Keys

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Car Controls

LEFT MOUSE BUTTON - Accelerate

RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON - Brake

MOVE MOUSE LEFT/RIGHT - Steer

S - Gear Up

X - Gear Down

Q - Handbrake

C - Clutch

B - Horn

G - Flash Headlights

L - Toggle Pit Limiter On / Off

O - Toggle Traction Control On / Off

I - Ignition

7-8 - Direction Indicators

9 - Hazard Lights

0 - Lights Off

SPACE - Reset Car

SHIFT+G - Toggle Automatic / Manual Gears

SHIFT+H - Change Horn Sound

In-Race Car Data

F9 - Toggle Tyre Temperatures & Loads Display.

F10 - Toggle Damage Display

F11 - Toggle Live Settings display

F12 - Toggle Pit Instructions

F - Toggle Forces view (force vectors on cars and tyres)

SHIFT+L - Toggle Suspension View overlay

N.B. F9 is also the default key to turn on/off TrackIR. The result of this conflict is that it stops the key from working in LFS. Changing this key assignment in TrackIR software to something else not used by LFS (e.g. NumPad minus) will restore F9 functionality in LFS.

Game Controls

SHIFT+R - Vote to Restart Race

SHIFT+X - Vote to End Race

SHIFT+Q - Vote to Qualify

SHIFT+P - Enter Garage (aka insta-pit)

SHIFT+S - Join Spectators

SHIFT+O - Options Screen

Views

W - Look Left

E - Look Right

R - Look Behind

TAB - Change View to Next Car (Race Order)

SHIFT+TAB - Change View to Previous Car (Race Order)

HOME - Return View to Own Car

CTRL+TAB - Toggle Race Results

N - Display Names (Off / Connection List / Names Over Cars)

V - Change View

SHIFT+V - View Reverse

SHIFT+U - Free View / AutoX Editor

SHIFT+F - Turn Off All Screen Info

SHIFT+M - Toggle Mirror On / Off

SHIFT+F1 - Switch to default driver view

5 - Zoom In

6 - Zoom Out

Controller / Sound

< - Less Force

> - More Force

SHIFT+C - Reset Controller

SHIFT+N - Toggle Sound On / Off

SHIFT+W - Re-initialise Sound

SHIFT+K - Next Track

CTRL+C - Clip Mouse to Window

Replay Controls

1 - Watch Replay

2 - Save Replay

F2 - Reduce Replay Speed

F3 - Increase Replay Speed

Chat Input

T - Open Chat Window

F1-F8, CTRL+F1-F12 - Customizable Messages

ALT+F1-F12 - Customizable Messages

H - Toggle Message History

- - Toggle Block / Unblock All Messages

SHIFT+F8 - Network Debug

CTRL+C - Copy Current Text Selection

CTRL+V - Paste Current Text Selection

CTRL+X - Cut Current Text Selection

UP/DOWN ARROW - Scroll Up / Down

Lobby / Garage

RIGHT MOUSE BTN - Change Value In Steps of 10

Connection List Commands

SS - Send Setup

GREEN S - Save a Setup Sent to You

T - Request Taking Over a Car / Hand Over Your Car

Common

CTRL+RIGHT MOUSE BTN - copy the value of any slider

SHIFT+RIGHT MOUSE BTN - paste the copied slider value

RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON - (on any slider) directly enter a value

Misc

P - Pause

SHIFT+F5 - Reload current language file (except English)

CTRL-S - Save screenshot to \data\shots folder

Graphics

SHIFT+F4 - Switch to windowed mode

SHIFT+F9 - 640 x 480

SHIFT+F10 - 800 x 600

SHIFT+F11 - 1024 x 768

SHIFT+F12 - 1280 x 960

LFS World commands in-game

/w COMMAND USERNAME - (eg. /w pb or /w pb johndoeracer)

/ws TRACK CAR COMMAND - (eg. /ws bl1 mrt laps)

pb - personal best on this track with a car

hotlap - (hl) hotlap on this track with a car

wr - world record on this track with a car

laps - (l) laps on this track with a car

tlaps - (tl) total laps

distance - (ds) total distance

win - (1) race wins

second - (2) race seconds

third - (3) race thirds

drags - (dr) total drag races / wins

help - (?) command list and usage

/w msg USERNAME - initiates sending an SMS to another LFS racer

/w txt MESSAGE - adds the text and sends it to the mobile phone