All-Wheel-Drive Winter Series 2024 - signups
All-wheel-drive Winter Series 2024
In order to compete in AWS 2024,you have to fill the registration form below,providing all needed information (in case of no team to represent,leave empty):
Here's my signup as an example:
LFSW name: Eclipsed
In-game name: RG^Rony
Full team name: Race Green Autosports
Country: Latvia
!Important: In case there are any changes to signup details,please quote your edited post in a new one with a note about changes!
To avoid very late signups and their tracking,signups will be closed 10 minutes before start of a round (18:20 UTC)!
Signups will be reopened after the round is complete and closed permanently 10 minutes before round 6.
S2 licence is required to take part in 2 of 7 rounds - S3 licence required for other 5 rounds. Demo user signups will be simply deleted!
321st RTFR
Full event information and rules
Livestream at SimBroadcasts.tv (YouTube/Twitch)
Stream starts 18:50 UTC
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 - 3 wins in row
Last UF1 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR - 3 wins in row (283rd RTFR - RO Handling Rev.)
Most UF1 race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & S1DUS*GáboR - 3 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
Last Kyoto race won by: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins in row (318th RTFR - UFR @ KY North RGE)
Most Kyoto long configs race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins (Lithuania - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+41.5 points)
2023-S2 standings after 9 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 205 (win in standings already secured)
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 136
[WCL] P.Koivunen - 112
Event rating,standings and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
I would suggest simple solution for correct layout name: first do a command /axlist then type /axload in front of the correct layout name. Works like a charm for lazy typer like me.
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR-CCCC .mpr folder
RTFR CCCC race wins:
2 - S1DUS*R.Kardol (MASTER RACE KART, URC1)
2 - S1DUS*uNite (Alexis GR-2, FAT GTR)
2 - YES V. Laguckas (Bacalhau, Tyler 018 1990)
1 - B2ﾏ Antonio (FEND TORUS T)
1 - S1DUS*GáboR (MCLARRY_D8M)
1 - [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (Swirl Sport 06)
1 - Dzban (Prototype 2)
1 - B2ﾏ Upsas (JDM80 JZ)
1 - S1DUS*Litti (P166)
1 - LLM.Sobis (Transam)
The open tuesday was filled with a return of forgotten RTFR version - the simple event that tests how well does certain cars act when being raced in competition. Knowing tyre problems with faster or heavier cars,it was questionable that URC1 can be raced with it's full potential (it's well known that the car is superior in PL200 class with almost full restriction). The answer is almost positive - some said the car is a problem,others dealt with the challenge and did not complain. The 600+ horsepower engine loads the rear tyres a lot,so it's something to take care of during a race,but car's top speed of over 300 km/h is unprecedented for road legal cars in LFS,so that surely forced drivers to adjust braking points they're so used to.
In qualifying the fastest driver was unsurprisingly the driver with most LFS world records - the rare visitor in RGE hosted races set the fastest lap in qualifying by a relativelly small margin,however both front row starters came together under braking after long back straight,allowing R.Kardol to take over the race lead already in lap 1 - he never gave it up to win an RTFR-CCCC race for 2nd time. His teammate Unite did not spend much effort in practice and qualifying,but found the pace in race to climb up to 2nd place,while 3rd place finisher TJ joined the race with little warm up between 2 sessions - that proves that this is quite a driver's car.
Next 2 weeks will bring the season finales of both RTFR and RTFR XL - the combo for first one on coming tuesday has been announced in broadcast of previous race,but full info will be posted on the weekend.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR-CCCC .mpr folder
RTFR CCCC race wins:
2 - S1DUS*R.Kardol (MASTER RACE KART, URC1)
2 - S1DUS*uNite (Alexis GR-2, FAT GTR)
2 - YES V. Laguckas (Bacalhau, Tyler 018 1990)
1 - B2ﾏ Antonio (FEND TORUS T)
1 - S1DUS*GáboR (MCLARRY_D8M)
1 - [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (Swirl Sport 06)
1 - Dzban (Prototype 2)
1 - B2ﾏ Upsas (JDM80 JZ)
1 - S1DUS*Litti (P166)
1 - LLM.Sobis (Transam)
The open tuesday was filled with a return of forgotten RTFR version - the simple event that tests how well does certain cars act when being raced in competition. Knowing tyre problems with faster or heavier cars,it was questionable that URC1 can be raced with it's full potential (it's well known that the car is superior in PL200 class with almost full restriction). The answer is almost positive - some said the car is a problem,others dealt with the challenge and did not complain. The 600+ horsepower engine loads the rear tyres a lot,so it's something to take care of during a race,but car's top speed of over 300 km/h is unprecedented for road legal cars in LFS,so that surely forced drivers to adjust braking points they're so used to.
In qualifying the fastest driver was unsurprisingly the driver with most LFS world records - the rare visitor in RGE hosted races set the fastest lap in qualifying by a relativelly small margin,however both front row starters came together under braking after long back straight,allowing R.Kardol to take over the race lead already in lap 1 - he never gave it up to win an RTFR-CCCC race for 2nd time. His teammate Unite did not spend much effort in practice and qualifying,but found the pace in race to climb up to 2nd place,while 3rd place finisher TJ joined the race with little warm up between 2 sessions - that proves that this is quite a driver's car.
Next 2 weeks will bring the season finales of both RTFR and RTFR XL - the combo for first one on coming tuesday has been announced in broadcast of previous race,but full info will be posted on the weekend.
Make a bind (F-button on keyboard or on wheel button) that executes command /cv (stands for cancel vote). Then when the end race countdown starts you can press it to cancel. Alternativelly Airio has options to cancel all kinds of votings,not sure what LFSlapper offers,but surely they have some scripts possible too.
The purpose of LFS demo is not to entertain bored non-paying customers. As little as Scawen follows the capitalistic principles,they still need the income for their daily needs and to keep the servers running. And if you cannot save together 6 pounds for little upgrade then you have bigger problems to worry about then being not enough entertained by free software version.
I'm sorry to keep up the derailing,but I wanted try to explain same thing with different words,maybe helps.
More then a year after last edition of this competition based testing it's time to dust it off of forgettness and try another car that has not been properly raced. The RandomCar manufacturers champion URC1 was used there with almost maximum possible restriction,so it was tamed down to be at PL200 class performance,which is not really a high difficulty car class. But have you ever imagined to race the Ultimate Road Car with it's full performance? This tuesday you will have the chance to try it out! 600+ horsepower,1100kg lightweight chassis with mid-engined/rear wheel drive layout,relativelly wide road legal tyres - these are the key factors of the URC1. Being used to pure race spec cars with similar power,one must bare in mind much longer braking zones.
Link to mod: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/F1C575
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (pass as always = green)
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
All these cars should be marked as "tweaked" - these are standard LFS cars with changed (tweaked) parameters.
This raises a question - with more drivers in server there are possible more results in qualifying. Until now LFS client was able to show only top40 - will the qualifying results also have some scroll option?
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
This race used a car that is quite radical with it's specs - even if the small engine does not produce large amounts of power,with small size,low weight and plenty of aerodynamic help it is very fast,clearing the turns in breathtaking pace thanks to grippy slick tyres. As always with new cars people first had to adapt to it and again some were able to do it quicker,some were setting new PBs late in the race even after more than hour of practice. Still on fast track like the longest configuration of Aston is,the car provided quite a lot of active head to head racing as seen on broadcast.
Despite changing cars between the races with high variation,there is something that did not change - the race winner. For the 3rd race in row Gábor finished the race ahead of everyone else and set the fastest laptime even for the 5th race in row. That makes him to be the 2nd driver in RTFR history with more than 1 winning streak that consists of 3 or more back to back wins. Overall it was hungarian's 29th race win,21st pole position,25th fastest lap of the race and 55th top5 finish. The remaining 2 on the podium position finishers also finished in same position they started - R.Kardol was 2nd to take his 84th top5 finish and Zesty repeated his best positions in both sessions - 3rd to score his 5th top5 finish. M.Túlio also repeated his best qualifying position - 6th,but was able to upgrade it to 4th place finish,which is 1 position better than his only other top5 finish. Top5 was closed by driver with currently active RTFR XL winning streak - True Alpha joined late to qualify in rather low position,but gained 11 positions to take his 22nd top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Both RTFR scored seasons now have just a single race and coincidentally both will be finished with front wheel driven cars - in 2 weeks RTFR will return with one of the standard road legal LFS cars,which and where you can find out by watching the broadcast recording,however the RTFR XL season will finish in Fern Bay's longest standard configuration known under then name "Black" and run with LFS's own NGT class car XFR - this is the late submitted selection of winner of the previous race. Next week however there is no previously scheduled race on tuesday from RGE,this might change with time,so stay tuned for info! But for people seeking action there is event on monday - round 2 of Retro cup winter series will take place in Blackwood.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
This race used a car that is quite radical with it's specs - even if the small engine does not produce large amounts of power,with small size,low weight and plenty of aerodynamic help it is very fast,clearing the turns in breathtaking pace thanks to grippy slick tyres. As always with new cars people first had to adapt to it and again some were able to do it quicker,some were setting new PBs late in the race even after more than hour of practice. Still on fast track like the longest configuration of Aston is,the car provided quite a lot of active head to head racing as seen on broadcast.
Despite changing cars between the races with high variation,there is something that did not change - the race winner. For the 3rd race in row Gábor finished the race ahead of everyone else and set the fastest laptime even for the 5th race in row. That makes him to be the 2nd driver in RTFR history with more than 1 winning streak that consists of 3 or more back to back wins. Overall it was hungarian's 29th race win,21st pole position,25th fastest lap of the race and 55th top5 finish. The remaining 2 on the podium position finishers also finished in same position they started - R.Kardol was 2nd to take his 84th top5 finish and Zesty repeated his best positions in both sessions - 3rd to score his 5th top5 finish. M.Túlio also repeated his best qualifying position - 6th,but was able to upgrade it to 4th place finish,which is 1 position better than his only other top5 finish. Top5 was closed by driver with currently active RTFR XL winning streak - True Alpha joined late to qualify in rather low position,but gained 11 positions to take his 22nd top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Both RTFR scored seasons now have just a single race and coincidentally both will be finished with front wheel driven cars - in 2 weeks RTFR will return with one of the standard road legal LFS cars,which and where you can find out by watching the broadcast recording,however the RTFR XL season will finish in Fern Bay's longest standard configuration known under then name "Black" and run with LFS's own NGT class car XFR - this is the late submitted selection of winner of the previous race. Next week however there is no previously scheduled race on tuesday from RGE,this might change with time,so stay tuned for info! But for people seeking action there is event on monday - round 2 of Retro cup winter series will take place in Blackwood.
Subrsciption hosts can stay on also without active users.
https://www.lfs.net/hosting - read the section "In-Game Temporary hosts"
320th RTFR
Full event information and rules
Livestream at SimBroadcasts.tv (YouTube/Twitch)
Stream starts 18:50 UTC
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 - 2 wins in row
Last RADIX P6 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Aston race won by: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (308th RTFR - SWIRL SPORT 06 CUP @ AS Club Rev)
Most Aston GP/GT configs race wins: [STO]Kars - 2 wins (Hungary & Latvia & Lithuania - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+60.5 points)
2023-S2 standings after 8 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 178
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 112
B2ﾏ Mantas - 102
Event rating,standings and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
VERL 2023 final standings
The 2023 season was the 9th in total of league's history,which was run with slightly updated new car,first introduced last year. Since not a single previous champion signed up for this season,it was clear that there will be a 8th different name in champions list and it turned out to be first rookie champion since 2019,but already 4th champion in total without previous experience in this specific league. Even if the interest to race the 600 horsepower single seater was relativelly low compared to other returning/regular events,the racing itself was quite competitive and organization hopes it still provided the enjoyment for all the racers.
When looking at the stats,there are some slight variations compared to previous season - a total of 32 drivers signed up,which is 5 more than last year and the highest number in past 3 seasons,however 12 of the signees never arrived,meaning there were just 20 actual participants - 1 more than last year,same with drivers,who were able to score at least one point - 16 is one more than last year. Interesting unseen fact about one driver who scored 2 points this season - by starting each race,he picked up the 2 attendance bonus points,however the score from races is still a 0,such situation has never been registered in VERL. Attendance in individual rounds variated between 16 in round 1 (2 more than highest since introduction of the new car) to 8 in round 3,which triggered the distance reduction rule for the 1st time since 2020. Average attendance through whole season unfortunatelly reached all time lowest with 10.6 drivers per round (1 less than last year).
VERL 2023 Drivers Champion: RGˆRD2
The bulgarian VERL newcomer started the season with a bang - 2 wins in first 2 rounds put him on top of the table since the season start and he kept it until the end of the season by finishing 2nd in 2 other rounds and had 4th as his worst result from round 4. Interestingly RD2 did not score a single round bonus point,which is awarded for fastest lap in each session,proving his high results did not came from pure speed,but overall consistency.
It was another step upwards for the finnish driver Thehemuli - the 3rd best racer of previous season gained a position and finished 2nd in this year's standings. He was the main rival for the champion since round 2,but was able to outscore him just in one round. He added 4 more top5 finishes to the 5 he got in previous 2 seasons,repeating his best finishing result of a round twice (2nd place). The 3rd step on the podium was taken by league creator,who repeated his performance of 2020. Also the latvian scored 4 top5 finishes through the season to increase his total to 21 with 3rd place finish as best round result repeated twice.
VERL 2022 Rookie of the Year: RGˆRD2
If a league newcomer takes overall championship,it also grants him the rookie of the year award. He had a strong competition in 1st round of the season,when 2 rookies finished the race 11 seconds apart,however the rival retired early from 2nd round and never returned.
2nd best newcomer is Madjester,who took over this position after round 2 and kept it through rest of the season. The portuguese driver finished in top5 twice with 4th place as best round result. Despite attending just in first 2 rounds,M.Túlio still is scored as 3rd best rookie and that from the sole 2nd place finish from season opener. Last year's best rookie attended just season opener and closer rounds,finishing 10th in standings with 8th place finish as best result - certainly a step back from his rookie season.
VERL 2022 Teams Champions: Race Green Autosports
The hosting team is the 2nd team,which was able to defend the title - first was Team S1dus in years 2020-2021. RGA started the season from 4th position after season opener,took over the lead already after the low points scoring shortened round 3 and did not allow the rivals close up anymore. Despite having a 2 race winner in their lineup,only a single race win has been scored for RGA (RD2 started the season as indipendent racer) and 8 top5 finishes.
2nd best team for 2nd year in row is Zafiralis,which started the season with highest score between the teams,but could not field their best lineup for whole season,thus losing chances to defend the lead in table. To vice-champion's 4 top5 finishes one teammate added another one. After driver's champions 2 wins,all remaining 3 rounds were won by Master Race car's drivers - Zesty and Texas took over each other the round winner's honor and with this put up their team to 3rd position in final standings. Besides the 3 race wins,drivers of this team scored also 4 pole positions and total of 5 top5 finishes.
VERL 2022 Nations Cup winners: Finland
2019 is still the only year with different nations cup winners - all other 8 seasons were won and occasionally even totally dominated by Finland. This year was not a dominating one,but still the award was secured before the start of season finale,repeating the 4 year winning streak of 2015-2018. However it was a winless season for the northern nation - besides a single pole position in round 3,the finns scored 7 top5 finishes.
With sole effort of the drivers champion,2nd best nation is Bulgaria - 2 wins and 2 other top5 finishes were enough for 2nd place in standings,with an additional helper it would had been a challenge for Finland. Also 3rd best nation was put in the position by a single driver (2nd driver attended once but failed to qualify for race) - Latvia lost a position compared to last year,still with 4 top5 finishes it was enough for podium finish in standings.
Currently it's unknown if there will be any changes to the car for the decade season planned in 2024 - better 3D model is in the wish list,while performance wise there are no current intentions to change anything. During the 8-9 months break things might still change - let's see what future brings us.
Regarding other RGE events - there are no news to report as things are running just like they did before. Except the new Retro Cup is making a return for the winter,filling the gap (and using the server) between end of VERL season and start of AWS season. AWS will start it's 13th season in a months time (provisional schedule already posted in leagues section),more details will be revealed 2 weeks before season start as always. Not sure if it's needed to remind,but 26th december should be marked in calendars as the day of crashmas,the old tradition for LFS community. RTFR and RTFR XL will continue it's normal semi-weekly or montly schedules as long as there are racers joining it,while our new RandomCar format is regarded as successful and should return for season 2,aiming the last tuesday of january as season opener (final standings of the recently ended season 1 are still in the making,held up by several personal reasons).
See you on track!
When looking at the stats,there are some slight variations compared to previous season - a total of 32 drivers signed up,which is 5 more than last year and the highest number in past 3 seasons,however 12 of the signees never arrived,meaning there were just 20 actual participants - 1 more than last year,same with drivers,who were able to score at least one point - 16 is one more than last year. Interesting unseen fact about one driver who scored 2 points this season - by starting each race,he picked up the 2 attendance bonus points,however the score from races is still a 0,such situation has never been registered in VERL. Attendance in individual rounds variated between 16 in round 1 (2 more than highest since introduction of the new car) to 8 in round 3,which triggered the distance reduction rule for the 1st time since 2020. Average attendance through whole season unfortunatelly reached all time lowest with 10.6 drivers per round (1 less than last year).
VERL 2023 Drivers Champion: RGˆRD2
The bulgarian VERL newcomer started the season with a bang - 2 wins in first 2 rounds put him on top of the table since the season start and he kept it until the end of the season by finishing 2nd in 2 other rounds and had 4th as his worst result from round 4. Interestingly RD2 did not score a single round bonus point,which is awarded for fastest lap in each session,proving his high results did not came from pure speed,but overall consistency.
It was another step upwards for the finnish driver Thehemuli - the 3rd best racer of previous season gained a position and finished 2nd in this year's standings. He was the main rival for the champion since round 2,but was able to outscore him just in one round. He added 4 more top5 finishes to the 5 he got in previous 2 seasons,repeating his best finishing result of a round twice (2nd place). The 3rd step on the podium was taken by league creator,who repeated his performance of 2020. Also the latvian scored 4 top5 finishes through the season to increase his total to 21 with 3rd place finish as best round result repeated twice.
VERL 2022 Rookie of the Year: RGˆRD2
If a league newcomer takes overall championship,it also grants him the rookie of the year award. He had a strong competition in 1st round of the season,when 2 rookies finished the race 11 seconds apart,however the rival retired early from 2nd round and never returned.
2nd best newcomer is Madjester,who took over this position after round 2 and kept it through rest of the season. The portuguese driver finished in top5 twice with 4th place as best round result. Despite attending just in first 2 rounds,M.Túlio still is scored as 3rd best rookie and that from the sole 2nd place finish from season opener. Last year's best rookie attended just season opener and closer rounds,finishing 10th in standings with 8th place finish as best result - certainly a step back from his rookie season.
VERL 2022 Teams Champions: Race Green Autosports
The hosting team is the 2nd team,which was able to defend the title - first was Team S1dus in years 2020-2021. RGA started the season from 4th position after season opener,took over the lead already after the low points scoring shortened round 3 and did not allow the rivals close up anymore. Despite having a 2 race winner in their lineup,only a single race win has been scored for RGA (RD2 started the season as indipendent racer) and 8 top5 finishes.
2nd best team for 2nd year in row is Zafiralis,which started the season with highest score between the teams,but could not field their best lineup for whole season,thus losing chances to defend the lead in table. To vice-champion's 4 top5 finishes one teammate added another one. After driver's champions 2 wins,all remaining 3 rounds were won by Master Race car's drivers - Zesty and Texas took over each other the round winner's honor and with this put up their team to 3rd position in final standings. Besides the 3 race wins,drivers of this team scored also 4 pole positions and total of 5 top5 finishes.
VERL 2022 Nations Cup winners: Finland
2019 is still the only year with different nations cup winners - all other 8 seasons were won and occasionally even totally dominated by Finland. This year was not a dominating one,but still the award was secured before the start of season finale,repeating the 4 year winning streak of 2015-2018. However it was a winless season for the northern nation - besides a single pole position in round 3,the finns scored 7 top5 finishes.
With sole effort of the drivers champion,2nd best nation is Bulgaria - 2 wins and 2 other top5 finishes were enough for 2nd place in standings,with an additional helper it would had been a challenge for Finland. Also 3rd best nation was put in the position by a single driver (2nd driver attended once but failed to qualify for race) - Latvia lost a position compared to last year,still with 4 top5 finishes it was enough for podium finish in standings.
Currently it's unknown if there will be any changes to the car for the decade season planned in 2024 - better 3D model is in the wish list,while performance wise there are no current intentions to change anything. During the 8-9 months break things might still change - let's see what future brings us.
Regarding other RGE events - there are no news to report as things are running just like they did before. Except the new Retro Cup is making a return for the winter,filling the gap (and using the server) between end of VERL season and start of AWS season. AWS will start it's 13th season in a months time (provisional schedule already posted in leagues section),more details will be revealed 2 weeks before season start as always. Not sure if it's needed to remind,but 26th december should be marked in calendars as the day of crashmas,the old tradition for LFS community. RTFR and RTFR XL will continue it's normal semi-weekly or montly schedules as long as there are racers joining it,while our new RandomCar format is regarded as successful and should return for season 2,aiming the last tuesday of january as season opener (final standings of the recently ended season 1 are still in the making,held up by several personal reasons).
See you on track!
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)
* PENALTIES :
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 20 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 2 occasions.
AA™| Yasin - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Even if in reversed direction,the FZR race in one of the longer Aston configurations can be described as LFS GTR classic. The 75 minute race turned out to be quite a tyre-trouble - many drivers underestimated the lifetime of their tyres and were cought out by surprise,damaging the possible good result. With 24 drivers participating the attendance was a bit under the average of this year,but still gathered up enough to make the race interesting for most drivers.
Just like 6 weeks ago,mister True Alpha wasn't really fast in qualifying,putting himself on 3rd row again,but race pace and better planning gave him a race deciding lead on penultimate lap,so the finn could cross the finish line as a winner for the 2nd race in row - this is already 2nd winning streak for him in RTFR XL,making him 5th driver with multiple winning streaks. In total it was True Alpha's 6th race win,raising him to 4th place in all-time success ranking (overtaking the inactive Litti),fastest lap of the race was his 6th and 30th for Finland,additionally scoring the 15th top5 finish. Mantas scored his 4th pole position in qualifying,but despite leading bigger half of the race,he finish just 2nd,scoring his 5th top5 finish. Rest of the top5 was filled by S1dus drivers - best of them was Gábor who used the option to start without qualifying allowed for previous race winners. The hungarian started from back of the grid,rallied through the field and even spent some time in gravel trap due blown front tyres,still used trouble of teammates to climb up to 3rd place in results,which is his 18th top5 finish. United was the only driver to finish full race distance on same set of tyres,but his pace on late stage was heavily impacted by fading tyres,so he dropped down to 4th place - 23rd top5 finish in his account. R.Kardol however found out exact lifetime of his tyres,losing the lead with less than 2 laps to go,at the end rescueing 5th place finish,which is his 44th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With this race FZR becomes the most selected car in RTFR XL - it has been picked already 7 times,overtaking simple crowd favourites like XFG and UF1 and the more skills requiring LX4,which all have been selected 6 times (XFG was selected by organization for the very 1st RTFR XL).
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
10.45 seconds long refuelling stop was the shortest yesterday - made by 4th place finisher Unite.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Again starting last is a good opportunity to get into this section - Gábor started from 24th position and finished 3rd to make a +21 in the race.
VOD at Youtube:
RTFR XL now will return to the normal 4 weeks gap between this and next race,which will be the last race of this year,however the combo is not known yet - the winner of this race has to reply the message until coming tuesday. Regarding next tuesday,it will return the racing to one of the reversed Aston tracks,however the car will be quite different - more information as always will be posted in the weekend.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)
* PENALTIES :
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 20 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 2 occasions.
AA™| Yasin - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Even if in reversed direction,the FZR race in one of the longer Aston configurations can be described as LFS GTR classic. The 75 minute race turned out to be quite a tyre-trouble - many drivers underestimated the lifetime of their tyres and were cought out by surprise,damaging the possible good result. With 24 drivers participating the attendance was a bit under the average of this year,but still gathered up enough to make the race interesting for most drivers.
Just like 6 weeks ago,mister True Alpha wasn't really fast in qualifying,putting himself on 3rd row again,but race pace and better planning gave him a race deciding lead on penultimate lap,so the finn could cross the finish line as a winner for the 2nd race in row - this is already 2nd winning streak for him in RTFR XL,making him 5th driver with multiple winning streaks. In total it was True Alpha's 6th race win,raising him to 4th place in all-time success ranking (overtaking the inactive Litti),fastest lap of the race was his 6th and 30th for Finland,additionally scoring the 15th top5 finish. Mantas scored his 4th pole position in qualifying,but despite leading bigger half of the race,he finish just 2nd,scoring his 5th top5 finish. Rest of the top5 was filled by S1dus drivers - best of them was Gábor who used the option to start without qualifying allowed for previous race winners. The hungarian started from back of the grid,rallied through the field and even spent some time in gravel trap due blown front tyres,still used trouble of teammates to climb up to 3rd place in results,which is his 18th top5 finish. United was the only driver to finish full race distance on same set of tyres,but his pace on late stage was heavily impacted by fading tyres,so he dropped down to 4th place - 23rd top5 finish in his account. R.Kardol however found out exact lifetime of his tyres,losing the lead with less than 2 laps to go,at the end rescueing 5th place finish,which is his 44th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With this race FZR becomes the most selected car in RTFR XL - it has been picked already 7 times,overtaking simple crowd favourites like XFG and UF1 and the more skills requiring LX4,which all have been selected 6 times (XFG was selected by organization for the very 1st RTFR XL).
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
10.45 seconds long refuelling stop was the shortest yesterday - made by 4th place finisher Unite.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Again starting last is a good opportunity to get into this section - Gábor started from 24th position and finished 3rd to make a +21 in the race.
VOD at Youtube:
RTFR XL now will return to the normal 4 weeks gap between this and next race,which will be the last race of this year,however the combo is not known yet - the winner of this race has to reply the message until coming tuesday. Regarding next tuesday,it will return the racing to one of the reversed Aston tracks,however the car will be quite different - more information as always will be posted in the weekend.
Official results
The last 200 kilometers of the 2023 VERL season have also been completed and that in the challenging high speed course of Westhill International. 11 drivers joined for this challenge,setting 2nd highest attendance of the season,however one of them came unprepared and was not able to break inside the set 112% qualifying barrier,so he was forced to watch the remaining 10 drivers racing for win from tribunes. Having 2 championships on the line (nations cup was decided with signups closure) the race still had a potential of intrigue,however it was cleared out very early as drivers championship chaser dropped down to last position due own mistake,effectivelly deciding fate of both drivers and teams championships.
Completelly outside any intrigues was the malaysian Zesty,who dominated whole evening by setting new lap record in qualifying,leading all 35 laps and during the race improving the lap record even further. That was his 2nd race win of the season,tying win count with the 2nd place finisher RD2,who finished in same position he started from,however he had to earn it in direct battle with both 2nd row starters. On the longer run Texas was just able to keep up with RD2,but not really challenge for position,so the pole had to settle for 3rd place finish - this made the podium of final round consist of all 3 drivers,who have a race win this season,weirdly none of them had a podium finish before the start of the season.
Full season recap and official final standings will be posted within next couple weeks!
Unofficial results
Qualifying:
Race:
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I would also deffinitelly support addition of more filters for better mod searching - transmission type,drivetrain layout,maybe even engine displacement,cylinder count,engine power (max and min),weight and available tyres.
I personally don't care if these extra filters are available ingame or in website.
I personally don't care if these extra filters are available ingame or in website.
VERL 2023 - Round 5
V8 Racing League 2023
Round 5
Sunday,12th November
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Round 5
Sunday,12th November
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Westhill has always been a great place for racing fast cars,after the big update it added more challenge to that,still remaining being well suited track for the fastest racing classes of LFS. That's why also V8 Racing League has hosted a race in this environment every single season of it's existance,the inaugural season of the league - even 2! The International configuration in it's standard direction was the 1st track where the new FoRGE VERL 2022 car was run in a competition for the 1st time,now a bit more than a year later it's time for the return - let's see how the slightly updated car will deal with the track.
The season finale will decide the fate of 3 VERL titles as just a single one has been decided already,however the Nations cup will be awarded to Finland 10 minutes before qualifying if no other bulgarian driver signs up and tries the nearly impossible upset. RD2 has been leading drivers standings whole season long,8 points gap gives him good advantage,but he must make sure to remain failsafe. RGA has even smaller advantage in teams standings - without good effort their chances to defend the title might vanish.
Round info:
Track: WE International (WE2)
Laps: 35
Previous winners: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (2022), RGˆRony (2015)
VERL 2023 results and standings
Server info and password will be PM'ed saturday to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
V8 Racing League
VERL 2023 signups
Race Green Discord
83rd RTFR XL
Full event information and rules
RTFR 2023 sponsorship and prize info
Livestream at SimBroadcasts.tv (YouTube/Twitch)
Stream starts 18:50 UTC
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: [WCL] True Alpha
Last FZR race won by: [WCL] s1dus Monkey (67th RTFR XL - KY GP Long w/ Boothy Chicane)
Most FZR race wins: 6 races,6 different winners (Finland - 3 wins)
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (81st RTFR XL - FO8 @ AS North Rev)
Most Aston race wins: S1DUS*GáboR & L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*R.Kardol & S1DUS*Botsi & [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+47 points)
2023 standings after 10 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 220
S1DUS*GáboR - 169
RGˆRony - 121
Event rating and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
Size similar to XFR,weight similar to FZ5,drivetrain configuration of RAC - these are the key features of the car used in RTFR yesterday,which is a beefed up version of a compact car to make a track day car while keeping it road legal. That resulted in a slight mixup between drivers - some had more struggle with the car,some were able to adapt to it right away. There is one statistic that was almost repeated from 315th RTFR - the same number of drivers qualified,started and finished (or at least completed full 50% to get classified) the race,but unlike 8 weeks ago,these were exactly the same drivers and the count was 3 lower,still setting all time 2nd best finishing percentage - 100% with 24 drivers.
During qualifying also the 15 race rating and current season standings leader Gábor had some struggles before finding the pace to qualify 3rd,but it took just 4 laps for him to improve his position to the leading one - by crossing the finish line first,the hungarian started his 5th winning streak in RTFR. Gábor scored his 28th RTFR race win,24th fastest lap of the race and 54th top5 finish. Mantas was one of those who found common language with the car very early and led standings of the qualifying session since his 1st proper lap to score his 2nd pole position and 40th pole position for Lithuania. However during the race he had problems with overall pace and had to concede the race lead,finishing 2nd with over 3 seconds gap to winner - that's his 12th top5 finish. P.Koivunen finished 3rd,scoring his best result in RTFR this year,breaking his 3-race 6th place finishing streak - 1st top5 in this scored season,6th overall for the finn. He was closelly folloved by 2 teammates of the winner - Unite finished 4th,scoring his 75th top5 finish,R.Kardol closed the top5 to take home the 83rd top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week RTFR will offer the longer version of itself - the 83rd RTFR XL will be run in Aston's Historic configuration in reversed direction with the rear engined LFS original GTR car FZR. But between now and then RGE will offer 2 other events - on sunday VERL will have it's 2023 season finale in Westhill,but on the next day Retro Cup will host it's warm up round. In 2 weeks RTFR will return with a slick tyre cars race - which and where can be found out when listening to broadcasters of yesterday's race or simply wait for full info on the weekend before it.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
Size similar to XFR,weight similar to FZ5,drivetrain configuration of RAC - these are the key features of the car used in RTFR yesterday,which is a beefed up version of a compact car to make a track day car while keeping it road legal. That resulted in a slight mixup between drivers - some had more struggle with the car,some were able to adapt to it right away. There is one statistic that was almost repeated from 315th RTFR - the same number of drivers qualified,started and finished (or at least completed full 50% to get classified) the race,but unlike 8 weeks ago,these were exactly the same drivers and the count was 3 lower,still setting all time 2nd best finishing percentage - 100% with 24 drivers.
During qualifying also the 15 race rating and current season standings leader Gábor had some struggles before finding the pace to qualify 3rd,but it took just 4 laps for him to improve his position to the leading one - by crossing the finish line first,the hungarian started his 5th winning streak in RTFR. Gábor scored his 28th RTFR race win,24th fastest lap of the race and 54th top5 finish. Mantas was one of those who found common language with the car very early and led standings of the qualifying session since his 1st proper lap to score his 2nd pole position and 40th pole position for Lithuania. However during the race he had problems with overall pace and had to concede the race lead,finishing 2nd with over 3 seconds gap to winner - that's his 12th top5 finish. P.Koivunen finished 3rd,scoring his best result in RTFR this year,breaking his 3-race 6th place finishing streak - 1st top5 in this scored season,6th overall for the finn. He was closelly folloved by 2 teammates of the winner - Unite finished 4th,scoring his 75th top5 finish,R.Kardol closed the top5 to take home the 83rd top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week RTFR will offer the longer version of itself - the 83rd RTFR XL will be run in Aston's Historic configuration in reversed direction with the rear engined LFS original GTR car FZR. But between now and then RGE will offer 2 other events - on sunday VERL will have it's 2023 season finale in Westhill,but on the next day Retro Cup will host it's warm up round. In 2 weeks RTFR will return with a slick tyre cars race - which and where can be found out when listening to broadcasters of yesterday's race or simply wait for full info on the weekend before it.
Exactly - until now there has not been a slightest info about any plans or even intentions to release something as a next level licence stage. Reminder to all - S is content level stage and not a step to some huge upgrade of simulator itself.
319th RTFR
Full event information and rules
Livestream at SimBroadcasts.tv (YouTube/Twitch)
Stream starts 18:50 UTC
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 RCS V6 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last South City race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (311th RTFR - UZOVKA @ KY SO Sprint 2)
Most South City long configs race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 4 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+45.5 points)
2023-S2 standings after 7 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 155
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 95
B2ﾏ Ayoub_MaRoC - 91
Event rating,standings and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
Can confirm this - I just run a replay,where many different cars were running in qualifying,the car abbreviations start to change eventually there was listed a car "RB4G" in a field with a single standard RB4.
If you need material with many different cars at same time on track to test,feel free to use qualifying mprs (mpr files ending with Q) from RandomCar - each round has one. https://www.lfs.net/forum/526-RandomCar
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG