5laps.com is an online-based game service where drivers from around Europe go head to head while racing with a number of different track and car combinations. You can download the game and participate in multiplayer practice races for free.

Index

Getting started
5laps.com game service
Registration
Downloading the game
Hardware requirements

Tournaments and leagues
Leagues
Pay tournaments
Quick races
Private races
Hot lap challenges

User profiles and teams
User profile
Teams
Driver points
Licenses
Driving instructions

Racing
Proofing for a race
Qualifying for a race
Racing etiquette
Flags and penalties
Scoring

Contact information and support

5laps.com

5laps.com is an online-based game service where drivers across Europe go head to head. There are a number of different ways to race ranging from multiplayer events to single player practice sessions. For competitive racing there are options all the way from tournaments of hundreds of drivers to more private races.

You can compete in the following types of races:

• Leagues
• Club tournaments
• Hot lap challenges
• Practice races

The gaming service subsists of the following components:

1) The 5laps.com site itself

• Registration and downloading the client
• On the tournaments page you can see a list of upcoming tournaments you can enlist yourself for. Tournament brackets and results are also available on the individual tournament pages. Practice races and club tournaments are distinguished with icons.
• On the news page you can follow notices related to the 5laps.com service
• On the storepage you can buy license upgrades and credits entitling you to entrance for more content and races in the service.
• On the statisticspage you can see the league results and best drivers.
• You can modify your own driver profile and get to know other drivers via their profiles and invite them as your friends in the service.

2) The game (Live For Speed)

• In the 5laps.com service you play with the popular LFS driving simulator (Live for Speed).
• You can familiarize yourself with the cars' handling and features. You can also practice offline without an internet connection.
• You can play multiplayer and single player races as well ass race against the clock.
• You can adjust your settings and your car's settings.
• You can follow races as a spectator and take a look at the replays of races you've saved.

Driver profile

Your driver profile is visible to the other drivers. You can see the other players' profiles for example via tournament information pages simply by clicking the nicks of attending drivers. Yoy may also add a picture and a short description of yourself into your profile.

Teams

You can form a team on your profile page. Including yourself, a team can have a maximum of 10 members. The team is considered active if and only if it has a minimum of 2 members. The founder of a team is the only person who can accept or deny new members. Please take note that one person teams are not taken into account in team points scoring.

Team membership levels
Team founder
Team admin

The team founder is the only person who can accept or deny people applying for the team an d the founder cannot leave the team. Team admins can send invitations for drivers to join the team. Any other member of the team besides the team founder may quit the team at any point. Team admins may also fire members out of the team. Team admins can promote and demote drivers to and from the team admin status. The team founder has equal privileges with the team admins. The founder status can be transferred to an another driver in the team.

A tool for deleting the team is visible to the founder once the team has only one member.

Internal communication of teams
The members of a team can write on the "wall" of a team. The team wall is public and any registered user can write on it. In addition to the wall team members also have access to a team specific forum, access to which is restricted to team members only. Admin access to the aforementioned forums is given to team admins and 5laps.com adminstrators.

Team points
A team scores points for the races its drivers attend to. Only the three best ranked individuals participating in a race gather points for the team.

Example:
The drivers of the team "Minardi Helsinki", Wendigo, Xavier, Yyteri and Zorro, participate in a race. Xavier ranks 2nd, Yyteri 3rd, Zorro 4th and Wendigo 6th. Only the points of Xavier, Yyteri and Zorro are taken into account for the team points accumulation.

Player points

You gather points into your player profile for attending races and ranking well in races. The player points tell of your activity and dominance in the service. The accumulation of points has the following multipliers for different scenarios:

• 10 x League races
• 5 x Club races
• 3 x Wildcard races
• 3 x Hot lap challenge stints
• 1 x Free races

In addition to these set multipliers, 5laps.com occasionally hosts endurance races and other special races where the multiplier may vary. The text on the race wall will always tell if the point accumulation differs from that of the aforementioned list.

Registration

User name
Your log in name is the nick by which you will be identified in the 5laps.com service. You cannot change your login handle after registering.

Personal informatin
Please make sure your personal (contact) information is correct. You cannot change your real name afterwards. This information is used for sending gifts and rewards. Your given email address has to be functional to be able to complete the registration process.

Security
Your password must consist of at least 8 characters. A password consisting of uppercase, lowercase, numerical and special characters is more secure.

Downloading the game

• Once you have registered for the service, click on the activation link found in the email you've received. If you do not see the activation email within an hour of your registration, please check your spam folder.
• Log in to the 5laps.com site
• Click on "Download the game"
• Once finished downloading, install the game on your computer
• Once finished installing, participate in practice tournaments

Hardware requirements

• CPU: 2GHz
• Display adapter: 256 MB
• Hard disk space: 450 MB
• Operating system: Windows (XP, Vista or 7)

5laps.com requires a broadband landline connection for an optimal gameplay experience. Wireless and 3G connections are known to be laggy and problematic for all players participating.

Licenses

By purchasing a license you gain access to more cars and tracks (see the gallery). The service also has some races and leagues which require a license to be able to participate.

Bronce license
The S0 license is the license every driver gets for free by registering in the service. It gives you access to the Blackwood track and three cars. There are daily races to which you can attend with this license.

Silver license
The S1 license contains 9 cars and 4 track environments, which bring you 15 different tracks on top of the Blackwood tracks. (14,95€)

Gold license
The S2 license contains all of the 21 cars in the game and all of the 7 track environments, which consist of 26 tracks on top of the Blackwood tracks. (29.90€)

Tournaments and leagues

5laps.com leagues are mostly consisting of many races and require credits to enter per race. The races are driven with variable track and car combinations. An individual race is usually at least 10 laps long, but there are also longer races available. You can easily identify these races by their icon . More information leagues on the .

Non-free races

5laps.com also offers individual races enlisting for which your account is charged for credits. The prize pool for these races is set by the amount of participants and by the entry fee - the bigger the race, the bigger the prizes! You can easily distinguish these races in the list of tournaments by their own icon . The details of the race you can see in the individual pages of the races. You can buy licensens and credits in the store

Quick races

Quick races are starting every 30 minutes. We recommend you to start from the quick races before going into the more competitive races to train your driving technique and racing lines. You also accumulate points from the quick races.

Private races

Private races cost credits to form and are closed from public participation. Players can create their own private races. A private race fits a maximum of 10 players. A private race can have a maximum of 50 laps.

The organizer of a private race can hold the race with his/her chosen track and car combination. The organizer must have the hence required license to hold the tournament. Participating in a private race requires credits and potentially the appropriate license.

• The race opens a the moment of creation. The race must begin latest at two weeks from creating it. Qualifying runs for 10 minutes as in a normal race. The duration of the race is dependent on the number of laps.
• Qualifying runs for 10 minutes as in a normal race. The duration of the race is d ependent on the number of laps.
• The race can begin the earliest one hour from its creation
• You can invite drivers from your friends list into a private tournament.

Organizing a private race costs the organizer 10 credits. Participating in one is free. The race will realize itself if there are at least three participants by the time qualifying starts. Prize distribution requires for the final of the race to have been succesfully finished (ie. it is not cancelled).

Hot lap challenges

Hot lap challenges are battle against the clock and the lap times of other drivers. You can drive them in various predefined track and car combinations. The participation fee can be found in the description of each challenge. You can buy the required credits from the shop. Some of the licenses might require a silver or a gold license.

Controls

You can drive the car with a mouse, driving wheel or keyboard. The default control method is mouse control. You can change your control method from the menu in-game by pressing the ESC key.

Mouse control (default)

• Steer the car by moving the mouse
• Throttle - left button
• Brake - right button
• The cars have an automatical gear box, but it is at a neutral gear at the beginning of a race
• Shift up (to first gear) - S
• Reverse - X
• Speed limiter (not available in all cars) - A

Steering wheel control

Adjust the controls from the in-game settings

Keyboard control

• Steer the car from the left and right arrow keys
• Throttle - select the desired key from the in-game settings
• Brake - select the desired key from the in-game settings
• The cars have an automatical gear box, but it is at a neutral gear at the beginning of a race
• Shift up (to first gear) - S
• Reverse - X
• Speed limiter (not available in all cars) - A

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Please note:

If the game does not launch in the full screen mode, you can enter it by pressing shift-F4. This is how you can ensure you will not click outside the window with your mouse during a race.

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Competing in the 5laps.com service

Track etiquette

• A false start is penalized by a 45 second time penalty. Put the first gear on only after the green light.
• The speed limit at the pit area is 80 km/h. Speeding in the pit area is punishable by a drive through penalty or a time penalty.
• Take other drivers into account. Do not bump into cars or block faster drivers by blocking racing lines.
• Drafting while racing is allowed, but should be done with extreme caution. Bump-drafting – which means drafting while physically pushing the ahead car forward – is both extremely dangerous and strictly forbidden.
• Motor sports are gentleman sports and the track etiquette forbids all unsportsmanship on the track.
• Be a gentleman on and off the track. Try to talk all your accidents through with others in a civilized manner and do not be afraid to apologize. This will enhance everyone's driving experience – including yours.
• Bringing AI drivers to online races and any sort of disruptive activity in the service are strictly forbidden.
• For repetitive breaking of the track etiquette players will be banned from the service.

Flags and penalties

The flags in the game have the same meanings as in real racing. Obey the flags.

Blue flag

• A car faster than you is approaching, and you must let them pass before the third turn. Keep your calm and do not jump to the side in a manner that is unpredictable and can cause danger.
• Mostly this flag is shown to a driver about to be lapped by one or more laps
• Do not block the faster driver

Yellow flag

• There is a stationary car, a part of a car or any other obstacle which obstructs normal racing conduct
• Slow down and prepare to evade obstacles
• Taking over is forbidden

Drive through penalty

• Is done by driving through the pit lane without stopping

Stop and go penalty

• Is done by pitting in and stopping for 10 seconds

Pit instructions

• You can change the settings of your car in the pit
• The game allows various settings to be tweaked in your car ranging from downforce related settings, suspension settings to tire pressure settings
• You can enter the settings in-game by pressing esc and clicking on the pit button.
• You can change your default settings by clicking the new settings button and saving your own settings preset.

Please remember to test your settings before racing with them: you might have made your car undrivable or hard to control.

Racing

A single race consists of a proofing run, a qualifying and a cup format tournament, which typically consists of 2-3 rounds. Once proofing under the currently standing proofing limit, you may enter in the race. A typical race takes about 1 to 2 hours in total.

• Once the race is done for you, exit the game and check your placement and lap times from the 5laps.com web site
• Whether you qualified for the next round, prepare to participate in it

Proofing

• Proofing is both practice for the race and proofing out the slowest drivers if the tournament is full
• Only full hot laps are counted as proofing runs
• The 80km/h speed limit is active on the pits during proofing
• Once you are confident in your proofing time, exit the game
• A proofing usually starts a few days to a few hours before the race. A proofing ends about five minutes before the start of a tournament.
• Everyone who attended in the proofing gets one point

Qualifying

• Drivers are ranked into the starting grid of the race by their qualifying run times
• Every step of a tournament starts with a qualifying run for the race in question
• The 80km/h speed limit at the pit lane applies
• You can stay on the track and wait for the race - in this case you will be automatically transferred into the starting grid.
• In case you ar as a spectator at the time of the race starting, you can join the race by pressing the ESC key and selecting "Join the race" from the in-game menu

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Scoring

Drivers collect points both from the final and from all of the rounds of a cup formed tournament. On top of this every player who participated in the proofing gets one point. Players are accredited points as follows:

Final

Rank	Points
1.	10,0
2.	8,0
3.	6,0
4.	5,0
5.	4,0
6.	3,0
7.	2,0
8.	1,0

All participated drivers (except for DNC and DNQ statuses) get 1,0 points.

DNC=did not compete
DNQ=did not qualify
DNF=did not finish


On top of the points from the final, the players also get points from the other rounds accordingly:

1st round 0,1 x
2nd round 0,2 x
3rd round 0,3 x

Rank	Points
1.	10,0
2.	8,0
3.	6,0
4.	5,0
5.	4,0
6.	3,0
7.	2,0
8.	1,0

Example:
Driver X ranks as follows in a three round tournament:

1st round rank 2nd --> 8,0 x 0,1 + 1*=1,8
2nd round rank 4th --> 5,0 * 0,2=1,0
3rd round rank 1st --> 10

Total: 1,8 + 1,0 + 10=12,8 points

*every driver gets one point for attending proofing.

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Support and contact information

Our customer information helps with all issues related to 5laps.com races and the associated game on weekdays 09:00 EET to 17:00 EET. Contact information:

E-mail: support 'at' dodreams 'dot' com

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