It's been looking fairly quiet on the website of SRS lately, but on the inside, we're still doing plenty of racing!

As the sun rose on July 25th 2009, nobody knew that it would be SRS's most successful day of racing in their 362 days. Contrary to our name, Sim Racing Society, it was actually in real-life racing where we triumphed. Real-life is, arguably, more important than Sim Racing. But don't tell anyone!

 On Saturday July 18th, Sim Racing Society held an invite-only, multi-class, 1 hour event at Aston Club Reversed to celebrate their first birthday; which officially falls on July 28th. The classes involved were the LRFs (FZ5, LX6, RAC), the TBOs (FXO, XRT, RB4) and the STDs (XFG, XRG). Eight teams took part, with each team having one car in each of the classes. A mad concept, it was shown to be a viable and exciting way of running a race in Live for Speed.

 Here at SRS, we're no strangers to the unusual: we pioneered the Head-to-Head Racing series, as well as the popular Dash 4 Cash system. This isn't your average racing. SRS's official birthday is 28th July 2008, so we are running an (initially invitation only) event with three different car classes on track at once 10 days prior: July 18th.

On May 9th 2009, Michael Passingham and James Barrington took to the track of Westhill for the 3 hours race, run by the GTAL.

This article contains thoughts from both the drivers; James Barrington (count.bazley, SRS:CountBazley) and Michael Passingham (Mp3 Astra, SRS:Passo)

The last few weeks has been very eventful for the Sim Racing Society team. With the induction of new drivers and the entering of new leagues; it's very hard to keep up with all the goings on. So, let's round 'em up!

It was always going to be an interesting debut in this brand new championship, but it was certainly a lot more challenging than anyone had expected. This was a three hour race at the Blackwood Reverse circuit, with Eduardo de Souza and Craig Taylor at the wheel of our XRR. We qualified 20th of 28th; and were hoping for a top 15 by the end of the race.

With our third piece of big news in one day, SRS is very happy to announce we have signed a sixth driver to our team:

SRS:CountBazley (count.bazley, James Barrington) is 21 and from Yorkshire, North East England. James has a large amount of experience in, but not limited to, Single Seater. James used to race against SRS in the Gentlefoot Formula challenge in the Formula XR. We were always impressed with him back then, and we finally managed to track him down and invite him along to our growing driver lineup. He will be racing in the GTAL, as our fifth driver. James commented about himself: 'I'm afraid I have that same sarcastic sense of humour that makes Michael so loveable to the masses!' We have no idea what he's talking about.

Sim Racing Society is pleased to announce that we now have a brand new server up and running. Named SRS:Race Server, it will be running combinations for upcoming leagues, or just rotating through cars and tracks that we like. Previously, we were using servers loaned from Sonicrealms Racing, and we will forever be indebted to them for their kind help and support.

SRS:Race Server is powered by Airio and Storm Servers.

SRS co-founder and Head-To-Head creator Tim Beaudet is heading on an adventure that will change his life. He will be walking the Appalachian Trail by himself. He left for the start of his adventure on Tuesday March 17th 2009.