to the top due to his opponents mistakes. Foqs pace wasn't fast enough to keep the gap and Marcin was able to overtake him. With 10 laps to go another rival showed up in Łukasz mirrors, it was Vincent de Sade. Fight for 2nd place was very exciting. After the slowest turn in 2nd sector Vincent went into the outside and tried to overtake. Foqs didn't see him and the worst happened. There was a contact and both of them didn't finish the race. What a pity!

Next round will be held on 3rd April. Drivers will have to race on Fern Bay Gold using XFR.

Upcoming events

	Meewosh's birthday!	11.02.2012
	Makao's birthday!	16.02.2012
	LONT's birthday!	22.03.2012
	ziomm's birthday!	21.05.2012

Social Media