The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3628174MZEG2V8EMF

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - XF COUPE TURBO
2 RG^M@CI3K - MZG SEDAN
3 ZFRL•Thehemuli - XF COUPE TURBO
4 B2R M - XF COUPE TURBO
5 [PM] Jam 616 - XM-5 94 TURBO
6 RG^RedBoT - MZG SEDAN
7 [WCL] T.Soini - STELLAR K61
8 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - MZG SEDAN
9 RG^RD2 - COQUETTE Z5
10 [MRc] jsk - FEND TORUS
11 Vincent Adultman - ACOSTA STARLIN
12 B2R Loco - IMPREZZIVE B2
13 RG^NOSLE - FXO Turbo
14 LLM. Sobis - XF COUPE TURBO
15 caps911 - XM-5 94 TURBO
16 ZFRL•LG-mies - ACOSTA STARLIN
17 kyr1l? - XR GT Turbo
18 YES Lagooga - N.400S
19 B2R 136 - IMPREZZIVE B2
20 Egorka? - XR GT Turbo
21 B2R Stiefla - FZ50
22 (FR) Pablo - FRAUD 040
23 sidus unite - FEND TORUS
24 J.Holmes - BZ30 ROADSTER
25 Three Jump - URC1
26 [WCL]J.A.Katila - XF COUPE TURBO
27 B2R TwinCam - DORITO FD7
28 [WCL] Arska - DORITO FD7
29 ㉿Tazкa - COQUETTE Z5
30 HKS$TeddySnow - XF COUPE TURBO
31 AA™| Firestarter - ACOSTA STARLIN
32 Maciukas - FXO Turbo
33 ZFRL•Motimoukari - ACOSTA STARLIN
34 MotoDomas - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
35 edzis - ACOSTA STARLIN
36 GT4tube - FZ50
37 Adam - SALIVA15
38 RG^LORENZO - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023

This post will be edited after draw to add cars names to drivers!
New signups will receive their cars drawn in 2nd wave (20 minutes before qualifying)!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:12. Reason : Added car names to drivers

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LFSW name: nik13000

Signup rejected - S2 licence is minimum requirement for AWS,S3 required for today's round.

Quote from psikomania :

I like it better this way lol

Just like many others and that's the reason why these cars will be used EXCLUSIVELLY only in cruise servers - no self respecting race organizer will ever select them for an event.

Of course it handles good - it has downforce level of a F1 car.
Just an average LFS mod,where people push sliders without caring about realism.

2024 series - round 2

Tuesday, 5th march
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Rockingham International Long w/o Chicane (RO10X)
Race distance: 16 laps (64.8km)

* IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CARS:
Due recently added mod checks,several mods have been unpublished,that includes also 3 cars from RandomCar cars list:
CAMMERA 730 TURBO
PIRAN FIREFLY 200
VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
If these cars have not been fixed and re-published until monday 17:40 UTC,they will be suspended for round 2! For draw results,please refer to car number from spreadsheets (link below) and not main info thread!

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106827
RandomCar spreadsheets: LINK

Cars list and their restrictions is available also in server - type command !opt and select "RandomCar Info"
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Server will be passworded at least 1 hour before qualifying,server pass: random
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Cars will be drawn in 2 waves:
1st wave - 24 hours before start of qualifying
2nd wave - 20 minutes before start of qualifying - for late signups
Draw link and results will be posted in this thread!

Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all entrants via PM.

If someone hasn't received it due some mistake,please give a notification!

Signups are still open and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

Make sure your filters are set to show empty hosts. There is such server online,join via this link: lfs://join=city%20longg (alternativelly click on server name under https://www.lfs.net/hosting/admin )

3rd and last cross race of this season will be held this sunday in Fern Bay. The rallycross track is well known,however the car is new - in RGE hosted races it has seen only Rockingham,this sunday the Chorus Attendanze will be made dirty on a rallycross circuit. 660cc engine delivers just 63 horsepower,so the car will not accelerate quickly,however with 740kg weight it can go through turns quite fast - the tyres might support the car much longer than previously used cars in this track. Regarding track limits - since it's rallycross,the running wide exiting turn 1 and entering turn 2 will be tolerated!

Championship situation has been spiced up slightly after previous round,however the gap between standings leader and closest rival is still more than half of max possible points,so this round will surely decide how much intrigue will be left for season finale. Similar situation is in teams championship,however the nations cup has a potential to be decided after this round.

Round info:
Track: Fern Bay Rallycross (FE5)
Laps: 29 (59km)
Car: CHORUS ATTENDANZE XT-Z 4R
Previous winners : A.Valta (2023 / RS1K & 2016 / FXR), LLM.V. Laguckas (2022 & 2019 / RB4 / Road course), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021 / RB4), DzidorisIII (2018 / RB4), CoRe A.Laipnieks (2015 / RB4), RGˆMatiss (2014 / RB4), CoRe T.Lähteenmäki (2013 / RB4), spdoreno (2012 / RB4)


Server info and password will be PM'ed during sunday (european time) to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
AWD Winter Series

AWS 2024 signups thread
Race Green Discord

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)


LFS has 3 real world cars in it's inventory,which have been used in RTFR plenty of times,however the difficulties to obtain licence hinders to have proper replicas of real world cars made by users. But there are few and yesterday we were racing one of those,a car from 70ies made in (back then) Czechoslovakia - Škoda 110 L. Since the original delivers rather low power,the rally version was selected as it delivers near LFS GTi class performance and is equipped with road super tyres. Still the lack of locking differentials,the engine placement at the rear and lack of rear antiroll bar made it's handling rather specific,not everyone was able to adapt to it and whoever could do better than others,were on top of the game.

Winner of 2 out of 3 RTFR 2024 season 1 races M made it 3 out of 4 - he had a setback on lap 1 as he lost the lead to fellow front row starter,however he recovered and after few tries finally returned to race lead for the last 7 laps of 19 to cross finish line first once again. That was the lithuanian's 5th RTFR race win - he is the 23rd driver in event's history to score 5 or more,five is also his pole positions count after this race,while the fastest lap of the race is his 4th and top5 finish - his 17th. Additionally he rounded up fastest laps count for Lithuania to 30 (4th most between all countries). The defending standings winner R.Kardol was the only one to challenge winner of this race - he led 12 laps from the start until losing lead,at the end he had to settle for 2nd place finish with 2 seconds gap,which is his 88th top5 finish. Another B2R member Loco took the remaining position on the virtual podium - 3rd in both sessions is a repeat of his personal best achievements. To make 3 out of 4 best consisting of B2R members,Ayoub Maroc finished 4th,which is his 14th top5 finish,top5 was closed by Adam scoring his 5th top5 finish,while his 4th place in qualifying was an improvement by a single position compared to his previous best result.

VOD at Youtube:


RTFR will now take 2 weeks break before returning with a slick tyre car,which and where - hints can be heard in the most recent broadcast. Next week server belongs to RandomCar - the cars rich series will host it's 2nd round of the season in Rockingham. Full info as always will be posted in sunday and car draws will begin on monday. Next RTFR XL will be the 5th race in Aston in the latest 9 races overall - seems like the environment is being very popular with drivers. The selected car is LFS's own RWD medium performance base car XRT.
RGE's racing action this week is not over yet - this sunday AWS will bring the slowest car in it's history to Fern Bay,which will be run in the rallycross circuit. As it is the penultimate round of the season,it will be the last chance for outsiders to qualify themselves for season finale in Kyoto as the rules permit only drivers with at least 1 point scored to take part in last round. Full info and signups as always in AWS forum section.

Tomorrow we gonna bring this old thing for a spin in Fern Bay:



In case interested,feel free to join - full info: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/107304-327th-RTFR
Livestream by SimBroadcasts.tv starts 18:50 UTC (link in info thread).
Attached also RTFR promo skin,in case someone likes to add more colors to this car.

I cannot answer for LFS developers,but I assume that because they are based in Europe - from quick research I found out that pix is based in Brazil and can be used only there,which makes it pretty much useless for private business in Europe.

A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*GáboR
Last SKODA 110 L RALLYE race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Fern Bay race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (317th RTFR - DORITO FD7 @ FE Green Alternative RGE)
Most Fern Bay gold configs race wins: 13 races,13 different winners (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+4 points)

2024-S1 standings after 3 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 93
S1DUS*uNite - 64
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 58
Event rating,standings and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)

* PENALTIES :
RGˆNOSLE - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for failure to serve the mandatory pitstop. The penalty results in loss of last completed lap.
[GD] WOw! - receives 14.48 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
TAV-Rubi - the unserved drive-through penalty is converted in 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time as per standard LFS rules.

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The 2nd GT3 class car this year between both RTFR versions was much cleaner than the first one tried in 1st scored standings race of normal RTFR - no mass crashes,just few incidents here and there,where drivers left without actual complains. Of course a race more than twice as long alone was a motivation to take care about early phase. With 37 actual qualifyers,this was the most attended RTFR XL race in almost 2 years,however the atrition rate was quite high as only 24 drivers reached the finish line with 1 additional driver classified in results.

What did not change between these 2 mentioned GT3 races was the winner - also yesterday driver with single letter name M dominated the race by starting from pole position,leading all laps,setting fastest lap of the race and completing the race distance first. It was M's 3rd RTFR XL race win (10th driver with 3 or more wins),5th pole position,2nd fastest lap of the race and 7th top5 finish from 10 race starts,while during the race he became the 12th driver to lead more than 100 laps in RTFR XL races. Despite taking all the achievements,his advantage in finish was everything else but dominating - just over 3 seconds behind was the 6-time RTFR XL race winner True Alpha,who started from 10th position,who knows how the race would progress for him with better effort in qualifying (in race he beat his qualifying laptime by more than 1 second,which would secure him 3rd position on grid),the 2nd place finish is finn's 16th top5 finish. Rest of the field was left behind significantly more - 3rd place finisher Leo was already 25 seconds apart leader,the argentinian improved his previous best qualifying result by a single position to 3rd,while the 3rd place finish is his 2nd top5 finish - that's half of all argentinian top5 finishes. The 2023 standings winner and RTFR XL most successful racer R.Kardol was rather left out in this race - he finished 4th with 41 seconds gap to score his 46th top5 finish,top5 was closed by Ayoub Maroc,who scored his 7th top5 finish.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Last 6 races were won by drivers from 5 different countries - only the finn True Alpha is the repeated winner. Interestingly only the same 5 countries have been represented in victory lane for past 20 races,a croatian driver being the last from other country.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Once again T.Soini being mentioned here - he had the shortest legal pitstop of 13.37 seconds,where he changed tyres and refuelled the car.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
B.Botev did not qualify for this race,however being known experienced with this car,he was allowed to start - from back of the grid driver has best chances to gain most positions and the bulgarian gained 27 in this race to finish 8th. 2nd best field rusher gained less than a half of that number.

VOD at Youtube:


There are not many cars with engine placed behind rear axle - the recently driven Protech is one of those,coincidentally next week we will race another one in the next normal RTFR. Which and where exactly will be announced this sunday. Which car and where will be run in next RTFR XL in 4 weeks is still known - the winner of this race has not casted his decision,he has still time until next tuesday for that.

Last edited by Eclipsed, Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:22. Reason : Senor Agustin Ipsale - thank you so much for sneaking in 2 names in qual results! I'm so glad to rework results and stats of half of others I already done because I have nothing else to do. Jackass!

Round 5 of the season brought back one of the standard cars of LFS - the street legal RB4,which was raced on the streets of Westhill,well,mostly - part of the track led on actual Westhill circuit,part of it used pitlane and another part the parking lot behind garages. The narrow track does not offer a lot of overtaking opportunities,the racers however still found some as for several laps early in the race,there was a train of cars close to each other and even trading places before the drivers finally settled in each in own pace.

Unite had already 3 pole positions in AWS before this season,this sunday he scored the 4th one as he was almost half a second faster in qualifying. Also the fastest lap in race he set was already his 3rd,however crossing the finish line as race winner was the finns first ever - he led a total of 20 of race's 22 laps to reserve the place in the middle of podium photo for the 1st time in this league. Main championship race chaser was in the same position also in this round - Thehemuli was 2nd best through the whole round and even managed to lead 2 laps during the race,scoring his best result of the season. Trespasser worked hard for 2nd place finish,however the effort was not good enough and he finished 3rd,taking 2nd podium finish in 2 attended races this season.


Championship standings leader Sobis finished just 6th,losing 6 points from his advantage over Thehemuli - the new gap is 13 points between top2,Lorenzo is still 3rd,he reduced his deficite to table lead by just a single point to 18 points. These 3 are considered as main contenders for title,however if something goes wrong,other 2 could join the chase,while top11 are still mathematically in the race for title.

Only 1 of the 3 best rookies attended in this round and he even took over the lead in the standings - S.Martin is now 3 points ahead of RD2,Stiefla has now 15 points gap to leader. In theory still anyone (even a new signup) is still eligible for this award,however that would require 2 wins in remaining 2 rounds and failure of current leaders.

The defending teams champions RGA extended their lead in table by 2 points and now are 21 points ahead of WCL,while LLM is still 3rd,but already 40 points behind leaders,2 other teams are still have theoretical chances for the award,but realistically they can only challenge for last step on podium. Nations standings however returned exactly where it was after 3rd round as Finland and Lithuania scored exactly same points count as round before,just swapped the counts between themselves - the defending champions Finland returned to 47 points gap over Lithuania,while no other nation can even mathematically mix in the race for the award. Italy is currently best of the rest in 3rd position with 60 points scored and 99 points gap to leaders.


Next round will go into LFS history as the slowest league rallycross race with an AWD car - the Chorus Attendanze features a 660cc engine,which reaches just 63 horsepower. But since it weights just 740kg,it's fairly quick through turns even with relativelly narrow tyres - which should not be as big problem as it used to be with more powerful cars. The venue is Fern Bay's original rallycross circuit,which is just over 2km long and is expected to be completed under 1 minute and 23 seconds. The unknown combo surely can still provide some changes in the standings before season finale,also it will be the 3rd and last round for the Cross challenge award,which is led by current overall standings leader.

Qualifying:


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Checked the car's aero values in LFS garage screen - I kinda admire the try to simulate natural lift cars have at high speeds,but 96kg downforce at 40m/s from undertray of an 80ies sedan at road driving height is just as ridiculous as GTR downforce for some other road car mods.

Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all entrants via PM.

If someone hasn't received it due some mistake,please give a notification!

Signups are still open and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green

Pitting rules:
Race requires a minimum time spent in pitstall of 10 seconds. That can be done either with single pitstop or sum of multiple pitstops. Driver who has spent less time will receive penalty time added to his finish time,which will be calculated by tripling the missing time to complete neccesary minimum time and adding additional 5 seconds. Drivers failing to pit at all will receive 1 minute penalty added to finish time (10s*3 + additional 30s).

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: [MRc] Zesty
Last PROTECH 92 GT3 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Westhill race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (83rd RTFR XL - POCHETE 118 GT3 @ WE North RGE)
Most Westhill race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland & Lithuania - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+47 points)

2024 standings after 1 of 12 races:
[MRc] Zesty - 24
B2ﾏ M - 20
B2ﾏ Ayoub_MaRoC - 19
Event rating and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

The 5th round of AWS 2024 series brings us back to standard LFS content - the good old TBO class car RB4 will be run in Westhill,however RGE have decided which course to take during the race and that is a 3.82 kilometer custom circuit,mostly run on Westhill's support roads. It's actually a return of the circuit as it was used in the 2nd Westhill Street Cup in 2018,won back then by the series champion and RB4 Master of that season - Fast. For laptime comparision feel free to refer to unofficial results (official results few posts below).

In the race for championship there is a significant leader,who has finished behind any of his two closest rivals just once this season,so the rivals have to improve their game if they still want to have any chances. What gives some disandvantage to both Thehemuli and Lorenzo - Sobis has finished on podium 3 times in the history of Westhill Street Cup,including 3rd place finish in 2018,in which the same track was used.

Round info:
Track: Westhill Central Road Course 2 (WE1X)
Laps: 22 (84km)
Car: RB4 GT
Previous winners : A.Valta (2023), LLM.V Laguckas (2022, 2019 & 2017), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021), RGˆDzidoris (2020), B2ﾏ FasT (2018)


Server info and password will be PM'ed during sunday (european time) to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
AWD Winter Series

AWS 2024 signups thread
Race Green Discord

Yesterday 326th RTFR was run on CW direction with FBM - best laptime is 32.64 set in qualifying by S1DUS*GáboR,full laptimes chart from Airio attached.

Event was broadcasted by SimBroadcasts.tv - VOD in YouTube (race start @ 10:21 in video):

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)

* PENALTIES :
Figols (licence name Figols) - receives a disqualification from race results for leaving car unattended on grid,multiple incidents,including incidents with lapping cars,lack of awareness of surroundings,general ontrack behaviour. Since the driver has low online experience (~6800km),it has been decided to ban him for 1 month from RGE hosted events in hope he gathers experience and track/surroundings awareness elswhere before he can return to our events. Future incidents will lead to longer ban.

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The short 1.2 kilometer 4 turn raceway was not really crowd favourite as many complained about the selected combo,however everyone has to agree - the short track does produce intense racing as with 30+ drivers it is very crowded and noone will feel left alone on track. Racing was spread in "multiple levels" as drivers on different laps had their battles with direct rivals while needing also to deal with drivers either lap ahead or lap behind or sometimes even both at same time. Unfortunatelly the event host was so slow in his test run,he misjudged possible race pace - normally RTFR races are 30 minutes + 1 lap long,however this was not the case yesterday as race should have been 56 laps long to fill the requirement.

After winning 4 races in row Gábor retired from the chance to win the 5th one and took 3 race break from RTFR,yesterday he returned and scored yet another clean sweep - the pole position was his 24th,in race he led all 55 laps to break the 600 laps led mark all time in RTFR (still 2nd most),the fastest lap of the race was his 27th,the race win started his 4th decade of wins as it was his 31st and additionally he scored his 57th top5. The winner of the latest RTFR XL race Zesty finished 2nd with just over 1/4 of track length gap to race winner,scoring his 7th top5 finish - the 3rd place in qualifying was a repeat of his previous best performance. Dark made his 2nd RTFR appearance,improving his previous qualifying position by 1 position and also finished an RTFR race for the 1st time by taking the lowest step on the virtual podium. M had no arguments in this race to keep his winning streak alive - despite starting from front row,he could not keep up the pace through the intense race and finished 17 seconds (effectivelly more than half a lap) behind winner in 4th position to score his 16th top5 finish. Another brazilian closed the top5 - Sixmoon made his RTFR debuth and could celebrate it with a top5 finish.

VOD at Youtube:


Next week it's turn for the longer RTFR version - the 86th RTFR XL will be run in Westhill International reversed with the PROTECH 92 GT3,making the 2nd appearance of a GT3 car between both RTFR versions this year. The previous try with other GT3 car made itself badly famous so next week can only be better,additionally racers should be more conservative in first laps as the race is more than twice as long. In 2 weeks normal version of RTFR will return with a slower car on longer circuit - which and where you can find out when watching broadcast recording of this race. But the next RGE race is already this sunday - AWS season is closing to it's deciding phase,everyone is welcome to be part of it,taking the challenge of Westhill Street Cup,where RB4 will be raced on a custom support roads based track in Westhill - info and signups in AWS forum thread.

A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: B2ﾏ M - 2 wins in row
Last FBM race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (288th RTFR - KY National Rev.)
Most FBM race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 5 wins (Finland - 8 wins)
Last Autocross race won by: S1DUS*uNite (263rd RTFR - XRT @ AU Race Green International ACW)
Most Autocross race wins: v\A.Wiśniewski - 2 wins (Poland & Finland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+40.5 points)

2024-S1 standings after 2 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 66
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 58
S1DUS*uNite - 44
Event rating,standings and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

The 2nd season of RandomCar was started in Aston's custom configuration named Classic Boot - a configuration,which is a mix of Cadet,Club and National configurations,introducing 2 new turns. The mix has 2 long straights and rather low speed turns complex,each part of the track benefitting different cars,helping to mix the field even more. A total of 18 different cars were represented in this round,some models had even 3 drivers,including 3 of the 4 new cars - the 4th one was drawn,however the driver who received it did not attend. The car on top however was the same as 2 days earlier in AWS - Fraud Wheeler.

Current Main Hotlap Rank leader and most World records owner J.Holmes proved once again he can do more than just one fast lap - he led all 14 laps of the race with his Fraud Wheeler,however saw the closest rival getting bigger and bigger in the mirror to finish with less than a half second advantage. By being fastest in qualifying,the englishman scored already his 2nd pole position in RC,but the win was his first. Driver with a single letter name M finished 2nd,bringing the last season's 2nd best car Talot from 3rd position on grid to runner up position in finish,setting fastest lap of the race during the chase. His teammate got the light XF Coupe - he used the advantage of the handling well to qualify 2nd,however the disadvantage of this forced him to fight back from lower positions after race start - he rescued at least a podium finish.


After just a single round there is not much to say about drivers standings - the order in table is exactly the same as 1st round finishing order,only notable differences are the point gaps. J.Holmes has a 2 points lead after round 1,M is 2nd,closelly followed by Twincam just a single point apart. Since the top3 scored all round bonus points,rest of the drivers are seperated at least by 6 points. The defending champion R.Kardol hasn't even signed up for 2024 series,however also last year he missed season opener.

With 2 podium finishers B2R of course leads teams championship - they're currently 13 points ahead of defending champions RGA. 3rd is Yes Motorsports,which is already 25 points behind the table leaders. The nations championship starts the season with same fight it ended last season - Lithuania versus Finland. Lithuania currently leads over defending champions Finland by just 2 points,UK benefitted from race winner and another points scorer to take 3rd place with 7 points deficit to top of the table. In manufacturers championship the top3 finishing cars now are also in table top3 - Fraud Wheeler leads by 2 points over Talot and 3 over XF Coupe,defending champion received a performance lowering update between the seasons and currently is 11th - following races should reveal it's new performance potential and then we can decide if balancing is required to be updated.

The randomizer decided to put a new car as it's favourite pick - Talot got 3 draws and with it overtook the all time leader Imprezzive for most draws,while URC1 tied it for 2nd most. Another noticable draw fact is Motimoukari's 4th draw for the Nortz XR2 - he ties T.Soini for most same car draws,who got Imprezzive 4 times last season. The Zafiralis driver did not use the car however this week. Twincam scored best ever results for his car XF Coupe - 2nd in qualifying and 3rd in race,previous best were accordingly 5th (by Unite) and 6th (by Nosle). RD2 repeated best finishing result for Coquette (5th),while 3 drivers set the initial best results for 3 new cars - Nosle was fastest with Dorito (Q: 20th and R: 16th),Arska with Saliva (Q: 17th and R: 18th),but Loco took the lightest and least powerful car in the field to the top10 - Stellar was qualified 11th and finished in 8th position.


Round 2 will take place in Rockingham - only previous RC race in this environment was the test race before start of the 1st season. The racewinner selected the longest standard configuration International Long,but without the 1st chicane - 1st turn is oval's turn 1. It will be a 16 laps race,setting the 2nd lowest race distance in league history as the average speed of the track is quite low.

2nd oval round of the season was run in the Rockingham with Fraud Wheeler - a car that originally has a rally background. But already last year we used it for oval racing and it worked out well,so the return of Rockingham 150 was a logical decision. This year however the race for win was over pretty quickly - the leading duo dropped everyone behind and were pulling away while the rest had it's own struggles to settle in. This time there was no 3-way close finish for race win,but quite similar situation evolved in race for 4th place.

The standings leader Sobis got a support for this race - another seasoned oval racer and his help directly led to 2nd win in row. Both lithuanians worked well together to extend the gap over competition to 13 seconds,but with 5 laps left Sobis lost control over the car and barely rescued the 2nd position. On the final lap he was even gifted the race win as his collegue waited for him to let by - a rather questionable move not in the spirit of racing,however it does not breach any rules. Trespasser is scored as 2nd place finisher despite being fastest in qualifying (1st ever AWS pole position),leading almost all laps and being in secure lead when starting last lap - he settled in voluntary for runner up position on his 1st AWS race this season. Best of the rest was Thehemuli,who was out of reach from any chase attempts from behind,but his tries to follow the leaders failed early.


2nd win in row advanced Sobis into 19 points lead in the standings after 4 of 7 rounds - that is 3 points less than maximum possible score from a single round. The closest 2 rivals for championship are Thehemuli and Lorenzo,seperated only with tiebreaker of best finishing positions (two 3rd place finishes versus two 4th place finishes). A total of 18 drivers are still eligible for main title,however only top5 are considered as at least realistic candidates. This round was also counted into Oval trophy standings,also here Sobis is the leader - he has 9 points gap over Thehemuli,meaning a top3 finish in season finale at Kyoto would grant him this award for the 2nd time.

Best rookie in this round was the standings leader RD2,who now doubled his lead over S.Martin to 6 points,Stiefla is 3rd with 12 points distance to leader.

With 4th and 5th place finishes RGA scored most points between teams and with it increased their lead in teams standings - the defending champions now are 19 points ahead of WCL while LLM is 3rd,represented only by drivers standings leader. Lithuania scored all possible 39 points from this round,but the gap to defending champions and standings leaders Finland is still 34 points - next round will show if there is some battle left for the nations cup. Single driver nation Italy is 3rd with 72 points gap to lead.


Round 5 is set to support roads of Westhill racing circuit - something we have used plenty of times for racing too. This year the RB4 will run in the Road Course 2,which was used already in 2018 edition of this round. 22 laps around the 3.8km temporary circuit will be a good test for all the racers and this will be the round which will either sharpen up the race for champions title or settle down.