Be very, very quiet, it’s the off season!

Hello race fans!

It’s been a while since Motorato Ware won season2 and we haven’t been sleeping, well not much.

RaceSL has been hard at work developing the first season of ForumlaSL car racing. We want to continue to bring the best in GP racing to SL. The FormulaSL season kicks off in under two weeks. MotoSL will begin shortly after. The two race events will not have conflicting race times. It will be very possible for someone to race in both.

Season 3 of MotoSL will feature many new things as it is our tradition between series to step things up. We are planning new HUDs for the bikes as well as a redesign of the motor, traction and dynamics of the bikes. We are not sure yet, but we are thinking about using the Hawk 10R model again for season 3. There is an outside chance that we will have a new model to race this season.

RaceSL.com is our new mothership on the web. MotoSL doesn’t have a spot there currently, but season 3 will all be covered at RaceSL.com instead of wordpress, which will provide us with greater freedom and range of possibilities for our web coverage.

If you are interested in the FormulaSL series then look up the FormulaSL group and join for event notices. We have car rezzers at all the tracks for testing.

One more note, RaceSL has aquired yet another private island to be used as a full size GP race track. We are waiting to take delivery of this Sim. Soon as a track is up I’ll post it’s location to RaceSL.com

RaceSL.com , the new home for MotoSL and FormulaSL.

A great race at Snowpeach for the Cal Sportbike Corsa Classic

Race Report

Hollie Wood took the win at the first ever Cal Sportbike Corsa Classic today. Many people came out to welcome calsportbike.com to SL and to try to win the 10,000+ that Owner Sage Barbosa put on the line.

We had 8 action packed heat races with the winners advancing to the final.

The final race had 8 of the days best riders facing off in windy conditions. Hollie and Motorato Ware traded the lead with Moto starting to pull away when she lost the front end in a terrible crash. Moto was able to recover and work her way back to finish 3rd. Meanwhile Hollie streaked past the line to take first dragging her MotoSL teammate Mara Kohl right behind her for second place on the day.

Many new privateers came out to mix it up with some top level GP riders for some realy strong results. Tenaki Kupferber took 4th over all with Ice Powell right behind. Lacie Voss who rode some races for the MotoSL team winning Red Wings last season had a good race for 6th over all. Bike Racer who finished 3rd over all last season had a little trouble with traffic to take 7th in todays race. Kiri Hua had a strong first event to make it to the main event for 8th best of the day.

Congratulations and thanks to all the riders for making today such fun. Thanks to Cal-Sportbikes for hosting this event at Snowpeach.

Race Data

Main Event
1st Hollie Wood 15 laps
2nd Mara Kohl -1 laps
3rd Motorato Ware -1 laps
4th Tenaki Kupferberg -2 laps
5th Ice Powell -2 laps
6th Lacie Voss -3 laps
7th Bike Racer -4 laps
8th Kiri Hua -5 laps

Heat Race 1
1st Hollie Wood 10 laps – 241.268
2nd Tenaki Kupferberg -1 laps
3rd Kiri Hua -1 laps
4th Lacie Voss -2 laps
5th Chris Frontenac -8 laps
6th Steel Sol -9 laps

Heat Race 2
1st Bike Racer 10 laps – 259.528
2nd Kiri Hua -53.745 secs
3rd Dale Harmison -3 laps
4th Count Bayliss -4 laps
5th Zamboi Bracken -4 laps
6th Mara Kohl -5 laps

Heat Race 3
1st Motorato Ware 10 laps – 254.338
2nd Mara Kohl -34.747 secs
3rd Tenaki Kupferberg -1 laps
4th Lacie Voss -3 laps
5th dylan Peccable -5 laps
6th Chris Frontenac -5 laps

Heat Race 4
1st Kiri Hua 10 laps – 288.373
2nd Thorn Blackflag -1 laps
3rd Dale Harmison -1 laps
4th Count Bayliss -3 laps
5th Zamboi Bracken -3 laps
6th Chris Frontenac -8 laps

Heat Race 5
1st Tenaki Kupferberg 10 laps – 274.931
2nd Chris Frontenac -3.246 secs
3rd Jake Abramovich -1 laps
4th Matt Kraken -2 laps
5th Lacie Voss -3 laps
6th Thorn Blackflag -3 laps

Heat Race 6
1st Mara Kohl 10 laps – 304.177
2nd Matt Kraken -12.543 secs
3rd Chris Frontenac -2 laps
4th Zamboi Bracken -2 laps
5th Vincent Nacon -2 laps
6th Lion Luna -3 laps

Heat Race 7
1st Lacie Voss 10 laps – 316.793
2nd Ice Powell -7.132 secs
3rd Vincent Nacon -1 laps
4th Jake Abramovich -2 laps
5th Rabu Ornitz -6 laps
6th Matt Kraken -6 laps

Heat Race 8
1st Ice Powell 10 laps – 315.317
2nd Zamboi Bracken -4 laps
3rd Count Bayliss -5 laps
4th Jake Abramovich -6 laps
5th Sketchs Wise -7 laps
6th Rabu Ornitz -9 laps

Hollie Wood takes home the gold from CalSportbike event

Report to follow, but here are some pics. Congrats, Hollie!

Cal Sportbike Corsa Classic this weekend.

It’s the off season for MotoSL, a time to relax and reflect on the racing past, let broken bones heal, get the surgery you’ve been putting off….or maybe not! You might want to your boots back on.

The Cal Sportbike Corsa Classic is all set to run this weekend. If you haven’t seen the posters or been keeping up with the news then you might not know it’s at Snowpeach this saturday at Noon SL time.

There will be 8 heat races open to all. The winners of the heat races will race in a final to decide who is the winner of the first Cal Sportbike Corsa Classic.

calsportbike.com has donated over 10,000L in prizes for this one day event. Let’s get out there and put on a good show!

The numbers of MotoSL – interesting facts

Here’s some facts and figures about the SL-MRA and MotoSL.

MotoSL Season 2 :

12 races were held over 4 month period.

5 tracks were used, including 2 versions of Mooz.

60,000+ Linden$ were giving out.

10 teams were allowed to join the championship for season 2 and 16 independent riders participated.

36 riders earned points in season 2 (top 15 finish). Of them, 12 had podium finishes and 7 scored a race win.

3 riders started (and 2 finished) every race: Moto, Bike, and Mara (Mara with one dnf).

4 riders missed only 2 races: Silk, Thorn, Maczter, and Matt.

18 riders qualified (max allowed) at Misp for Race 3 and Snowpeach for Race 11.

11 took the green flag at Mooz for Race 10 for the fewest starters.

0 scheduled races were postponed or cancelled.

track records (fastest race lap)
Misp: 22.690, Stillywack Stilman, Stilman Motors
Mooz (speedway version): 22.759, Motorato Ware, OMG Magazine
Mooz (chicane version): 25.564, Motorato Ware, OMG Magazine.
Snowpeach: 20.774, Kalel Mommsen, RefleX Racing
Silver Springs: 21.964, Raver Bellow, RD Racing

SL-MRA :

1300 people have joined the SL Motorcycle Racing Association.

2 full race seasons of 12 weekly races have been completed over the last year.

4 race tracks can be found in SL built to RaceSL SL-MRA useable spec.

2 of these tracks are owned by SL-MRA.

7,687 non-admin visits to this site since it’s conception a few months ago to the time of this writing. It often sees 200+ the day following a race. The best day was 247. The day after race 12 saw 235 visits.

150,000+ Linden$ have been giving out by the SL-MRA and White’s Bikes in prizes.

0 has been the amount of L charged to race in a MotoSL race.

43500 Linden$ is the amount of L made from creation fees of custom bikes for season 2.

80,000 is the amount of Linden$ it would cost each month for a single track.

400,000+ Linden$ to open a track.

179 people are on the banned list at Misp. So play nice!

6 is the estimated amount of weeks before the first race of MotoSL-3

Thanks to Motorato Ware for helping to compile these numbers.

Pictures from the award party.

Congratulations to everyone for a great season two. We’ll take a break for a few weeks while we develop some new stuff for season 3, but the racing wont stop. Next Saturday we have a big race at Snowpeach for over 10,000L in prizes for the one event. Stay tuned for info. Now here’s some pictures from the awards.

Award Ceremony (and party!) this Saturday

Come to Hotgates this saturday April 14 at noon SL (regular race time) for the award party.

We will crown our champions! and then… we dance!

DJ Miggy is booked to play some songs so leave your helmets off. Or at least open the visors

We’ll talk about the season past and the upcoming season.
There will be slide shows and highlight reels from season 2, some presentations, as well as a few other goodies we are making up.

A time for us to say thanks to all the good people and riders involved in this project. I suspect a few new teams for season 3 might come out of this party

hooo!

Motorato Ware wins the final at Silver Springs.

It was a great race at the final with 17 riders taking the grid for the last time this season.

The Wings and OMG Magazine had a fierce battle for team points with the Red Wings taking first team over all by 8 points. The Race Report has the Details.

Here are the Final Point Standings for season 2 of MotoSL.

[rank - points - name - team - wins - podiums - pole positions]

1 – 239 – Motorato Ware – OMG Magazine – 5 – 10 – 6
2 – 174 – Silk Bamboo – Red Wings – 1 – 7 – 1
3 – 136 – Bike Racer – Stilman Motors – 0 – 2 – 1
4 – 97 – Hollie Wood – House of Kats – 1 – 4 – 2
5 – 96 – Maczter Oddfellow – RefleX Racing – 0 – 1 – 0
6 – 94 – Thorn Blackflag – Red Wings
7 – 89 – Kalel Mommsen, RefleX Racing – 1 – 3 – 1
8 – 85 – Raver Bellow – RD Racing – 0 – 3 – 0
9 – 79 – Sly Axon – Titan Racing – 0 – 1 – 0
10 – 78 – Mara Kohl – House of Kats – 1 – 1 – 0
11 – 75 – Stillywack Stilman – Stilman Motors – 2 – 2 – 1
12 – 75 – Matt Kraken – Saints on Sunday
13 – 55 – Mistina Vavoom – OMG Magazine – 0 – 1 – 0
14 – 52 – Gianluca Mahoney – IND
15 – 39 – Kyle Crispien – Red Wings 1 – 1 – 0
16 – 38 – Abacus Mimistrobell – RD Racing
17 – 30 – Shad Raffke – White’s Bikes
18 – 24 -Timmahy Widget – Titan Racing
19 – 21 -Yamaha Harley – IND
20 – 18 – Lion Luna – IND
21 – 14 – Zereno Isachenko – IND
22 – 14 – Sally Forwzy, IND
23 – 13 – Dena Dana – White’s Bikes
24 -10 – Asher Coronet, IND
25 – 9 – Trevor Blazer – Shiva Racing
26 – 8 – Lacie Voss – IND
27 -8 – Shane Poindexter, IND
28 – 6 – WALKER Reddevil – IND
29 – 4 – Sukasa Rydell – IND
30 – 3 – Count Bayliss – IND
31 – 3 – Genocide Nasu – Shiva Racing
32 – 3 – Romantics Rejected – Saints on Sunday
33 – 3 – Stiff Longstaff – IND
34 – 3 – Blyde Electricteeth – IND
35 – 2 – Dragonlord Wesburn, IND
36 – 1 – Vincent Nacon – IND

Team Standings

1 – 302 – Red Wings
2 – 294 – OMG Magazine
3 – 225 – Stilman Motors
4 – 184 – RefleX Racing
5 – 135 – House of Kats
6 – 126 – Titan Racing
7 – 123 – RD Racing
8 – 111 – Saints on Sunday
9 – 43 – White’s Bikes
10 – 12 – Shiva Racing

We are going to have an awards ceremony next Saturday at normal race time on the island of Hotgates. At this time riders will receive awards and crazy prize monies depending on finish. We’ll have some presentations and some fun. We have DJ Miggy booked for the event if we can wake him up that early. This will also be a time to talk about things from the season. We had a lot of ups and downs this season and through it all we always try to improve. Is there something that you would like to see changed? Is there something we are missing? Let it out here and let’s talk about it before we go into development for season 3. Yes, there will be a season 3. There will be much more and we will get to it.
Now, here’s some pictures from what some are calling the best race of the season. Thanks to everyone for the great final!

Race 12 pics (starter pack)

Just to get the ball rolling, here are a few shots from qualifying and races one and two from today’s event at Silver Springs. More are sure to follow (right, Les?).

Read the race report here, check out the final point standings here.  Party next week at Hotgates, stand by for details.

More pictures from race 11

Not a big picture week this time, but here’s a couple pics from me and some from Bibi.

Motorato Ware of OMG Magazine wins at Snowpeach.

Moto was unstoppable under harsh conditions today to take her 4th win. OMG Magazine narrowed the gap slightly—to 16 points—behind the Red Wings in the chase for top team honors. Here’s the Race Report and Standings.

The Cal-Sportbike Corsa Classic race was announced today. This will be a one-day event with 10,000L purse that is free for all to enter. This will take place at Snowpeach on April 21, using MotoSL bikes, to mark the arrival of Cal-Sportbikes to SL. More information about the format for this race and prize structure will be coming very soon.

Here’s a podium picture of todays race from Bibi Bayliss. More pictures of the race to come!

Pictures and Video from race 10

Here’s some pics from race 10. There is a video from Korbin at OMG up on our Video Page.

upcoming races and some news.

The final two races of season 2 MotoSL are booked.

This weekend, March 31, we’ll be at Count and Bibi Bayliss’ Snowpeach track. The following week, April 7th, it’s Raver’s Silver Springs track for the final.

That will finish us off having raced Misp 3 times, Mooz 4, Snowpeach 3 and Silver Springs 2 times.

We just need 8 more tracks to become a true MotoSL! If you are interested in our series, using your track, then you can get more info on RaceSL requirements here. Tracks for our use have to be very clean. Read up!

Racers will receive regular race prize pay outs at the conclusion of race 11 and 12. Then the  following a week we’ll have an awards party at the normal race time. Cash Prizes and Awards for conclusion of the series will be handed out at this event. Hooo!

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Development News

MotoSL is a prototype/development series. As we test, learn and grow, things improve and change. At the beginning of the series we saw many new things in the Hawk 10R that we didn’t see in the GP1 bike we raced the year before (like crashing!). During the early part of season 2, many new features were developed to allow riders more setup options, like steering rake and sprocket size. We saw a big change in overall handling around race 4, when the bikes were made more realistic in regards to cornering physics, and given a 6th gear for more top end speed. There were a lot of little refinements over the course of the middle of the season, with smaller updates to the Hawk 10R. There was also a lot of work done in areas that will not show until next season, such as Dynamic Tires, Dynamic Traction Loss, and even more dynamic control inputs.

Once we started the last third of the season, the Hawk 10R race version was no longer being incrementally updated. This was to allow riders to concentrate on the final points chase. The bikes will remain stable in their current configuration for the last two races. Development doesn’t stop, though, and there has been a lot of it lately. The results are all being reserved for the next generation Series 3 bikes, where racers and fans can once again look forward to major advancements in what is possible with SL racing.

Mara Kohl gets the win today at Mooz

Mara rode a clean and consistent race to take her first win today under harsh conditions.

Check out the full Race Report and updated Standings.

Now maybe we can get Korbin to hand over some video. I know i saw a camera in his hand… And here it is! Thanks, Korbin.

Race 10 confirmed for Mooz this weekend.

Back to mooz with the chicane in place for race 10 this saturday.

There is already a wall in place to force the issue of the chicane

The time and place have been added to our Upcoming Events page.

Pictures from race 9.

Got some pics here from Korbin King of OMG and some from me. The high rez ones are Korbin’s. Hey, I had a race to run!

Motorato Ware of OMG Magazine gets the win at Silver Springs

The first race at Raver’s Silver Springs road course was won by Motorato for her 3rd win of the season and a big 58 point lead. Silk can still win the championship but only if Moto is abducted by aliens. The fight for second has heated up, and the top two teams are only 2 points apart.

The Race Report and the Standings are up.

Pictures to come. Got some nice ones from Korbin King.

Race 9 confirmed for Silver Springs.

We’ll be heading out to Raver’s new track for race 9 this Saturday, noon SL time.

It’s got a nice layout that brings more variety to the series so get out there and learn the track. If you have any comments or concerns about the track Raver would love to hear them.

The next 4 races will be very intense as riders and teams try to gain points before the conclusion and crowning of champions next month.

Another new track, Ponderosa.

//update… they still have some things to sort at Ponderosa. Scripts and Rezzing turned off is one of them. Right now the rezzer, bikes, HUD will not work so it’s been removed. You will also not be able to rez other vehicles in this state.

We await development.

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Some of you know there is a TT (time trial) race track that we are waiting to try, well, now we can!

I’ve been testing at this track for a long while and had to keep quiet due to NDA. The track is narrow, about 14m and has elevation changes. It will result in a lot of bikes leaving the track and riders dying all over. Should be great fun! It will be much like real TT racing, meaning you wont be able to do the track in top speed for fear of ending your race in a gas fueled explosion on the rocks or road signs.

The track is in a cluster of sims owned by The Pond. The track sim is called Ponderosa. Track managment is handled by Gary Hazlitt.

Let’s get out there and give it a run in. I want to know if you riders find this track suitable for our series. We would run it with 2 or 3 riders on at once going for top time. It would not suit a 6 rider start. It would have half the bikes in the ocean first turn.

There is a bike rezzer there containing the latest Hawk 10R that we use modified for elevation change.

Here’s a couple pics.

Spy pics of new track.

Here’s an image from our SL-MRA orbiting cameras. Looks like Raver Bellows’ track is coming along nicely. I was able to squeeze between the ban bars and set up a GP bike for a couple test laps. The track runs CW direction and it’s really smooth, fast and easy to grasp right away. The corners and high speed chicanes are great. I think this track will be a favorite among many racers.

Right now the track is CLOSED. Raver is still working on it and expects to have it ready for full testing in a couple days. If all goes well, and it will, we will be there when we come back from break for race 9.