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=3859816JGP5CXNW7Z

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - ALICE 595
2 RG^M@CI3K - GT-V34
3 B2R 136mph - BZG COUPE
4 ZFRL•Thehemuli - 2020 HIRO CCF2
5 rg^nosle - NORRSKEN D1
6 RG^Falcon - CAMMERA 773 GT2
7 [MRc] jsk - PREFECTURE GT
8 [PM] Jam 616 - GT-V34 MINE9
9 Three Jump - JDX100
10 RG^RedBoT - ARAVAM75 I6
11 GT4tube - JDX100
12 B2R Loco - BZG COUPE
13 W/ jordan - SLX180 TYPEX
14 TAV-suforr - DASH 46
15 SGR Madjester - CAMMERA 773 GT2
16 B2R TwinCam - SLX180 TYPEX
17 GenR Mousemen - PREFECTURE GT

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 13 Jan 2025, 18:02. Reason : Added car names to drivers

Test race


In preperation for upcoming 2025 season (scheduled to start on 11th february),we gonna run a test race to test out potential cars for the full RandomCar Series. The list includes 5 cars from official cars list that have been drawn 5 or less times and never finished in top10 before and 16 candidates. This race is organized to test cars balancing and collect data about their competitivity in an actual race. An insim application gathers laptimes of all cars,you can see the table when typing ;tt in chat - please test as many cars as you can before qualifying.

Tuesday, 14th January
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Blackwood GP Track rev. (BL1R)
Race distance: 22 laps (73km)

Cars list:

RandomCar test race cars list in spreadsheets: LINK

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!


To sign up for this race (required for the car draw),simply write your ingame name as a reply in this thread. Signups deadline is tuesday,14th january 17:30 UTC / 18:30 CET / 19:30 EET
Here is my signup as an example:

RG^Rony

Quote from KingOfIce :

Can there be 2 licenses with the only difference being lowercase/lowercase letters?

No - licence names are not case sensitive. For example I can login into game also with ecLiPSED or any other variation and it will be still the same account.

There you go.

But the transparent panels still sting into my eyes... If most of the transparency can be seen only from underneath the car,the one just under overroll bar is well visible all the time,would look bad on livestream. I reported that in mod's thread,unfortunatelly modder did not react,maybe you can reach with suggestions.

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


Start of the new season was run with an agile sports coupe that's just over 10 years old on the car market - with just 200 horsepower it's not very powerful,however well balanced and not really heavy for a modern car. In the 4.3 kilometer custom configuration in Aston that combines both shortest standard configurations it surely felt like home - plenty of different turns deffinitelly were mastered by the car if the driver was good enough. A total of 34 drivers joined for this combo which is highest attendance in the latest 9 RTFR events,2 of them did not want to start,another 2 did not want to finish...

Different car,same winner - once again the driver with already most wins in RTFR was on top of the results tables in both sessions,including on top of the positions list whole race long. Gábor was the only driver to beat 2 minutes and 2 seconds mark in qualifying,earning himself the 36th pole position in his 100th RTFR qualifying. Leading all 16 laps gave him a total of 851 laps led in RTFR - that's just 1 less than all time leading count by Botsi. The win was Gábor's 39th,the fastest lap his 36th and the top5 finish - 72nd. Despite being the closest rival,R.Kardol was not really a competition for winner today,so he had to settle 2nd place finish,earning his 98th top5 finish,Suforr took the bottom step of the podium for the 1st time,adding the 3rd top5 finish besides one 4th and one 5th place finishes. Falcon joined RTFR for the first time for almost whole year and added 41st top5 finish to his stats by finishing 4th,closelly followed by another returnee (previous attendace was in 296th RTFR) Mousemen,who scored his 1st ever top5 finish in RTFR,improving his previous best result by a single position.

VOD at Youtube:


Currently there are no plans for next tuesday,but that might change spontaniously while next RTFR is set to happen in 2 weeks,some hints about the combo as always were mentioned during broadcast. In 3 weeks time also the RTFR XL will start the year of 2025 - the selected combo is Fund Mutsand GT3 at Westhill's shorter configuration National.

Quote from Scawen :

Is it true that there is no way to DELETE a round of a series?

Yes - only option is just to edit it. Luckily I never needed such option,but who knows - maybe some day someone might need to correct an error.

* PENALTIES :
Nejc - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 3 occasions.

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Patience - that was the key trait for this round,as the most powerful car ever in the league run in such closed environment surely posed plenty of dangers each lap - even the slightest mistake could result in damage that significantly influences car handling,some had to learn this the hard way,while one driver gave up before reaching 1/3 of the race distance. 11 quite expensive cars were standing on grid waiting for green lights - surely race to go into AWS history in some different way.

For 2nd time in row the best 2 drivers in qualifying were the Race Green Autosports teammates Dzidoris and Falcon - and both were again involved into fight for race win with difference from previous round as this time both led their share of laps. Winner of opening round led the first 14 laps before making a mistake that caused loss of race lead,however the lithuanian managed to pull himself together and erased gap to leader,using his opponent's mistake with 2 laps to go to return into lead,crossing the finish line first again to celebrate his 10th AWS race win,while his 10th pole position sets him in the tied leading position in all time pole positions count. The race was simply 2 laps too long for the canadian driver to score his 1st AWS race win,so he had to settle once again for 2nd place finish,but at least he was able to set the fastest lap of the race,earning an important bonus point. Also there are no changes in 3rd position in results - just like in round 1,Rony started from 4th position and finished 3rd,this time making a position on his own without other driver's network failure.


Dzidoris gained another 2 points lead over his teammate Falcon and now is 6 points ahead in the championship table,no changes in 3rd position either - Rony is still in this position,currently 11 points behind leader.

This round is not counted towards any minor award standings,however the Rookie of the Year competition has been activated as there is a 2nd rookie driver with a race finish - Cyk currently is on top of the table (while being 7th overall) with 10 points lead over Nejc,who made his debut in this round.

For 2nd round in row RGA managed to lock out podium from competition,scoring again all possible 32 points,which puts the 7-time series champions in a commanding 45 points lead over 2 closest rival teams Zafiralis and Yes Motorsports,both represented by a single driver. The 5-time nations champions Lithuania are currently leading nations standings by 22 points over defending 3-time champions Finland,rest in the table are single driver nations,which are led by Canada in 3rd position overall,3 points apart 2nd position.


If this round could be considered as the most difficult,next one surely will be the most dizzy one - 100 laps around the short 600 meters oval might seem a lot,however with laptimes around 22 seconds,this will actually be the shortest race in calendar this season. The car for this race is the 345 horsepower Imprezzive,known for many from RandomCar,but in AWS it will be unleashed with full power,which will be controlled by knobbly tyres on a slippery dirt surface - powerslides not optional!

For those who missed the livestream,here's video on demand:

We gonna start RTFR 2025 season 1 with this car,which is quite agile,not very difficult to handle and does not chew it's tyres like crazy - not a big challenge to race,but a big challenge to be the best. Join to race or just follow the action via livestream,race info and links to livestream in the event's info thread: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110151-349th-RTFR
The attached RTFR promo skin is public and free for use.

Qualifying:


Race:


If you want to make a protest,please include all neccesary information.
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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 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*uNite - 2 wins in row for Finland
Last TOY YODA JT86 race won by: first race using this car
Last Aston race won by: ｢ﾏｧ｣ TJ (343rd RTFR - IBUSHA SAGA @ AS North)
Most Aston club configs race wins: RGˆRony & Agent - 2 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+11 points)

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 and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

2 out of 56 should be quite a good sign of false positive.

* PENALTIES :
Jaroslav Dohnalík - receives a DISQUALIFICATION from Semifinal onwards for intentional slowing down.
B2ﾏ LITRO - receives a DISQUALIFICATION from Bonus Run for causing false start to 2 other competitors.

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The server connection limit raise resulted in record breaking attendance on previous event,this time we were more prepered despite another new attendance record - 66 is the number of participants in the 2024 event edition,which is 4 more than the record set one year ago. However for 2nd year in row there was a need for disqualification - on last semifinal run a certain experienced participant decided to breach one of just 4 rules and with this influenced heavily result of otherwise fair battle between other drivers.

Pace was once again important for results,however the event winner was this time quite an exemption as he qualfied 37th,but had to race against 5 top10 qualifyers in the final. Top20 qualifyers this year were directly in the quarter final,however for 40% of them that was the final stop.


Only 2 champions were able to reach semifinal,however both of them could not qualify for final,so even before the 20 laps long decision it was clear there will be a new champion - the 12th different one! The final itself was rather less interesting for the spectators as there were not too much proper physical battles and the winner led all 20 laps and even catching the backmarkers did not cause any threats as one of them was playing bodyguard role to help Thehemuli become the 1st ever finnish winner of This is Crashmaaas !!! event. The most recent V8 Racing League champion added another achievement to his most successful year in simracing - he qualified in the low 37th position,but finished solidly in 2nd position in his preliminary run behind a countryman to advance to quarterfinal. The quarterfinal wasn't successful and Thehemuli had to qualify for semifinal via relegation run,where finishing 2nd in thrilling final lap was enough. The semifinal went much better again as he finished 2nd in it,clinching his grid spot on 2nd row of the final,which was rather clean and filled with some minor contacts early on and the finn set just 9th fastest lap of the final heat during his nervous run to win.

Being fast always has been helpful in Crashmas,however not always it was deciding skill - the event rookie Suforr set the fastest laptime in qualifying,securing 1st grid position for most runs,but after convincing win in his quarterfinal heat,he wasn't as lucky in semifinal,so he had to qualify for final through last chance run,where he finished 3rd. In final the spaniard was even relegated to last position early on,however he used his pace to climb up the order to finish 2nd,repeating also the fastest lap of the whole event (first set by Tikvosha in QF relegation run). L.Rydh took the final step on the podium - the swede was also between top3 qualifyers and won his quartefinal and semifinal heats,putting himself also on front row of final,but then his luck ended as he had to work hard in few battles to at least finish 3rd.


2nd edition of Battle Royale ended up very similar to the 1st edition - with common efforts the only 2 time champion was promoted out of track and the brand new champion cruised for 2/3 of the race to finish line. Despite 5 attending previous champions in main event part,the champions race featured just 3 of them (from which one was spectated for false start),the new champion and the commentator coming back from his retirement.

The biggest chaos race of Bonus run this time received a snowflake themed grid on which only 32 drivers were standing,leaving 20% of the grid free. Despite small reduction of layout objects compared to few previous years,somehow this ended in more retirements than usually as only 6 cars finished the race,half on lead lap,one driver after incidentally being returned into race after a roll. Even with this low number of finishers,it was an intrigue until the last meters of the race - the leader of 2 penultimate laps rolled on the final turn,giving up race lead to the leader of all other 18 laps Mouseman,who crossed the finish line with very damaged car.



The updated format of the event created more heats - a total of 23 of them were run (including Battle Royale and Bonus),however in fear for over extention of the whole event it was decided to reduce lapcount of everything before semifinal - this saved us few minutes,but still it was 4 hours long event,if amount of participants does not shrink,such event length without big changes in format is unavoidable. Only change for next edition should be reducing direct qualifyers count to 18 (each quarterfinal would feature equal amount of qualifyers),other than that we have to leave preliminary run format as flexible as possible.

Next 26th december will fall on friday,so the 15th edition of the event will be on friday the 13[*2]th for extra unlucky mishaps and breaks. And yet we will be searching for the 13th different winner or if most are unlucky - 3rd 2-time winner or 1st 3-time winner. Until then there are 11 and a half months to store your energy,practice your skills an stock up your XRGs to be destroyed in next This is Crashmaaas !!! - the Xmas derby event. And even if such requests in past were not heard - how about winners speach?

2 weeks after the slowest Blackwood rallycross race,AWS racers will tackle South City's streets with the most powerful car in this league's history,and that without the assistance of grippy slick tyres or high aerodynamic downforce. That's because the Adda AR-Eight is a street legal car with proper equipement,however the modern car has it's modern features like ABS and paddle shifter controlled gearbox. This surely will be a race of focus - the car reaches high speeds quickly and does not leave much room for errors,so small mistakes can end up with damaged car and lengthy repairs in pitstop.

10 drivers started the season in round 1,one of them was also the defending champion who wasn't performing at his standards yet. With 5 more rounds ahead,nothing is decided,so even a fresh entry to series can still mix into battle for all the awards and put his name in the racwinners list below or even add another year to name already in the list.

Please note the different starting time of the round (1 hour earlier) compared to round 1!

Round info:
Track: SO Town Course Rev. (SO5R)
Laps: 28 (88km)
Car: ADDA AR-EIGHT V10
Previous winners : [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (2024 - A2AT). YES V.Lakūnas (2023 - PZGG / 2022; 2019 & 2017 - FXR), S1DUS*Botsi (2021 & 2020 - FXR), B2ﾏ FasT (2018 - RB4), A.Valta (2016 - RB4), CoRe A.Laipnieks (2015 - FXR), 22 S.Jurvansuu (2014 - FXR), CoRe V.Pitkänen (2013 - FXR), spdoFade (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 2025 signups thread
Race Green Discord

Hello,racers!

The new year has started and in same day the year number has changed,we'll ready to announce the plans for RTFR in the 2025 - it will again consist of 3 seasons,2 of RTFR on each half of the year and one for RTFR XL lasting whole year long. The best through these scored seasons again receive money prizes,once again kindly sponsored by World Class Lions team. Full details can be found in Sponsorship document.

For season standings the same points system will be used as in the evergoing rating system - for full details hower mousepointer over rating sheet's green colored title bar,here are the links to both spreadsheets: RTFR and RTFR XL.

Some key information points:

* Just like in past 3 years,also this year RTFR will be divided into 2 seasons - first of those will start right on the coming tuesday,the 7th january and will last for 12 rounds until 10th june,then RTFR will have 3 off-season events which will be simply just for fun and single race winning glory. Season 2 this year will be just 10 rounds long,starting on 5th august and ending on 9th december,while the year will end with another standings free event on 23rd december. During the seasons we will keep as before a 50/50 ratio between LFS original cars and user created content,mostly using mods with approved status,however in off-season races we might try something more unusual.

* After experimental prizing system last year,this RTFR XL season will return to scoring system of 2022-2023 - from the 12 rounds during the scored season,only best 10 scores will count towards standings,meaning a failure or two won't affect overall result. As always the winner will have the honor of selecting combo for next race - these selections are limited to 2 per calendar year and once someone has selected a combo,the lockout of selection ends only with end of winning streak (no back to back selections possible). Couple of minor changes in selection - car will be now locked out for 5 races (before it was 4) and track environment will be locked out for 2 races (only 1 before).

* Points system stays the same - each event has it's own system,both however are very similar. RTFR keeps the base of 20 points for winner based on 20 (or less) starters,where each 3 starters more than 20 adds 1 point to winner's gain. RTFR XL has additional attendance based base score increasement,which 2022 reached the same 20 points for winner - if 5 races in row have more or less attendees in race than current base score,it get's increased or decreased by 1. Not affecting the yearly standings which leads to money prizes is the ever going rating,which puts up on top of the table most successful racers in last 15 races in RTFR and last 12 races in RTFR XL. In both of those ratings the latest 2/3 of races count fully,but the oldest 1/3 of scores are halved.


Both events have been entered into lfs.net racing calendar,where the combos will be updated as soon as possible - the currently set "XFG at BL1" is simply a placeholder. Info about each event will be posted in this forum subsection as it was always done previously in the information threads.


For past 4 years RTFR and RTFR XL were honored by having a great promotion through livestream by the best broadcasting company around LFS - Sim Broadcasts. With sponsors support,the broadcasting will continue also for 2025,giving a great chance for people not in race to follow the action live and to racers in the race - relive the action from the spectators view. SB.tv will broadcast by availability all races that are part of standings,taking a break in summer when the non-championship race will be held.

Additionally you can visit SimBroadcasts.tv for their full streaming schedule and contact details,or their lfs.net forum thread for local updates.

Easiest way probably would be using simple autocross start point (add split and finish line so time is counted) somewhere in layout square,do an acceleration test run by starting right at green light and save replay - when slowing down replay and pausing at correct time points,you can check the time at specific speed.

It's nice you're going the scientific way with all the calculations and I'm not gonna check them because mathematics in such degree is not my strong point,however the result is this (stock setup,with some tweaks could go few km/h more):



That's speed a 200hp road car with full body could reach only with 100km/h+ tailwind or when thrown off plane.

Not sure how good are the calculations in this field by LFS code,but seems currently best way to be closer to realism is to "cut some corners" and go for some golden middle road that results closer to real life performance.

I noticed this car has aero drag of 506N @ 40m/s which results of theoretical top speed of 267km/h (speed without taking tyre roll resistance into account),which is way too high for car with just over 200hp. Data sheets in internet talk about top speed of ~235km/h for the real car,so I would suggest increase aero drag until it's around 240km/h in downforce menu to make it more realistic.

66 is the number of participants in this year's edition,setting another attendance record - and that does not include few drivers who joined only for the last 2 runs... And there's another new champion! If you want to see everything in LFS client,replays are attached to this post.

If someone does not have enough,the Bonus Run layout is still set in the server with 10 laps and all cars unlocked,so feel free to join the server!

Server is now password protected,password is in 1st post right under the section everyone should be familiar with - rules!

Please DO NOT post server info in random places without leading info to this thread - otherwise too many people join who have absolutely no clue what's this event is about and what is it's format! (and leave after setting qualifying time,thus leaving blank spots in the heats)

Event live results sheets for heat tracking purposes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o0WnhWzf8xW40ElXAgPUkVVsUomAIYnnVlDvODuL4e0/edit#gid=0
(this is where everyone can see in which heat he is,I can't answer everyone personally during the event)

With introduction of mods the palette of cars in LFS has been increased highly,with this we can now select cars that don't burn it's tyres during the rallycross race - this was the case yesterday with the new to series Prodigy AWD car. Slow speeds mean less mistakes and with it less pace difference - that created other set of difficulties as drivers happening to be behind a bit slower driver struggled to overtake him,but eventually everyone found way past and the field spread out according to race pace,except for the leading duo,which finished less than half of a second apart.

Despite the close finish,the 3-time AWS vice champion Dzidoris kept his leading position just slightly stressed as he led every single lap of the race - with this round the lithuanian scored his 9th pole position and 9th race win in AWS (both all time 2nd most),taking also the bonus point for fastest lap of the race. During the race he was closelly chased by his teammate Falcon,who repeated his best AWS race result - 2nd place finish. To make the clean podium sweep,3rd place was taken by Rony,who profited on his teammate's network failure just before starting last lap.


4 points is the advantage in standings for the race winner after 1st round - the order of table as usually is the same as race results after just 1 round done. 3rd place is 2 points off 2nd place.

Same situation is in Cross Challenge standings - 2 more races to go for this award with season finale being also part of the award decision. Currently best rookie is Cyk,who finished 8th in the race,however this award is currently on hold as there is a requirement of at least 2 rookies finishing the race - the 2nd rookie participating in season opener retired very early.

Good setup engineering probably was the key of the success of defending champions taking all the glory in round 1 - RGA has already 22 points lead after 1st round over closest rivals Zafiralis,followed by Yes Motorsports by a single point - both of the teams have just a single driver in their lineup. Lithuania leads the nations cup standings by 10 points over defending 3-time champions Finland,Canada is 3rd another 3 points behind.


Round 2 is probably the most difficult round of this season's schedule - a powerful supercar with fully road legal setup is set to be raced in one of the toughest configurations of South City. The Adda with a V10 engine will be the most powerful car in AWS history,however unlike all other high powered cars used in the league,it does not have neither slick tyres or great aerodynamic assistance. This race will be a proper test to driver's skills and patience - good practice is not an option for success,it will be needed!

Yesterday we run this car in AWS 2025 round 1 and it worked out just like imagined - close bumper to bumper (and occasionally even door to door) racing,and unlike with most powerful AWD cars,this wasn't one of the typical LFS rallycross tyre burning races.

When making a skin,I encountered 3 issues which probably should be adressed to achieve highest mod quality:
1. The car's top part (roof,bonnet and trunk) of skin mapping is flipped.
2. Rims are transparent when looking from inside.
3. Part of the front is transparent when looking from underside,probably need to add few well placed triangles to block it.
Besides that the inside of arches seem to be very basic and front wheels at max lock will go through,but that's a minor issue. Other than that the model seems to be good quality and with bigger support might be a candidate for approved mod status in my opinion.

Actually the problems with skin upload occoured many hours before bigger website probelms. Also it seems like even if the skin upload page displayed the error,the skin was actually uploaded - it was loaded for other users in server.