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*R.Kardol
Last FO8 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins in row (276th RTFR - FE Black)
Most FO8 race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 4 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Last Westhill race won by: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (298th RTFR - PROTOTYPE 2 @ WE International)
Most Westhill international configs race wins: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 3 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+1 point)
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

7th round was the 1st return of a specific configuration - the longest standard config of South City was selected for the second time,however for the 2nd try if was run in reversed direction. Also the attendance keeps it's usual downwards trend - 22 drivers in qualifying is the lowest number in league's history,however 20 cars on grid was 1 more than last round,while repeating finishers count of last round this turned out to be the round with lowest finishers percentage - 85%.

The fastest driver in qualifying was 1st time participant Gábor,who set more than half a second faster laptime to earn the pole position. He did not use his chance of best starting position as he left the server. So the best position on grid was handed over to teammate of actual polesitter - R.Kardol,who led all 17 laps of the race to mark himself as a race winner also in this series. He was chased hard whole race long by Arska,who finished just 0.22 seconds behind winner. Thehemuli finished 3rd to make 2 AWD cars on the podium.

The standings leader did not arrive this round,but still kept his lead,which was cut to 7 points - both leader's closest rivals finished behind each other and kept their positions in status quo as Nosle still is 2nd and RD2 is 3rd.

The leading 2 teams switched positions again - S1dus returned to lead and is 7 points in front of B2R,RGA is still 3rd and still 16 points behind leaders. Nations leader Lithuania was not represented in this round,while their closest rivals Finland scored 38 points,cutting the lead to 49 in standings. The fight for 3rd best nation is still the same Louxembourg/Bulgaria duel,currently led by Nosle's represented nation. The 4-time race winners URC1 were not even drawn for this round and it lost another chunk of points,however both closest rivals did not score a point,so they were replaced by others - Talot is now 2nd best car 19 points off lead,followed by most drawn car Imprezzive another 3 points behind.

The randomized played weird tricks in this round as it drew only 17 cars out of 25 possible for 48 drivers. Another 3 cars were simply not used,resulting in a field of 14 different cars for this round. Imprezzive meanwhil has been drawn 27 times,topping the chart of most draws,however no new driver got the same car for 3rd time,but Nosle joined his teammate in 2 cars drawn twice club.

The 8th round in 4 weeks will be held in the shortest track in the series - Fern Bay's custom configuration Cadet has been selected,which is a 2.27km extended version of Club configuration,the race will be 28 laps long.

The following entries have not attended for 2 rounds in row and therefor have been marked as inactive - that means they will not be added to upcoming car draw:

S1DUS*FasT
B2R 136mph
[WCL]J.A.Katila
[FR] Raigs
W33D
B2R Dennis
[FM]^Number
Adam
｢RP｣ TJ
M.BENSA
AA| Sean
B2R Antonio
timi
FR Agustin

To be added back to car draw,these entries have to quote own entry post and add "Reactivate" to it.

Qualifying:


Race:


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

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=3434244KE27GLQKXA

1 S1DUS*GáboR - RB4 GT
2 RG^RedBoT - XF COUPE TURBO
3 [RDSR]Fearr - ACOSTA STARLIN

This post will be edited after draw to add car names to drivers!
Signups are closed for this round,will be opened after the race!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Tue 25 Jul 2023, 16:40. Reason : Added car names to drivers

Quote from Icnezz :

LFSW name: Icnezz
in-game name: Icnezz
Full team name:
Nation: Turkiye

Signup denied as S3 licence is required to take part in this league. New signup required when account has been upgraded to S3 level.

Quote from Viperakecske :

LFSW name: Viperakecske
In-game name: S1DUS*GáboR
Full team name: Team S1DUS
Nation: Hungary

Signup reactivated upon request via Discord as the user can't shut up in forums and get's banned on annual basis.

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=3433031E8KDFYZL9G

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - IMPREZZIVE B2
2 RG^M@CI3K - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
3 [PM] Jam 616 - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
4 ZFRL•Thehemuli - IMPREZZIVE B2
5 ZFRL•LG-mies - IMPREZZIVE B2
6 RG^LORENZO - CAMMERA 730 TURBO
7 YES V. Lakūnas - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
8 [WCL] T.Soini - VGI-6 TEDAVI
9 RD2 - N.400S
10 S1DUS*R.Kardol - MZG SEDAN
11 Vincent Adultman - XR GT Turbo
12 Three Jump - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
13 RG^NOSLE - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
14 S1DUS*FasT - FRAUD WHEELER E2
15 SIDUSN'T*uNite - VGI-6 TEDAVI
16 B2R 136mph - XM-5 94 TURBO
17 [WCL] Arska - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
18 [WCL]J.A.Katila - N.400S
19 B2R Mantas - XF TURBO 5
20 B2R Rayman - COQUETTE Z5
21 Iron|Doni - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
22 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - XM-5 94 TURBO
23 [FR] Raigs - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
24 W33D - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
25 B2R Dennis - CAMMERA 730 TURBO
26 ｢DD｣ tBug - MZG SEDAN
27 J.Holmes - XR GT Turbo
28 NO V. Lakūnagawa - N.400S
29 [FM]^Number - XF COUPE TURBO
30 Adam - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
31 ｢RP｣ TJ - N.400S
32 M.BENSA - MZG SEDAN
33 Melt Gibson't - FRAUD WHEELER E2
34 AA| Sean - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
35 Jereloco - ACOSTA STARLIN
36 [FM]^fnatic - FRAUD WHEELER E2
37 [TR]Lara - COQUETTE Z5
38 Krisztián - RB4 GT
39 B2R Antonio - XF TURBO 5
40 [MRc] PedroBR - XF TURBO 5
41 timi - IMPREZZIVE B2
42 FR Agustin - RB4 GT
43 Darkist - CAMMERA 730 TURBO
44 AA™| Yasin - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
45 (kvsyenhoj) - RB4 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 24 Jul 2023, 17:08. Reason : Added car names to drivers

2023 series - round 7

Tuesday, 25th July
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: South City City Long Rev. (SO4R)
Race distance: 17 laps (68.5km)

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!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sun 23 Jul 2023, 11:05.

Kinda interesting to see user's 1st forum post 2 days after 20 years profile anniversary!

LFS is for free from 2002-2023 and most likelly many years beyond. However you still have to pay for extra content - starting with S1 licence. Developers are working on LFS as an income source,would you like to work for free?

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


This tuesday in RTSR (Rony's Tuesday's Slow Race)... Despite some assumptions,this wasn't even close to be slowest RTFR ever as with average speed of 86km/h yesterday's race was 12km/h faster than 86th RTFR,run with UF1 at Fern Bay's smaller rallycross track. In total there have been 5 RTFR races with slower average speed,unsurprisingly 3 of those were run with slowest LFS' standard car UF1,other 2 - with XRG and MRT each. Also this was the 2nd ever RTFR's visit on South City's Sprint 2 configuration,however the other race was run in other direction,so the series is still discovering new standard tracks. With quite little space around and low speeds,this was pretty much a crowded race where multiple cars were trying to go for same real estate spot,causing plenty of paint trading,still there were no noticable complaints between drivers.

R.Kardol got used to this car well,being the fastest in qualifying just shy of rumored track record (unfortunatelly no readable data with this mod in Airio) set in practice,scoring his 16th and Netherland's 20th pole position. He used his advantage of best starting position well to lead all 35 laps and score his 18th RTFR race win,rounding also in this stat his country's win count to 20. Additionally it was the dutchman's 78th top5 finish. If some struggled with this car,it was the best result ever for others - Doni finished 2nd yesterday,improving his personal best finishing position by 1,while during the race he set his 1st ever fastest lap of the race,additionally scoring also his 15th top5 finish. Arska was one of 3 drivers to finish in same position they started from - the finn took 3rd position in both qualifying and race,which is his 21st top5 finish. Fnatic finished 4th scoring his 4th top5 finish,Three Jump repeated his personal best finishing position 5th for the 2nd time,while improved his best qualifying result by 3 positions as he was 2nd best in the session.

Next week RGE will return to South City with a colorful cars field - the 7th round of RandomCar 2023 series will be run in the longest standard configuration. In 2 weeks time RTFR will start the 2nd scored season of this year with 1st round of 10,run with one of the slick tyre cars. But in 3 weeks time RTFR XL will visit the Layout Square for the 1st time ever - the combo for this race has been submitted and it will be a GT4 version of N.400S run in S1dusring. This combo will be set up for laptime testing soon in RTFR server!

AI is not available on custom tracks,only default LFS configurations support AI.

RandomCar's lineup has been joined by another version of the XF chassis - the all wheel drive XF GARIS,which is the first 3-cylinder car in the cars list. Even if the car did not receive a lot of votes in previous voting and ended up in tied 4th position,it was nominated by winner of previous race and won the voting by big margin. The initial balancing for this car is 7% air restriction.

With this addition the cars list has reached 25 cars - organization has decided to reduce the frequency of new cars additions to half,meaning that there will be voting for a new car only after every 2nd race,while it will feature nominations of both race winners. This has been decided due 2 factors - competitional factor in manufacturers championship (the more cars,the higher the chance that some cars will not be drawn) and selection factor as it was more and more difficult to find quality candidates.

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 UZOVKA race won by: 1st race using this car
Last South City race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (306th RTFR - FZR @ SO Chicane Route)
Most South City sprint configs race wins: 6 races,6 different winners (Finland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+28.5 points)

Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


* PENALTIES :
ZFRL•Thehemuli - receives 5.18 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
[WCL] P.Koivunen - receives 18.77 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Even at this point this is aimed at certain individual,it also counts to everyone - if you have absolutelly no intention to finish the race,PLEASE DO NOT START IT! It is unfair to other drivers who practiced hard and are interested to achieve a good result if someone just joins,goes for agressive moves in first few laps,impacts race progress of others in negative way and then just leaves as they had their "fun" in field of cars without caring about main goal of a race - finishing it. If this behaviour will continue,organisation will be forced to deny entry of these individuals.

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According to LFSW chart of car usage the finnish made real world car Raceabout is the least used default car of LFS,having completed just half of the lapcount online than the 2nd least used car FZ5 and 46 times less than the most popular car XFG. Despite that this race had repeated highest attendace in the past 14 RTFR XL races with 31 drivers qualifying and the attendance will put RAC in 5th position in most attended cars chart of RTFR XL. As seen on broadcast the race for win did not really had any intrigue,but there were plenty of position disputes through the field,so it was deffinitelly not a boring race for many drivers.

When looking at current 2023 standings one might think R.Kardol is dominating the season,but in the 1st half of it he is still winless despite being 2nd most winningest driver in RTFR XL history. The race this week finally ended his dry streak - qualifying was very close,but still brough the dutchmen his 9th pole position in RTFR XL,while in the race his opponents made their own lives difficult and left R.Kardol lead 27 laps on his way to the 1st victory lane visit of this year. In total it is his 11th RTFR XL race win,with this tying his teammate Botsi for most all time wins,while his 12th fastest lap of the race just extended his lead in the chart,just like his 40th top5 finish. Trespasser qualified just 0.12 seconds off polesitters time,still it was just 4th position on grid,but the lithuanian upgraded it to 2nd place finish in his 1st RTFR XL race. Unite started 3rd and finished 3rd with his early pitstop strategy,scoring his 21st top5 finish. Ayoub Maroc led 11 laps on the pitstops shuffle increasing his total to 15 in RTFR XL,but finished just 4th to score 4th top5 finish,5th was another B2R member - Twincam repeated his best RTFR XL finishing result,doubling his top5 count.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
It is the 2nd 2-race winning streak with a specific car for R.Kardol,the other one is also with one of the LRF class cars - LX6. Both of these streaks are still alive and have a potential to tie or even beat Botsi's 3-race winning streak he achieved with UF1,which was ended by R.Kardol (Botsi finished 5th in the race that ended his streak).

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
With normal consumption this race required around 108% of a fuel tank,meaning it's not possible to complete the race without additional resources,still there was a single driver,who finished full race distance without pitwork running the race in eco-mode - that alone makes him clock pitter of the race as Michal just stopped in pits for 10.18 seconds. There was one shorter legal pitstop - 10.13 seconds,but S.Martin did refuel the car.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Three kids in trenchcoat started the race from 19th position,but were classified 10th in results - that's a progress of 9 positions,highest number between all in the results.

VOD at Youtube:


The winner still has not submitted his choice for next RTFR XL race,scheduled in 4 weeks,so there is not much information about next 4 tuesdays,but still we can provide some basics - next tusday it's time for normal RTFR,which will have it's 3rd and last off-season race,as per schedule it will be a road legal cars race,more info will be known only on coming weekend. The tuesday after next is RandomCar tuesday,again 2 parameters are known about this race - the track is South City City Long in reversed direction and the cars will be drawn out of pool of 25 PL200 class cars. The 3rd tuesday from now will be the start of 2023 season 2,running one of the slick tyre cars - with this the SimBroadcasts live promotion of the event will restart for the next 10 RTFR races counting towards 2023 S2 standings.

If you can't handle it,don't drive it.

This is all you can get in LFS: https://www.lfs.net/contents
Additionally as user created content there are vehicle mods: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods and using existing environments it is possible to build own tracks using layout editor (you can try it in Autocross environment in shift+U mode) - however a proper racetrack with elevation and trackside objects is not possible with it.
So there is no Nurburgring in LFS.

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: B2ﾏ Mantas - 2 wins in row for Lithuania
Last RAC race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (59th RTFR XL - KY GP Long Rev.)
Most RAC race wins: 2 races,2 different winners (2 different countries)
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (75th RTFR XL - UF1 @ AS Cadet)
Most Aston race wins: L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*Botsi & [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+64.5 points)

2023 standings after 6 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 126
S1DUS*GáboR - 81
RGˆRony - 70
Event rating and other statistics

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

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


This race was a 2nd in row in 2 ways - for the 2nd day in row Race Green Events hosted a race with classic racing cars from a specific era and also for the 2nd RTFR in row there was a race with a classic car on an appropriate racetrack. Yesterday it was a sports car class car on an endurance type racetrack - a 9.9 kilometer long fusion of both standard Kyoto road courses. The car itself was quite a challenge - pretty much a death trap consisting of steel tubes clothed in glass fibre,bringing together just over 600kg weight,while the big V8 engine delivered over 700 horsepower. The challenge was so big,some even opted to reduce engine power with restrictor for higher stability of their performance.

Just like last summer in the experimental RTFR-CCCC series,also this year the win with the McLarry was taken by Gábor,however the win this time did not come as "easy",even if the margin of victory was 14 seconds - he got in lead not only with his pace,but also due mistakes of competition,taking race lead only with 2 laps to go. With this the hungarian celebrated his 22nd RTFR race win,adding also the 17th fastest lap of the race and 47th top5 finish,tying Merenui for 5th most of those. Unite was the fastest in qualifying and scored his 10th pole position,however he did not led a single lap,being a chaser for whole race,eventually climbing up to 2nd position - that's his 72nd top5 finish. Mantas started from outside of front row,took the race lead on lap 4 spending a total of half of the race in the lead,but last 2 laps brought him loss of 2 positions and the lithuanian finished 3rd - that's his 8th top5 finish. 4th was the event organizer himself,scoring his 1st top5 finish since 236th RTFR back in 2020 september,85th top5 finish in total. Top5 was closed by P.Koivunen,who scored his 5th top5 finish.

Next week on the menu is another challenge - the midengined Raceabout is set to be run in the very fast configuration of Aston National,the race is 38 laps long and as always will require 10 seconds pitstop. 2 weeks later the RTFR will have the last "off-season" race,which will be run with one of the street legal cars,as always full info will be posted on the weekend before it.

Type /AI AI 1
Car drives itself.

And after you have explored,what then? Next thread about new needs of updates?
LFS has a lot to offer already - there are plenty of racing events happening almost every day (seeing you joining RandomCar for a single round and not returning as you were not competitive tells me that's not your cup of tea however).
I'm sure slow drivers and figure skaters can offer also something to do,but anyway - if you get bored so quickly after less than 3 years,the new update will not please you for a long time anyway.

I'm more curious - what do you expect from the upcoming new update that will suddenly blow your mind and make LFS not boring? Just because the shadows are more realistic and lighting can change from day to night and back will LFS suddenly become so much more interesting for you? Please,clear this up...

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 MCLARRY_D8M race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Kyoto race won by: A.Valta (305th RTFR - FORMULA SKIPPY @ KY Oval)
Most Kyoto long configs race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins (Lithuania - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+4 points)

Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

The proportions of the car look wrong,so I took a measurement - the model currently is just 1.55m wide,that's 16cm less than actual Astra of that generation. I did not took any measurments of length or height though.