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LS Underground was founded by Matt Smithe (now Zhou) in the blazing hot summer of 2020. After a long hiatus from the city, Matt returned to Los Santos looking for something better. He quickly fell in love with cars in the city and began working at Los Santos Customs, working his way through the ranks. As his love for cars drove him to work harder at LSC, he wanted to do more. He eventually found a group of racers that called themselves Midnight Club where he first began to street race all over Los Santos. Unfortunately, membership in Midnight Club fell inactive, and members began leaving.

 

 

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After Midnight Club's falling out, Matt continued to hone his abilities street racing with the local racers, never under any banner just people that met up to race. Many nights him and his now fiance Niki Zhou would go out and race on their own, racing for bragging rights and just for the thrills. Soon though, Matt decided it was time to form a team again, a team of racers that would be able to come together and set up races and find new ways to bring street racing into the forefront of the city. Thus, Los Santos Underground was born.

 

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Currently, Underground is a growing group of street racers that race for both pride and occasionally money. They now host buy-in races where a small percentage goes to the treasury and the rest to the winner; as well as hosting driving rally's and car shows. Underground racers race daily, consistently making up new tracks and finding new areas to race in.

 

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Recently, After a small ordeal with another racing organization, Matt, Niki and Baxter found a new garage to hangout in around the city. 

 

 

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IC Rules

1.  No “gang related” criminal activity i.e. Drug making/selling, car chopping, bank robberies, etc

2.  Respect the ranking order

3.  Resolve all internal issues internally through higher ups

4.  No intentional ramming or otherwise unfair racing behaviors

 

OOC Rules

1.  Follow All ecrp server rules. Failure to do so will be removal from faction

2.  Always hold yourself to a high standard of racing RP (stay on the road as much as possible, no crazy jumps, RP racing injuries properly, etc)

3.  Server punishments must be explained to leadership

4.  Remain active

5.  Remain IC as much as possible, we do not tolerate OOC toxicity towards anyone including other factions

 

 

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1.  Build to over 10 official members

2.  Buy a building for the organization

3.  Become officially recognized in the city

4.  Own legal businesses to help fund races and prizes

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1.   Rookie New to the organization

2.   Racer  The main rank of organization members. A true member of the crew

3.   Veteran  Has raced on every track and showed long term loyalty to the organization

4.   Recruiter/Coordinator  Leadership positions that can find and recruit people from a simple prospect to a rookie, and can organize events.

5.   Board Member  High command of Los Santos Underground

 

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1.     10,000 EXP

2.     Ability to role play racing in a realistic and fair manner

3.     Show a want to have good RP over winning every time

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Tracks 

 - The Original Hangout (Outdated)

Baxter's Story

Making Money

Warraner Races

Rally around Los Santos

Tommy's Story

Kujo's Story

Niki's Story

Halloween Event

Baxter's Return to the Street

Winter Event

Street Fighter Conflict (Outdated)

Recuperating

Quincy's Story

Giovanni's Story

Board Member Tommy

New Friends

Poking Around

Off-Road Rally

Wild West Car Show

Time Trials

Heading Home

 

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Not too long after its foundation, the Los Santos Underground crew got together and found a spot that they used to meet up and hangout. A perfectly sized old mechanic shop under a bridge that could easily be used to fix up the dents and other small incidents that occur during a street race.

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After the crew got settled into their new home, they soon started hearing about a race being put on by a legal car group known as Burnout Nation and of course they were interested. Matt reached out to some of his friends in burnout and they gave Underground members a quick look at what the track may look like, unfortunately last minute track changes occurred so it wasnt EXACTLY what the underground boys had practiced, but it was close.

 

 

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After the burnout race, it was clear Los Santos Underground and Burnout Nation would have good relations for future car events in the city from races, to car shows, to any other car related event that might take place. 

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Baxter was born into a racing family in Europe. All the men on his dad's side of the family were heavily involved in motorsports of all disciplines, from open wheel series to endurance GT to rallying. If it had an internal combustion engine and at least two wheels, a Verstetten had probably raced it somewhere in Europe at some point. Baxter was karting in Europe when he turned 5, but was no standout racer at the time. When his parents split, he went with his dad to Liberty City where he finished his primary education and attended Liberty City University, where he earned a Bachelor's in mechanical engineering. Upon graduation, he got an internship with the North American branch of the Pfister factory racing team. If you ask him, he'll tell you he's a factory driver for the team and races overseas, but he's really just a test driver for their R&D team every few months.

 

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Baxter came to the city knowing exactly what he wanted - to be a mechanic and represent the racing prowess of Pfister. It wasn't long after he got his job at LSC when he overheard one of his supervisors, Matt Smithe, talking about racing around the city. He was still struggling to make real friends in the city, but worked up the courage to ask Matt to show him some tracks some time. To his surprise, Matt kindly said yes, and the education began. Over the next few days, Matt and his fiance Niki showed Baxter around the most prominent tracks of the city. It wasn't long before Baxter got tired of using a loaner from Matt and convinced the Pfister factory to import him a comet to drive around the city. This car became his pride and joy.

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Before long, Matt started floating the idea to Baxter about getting a more concrete group together for racing. Baxter was still riding the joy of finally finding some friends he felt like he vibed with, so he of course chomped at the bit to help however he could. Matt proposed the idea of willingly running a speed camera at over 180kph and turning yourself in as an initiation process for Recruiter and up and invited Baxter to join him and Niki as the first members to accept the process. Accepting that street racing is going to come with its inevitable run-ins with the law, Baxter guardedly accepted to ruining his squeaky clean police record that night. This is where Baxter met Jason Steel for the first time, but that's an essay for another time.

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It became apparent to Baxter that the Comet just couldn't keep up on most tracks around the city compared to the overly abundant Elegy Retro Customs. He fought hard with himself over his brand loyalty, but seeing as how getting a Neon or a Comet SR would take an absurd amount of time to save up for, he swallowed his pride and used his remaining savings from the Pfister internship to bring an Issi Sport into the city. Having this car that handled so vastly different from the Comet and had such a different reaction to upgrades from LSC made him curious though. The mechanical engineer in him began thinking - what do the upgrades in this city actually do to our cars? With the help of Matt and his vastly larger collection of cars, they went out to the airport for hours at a time over multiple days, making trips to and from LSC swapping out upgrades to test how suspension and turbo options actually affected cars. This was the first large project undertaken by Baxter under the name of the group, and he happily shares the invaluable data with any member of the group.

His next big project was laying out his own track, something in the city he could attach his name to. He drove up to Grapeseed where he thought he'd have a blank canvas - "Nobody's come up this far North to race before, right?" And thus the track "Grapeseed" was born.

It wasn't long after introducing the group and his friends to the track that he started hearing about folks who have been in the city far longer than him having driven this track back in their primes' though. While the track seemed to be a hit with everyone he introduced to it, he was no longer satisfied that he'd found a unique track to attach his name to. He continues to explore the roads of the city on the lookout for the next big track.

After weeks of work with Matt and Niki, acting as a sounding board for them and continually being on the lookout for potential new recruits, the group was finally ready to start looking for a place to settle down and announce their plans with the friends they'd gathered so far. A hangout was chosen and plans were announced. The next day after a few hours of friendly racing, Matt and Niki pulled the group aside at Observatory to officially invite Baxter to be a Lead Racer in the group. He was overjoyed at the time, and couldn't be happier to have found a group he truly calls his family here in Los Santos.

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