F1RST - F1 Race Seach Tool (Online Racing)

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Few of many features:

Management for both tracks and mods, to stop people entering your race without the appropriate mod/track installed.
Automatic Track Download/Installation for racing on a track you dont yet have.
Full vehicle "Class" restrictions to only allow the appopriate cars into your races.
Enforced default Car and Track physics for clean racing.
Password protected room so you can race privately with your friends.
Full session information, so you can see the rules/aids allowed in a session before entering the game.
Optional Automatic Datarate Calculations for optimum connection settings.
"Closed" races. So once you have entered even a Practice session with others in your session, others will not be able to join.
User creatable chat rooms (password optional) for league/private group chats.
Personal Messaging system for 1-1 driver chat.
Customised physics settings such as All Vehicles Equal.
Driver Restrictions preventing Banned drivers and limited access to your room.
File and Memory cheat protection.
And so much more!

League system:

Fully automated league system.
Fully automated qualification & race system.
Fully automated standings and rankings system.
Team based driving and individual driver campaigns.
Career statistics and history.
Unlimited support on the amount participants.
League heats with up to 30 drivers (per heat).
Two skill levels, Amateur and Expert.
One of the F1RST3 Dedicated League Server will host your heat on a 100mbit connection.
No more timezones, all previous timezones are merged into one global heat system. Everyone will race together.
Balanced dividing for league heats. The limit per heat is 30 drivers. When for example, 50 drivers qualify for Expert then the system will make two heats of each 25 people. So all heats will be spread equally and fair.
Automatic results submission, after your heat race has finished your results are uploaded immediately and the provisional standings are available for viewing.
And so much more!

F1RST3 Supported Games:

RFACTOR
F1 Challenge 99-02

F1RST3 Updates:

The Software is ready for download, it is under constant improvement, so expect updates frequently.

And so much more, download and explore yourself now !

Heat EXP; by Tygernoot:
"This really was an amazing race. Perhaps not the best, but certainly
one of the most exciting races I have ever driven. I had a good start
off the line and remained in 4th position, following my teammate
RiccardoFerreira closely. In one of the first laps he ran a bit wide
while braking for Club. I don't know why the same happened to me but I
ran even wider (I will blame the oil on the track ;)) and went through
the grass. This allowed the Don't Lifters MJanosh and Locutus to come
really close behind me and MJanosh was the first to pass me. An epic
battle followed... During the battle with MJanosh we sometimes touched
as we were driving different lines and had different wing setups. So I
had to let go off the throttle a bit to allow MJanosh to keep his
position, causing Locutus to overtake me as well.
In the meantime someone had ran over the corner sign at Copse. I was
using that sign to estimate my corner entry and I had a hard time
adapting without it. Most of the first stint I was close behind
Locutus and along with the dirty air I was often missing the corner
entry or was entering too early. This always cost me 10-20 km/h of
exit speed and made it difficult to find overtaking possibilities on
the Hanger Straight.
Still Locutus and I had a very close battle, often going into corners
side by side and he wasn't afraid to close the door. At the same time
he was trying to overtake his teammate MJanosh, and at some points we
were going into the corners with three cars at the same time.
Avni_Tumay was following closely as well, which made this a 4-car
battle! It was simply incredible and even though we were fighting like
maniacs the battle always remained fair.
Avni passed me when I ran wide at Copse going over the high curbs so I
think I was down to 8th position at that time. However, Locutus and
Avni collided going into Abbey in the 15th lap and in lap 17 MJanosh
entered the pits, so I presumed he was on a 3-stop strategy. I went in
on the 20th lap as I was on a 2-stop strategy. At that time I was back
in fourth position with JuanFran and Ricardo around 12 to 15 seconds
in front of me. I finally had a clear track ahead of me and started
pushing to keep up with them. B Izadfar fell asleep and crashed out of
the lead and I noticed JuanFran was on a 3-stop. This meant a 1-2 for
LRT was in sight.
After my second stop Ricardo and I were about 7 seconds ahead of
JuanFran. Ricardo was slowing down a bit and I passed him when he made
a small mistake. Unfortunately for him (and LRT), he was passed by
JuanFran and ended his race a lap later - only a few laps before the
end - due to a crash.
Although having a bad start of the race I was able to enjoy a
fantastic battle with MJanosh, Locutus and Avni, and thanks to some
luck taking my second win of the season.
It's a bit of a shame Sean wasn't here to defend his home Grand Prix
and I doubt I could have won the race had he participated. This win
will give me a big advantage in the championship standings which I'll
probably be needing when my luck ends.
To conclude, I would definitely recommend everyone to download the
replay to watch the battle we had in the first stint, as it was simply
amazing :)."

Heat EXP; by Ricardoferreira:
"This race start with a hope for one podium, i start well always in race line, first corners very hard with Tyger doing lot of pressure.. and i lose 2 seconds for the leaders Brian and Ali. 2 lap i open a little gap for tyger, but JuanFran Pass him... and starting doing lot of pressure beating the faster lap, seems my cars sucks in first stint, later Brian spun and lose the lead for Ali, and i lose time.. because i brake too avoid collision, with Inigo (team job i know m8, u block me because juanfran lol joking) in lap 15 (i think) ali hit the wall, and next Brian in first corner (stupid corner), i pass in start and Say "well done u are leading the race" ok nice.. and i think.. "without Brian this will be easy" lol seems not, Juan do lot of pressure and i open and he pass me easy .. because i know he will stop 3 times.. when he stop i do the faster race lap 1.20.5, and i leading the race easy until last stind, complete destroy for me.. 4 spuns, and a stupid crash in first corner... and my race over in lap 54, i ask Sorry for my team LRT we can do P1 and P2, first in the this season, anyway i will not win, i will open for Tyger win.. because he need the points in drivers champ!
Hope better luck in germany, Atm bad season for me, lots of crash (2 stupids mistakes, canada brakes, and GB).
I want say congratulations too Tyger for a great win, very regular and Juan, first time in EXP and he do a great race.
and again Sorry team!!"

Heat AMA; by Michael Schumacher (not the real one :P):
"My race didnít start as I expected since I had to start from the back due to a qualifying penalty. Before the start of the race I tried some late minute improvements since I knew my car would be unstable after 5-6 laps. So I decided to make it more understeer but slower, at least I would have a nice race pace. And so it happened. Throughout the race the feeling of the car didnít change at all, so I could pace myself exactly as I liked to. I moved my way up to Flyer who was 3^rd at that point then moved to 2^nd due to a retirement from Vasilis. At that point I was 6 seconds behind Flyer. I started closing the gap just in time for pit stops. Then I remembered a trick being played by real MS in San Marino 2004 (if I am not wrong) with Button and Honda. Real MS and Ferrari would be prepared for a pit stop but MS would not go in just to fool Button and make him go in too :). So I did same thing and was changing cameras to see what Flyer would do (maybe he was watching me incar too). After some laps he went in (our gap was less than a second) but even though I had called for pit stops I decided to stay out one more lap. Then I remembered that I didnít try all weekend a pit stop so I didnít know where and if there was a white line at the entry of pit stops. I went in carefully and when I went out just behind Flyer again. At a later lap I managed to pass him rather easily fooling him at the brakes at the long straight, later on he tried to pass me but hit me and apologized. The next laps I tried to keep the gap with Felipe who I donít know if he was pushing but I could keep the gap to a reasonable level! So from last to 2^nd and only 1 retirement (from Vasili) I think is pretty cool :D"

Heat AMA; by A_C_Muller:
"Problems persist for this Panda yet again! After I sent in my qualification lap time and before I took part in race something wen't horribly wrong. The car was handling like a truck. When I wanted to turn left the car wanted to go straight, when I wanted to turn right the car wanted to go straight.
My tires wore well, but the grip seemed to be a little off and my brakes though this time acted better either they came on too fast, too early or I braked late. The last chicane was a total disaster as I only ever managed to make it six times out of thirty laps. I lost a front wing again, but this time it was due to the low fuel warning message popping up. I got distracted, went straight off into the kitty litter & braking + steering didn't help. I spun once almost doing a full 360 when I slammed on the gas while riding the rumble strips. I also did a long slide sideways exiting the long straight away
but atleast I got the grass mowed to a proper height for the next person. When a racer took out the 50' marker for the first turn I had to take it easy when going through in fourth gear. I never liked this track and will be glad to see it disappear in my rear view mirror. This Panda is very eager to go and search for bamboo in the Black Forest!"

Heat AMA; by Flyer23:
" I got a decent start, but Rinker got a better one so i had no choise but to let him through into T1. I followed closely until Club, where he went wide. Then he turned back to protect his line but I had undercut him mid corner and was able to accelerate quicker and gained the position. I quickly pulled away and tried to keep in touch with Vassilis and Felipe BR. They were just too fast for me. I was using a 17/13 pit stratagy and hoped i could be in touch but it was not to be. I made one mistake going through Becketts and it cost me about 8-10 seconds. Lucky for me I was able to stay in front of Iron GR who was closing at that point. I put my head down and reeled off a buch of mid 1:20 laps to pul a slight gap. Then I saw I was in P2 only 15 seconds behind Felipe. Something happened to Vasillis. I got to my pit stop only to find I was being closely persued by Michael Shumacher. I pushed hard but made a mistake during braking at Stowe. Michael got by and I tried to stay with him. I had a slight touch in Brooklands. I lifted and barked so he did not spin all the way. I waited for him to get underway again and lucky he had no damage. I appologize for that but this late in the race my tires were shot and sliding quite a bit. He then pulled away from me as I realized I could cruise home for 3rd and take some deent points finally. This by far was my best race of the season. I hope I can improve for the next one in Germany and fight with these guys again. It was an amazing abttle with Michael and he deserves allot of credit for driving with keyboard. P3 for Flyer23 is a great result and I was very happy. "

Heat EXP; by Tygernoot:
"The start of my race wasn't really great. I braked a bit too late on
the inside of the Adelaide hairpin while trying to overtake adriano in
the first lap. I went over the high curbs on the exit and was in
fourth position having started second. Apparently I didn't attach my
steering wheel properly and it was a bit loose the first laps. At
first I thought something had broken as it was making some weird
noises. I attached it on the straight and it went a lot better.
My driving was quite bad though and I had some close calls with the
wall at the exit of the final chicane and nearly went off in the Imola
chicane multiple times. Finally I got into a good rhythm and things
improved. I didn't have trouble overtaking Locutus or Adriano as they
went off by themselves ;). However, B Izadfar in first position was
already 15 seconds ahead.
I really didn't want to let him get away with the win like I had to in
Istanbul where I couldn't keep up with his pace. So this time I went
for it and was racing at the limit. Still we had similar laptimes and
he even gained a few seconds before the stops. He seemed to have
started light on fuel as he went in early. I kept on pushing until my
first stop, but he was still 15 seconds ahead after. I had no choice
but to keep on driving as fast as I could and a little over half of
the race B-Iz went in again. It was unclear to me whether he would
continue to the end of the race or not.
After my second stop I was 10 seconds ahead but he continued to close
the gap. When he was only a few seconds behind me, he went in again
for his third stop. I turned out he was on a 3-stop strategy all
along. In the end I had 30 seconds advantage, but I slowed down
considerably in the final laps to let Cash unlap me (team orders).
Quite a tough race as I was pushing very hard all the time, unaware of
Brian's pitstop strategy. But it's great to have a race win, although
it would mean a lot more if Edwards had participated :)."

Heat EXP; by B-Izadfar:
"Everyone seemed to get a good, clean start and to make my strategy work
I really had to stay close out of Estoril. I broke at the right time and
could overtake both Tyger and Adriano and take the lead which was GREAT
for my strategy. Pulled away comfortably and had a relatively clean
stint and pitstop, just one incident I had (sorry!) that cost us some time.
I came out not far behind Tyger and tried to chip away the gap. The
laptimes were quite good but again made some big mistakes. On the 2nd
stop I almost ran out of fuel and had to drive like a granny on the
inlap which cost 7seconds and received a drive through penalty!! From
miracle to nightmare realistically the best possible was 2nd unless
something happened to Tyger who had very impressive pace and consistency.
I made a little adjustment in 3rd stop (pressures) and it helped a bit
with consistency. I had 1 close call on lap 48 l, there was not much
either of us could do but cost some.
With some damage repair time, I came out 31 seconds behind Tyger and
about 15 infront of Locutus and I think both were cruising to the finish.
I believe I lost about 31-33seconds this race which would've made it
incredibly close at my final stop to the finish. Congrats Tyger who
managed a mistake free and very fast 2 stop race!"

Heat AMA; by A_C_Muller:
"Brake problems pour un Panda dans France! I used a set-up from one of my previous races that I tweaked in testing. I was quite happy with it's cornering powers & little understeer. I started the race being cautious going into the first two turns with a heavy fuel load, cold tires & cold brakes. My tires were excellent throughout the whole race, but the brake pads were off! I know I almost always set my brake pressure to 100%, use the largest diameter brake disks, I brake late at times but my car is to decellerate, no? My team mate apparently further tweaked my set-up that I sent him that I should of asked him to re-send to me. Again he pulled away with some ease, but I caught up a few times with his minor offs into the kitty litter. I had been expecting him to lap me 2x by the end of the race. At one time I exited the last high speed chicane...only had my left side tires on the rumble strips when I slammed on the gas & proceeded to side into the wall and lose a front wing. As this was half way through my laps before my scheduled pit stop, I have no problems with getting a half race fuel load. I opted to alter my last pit stops volume to my detriment as I made it two laps too short! My team mate did a similar thing when he saw I was in for my second pit stop. Sorry Castor2, for the near heat attack when I let off the gas half way through the second turn. If I had held my speed I'd of been driving through the kitty litter a few centimeters from the wall for over a hundred feet. I'm going to invest heavily (cyber) into the stock of my front wings manufacturer + I may need to visit the factory where my brake pads are made, warns this Panda!"