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83rd RTFR XL
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A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green

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

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: [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
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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.

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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.
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Quote from Gutholz :I am not sure S4 is planned?

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.
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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
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Quote from tankslacno :It seems like with mods, their abbreviations on results table may change when someone improves a qualifying lap.

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
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V8 Racing League 2023 spreadsheets

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PENALTIES:

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

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4th round brought the racing back to one of the VERL classics - the container field near actual racing circuit of Blackwood,where a tricky course is layed out between few left containers. 9 drivers were ready to tackle the challenge,fullfilling the minimum requirement for full race distance - 80 torturing laps awaited the drivers,only 2 finished all 80 as rest were lapped or even retired,one crashing out in spectacular fashion. Despite losing 50 horsepower,the race was completed just 19 seconds slower compared to last year,while 2 facts about the race were repeated - the same driver finished 2nd and was last on lead lap and there was quite a mess already in 1st turn.

The polesitter was rather unaffected from the mess in turn 1 - he simply run away and did not led only 4 laps,which occoured during the pitstop shuffle phase. Texas was fastest in qualifying for the 2nd time this season,but unlike in previous try,this time he converted it into race win,which was also his 1st ever VERL podium. Just like last year Thehemuli was best of the rest - with over half a lap worth gap he finished 2nd to repeat his best VERL finishing result,scoring his 3rd podium finish of the year. Despite being involved into turn 1 incident for 2nd year in row,Rony still found the way up to 3rd position,taking it home for the 2nd time this year.


The series leader's race wasn't as good as he wished - RD2 finished just 4th,which is his worst result of the year,still his advantage over closest rival Thehemuli is 8 points,meaning 3rd position grants him champions title without checking what rivals are doing. Thehemuli on other side needs to score all 22 points from the race and hope RD2 does not finish on podium - Thehemuli's 2nd place finish without round bonus points requires RD2 to finish lower than 6th. There is a 3rd theoretical candidate for the champions title,however Rony needs to win the race and hope that his teammate does not score a single point and additionally needs to outscore Thehemuli by 11 points. Already 1 individual award is secured - RD2 is the Rookie of the year as his advantage over 2nd best rookie Madjester is 29 points with 22 possible per round.

2nd placed team in standings Zafiralis outscored table leaders and defending champions by a single point in this round,so they still have a tough job ahead if they want to challenge for teams championship. Both teams have 3 active drivers in the roster,so there are way too much variables to create possible scenarios. A 3rd team is also theoretically eligible for the teams championship,however with 31 points gap MRc needs some huge success coupled with major failures from leading 2 teams as only 39 points per round are possible. The other non-individual championship is practically decided - if there is no 2nd bulgarian signed up for final round,Finland is declared Nations cup winner at signups closure. The only driver for 2nd best nation Bulgaria cannot delete the 26 points gap on his own,while 3rd place in standings Latvia is already out of range.


After the 3 slower paced rounds in row,season finale will be held on one of the 2 faster rounds of it's schedule - 35 laps around fast paced Westhill International configuration will be the deciding 200 kilometers for both drivers and teams championships. It is the 1st track where the FoRGE VERL 2022 car was run in a competition and the 14 drivers attendance is still the unbeaten all time highest in the VERL turbo era. Can the slightly easier to race modification of the car attract more?
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That would make sense only if LFS has full biking support - full physics with leaning in curves etc. Then it would be worth to have one simple bike in the demonstration version. Additionally that would require to have an own built bike by LFS devs - mods are made by users and they might change the mod or even delete it.
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Quote from Bokujishin :Would you happen to have a link to D45 somewhere?

Just edit the link from opening post to 45: https://www.lfs.net/file_lfs.php?name=LFS_PATCH_7D_TO_7D45.exe
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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 UTC
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Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all entrants via PM.

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Signups are still open (until 17:50 UTC raceday) and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.
VERL 2023 - Round 4
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V8 Racing League 2023
Round 4



Sunday,29th October
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

* note the changed UTC time!


It's that time of the year when the usual activity in the container storage field of Blackwood ceases and the forklifts and trucks make place for the V8 Racing League machines. The track measures 2.5 kilometers of a lap length and features the widest start/finish straight probably in most active leagues - exiting last turn for newcomers might give doubts if they are still on right course. There is practically no elevation in this track,however suspension will have some workout as it is everything else than even,partially even dusty. History shows that some drivers opting to change tyres during the race,some finish on same set - managing your resources is one of the keypoints in this round.

Being a penultimate round this will decide few things in the standings tables - current standings leader in theory can wrap up both individual awards for himself,however with bad luck it can go other way round and open possibility of the championship to be decided in season finale in a head to head battle.

Round info:
Track: BL Container Sprint (BL4X)
Laps: 80
Previous winners: [FM]ˆチαtαι (2022), S1DUS*GáboR (2021), GenR uNite (2018), Botsi (2017)

VERL 2023 results and standings

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Qualifying:


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


Before this thread derails,here's something on topic - the results of the latest RTFR event. The track,that is practically Kyoto National configuration with alternate oval part to be used to connect the infield course,was run with the small lightweight front wheels driven GTR car based on UF 1000. With the short wheelbase,sticky tyres and high revving engine it is a specific car with it's own specific handling,some could adapt to it right away,some had their problems. When looking at race results,there is something that sticks into eyes straight away - the top10 is inhabitated by only 3 teams and an individual,who was a part of one of these teams in the past.

To celebrate his 6th win in the last 9 races,Gábor led all 25 laps this tuesday as he wasn't challenged much - the competition was not far away,but with exeption of first few turns,the hungarian did not see anyone within striking distance and scored his 27th RTFR race win,while qualifying brought him the 20th pole position - that puts him in sole 2nd position in most pole positions chart. He set the fastest lap also in the race session,which is Gábor's 23rd and the top5 count was increased to 53. As much as A.Valta wanted to challenge for race win,he was more occupied with defence of 2nd position - he succeded and finished as runner up for the 2nd RTFR race in row,scoring his 20th top5 finish. Unite was the one trying hardly for position upgrade,but had to settle for 3rd place finish at the end,which is a repeat of his best finish in this scored season and 74th top5 finish. R.Kardol finished 4th to make his team represented 3 times between best 4 finishers,scoring his 82nd top5 finish,WCL's Arska completed the top5 with his 23rd top5 finish.

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Normally next tuesday it would be RTFR XL,but the event is set to be run only a single race per calendar month,so it will take extra 2 weeks break and will return on 14th november with FZR being run in Aston Historic reversed configuration. So without any of regulary scheduled events there is a chance of RTFR CCCC being revived with some more experimental combo. But RGE will provide some higher difficulty racing already this sunday - the V8 Racing League has it's 8th season near it's end,the penultimate round of the 2023 series will be run on Blackwood's container storage field,where the well known Container Sprint track has been set up for great challenge once again. Full info and signups in the VERL forum section! But the tuesday after next will host another normal RTFR race - you can find clues about the combo if you watch the recording of the latest race.
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Quote from Eric :I've already added this config!

I'm curious about pitlane solution.
318th RTFR
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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last UFR race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (282nd RTFR - BL RGE Container Rush)
Most UFR race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 3 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
Last Kyoto race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (310th RTFR - MCLARRY_D8M @ KY International RGE)
Most Kyoto roval configs race wins: S1DUS*GáboR - 3 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+36.5 points)

2023-S2 standings after 6 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 128
RGˆRony - 77
B2マ Ayoub_MaRoC - 75
Event rating,standings and other statistics


Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
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Recreated this in 4K if you like it so much. Tongue
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PENALTIES:

[MRc] PedroBR - receives a WARNING for unsportsmanlike conduct - not starting from position he qualified in. The driver ignored several asks to join and joined right after the race session was started,therefor assumed to be intentional behaviour. Drivers should start from position according to their pace and not get involved into position battles in lower positions as it is unfair to them. Future infractions might lead to actual penalty.

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Just like 4 weeks ago,21 cars were standing on grid and waiting for green lights on a custom configuration with word "North" in it's name. But there were several differences - drivers had different cars,track was much faster and most noticably - the race was practically twice as long with twice as big championship points award. The latter factor played a big role in championship decisions - 2 of the standings had a leader change after the race,one standings leader barely kept the lead. But about that later,this post is about the round only.

After 1/3 of the race R.Kardol took over the race lead on the tale end of the fast and furious back stretch and pulled a solid gap to closest rival until finish line to score his 2nd RandomCar race win,cracking the 2:29 laptime mark in the final lap,to score also his 3rd fastest lap of the race. This marked the end of season with same trend it started - with a win of URC1,as it was the 5th win with this car. For the 4th time in the season with a 4th different car Mantas set the fastest laptime in qualifying,but once again was unable to convert that into race win finishing 2nd in this week's race repeating Piran Firefly's best finishing result - despite being fast in qualifying,he has scored just a single race win in the season. Firestarter joined the league just in the final round,but got drawn the best car and used it well to finish 3rd in his debuth.

Full season recap and final standings will be posted within couple of weeks.
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LFS garage areodynamics tab shows (needs test patch to see it) it has 790N drag at 40m/s - all default LFS road cars have 640N. Since this car is somewhat taller than coupes,I would suggest to aim for 680-700N and test if that matches with real life data.
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V8 Racing League 2023 spreadsheets

(browse for various championships and single round results)



PENALTIES:

SGマ MadJester - receives a WARNING for contact entering 1st turn,further incidents will lead to actual penalty. Drivers should be more careful in group,especially when entering race without proper practice!

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Race at the South City gathered up only 7 drivers in qualifying - that triggered the shortened race for half points rule,which happened for the 1st time when running the new car. 8th driver arrived and used the chance to join as he was in standings top 10,so there were at least 8 cars on grid. Despite low attendance,there was plenty of action - a total of 3 drivers led the race,2 of them experienced some drama of their own,one even losing several positions,while most others also had their ups and downs.

Zesty scored the 1st point of the season by taking pole position in 1st round,now in 3rd round he had the 2nd success - starting from 4th position the malaysian climbed up the field to make a pass for lead already in lap 8,that was the last time when he saw direct rival in front of him as he led the remaining 28 laps on the way to his 1st ever VERL race win,which is also his 1st podium finish in this league,but already 4th top5 finish. The winner of first two season rounds saw his streak ended in this race - RD2 finished 2nd,allthough just 5 seconds apart from winner,still scoring valuable points gain over competition. The 2-time VERL vice champion (including last season) Unite joined this season only in 3rd round,but did it by scoring his 2nd pole position in the series,his race however did not went as good as he imagined as due several mistakes he barely saved the 3rd place finish,which is already his 15th top5 finish in VERL.


By finishing ahead of all the closest rivals,RD2 extended his standings lead to 13 points over Thehemuli,who had a bad race this sunday. 3rd is still Rony,who got 2 points closer to 2nd place. Only 12 drivers are now eligible for drivers champion title,just 1/3 of them have in any way realistic chances,while in theory RD2 could secure the title already after 4th round by outscoring Thehemuli by 10 points. RD2's lead in rookie of the year standings is even bigger - 26 points over Madjester.

As Zafiralis had only 1 driver in last race who even had a bad race,the team lost the lead in standings - the defending champions RGA overtook them and now has 8 points advantage with 2 rounds to go,which means nothing is decided yet. MRc is still 3rd,but already with a 27 points gap to lead - their chances are rather low now. With 78 points still available any team has still at least theoretical chances unless it has only a single driver. Finland extended their lead in nations cup by just 2 points and has now 11 points lead over Bulgaria,still with just a single driver to represent 2nd placed nation it's rather unlikelly the defending champions will be challenged here. No brazilians attended 3rd round,so their gap to top of the table is now 29 points. Also in nations cup all the nations still have theoretical chances assumed it has at least 2 drivers.


The penultimate round will be carried out in a track which could be described as the "narrowest of all the wide tracks" - the Blackwood Container Sprint configuration in several parts is extremelly wide,still some sections has just car's width of raceline,which means going off line will cause plenty of time lost and/or even position[s]. The container lot has a very simple pavement,which is everything else than smooth - that will be an additional challenge to the racers - let's hope to see more than just 3 rows filled with cars on the series only 3-wide grid!
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2nd wave of cars draw
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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

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1st wave of cars draw
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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

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RandomCar - 2023 round 10
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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!
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VERL 2023 - Round 3
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V8 Racing League 2023
Round 3



Sunday,15th October
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET


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

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