FBM Trophy
The Formula BMW has been the latest addition to the open wheel cars in Live For Speed. The Open Wheel Racing League uses this nimble car to host the FBM Trophy, allowing close races on a variety of tracks. The 2011 edition of the OWRL FBM Trophy will run in August and September and allows us to race on the open layout made possible by the latest patch to LFS.

2011
The FBM Trophy will be contested over 3 events, all using the open layout option. Each race event consist of a qualifying race, a sprint race and a main race.

The starting grid of the qualifying race will be decided by the times as they have been driven at signup deadline (17:00 CEST on race day) on the training server. The result of the qualifying race decides the starting grid of the sprint race. The starting grid of the main race will be the finishing order of the sprint race with the top 8 reversed.

Races are held on sunday evening and start at 20:00. Signed up drivers must complete laps on the training server before being allowed to participate.

Calendar:
R1 07 Aug - Aston Chicane Route
R2 21 Aug - South City Sprint 1 Full
R3 04 Sep - Fern Bay Silver

Race procedures
Participation is open for everyone with the only requirement that you signup for the events at their entries under 'upcoming events' and set an online time on the training server before 17:00 CEST on race day. You will need an account at this site to be able to signup. Multiple servers will be used if more than 24 drivers sign up.

As we are using open layouts the tracker on the OWRL site will not be used. The grids will be created based on the times recorded on the training server. The starting positions, server name and password will be announced in our forum 2 hours before the event.

Events schedule:
20:00 Qualifying race - 10 minutes, grid order based on times recorded on training server
20:15 Race 1 - 15 minutes
20:30 5 minute break
20:35 Race 2 - 30-35 minutes (top 8 reversed)


Points
Points are awarded with 50% of the full Div B points for both the sprint race and the main race. Additionally, the top 3 in the qualifying race will get 3, 2 and 1 point(s) for their positions.