Triple 7 Racing was founded on the 30th July 2004 by Fordman and EMD.
Fordman, who first raced for one of the mothers of all LFS racing teams “Boomerang Rapido” and later with EMD in the “British Racing Team”, felt in mid 2004 that they had to leave this team and start their own LFS team.

That’s how all began. They both thought about a cool name and as three sevens are the lucky cards, they also thought this would bring the team some luck on the tracks. Triple 7 Racing (T7R) was born.

We also had an announcement on LFS-Radio (yes there once was an LFS Radio station)  the day Triple 7 Racing started.

You can download the cutted .mp3 song and message (47sec. and 745kb) here: T7R_goes_Live_2004.mp3

Our founders had a lot of ideas in mind about how a good team should be led (democratic leadership, drivers could only be invited, always try to be fair on and off the tracks, no pressure to win when racing but have fun and friendship, etc.)

After a short while the first skins and the first website were made by EMD and the next members were chosen. Lippy who was a close friend to them followed, then Interceptor, Three_Jump, Deano and BBO.

2005    up
After that a lot of other great guys followed the call from T7R one after another (like Bismarck or Sparkydave to just name a few) Over the next year 2005 they all worked together on various things. Deano was hosting the first T7R Scotland team server, Lippy was creating and hosting the next new website and the new forums and also hosted sometimes his famous “T7R| Lippy's world“ server and we also had a triple7racing chat channel on mirc.

Our famous T7R internal championship (TRIC) was also held in 2005 for the first time and Interceptor won it, right in front of Bismarck and Three_Jump on the 3rd.

We changed our team tag that year as well from the plain white text with blue square brackets to the brand new look. Blue T7R, a yellow streak (unfortunately LFS does not support orange in the name colours) and the name in white at the end. 

In October 2005 we changed again our skin design and that, together with a lot of hard work, brought us many good positions in the LFS Team Awards 2005. Our liveries won us the "Best looking LFS Team" award and our team spirit and “motto” (always try to be fair and friendly)  brought us „The Friendliest LFS Team” award as well, next to some more community awards.

And last but not least we celebrated our 1st birthday in England at the 1st T7R-Team meeting with Fordman as kind host.

2006    up
From the Motor Show in London England in 2005  (MPH'05) over the EAS show in Vienna Austria in 2006 our drivers Fordman and Tristan promoted LFS wherever they could together with the Cyberseat Simulator. You can still find a video (27MB) of the MPh'05 Show on their website. 

Again special thanks for that Barry.

There was also the 2nd kart meeting in the UK that year and Fordman (acting as entertainer and cameraman) took part together with Danowat and Lippy.

Our Triple 7 Racing Team logo slightly changed the colours in 2006 as well. Now instead of the blue, orange and black we got blue orange and grey. See here:

We drove our first Masters of Endurance (MoE) races in 2006 and our team took again part in various other leagues and events and helped to organize leagues others held (The Danish Racing Cups for example). We always helped others with our knowledge and experience in league racing and organizing things or writing news. Also our famous race reports were copied with permission directly to the OLFSL

BBO had a little idea and invented the first internal team setup website that year

Deano then took the idea and created something really great out of it. A setup station written in .php which he shared later with the whole LFS community. And we instantly took his version and implemented it into our website.

Then there was the ESL UK ERRC league where SparkyDave finished in 3rd and our former member Simon "No_One" Murphy won the championship.

And our 2nd internal championship (TRIC II) was held over the year this time: Three_Jump won it, Bismarck was 2nd and BBO finished 3rd on the podium.

2007    up
As the team was still growing we decided to create the new team manager position. To better organize the team work and to quickly find decisions if necessary.
Dan (Danowat), Jan (Three Jump) and Bernd (BBO) were chosen to be the first three managers of Triple 7 Racing.

To give something back Triple 7 Racing also sponsored that year the LFS4FREE event that was held by Danowat where Demo drivers could win a S2 license.

The rest of the year a lot of the team concentrated on only one big league: Masters of Endurance (MoE)
We tried hard to get a better final result in that season and we showed that we learned from the small mistakes we made in our very first endurance racing year.

In 2007 after the leaving of Gopher04 who was together with EMD and P1LOT our team skinner, Gavin took over the complete skinning work and created us a new livery. With the new skins we also wanted to get away from the growing numbers of individual skins (multiple 20 drivers with 20 car skins then you know why). So he worked on a new design with new sponsor logos etc. 

Sparkydave achieved something special that year. He dominated the CTRA with it's thousands of drivers almost the whole year and had the first place in the international drivers rankings. Because of time problems he couldn’t stay on the top there in the last month of the year but everyone already noticed that he ruled them all. He later got also an award from the CTRA for his awesome performance, which also made the T7R team once more very proud. 

Next to that drivers were involved in other leagues like the Road Sport Winter Cup or the Gentlemen’s Cup we also made our own little league this year. With the Triple-Double-Cup we gave some new drivers the chance to also get in touch with our team to maybe get a seat in the Triple 7 Raing Team but other then in the Gentlemen’s Cup where we spotted and recruited Kristian (Sir Pingo), we found no one that was worth the invitation.

On the 30th of July in 2009 we celebrate our 5th Birthday

More to come…