2024 series - round 1

Tuesday, 6th february
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Aston Classic Boot (AS2X-A23)
Race distance: 14 laps (75.5km)

* IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CARS:
Due recently added mod checks,several mods have been unpublished,that includes also 4 cars from RandomCar cars list:
CAMMERA 730 TURBO
FRAUD 040
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 1! 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!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Mon 5 Feb 2024, 14:35.

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.

I personally don't object optimization (even if I'm personally not stroken with it - had no framerate problems even in the badly famous Deene massacre),using hacks to avoid limits is surely a no go from my point of view,however I would suggest not to go extra limiting because of these who used hacks.

Quote from Scawen :

Maybe the LOD2 limit should really be 2048 or so.

That would start the 2nd wave of mods killing...

2nd oval round of the season and the 2nd fastest round,but overall it marks the middle of the 7 round season. Rockingham 150 last year was thriller where the result was decided in last lap between drivers running in different situations during the race. One thing is clear - as always on higher speed ovals there is no replacement for teamwork,however the gain of successful teamwork is not as huge as known from Kyoto oval. The midengined coupe Fraud Wheeler is equipped with R4 slick tyres,which do not provide a lot of grip,however are much more durable during the high loads experienced in oval - that relieves drivers from need to take care about tyre temperatures.

As always in the oval rounds we will use hotlap qualifying to ensure solo effort being decisive in order to take high grid positions. The running order of qualifying will be decided from Drivers Championship standings - lowest placed drivers will start qualifying while standings leader will take his run last. Everyone will have to run 3 laps - outlap and 2 timed hotlaps,after which driver should spectate,only fastest lap counts of course. 2nd timed lap is optional - theoretically cars are faster in 2nd lap,but in case of a mistake,driver can spectate without finishing 2nd timed lap.

As usual,to avoid many questions,Race Green Events' statement about bumpdrafting:
"With closed wheels cars it is not forbidden,but in case of any reported incidents it will be treated as intentional contact,so everyone has to make sure that he knows what he is doing!"

Current series leader has a healthy advantage over competition,however constanty doing way above 200 km/h during the next race one mistake can have much higher impact on result,so the situation in standings can change quicky. But the 2019 AWS champion has also one important minor award under his belt - in same year he also secured the oval trophy (winning also Winter 200),meaning he's deffinitelly no beginner in this kind of racing.

Round info:
Track: Rockingham Oval (RO3)
Laps: 64 (151km)
Car: FRAUD WHEELER E2
Previous winners : [MRc] Michal (2023 - FRWE), RGˆDzidoris (2021 & 2017 - 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)

* PENALTIES :
Figols - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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After the huge misshap 2 weeks ago,it was very refreshing to see things back to normal - despite the badly famous turn 2 of this South City configuration,there was no trouble and besides few stronger or weaker bumps,the race went rather clean as there were some complaints but no actual reports/protests. But that does not mean that people were simply cruising around the city without intention to improve their current positions,on the contrary - some raced so hard,they found out where exactly the limits of RB4 tyres are and some overpushed them losing pace and positions. However that was more the case on lower positions - from top5 starters only one did not finish in same position as he started,more amusingly - 4th and 12th place starters traded the positions in finish.

Just like 2 weeks ago,driver with a single letter in his name led all the laps of the race - M once again dominated the event,allthough not in absolute domination fashion - he was just 0.16 seconds faster in qualifying and finished with over 6 seconds gap over competition. The lithunian is the 25th driver in RTFR history,who has scored at least 4 race wins,while his pole position was also his 4th,addionally scoring his 3rd fastest lap of the race and 15th top5 finish. The 2nd place in current season standings (despite finishing just 3rd in 1st race) will keep the position also after this round - R.Kardol was the 2nd best in the latest race,scoring record breaking 87th top5 finish,taking over sole lead in this chart. Another lithuanian finished 3rd - Loco's previous best results in both sessions were 7th position in 4 started and finished races,yesterday he improved both of these to 3rd position. 4th was True Alpha,who started from 12th position,he did a lot of overtaking to score his 23rd top5 finish,top5 was closed by 3rd B2R driver in yesterdays top positions - Twincam scored his 5th top5 finish.

VOD at Youtube:


RTFR server now has been set up for laptime testing of next RTFR XL - the combo is PROTECH 92 GT3 @ Westhill International Rev. (WE2R),the race itself will take place in 3 weeks,however to find out the right distance for the race we need to find out the best possible laptime in this combo,so please join the server for some runs until sunday! On sunday the server will be turned to RandomCar duties - the 2nd season of this cars rich league will start next tuesday,make sure you don't miss out the action,info and signups in RandomCar forum section. But on coming sunday AWS will feature it's 2nd fastest round of the season,where a 250hp midengined coupe will be run in Rockingham's Oval,info and signups for this are to found in AWS forum section! In 2 weeks RTFR will return with some short track racing with one of the slick tyres wearing cars - which and were was mentioned in the broadcast of latest RTFR,full info as always in the weekend before the race.

I voted for Aston Martin,because I simply would like to see the stock version of it in LFS. If I would have 2nd vote,it would go for McLaren (same reason).

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
Last RB4 race won by: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (285th RTFR - WE International)
Most RB4 race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Last South City race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (319th RTFR - RCS V6 @ SO City Long)
Most South City town configs race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+1.5 points)

2024-S1 standings after 1 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 34
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 30
S1DUS*uNite - 27
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

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Between seasons there have been several changes in cars lineup,here is the overview:

First of all there was a car with rather low performance,which was supposed to be put on voting between the seasons if it should stay. However the car received update from it's creator,which made it heavier,thus rendering the car even more uncompetitive,therefor no voting was required as organization decided to retire the car from RandomCar by default.

The VGI-6 TEDAVI was drawn 17 times through the season of 2023,it's highest qualifying result was 6th position (achieved by S1DUS*FasT in round 4 at Kyoto National Rev.) and it's best finishing result was 14th (achieved by B2ﾏ Rayman in round 6 at Lindoring). The car finished 24th in 2023 Manufacturers championship,scoring 23 points in 5 attended rounds.

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Between seasons 2 RandomCar eligible cars have received approved status,which grants addition to the series lineup by default:
First of those is FEND TORUS,an all wheels driven sedan which will become the most powerful and also the 2nd heaviest car in the list. It will receive 4% restrictor as balancing measure.

2nd approved status car is SALIVA15,a japanese coupe with pretty much equal performance to the LFS's standard TBO class,therefor it will join the league without any kind of balancing.

2 cars have been added via voting - one of those is an approved status car that has more than 300N@40m/s total downforce,which allows cars to be added by default,therefor the DORITO FD7 had to receive users approval first and it succeeded. The coupe with a simulated rotary engine will start it's journey in RC with 13% air restrictor.

The new addition from standard voting is the new lightest car in the list - STELLAR K61 tipps the scales to 841kg together with it's 80kg additional weight required for balancing,while with 190 horsepower it is also the least powerful car in the series.



6 cars have received update in balancing between the seasons:
COQUETTE Z5 - restrictor reduced to 27% (-1%)
FRAUD WHEELER E2 - restrictor reduced to 12% (-1%)
Raceabout 06 - restrictor reduced to 16% (-1%)
TALOT SUNS LOMIS - weight ballast incresed to 102kg (+2kg to balance out LFS update's caused difference)
XF COUPE TURBO - weigth ballast reduced to 25kg (-5kg)
XF TURBO 5 - weight ballast of 10kg (previously no balancing)


Votings to add new cars will be made only twice in 2024 - 1st is set between rounds 3 and 4,but 2nd voting will be held between rounds 6 and 7. Both these voting will feature 3 cars nominated by round winners,2nd best car from previous voting and 1 car nominated from organization.

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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

* PENALTIES :
[GD] Rex™ - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm - receives 6.23 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm - 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 new year of RTFR XL was started with the fastest original LFS car - the BMW Sauber F1. Despite high drag from it's wings,it still easilly passes the 300km/h mark. Also it's the quickest in terms of drying out it's fuel tank - that made differences in strategies for the race as some were able to complete race distance with single pitstop,some needed 2,but some decided to hit walls and go for more than 2 pitstops. The combination of all these factors made the race completelly unpredictible when watching from aside as few drivers early on top positions finished way below their expectations while some from behind rised up the field.

Exactly 5 weeks after his 1st RTFR win,Zesty scored his first also in the XL edition - the malaysian took over the race lead twice before taking it permanently on lap 29 to lead the latest 2/3 of the race distance. At one point he was right behind 2nd place driver,being close of lapping whole field,but the 2nd pitsop put him a bit back and he finished with 57 seconds advantage over closest follower,clocking 10th highest margin of victory. Zesty's 2nd place in qualifying was 4 positions better than previous best and the race win was the 3rd top5 finish,previous best - 3rd place,also adding 1st fastest lap of the race to his stats. He is the 30th different race winner in RTFR XL history,while his country is the 12th in winners list. Ayoub Maroc led a total of 19 laps during the race,however had one too many mistakes to get set back on low position,but his return to top positions succeded as his finished 2nd,repeating his best achievement. 4th position in qualifying was an improvement of a single position and the moroccan scored his 6th top5 finish. The best of europeans was the event host,who finished 3rd and last on lead lap,scoring his 30th top5 finish in RTFR XL. Arska finished right after the race winner,but being lap down does not score him 2nd position - it's 4th place finish instead,increasing his top5 count to 11. The polesitter M had plenty of adventures during the race and led just 4 laps in 2 runs,finishing just 5th - the day brought him his 4th RTFR XL pole position and 6th top5 finish.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Selecting fast paced races has became a trend latelly in RTFR XL - only 1 of last 4 races had the average speed below 200km/h,the latest one just shy of 223km/h.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
T.Soini returns in this paragraph - he spent 10.28 seconds in his only pitstop,clocking the lowest legal time in this race. He refuelled the car as everyone else.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
The 3rd try to finish RTFR XL race succeeded for Rex - he finished 10th with 9 positions gain between start and finish. Also Michal gained 9 positions,but he finished a position lower.

VOD at Youtube:


Next week it's back to the shorter distance of normal RTFR - combo was mentioned during the previous RTFR broadcast,full information as always in the weekend before the race. Combo for next RTFR XL in 4 weeks is currently still unknown as the winner hasn't decided yet.

This round was back to the classics in a certain way - the AWS idea was created on race in Blackwood,back then running the slicks only wearing FXR. Now we have come a long way as the GTR car is replaced with a lightweight buggy in the 12th edition of Blackwood RXGP which is even faster than the origins car. Just 10 drivers gathered up for this round,recording season's lowest attendance,4 of them doing "double duty" of having 2 events on same day.

The fastest in qualifying was Lorenzo,who outrun the competition by very slim advantage,scoring his first ever AWS pole position. His previous best was 3rd place in qualifying,recorded first year ago in the same car on same track,just in reversed direction. His race however was not so convincing as the italian fell down to 4th position. The best in race was the 2019 AWS champion Sobis,who started from outside of the 3-wide front and rallied up positions to lead the last 2/3 of race distance. It was his 3rd AWS race win,previous 2 were scored on his championship season. Arska started from 1 position lower than race winner and eventually followed him through field to finish 2nd,also repeating his previous best race result in the league,however his previous 2nd place finish was achieved in 2017. Another front row starter finished 3rd - Thehemuli led 13 laps before losing lead of the race,eventually losing also 2nd place.


With standings leader winning the race it's clear who keeps the lead in the table - Sobis trippled his advantage over competition in this round and now is 12 points clear of 2nd place which is now taken by Lorenzo. Thehemuli and Rony are another 2 points behind,the first of them is ahead on tiebraker. If reclaiming champion's title is still long way ahead,Sobis has set sights on repeating the Cross challenge winner's glory - he needs "only" top4 finish in last race for the award to secure the award. Thehemuli is currently 2nd with 10 points disadvantage. The fate of this award will be decided in round 6.

Rookie of the year standings lead has been retaken by RD2,who finished 5th this round. S.Martin is 2nd just 3 points apart,not attending Stiefla has fallen down to 3rd with 7 points gap to leader.

2 teams scored 26 points in the latest round and both are now leading the table - the defending champions RGA took over the standings lead and is now 11 points clear of WCL. LLM is now 3rd,while previous leaders S1dus have dropped down to 4th due not attending. For the 3rd round in row Finland has scored most points between nations and the northern country is on the best way to defend the title. Lithuania is still 2nd with exactly half of the points count of leaders,Italy has climbed up to 3rd.


Next round marks the middle of the season - 4th round of 7. It will be a repeat of round 7 of previous season - Rockingham 150. It's a 150 kilometer race around Rockingham's oval with the 250 horsepower car hailing from the 80ies,which has R4 slick tyres in it's equippment,meaning the car certainly does not lack grip through the turns of english oval track,teamwork can be an important factor in the race. Last year the race ended in a very close 3-way finish - can this be repeated once again?

Session AND SERVER of Incident: Main,Race 1
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident: 17 / 24min05
Car(s) involved: 96 and 35
Location of Incident: turn 1
Brief Description of Incident: 35 causes retirement of 96 (had to report as there is no confirmation about incident being reviewed by default)

Qualifying:


Race:


If you want to make a protest,please include all neccesary information.
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Session:
Lap/MPR time:
Involved drivers:
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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 UTC

In order to compete in RandomCar 2024 Series,you have to fill the registration form below,providing all needed information (in case of no team to represent,leave empty):

Quote :

LFSW name:
In-game name:
Full team name:
Nation:

Here's my signup as an example:

LFSW name: Eclipsed
In-game name: RG^Rony
Full team name: Race Green Autosports
Nation: Latvia


Important notes:

• In case there are any changes to signup details,please quote your edited post in a new one with a note about changes!
  
• Signups for the round will be locked 30 minutes before start of qualifying (18:30 UTC winter time / 17:30 UTC summer time)
  
• Entries that haven't attended 2 rounds in row will be marked as inactive and therefor not participate in car draw. If you want to return to series,quote your signup post and type Reactivate to it.
  

Schedule:
06.02. Round 1 - Aston Classic Boot (AS3X/A23)
05.03. Round 2 - Rockingham International Long w/o chicane (RO10X)
02.04. Round 3 - Blackwood GP Track reversed (BL1R)
30.04. Round 4 - South City Chicane Route reversed (SO6R)
28.05. Round 5 - Fern Bay Black reversed (FE4R)
25.06. Round 6 - Kyoto RGE Sprint 8-track (KY1X)
23.07. Round 7 - Westhill South Loop Extended (WE3X)
20.08. Round 8 - Aston National (AS3)
17.09. Round 9 - Rockingham ISSC Long (RO4)
15.10. Round 10 - Blackwood Historic reversed (BL2R) - 1 hour race
* Track will be selected by winner of previous race and added to the schedule once known

Event times:
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET - 60 minutes qualifying
19:10 UTC / 20:10 CET / 21:10 EET - Race start
* During sunlight savings time in Europe the UTC time will be changed 1 hour earlier to keep the event in same time in area of main userbase Europe (accordingly 17:00 UTC for qualifying).

Track selection rules:

• The winner has to submit the choice for next track until end of the week (sunday midnight UTC time).
  
• The selection is limited to next 2 environments accoring to standard LFS list. Custom configurations/layouts allowed as long as they're deemed to suit the PL200 class. Both LFS ovals (KY1 and RO3),other very high speed courses and tracks partially or fully without pavement not accepted.
  
• No selections in row,max 2 selections in year.

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Championships:

• RandomCar Series Champion - awarded to a driver with the most points scored through all 10 rounds
  
• RandomCar Teams Champion - awarded to a team with the most points scored through all 10 rounds (team will score finishing points from it's 2 highest finishing drivers and all round bonus points)
  
• RandomCar Nations Champion - awarded to a nation with the most points scored through all 10 rounds (nation will score finishing points from it's 2 highest finished drivers and all round bonus points)
  
• RandomCar Manufacturers Champion - awarded to a car model with the highest average points scored through all 10 rounds (no attendance does not count as 0 - does not affect average),minimum 6 scores required to be eligible for award,round 10 will score base points without doubling (manufacturer will score finishing points from it's highest finished driver and all round bonus points)

In all championships - in case of a tie,higher rated will be driver/team/nation/manufacturer with highest finishing position,if equal - it's amount,if equal - second highest position etc. If all finishing positions happen to be equal,higher rated will be selected using same system from qualifying results. If they also happen to be equal then as a tie-breaker will be used last round finishing position. In case a tied driver had a disqualification in one or more rounds,it counts as a primary rating lowering factor,when deciding tiebreak.


Points system:
Finishing points:
1st=20
2nd=19
3rd=18
4th=17
5th=16
6th=15
7th=14
8th=13
9th=12
10th=11
11th=10
12th=9
13th=8
14th=7
15th=6
16th=5
17th=4
18th=3
19th=2
20th and lower=1
(must finish 50% of race distance to score these points)
* System based on 20 drivers starting,extra 1 point for every 3 drivers more starting the race - this adds extra positions to receive more than 1 point.
* In 10th round double points except for drivers finishing under base count (20 in default) - 1 point

Round bonus points:
1st in qualifying - 3 points
2nd in qualifying - 2 points
3rd in qualifying - 1 point
(if qualifying time is equal,both/all will receive this bonus point)
Fastest lap in race - 1 point (if laptime is equal,both/all will receive this bonus point)


Signing up:
In order to compete in RandomCar 2024 Series,you have to visit RandomCar 2024 Signups thread and fill the registration form.


Miscellaneous info:
Full league information in RandomCar - main info
RandomCar results/stats spreadsheets: LINK
Series will be run using the latest stable version of LFS (currently 0.7E) - compatible client versions accepted.
All information above can be changed,if so,there will be posted a notification about it!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sun 13 Oct 2024, 09:22. Reason : Updated round track info

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.

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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: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last BF1 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins in row (71st RTFR XL - SO City Long)
Most BF1 race wins: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Hungary - 2 wins)
Last Aston race won by: [WCL] True Alpha (83rd RTFR XL - FZR @ AS Historic Rev.)
Most Aston race wins: [WCL] True Alpha - 3 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+72.5 points)

Event rating and other statistics

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

Round 3 is the 2nd round towards Cross challenge award,but unlike in 1st one this will have mixed surface as parts of track consist of paved surface. The lightweight buggy was run also last season in this same track,just in reversed direction,but surely also in original direction it has a potential to go few seconds under 1 minute mark. The weak part of this car is known - it's the clutch that can't handle too much beating when jumping as the high revving 2 liter 4-cylinder can spin the wheels to high speeds while car being in air.

After the 2 rounds championship table still has only first few sketches of what's possible,but noone has influencing advantage yet - is this the round where someone will start running away with lead or the round where someone from behind or even newly joining in will start the deciding chase?

Round info:
Track: Blackwood Rallycross (BL3)
Laps: 41 (75km)
Car: BUGGY 2000 AWS SPEC
Previous winners : A.Valta (2023 - B2AS), [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (2022 - XERA) S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021 - FXR), RGˆDzidoris (2018-2020 - FXR), nsys|MareX (2017 - FXR), CoRe A.Laipnieks (2015 - FXR), 22 S.Jurvansuu (2014 - FXR), CoRe T.Lähteenmäki (2013 - FXR), spdoreno (2012 - FXR)


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)

Time to time an RTFR race goes into history with something specific,this one unfortunatelly went into history with biggest mass crash in a single turn - almost everyone was involved in some degree. After the incident the big voting for restart started - yes,in real world such race would had been red flagged and restarted later,but we are in simracing - there are not burning cars,there are no broken off parts that litter the track and there are no medical emergencies. So once again - if crap happens,suck it up and deal with it! If car is undrivable,you have the right to telepit to pits and rejoin,as a proof that it still brings result - 3 of the rejoiners finished between best 11.

In RTFR we will still strictly stay to the no-restart rule (unless there is a server issue) for 2 reasons:
> Restarts will never be fair - if race is restarted and there is another (even smaller) crash,then it should be restarted again for sake of fairness,but with 38 drivers from which there are about 1/4 hotheads with opinion that race can be won in 1st lap that could lead into double digit count of restarts.
> Restarts can delay the event by a lot. If someone gets hit out of bounds,on a restart he would lose the original grid position,that would require return to gridding screen,which with odd behaviour of semi-casual participants can be pain in neck for organizers and additionally delay the event even further.

Critical situations require critical action - since we're not organizing a crash party (except in 26th december),we do not want such incidents to happen as it damages the reputation not only for organization,but also for the simulator and it's community as the event is broadcasted in wider public. Therefor as a drastic measure every single driver's behaviour was checked during 1st sector of the 1st lap to decide how appropriate it was to our racing standards.

* PENALTIES :
[MRc] Texas - receives a 45 seconds penalty added to the finish time for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. Additionally this serves as a warning - future incidents might lead to bigger penalty.
RGˆLORENZO - receives a disqualification from race results for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. With a record of previous incident this serves as a final warning - future incidents will lead to race ban.
fnc. B.Botev - receives a 45 seconds penalty added to the finish time for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. Additionally this serves as a warning - future incidents might lead to bigger penalty. The penalty results in loss of last completed lap.
RGˆNOSLE - receives a warning for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. Future incidents might lead to actual penalty.
｢DD｣ tBug (licence name: Yasso7up) - receives a disqualification from race results for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. With a record of previous incidents (also in other events) the driver has proven the lack of willingness to learn from mistakes and still goes for overly agressive moves without care of other racers,therefor he receives a race ban from RGE events for 3 months starting with day after race day.
SGﾏ MadJester (licence name: lordferius) - receives a disqualification from race results for heavy incident in 1st hairpin. Since the driver has no record of incidents in RTFR,he escapes with "minor" race ban from RGE events for 1 month starting with day after race day.
[MRc] adallll - receives a disqualification from race results for avoidable incident in 1st hairpin. Additionally this serves as a warning - future incidents might lead to further disqualifications or even race ban.
(FR) Pablo - receives a disqualification from race results for avoidable incidents before and in 1st hairpin. Additionally this serves as a warning - future incidents might lead to further disqualifications or even race ban.
CRAAACH - receives a warning for conduct when driving through crash scene - drivers should not push aside crashed cars intentionally. Future incidents might lead to actual penalty.
Negrito - receives a warning for avoidable incident in turn 3. Future incidents might lead to actual penalty.
Gﾏ™Deniz - receives a warning for avoidable incident in turn 3. Future incidents might lead to actual penalty.
SGﾏ Rubi - is removed from results for failing to set a apropriate laptime in qualifying. Luckily the mistakenly set armco turned out to be justified - sadly we cannot reliably see results (laptimes) past 40th position in qualifying yet.

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The 2024 season 1 started with a huge bang - one that should have been heard far outside Rockingham's racing facility. The new standard of high level GT car racing is GT3 class these days,this was the 1st ever GT3 race in normal RTFR (there was one in XL version) and it attracted over 40 drivers,braking into fourties for the first time since 308th RTFR in june last year. As usually the quality of racecraft suffers with quantity,resulting not only in "the big one" but also creating a lot of minor incidents through out the race.

Only driver who left the scene completelly unaffected was M - he was fastest in qualifying by almost half a second,scoring his 3rd pole position,run away from the troubled competition to finish 1st with over 20 seconds gap - with this he is the 31st driver to score 3 or more race wins. He was also the only one to break 1 minute 20 mark also in race,that brought him 2nd fastest lap of the race and 14th top5 finish in total. Despite getting caught with a warning for minor incident,Nosle still is classified 2nd in race results which is 1 position higher than his previous best finish and his 3rd top5 finish. The other front row starter R.Kardol was held up quite a lot in the big incident,still did a good recovery drive to finish 3rd,scoring his 86th top5 finish - that ties him with race host for most top5 finishes all time. Also his teammate Unite had a good recovery drive after the incident - the finn finished 4th to score his 76th top5 finish,top5 was closed by another finn - Arska finished 5th to score his 26th top5 finish.

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RTFR scored standings has started and next week also the RTFR XL season will start - on the menu there will be 75 minutes race with a BF1 in a custom Aston configuration,full info about it will be posted tomorrow. In 2 weeks normal RTFR will return with a street legal car,which and where can be found out when watching the broadcast. But next RGE hosted race will be on the sunday - 3rd round of AWS 2024 will be run with the lightweight AWD buggy in the most classic LFS rallycross configuration. If interested - full info and signups can be found in AWS forum section! With more than 1 hour between 2 different events on sunday,some can even go for a double header on the coming sunday!

That is the main point - bikes kinda work with LFS despite LFS not being designed for them. LFS is far away from proper bike simulation - it's not just riding,there is so much more like weight transfer due body leaning in turns or drag reduction when sitting in aerodynamic pose,drag increase when sitting upright. Proper simulator enthusiasts would not appreciate current state of bike riding if it would be in demo and would ditch LFS without considering of licence.

Quote from Racon :

There was an 3D skin-viewer on the website at one point (can't find it now, I guess it's removed?).

https://www.lfs.net/cars

This actually helped - by setting latvian language there I got another keyboard layout in taskbar (LAV - Latvian Standard) and when I select it,then LFS automatically sets to Baltic code page. The keyboard layout seems to be identical with other option with a minor difference - the symbol ' seems to be the soft key to get special accents allthough I'm used to Right Alt for that. Anyway,thanks - case closed.

I purchased a new laptop several months ago and I'm having the problem described in thread title. I never encountered this problem on any other computer I used LFS,so I'll start asking here before reporting it as bug - have someone any ideas what would cause this behaviour?

I have Win11 with set up default OS language english,however default input language is latvian (QWERTY),LFS is set up to latvian. I would like to use baltic code page without selecting it every time I minimize LFS or focus to any other application.