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The 2nd car draw wave scheduled for today 16:40 UTC / 18:40 CET / 19:40 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3515956FMQV773QT2

1 B2R TwinCam - Raceabout 06
2 18 artimeyo - CAMMERA 730 TURBO
3 Shogun - XF TURBO 5

This post will be edited after draw to add car names to drivers!
Signups are closed.

Last edited by Eclipsed, Tue 17 Oct 2023, 16:40. Reason : Added car names to drivers

The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3514868QXG2LX3EYV

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - BZ30 ROADSTER
2 RG^M@CI3K - ACOSTA STARLIN
3 [PM] Jam 616 - MZG SEDAN
4 ZFRL•Thehemuli - FZ50
5 ZFRL•LG-mies - N.400S
6 RG^LORENZO - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
7 [WCL] T.Soini - Raceabout 06
8 RD2 - BZ30 ROADSTER
9 S1DUS*R.Kardol - URC1
10 Vincent Adultman - RB4 GT
11 Three Jump - XM-5 94 TURBO
12 RG^NOSLE - FRAUD WHEELER E2
13 SIDUSN'T*uNite - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
14 [WCL] Arska - FZ50
15 [MRc] PedroBR - URC1
16 (kvsyenhoj) - VGI-6 TEDAVI
17 RG^RedBoT - XF GARIS
18 ZFRL•Motimoukari - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
19 B2R 136mph - XF TURBO 5
20 GenR.AL - URC1
21 Deens - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
22 B2R Mantas - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
23 [WCL]J.A.Katila - FRAUD 040
24 SGR MadJester - FRAUD 040
25 B2R LITRO - BZ30 ROADSTER
26 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - RB4 GT
27 AA™| Firestarter - URC1

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 16 Oct 2023, 17:04. Reason : Added car names to drivers

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2023 series - round 10

Tuesday, 17th October
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Westhill North RGE (WE3X)
Race distance: 1 hour (timed race)

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/102273
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 (until 16:50 UTC raceday) and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

Even if the track is wider in this round compared to previous one,it is still a concrete canyon with unforgiving walls which will just wait for uncareful racers. The 2.9 kilometers long South City Chicane Route has been used three times in this league,but none of those were run in clockwise direction,which counts as standard for this configuration. If racers were used to relativelly flat course in previous round,the bumpy South City will force them to set up the car significantly softer as one unexpected bounce can send the car in wall and destroy chances for better position.

With 2 rounds out of 5 completed any newcomers are unlikelly to challenge for championship title,however the winner's glory should still be attractive enough to join VERL in the middle of the season. RD2 currently lead the standings after 2 wins in the first 2 rounds,but his advantage over closest rival is not big,so nothing is close to decision yet,but after this round the number of potential championship candidates will be limited.

Round info:
Track: SO Chicane Route (SO6)
Laps: 69
Previous winners: Terga (2022), S1DUS*GáboR (2021), S1DUS*S.Litmanen (2020; 2015), Teho | Altsu (2019), Botsi (2018), v\A.Wiśniewski (2017), CoRe S.Souders (2016)

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

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sat 14 Oct 2023, 06:45.

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


RTFR has always been quite an allrounder event as it was using all 20 LFS cars right from the start,so the regulars are used to deal with anything that has been thrown to them. This tuesday racers encountered a new type of engine - Wankel's rotary engine,even if not properly simulated (hence the missing apex seals through exhaust pipes),but at least with relativelly similar engine specs. Fern Bay's "green" half alone hasn't been used a lot in RTFR,so after a while we used one of the configurations - pretty much same old Green configuration with added looping. The infamous 1st chicane caused some problems to many,including current standings leader - damage of his standings' lead won't be big however and Gábor managed to secure at least the point for fastest lap of the race (his 22nd).

One who wasn't too affected by new car and tricky track was R.Kardol - even if just by 3 hundreths of a second,the dutchman was fastest in qualifying and scored his 17th pole position tying Excellent15 for 4th most all time. R.Kardol led all 21 laps of the race,early of the race closelly followed by his teammate,but after his retirement solely in safe lead to cross finish line 1st. With this performance R.Kardol scored his 19th RTFR race win and 81st top5 finish. After 11 races break A.Valta returned to RTFR action and despite being just 3rd fastest,he finished 2nd in the race to score his 19th top5 finish. With 25 seconds gap to winner the "best of the rest" was Race Green's newest recruit RD2,who finished in top5 for the 1st time and that in 3rd position right away - his previous best result was halved in his 10th RTFR attendance. His teammate Nosle finished 4th and with it doubled his top5 finishes count,but top5 was closed by somewhat more experienced top5 finisher - Ayoub Maroc scored his 12th of these.

VOD at Youtube:


RTFR will take a break and next week the server will be taken over by a very variating field of cars - the finale of the 1st RandomCar season is set to run in Westhill's custom configuration known under name "North RGE" - one hour long race should be a great challenge. In 2 weeks RTFR server will return to it's original event and that will host a race with one of the slick tyre cars,hints can be seen in broadcast of the latest race,full info as always will be posted on the weekend before it. The winner of last RTFR XL race has submitted his selection for the 83rd RTFR XL and it will be quite a classic - FZR will be run in the Aston Historic configuration in reversed direction,race is set to be 33 laps long.

The cause might be that the psd is outdated - they updated skin mapping of the car and have not updated the attached template kit. You can always get your template in garage directly from the mod - go to colors tab and click on generate skin template.

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 DORITO FD7 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Fern Bay race won by: B2ﾏ Mantas (307th RTFR - LX6 @ FE Black Rev.)
Most Fern Bay green configs race wins: 5 races,5 different winners (Finland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+58 points)

2023-S2 standings after 5 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 124
B2ﾏ Mantas - 64
RGˆRony - 63
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sun 8 Oct 2023, 11:20.

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

Quote from SGﾏ MadJester :

Event/time: 82nd RTFR XL, startline 3rd lap
Car to report: Dark (or Lara?)
I don't really know who is at fault (I presume Dark), I just know me and Lucas got collected from that incident.

2 drivers go for same track spot,meet each other and cause high speed incident,made worse by Lucas,who run into spinning car without releasing throttle.

* PENALTIES :
[Tﾏ] Lara - receives a WARNING for causing an incident - at high speeds in a group driver should not focus only ahead and do sudden moves.
｢ﾏｧ｣ Dark - receives a WARNING for causing an incident - at high speeds following closelly 2 drivers driver should be more cautios.
｢ﾏｧ｣ Lucas - receives a WARNING for failing to react on situation ahead,increasing the severity of the incident by causing retirement of other driver,controls show full throttle until impact to a spinning car. Time between obviously visible incident and impact was 2.4 seconds,proving there was plenty of time to react on situation. Future incidents will lead to actual penalty or even race ban.


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2 days after an 8 hour race RTFR XL featured the same car in the relativelly shorter distance. Results showed some advantage for those running in the other race,having still best feeling for the car deffinitelly helped them achieve better result - 8 of top10 qualifyers took part in 8h race and 4 of top5 finishers finished also in top5 in the 8h race. However the race was plagued by several incidents,many of those were 1 car accidents caused by own mistakes,mostly in the very fast chicane leading off the oval section. After the infamous 55th RTFR XL (we could call it also "shortcutgate"),organization made sure to force drivers to stay within track limits by placing soft objects in potential shortcut lines - this had other negative effect,so until the Kyoto track receives the update,RGE will avoid using Kyoto GP long in original direction with cars being rated faster than PL200 (TBO) class without the altering Boothy chicane.

Even if not directly head to head,duel for the race win was carried over from the 8 hour race - representants of top2 teams of it were racing each other for win also on tuesday. True Alpha returned to RTFR XL after a while and did it by celebrating his 5th RTFR XL race win. He won the race by doing a simply shorter pitstop,where he refuelled the car without changing tyres (only driver to finish race with same set he started) - the finn had 11 seconds shorter pitstop and won by just 6 seconds margin,revenging the 2nd place finish on sunday. Additionally True Alpha scored the 30th RTFR XL race win for Finland. One of the sunday's race winners Gábor was the fastest on track as he scored his 9th pole position (tied 2nd most now) and 9th fastest lap of the race,but could not regain the time he lost during pitstop,so he had to settle for 2nd place finish,which is his 17th top5 finish. Igor had also a minor redemption as he finished higher than sunday - the 3rd place finish is his 1st ever RTFR XL race finish from 7 starts. R.Kardol was the highest finisher between those not having the 8h long practice from sunday - after some trouble he had to settle for 4th place finish,43rd top5 finish overall for the dutchman,8th alone this year. Top5 was closed by another top5 finisher on the sunday - Rony scored his 29th top5 finish,1st this year.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Prototype 2 is actually the 1st car who did a full cycle of RTFR events. During the early stages it was run in the experimenting RTFR CCCC (in a custom Kyoto configuration) last year,this january it was featured in normal RTFR,running in the Westhill's longest standard config and 4 weeks ago it was selected to be run also in the XL version.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Being the clock pitter actually put him in the race lead - True Alpha had the shortest pitstop of the day by only refuelling the car (12.87 seconds),all others did even more pitwork.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
P.Koivunen had a weak qualifying by setting 35th fastest time (last of those marked as actually qualified),started from 33rd position he gained 21 positions to finish 12th despite a full minute long pitstop.

VOD at Youtube:


RTFR XL will now make a long 6 weeks break - it was decided that each RTFR XL event will take place on a different month,so for simply calendary reasons it had to be pushed 2 weeks later as it is still october in 4 weeks. The combo for that race has still not been submitted by winner of this race - he has time until the coming tuesday to answer the message. Until next XL there will be a total of 3 normal RTFR races,3 last VERL rounds and the season finale of RandomCar in 2 weeks time. The closest race of all of those is 317th RTFR,which will use one of the user created street legal cars on a Caribbean island. More info will be posted in the weekend.

Worked with XP many years ago,worked with W7 still few months ago,works now also with W11.

Wind strength maybe also in km/h - only time this info is actually shown is on start of a session or when entering server. Direction is visible from flags,but maybe would not bad also this info in some way (even if north/south in nowhere really defined).

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*GáboR - 2 wins in row
Last PROTOTYPE 2 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Kyoto race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (74th RTFR XL - FORMULA AMERICAS 2019 @ KY National Rev)
Most Kyoto race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 5 wins (Netherlands & Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+52.5 points)

2023 standings after 9 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 194
S1DUS*GáboR - 137
Iron|Doni - 104
Event rating and other statistics

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

Quote from Vritrasura :

maximum count of objects in total, which is 2000 I think.

2400

Quote from sinanju :

LFS currently has a limit of 30 for grouping together.

60 since one of the more recent patches.

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


Even if has traction control,wide grippy tyres and plenty of downforce,LFS's fastest standard car is still a lot of challenge to everyone - the 2006 BMW Sauber formula one car has 720 horsepower coupled with dry weight just over half a ton. That helps it to reach high speeds quickly and go through turns faster than any other car in the cars list,demanding from drivers fast reflexes and mental endurance also for just a 30 minutes race. In the only real world track of our beloved racing simulator formula one cars have been run just for show purposes as none of the configurations is deemed to suit the highest class racecars,this is where the simulator jumps in - to answer some "what if..." questions and this tuesday we answered a question "what if Rockingham's 3.1 kilometer long ISSC configuration would have been part of F1 2006 schedule?"

The distance was just 1/3 of a normal grand prix distance,so we cannot give you a full answer,but the winner of this race would surely describe it as "traffic rich race" - Gábor lapped all but 5 rivals in the short race on his flag to flag ride in the lead to the victory lane. Luckily the damage is not simulated fully realistic,so he could finish with minor damage from few contacts - the hungarian was able to win the 5th race from past 7 races and 26th race overall,scoring also 52nd top5 finish,19th pole position and 21st fastest lap of the race,the latter was also 30th for Hungary. Gábor's only actual rival was his teammate R.Kardol,who was the only other driver to beat the 1 minute mark in qualifying and finished "just" 7 seconds off lead to score his 80th top5 finish. There was another driver to be kind of "on par" with the race winner - Zesty tied Gábor's fastest lap of the race on the final lap to score his 1st ever fastest lap,while also improving his previous best finishing position by one as he finished third,adding 4th top5 finish to his achievements. The winner of previous RTFR race finished 4th this week to take 3rd top5 finish in row and 11th overall,while M.Túlio closed the top5 in his 2nd RTFR attendance,improving finishing position massivelly from his previous attempt,which was 19th place finish 4 weeks ago.

VOD at Youtube:


Next week it is time for the extended RTFR version - 2 days after the 8 hours long warm up with the same car in different track,drivers will be tasked to tackle the longest standard configuration of Kyoto in the way the devs built it - without any additional chicanes. After the negativelly famous 55th RTFR XL,which was run in same track,RGE has learned from experience and will mark the track limits with a lot of objects to avoid drivers misusing the "freedom" - full information of the race will be posted tomorrow. Two weeks from latest race normal RTFR will return with one of the street legal cars being run under the swelming sun - more hints you can get from broadcast of previous race. In 3 weeks the server will be taken over by RandomCar racers,who will find out fate of all possible titles in series' season finale at Westhill's North RGE configuration.

PENALTIES:

SGﾏ MadJester - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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The brand new VERL round FoRGE 200 did not gather up a lot of drivers,but still enough to not get the race shortened due low attendance - 9 drivers is the minimum for full 200 kilometers race per rules. Of course the tricky and tight track coupled with powerful single seater had it's toll on the drivers - one third of them retired before completing points scoring distance.

2 out of 2 - so far a perfect season for the new recruit of the series organizing team. Just like 2 weeks ago as a privateer,RD2 crossed the finish line first,but this time he led less than a half of the race - starting from row 2 the bulgarian advanced through field by simply passing the rivals while they were in pitlane and beat them with much shorter pitstop. Thehemuli seemed to be the faster one in this race,but spent over 20 seconds in pitstop,losing lead and grip on potential race win,however he set the fastest lap of the race to score at least an additional point. Rony made 2 RGA members on the podium by finishing 3rd and last on lead lap. Just like in 1st round the pole position honors did not bring good results - Texas made his 1st appearance this season by being fastest in qualifying,scoring his 1st VERL pole position,but few contacts here and there forced him to early pitstop,which dropped him down the order until he retired.


Two times 20 points plus the 2 attendance bonus points equals in 8 points lead in standings after 2 rounds for RD2 - the rookie has now extended his lead. His closest rival is now Thehemuli,who's 2nd with a 10 points gap over 3rd place - Rony. RD2's lead in rookie of the year standings is even bigger - his closest rival from round 1 retired early and did not score a single point,growing the gap to 22 points,Madjester is 3rd with same points count,losing on tiebreaker.

Leaders from round 1 Zafiralis had a better round this time by scoring 6 points more,but their lead has been cut to 2 points as defending champions RGA scored even more thanks to their new recruit. MRc is now 3rd with a 27 points deficite to top of the table. In nations standings things returned to old order - defending champions Finland jumped in the lead and is now 9 points ahead of single driver nation Bulgaria. The surprise leaders after round 1 Brazil have dropped down to 3rd position without scoring a single point in round 2.


Round 3 will bring another new configuration to VERL - even if the South City's Chicane Route has been used already 3 times in the league,all were in reversed direction. Now in the 2nd season of the turbo era the 2.9 kilometers configuration will be run in the original direction to offer racers a fast paced race in an urban environment - with 3 weeks gap from previous round the South City 200 will be a battle of nerves!

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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: B2ﾏ Mantas
Last BF1 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (278th RTFR - BL Historic Rev.)
Most BF1 race wins: v\A.Wiśniewski - 4 wins (Poland - 4 wins)
Last Rockingham race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (313th RTFR - CHORUS ATTENDANZE XT-Z 4R @ RO International Long w/o Chicane)
Most Rockingham issc configs race wins: S1DUS*uNite - 2 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+57.5 points)

2023-S2 standings after 4 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 99
[WCL] Arska - 51
B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm - 50
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

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 (until 16:50 UTC raceday) and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

Quote from Eclipsed :

teamName: Race Green Autosports LMP

Drivers:
- {FalconBridge, Patrick Hall, Canada}

Changed 3rd driver

600 horsepower single seater in relativelly narrow track alone is a difficult task,but if the narrow track features tight turns,that will challenge the racers to their limits - controlling the power on slow turns,having the car fast on the 2 straights,each one kilometer long,will be the key to high positions this sunday. The track is brand new and created just before the season,so everyone will have same point to start from in terms of track experience - who will be able to adapt quicker?

After 1st round the standings leader is the winner of the 1st race,but with 4 rounds still to come,we have nothing but some potential trends of the season,however everyone is still eligible for the glory - even racers joining the season just now as the disadvantage of not having any points yet is very possible to overcome. Will any of the previous champions and other skilled drivers take the challenge and join series?

Round info:
Track: LA FoRGE Viaduct 8 (LA2X)
Laps: 63
Previous winners: N/A

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

teamName: Race Green Autosports LMP
number: 41
car class: LMP2
teamManager: {Eclipsed, Rony Kronpušs}
Team leader discord user: eclipsedrony

drivers:
- {Eclipsed, Rony Kronpušs, Latvia}
- {MandulAA, Dániel Balla, Hungary}
- {FalconBridge, Patrick Hall, Canada}

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teamName: Race Green Autosports GT
number: 16
car class: GT3
teamManager: {Eclipsed, Rony Kronpušs}
Team leader discord user: eclipsedrony

drivers:
- {jackson93, Maciej Klimczyk, Poland}
- {redbot_, Jefin Jacob, India}
- {cuni, Agostinho da Silva, Portugal}

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sat 23 Sep 2023, 19:34. Reason : Changed 3rd driver of LMP

After the low activity of the vacation month,september race brought once again over 20 drivers to RandomCar racing as the series start to heat up - after this round only the season finale is left. This week we were racing in Kyoto's non-standard configuration known under the name North,where from our side the straights were slightly extended adding hairpins on both ends of start/finish straight (flat out curve). A total of 17 different cars were represented making the field very variating.

8 rounds of the series brought 8 different winners from 7 different countries,this trend was bound to end at some point for sure,but besides the repeated winner,we have also the 1st winning streak of a driver - the winner of round 8 Thehemuli found himself on front of the field also in round 9,however this time he did not led the whole race,just the latest 4 laps after progressing through field from the 7th place on grid. He scored the 1st ever win for the rear wheel driven compact car Talot Suns Lomis. R.Kardol got drawn his winning car of round 7 MZG Sedan and set the sights on himself as potential 1st multiple winner of the league,but after leading 12 laps,he had to give up the lead to to charging finn,so all he could do is to defend the 2nd place finisher award,setting also the fastest lap of the race. Arska qualified first and scored the 1st ever pole position for himself,his team and also for the LFS's home grown XRT,but lost race lead already entering turn one,eventually losing another position to finish 3rd,scoring 2nd podium finish for himself and highest ever finishing position for XRT.

With a single round left ahead,the championship standings are as heated up as you can - the season finale with 1 hour race will score double points for finishing positions,so in theory the top10 drivers in standings are still eligible for drivers championship title,however the 56 points from a single round are possible from practically full grid. Realistically the title chances have 4 best drivers with another 2 being long range outsiders - Nosle has taken over the standings lead with his 5th place finish this week and his 7 points lead means that 2nd place finish or even a win in final round would grant him the title without the need to calculate points of competition. There are 2 drivers with 7 points gap to standings leader - R.Kardol,who is 2nd due tiebreaker over RD2,the absent V.Lagooga is 9 points off the lead. The winner of latest 2 rounds Thehemuli is the better of the 2 outsiders as he's with 20 points deficit.

Also teams championship is heated up - now just 2 points seperate the leaders S1dus from closest rivals RGA. B2R have lost even more ground and with 31 points gap their chances are still there,but rather unrealistic. In theory another 2 teams are eligible to win the title,however both finnish based teams will have to battle between each other for 4th position - Zafiralis is a single point ahead of WCL. With lower activity of lithuanian drivers,the country has now lost the lead in nations championship for the first time and are 17 points behind the new leader Finland - with the double points scoring round ahead Lithuania's chances are still good,but they need to overperform quite a lot. No other country has even theoretical chances for the title,so the intrigue for them is left only in battle for 3rd position,currently taken by driver's standings leader's country Luxembourg. Also manufacturers championship will be settled in final round - the early season dominator URC1 has scored only 22 points in last 4 rounds,so it's lead is just a slim 4 points over Tasl,Imprezzive is just another point apart. A total of 6 cars are still eligible for the award,however the FXO in 4th position with 26 points deficit is already quite an outsider.

The draw happened to spread out well for this round - just 5 of 26 cars were not drawn while FZ5 and XM-5 were the most popular getting just 3 drivers each. Imprezzive is still randomresult's favourite - it has been drawn 29 times this season,4 of those fell for T.Soini,who is the 1st and currently only driver to get same car for 4 rounds - will the final round make it 50%?

Season finale will be carried out in Westhill - for the 2nd race in row it will be a custom configuration carrying the word "North" in it (coincidentally selected by a driver from nordic country). It's a 6.16 kilometer course,partially running in Westhill's 2 backstraights and the connecting turns,before exiting the big racetrack for support roads section,which with it's high speed bends will stress drivers to the maximum. As announced,the season finale will be a 1 hour timed race without planned specific lapcount,however results of 129th RTFR suggest it will be a 24 laps race unless someone is fast enough to break the 2:30 mark for majority of the race - the best time with unrestricted FXO was 2:29.64,while the cars in series are balanced around FXO with 14hp less power.