Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


The 4th century of RTFR races was started with the 1st ever return of a mod car. Despite many complaints about the "crapbox" type of the car,attendance was high - 36 drivers in qualifying means that the Shark C will take top position in cars popularity list between cars used more than once. The car received update between then and now,but it did not change it's characteristics - a relativelly simple driving rear wheel drive lightweight car,wich still requires some proper skillset to be over average fast. In the 6.6km Fern Bay Black configuration this car needs more than 5 seconds longer than LFS's slowest standard car UF1 to complete a lap.

Current 2023 S1 standings and 15 race rating leader Gábor was the one to beat also this tuesday - he qualified 2nd just 1/20 of a second slower on a 3 and a half minutes lap,took race lead by outrunning polesitter on way to 1st turn and after the pass was complete,he never saw a car in front of him again. After leading all 9 laps the hungarian scored his 19th RTFR race win and 40th top5 finish,reaching a quarter century of wins for Hungary. R.Kardol started right behind the polesitter and needed much more time to pass him,still he eventually slipped by and was able to reduce distance to leader,but it was not enough for victory,so he had to settle for 2nd place finish,which is his 71st top5 finish,while during the chase he set a fastest lap of the race,which is also a new lap record of the combo - that's his 12th fastest lap of the race. V.Laguckas tied Gábor for 3rd most pole positions in qualifying by scoring his 14th,but lost 2 positions during the race finishing 3rd,which is also his 14th top5 finish. Remaining 2 top5 finishers finished in same positions they started - the freshly crowned 2-time AWS champion A.Valta finished 4th for the 2nd day in row,scoring his 16th top5 finish,followed by Mantas in 5th position,which is his 5th top5 finish.

VOD at Youtube:


Next week there is no RTFR,but the server will be used for 2nd round of our brand new league RandomCar - a series,where drivers get drawn their car randomly for the race out of pool of 18 different but balanced cars. If you still haven't signed up for it,do it until evening of monday as very late signups will get their cars drawn just 20 minutes before qualifying. In 2 weeks time RTFR will return with one of the slick tyre cars,as always some info can be found out if watched the broadcast carefully,but in 3 weeks RTFR XL will bring the slowest LFS standard car to the shortest Aston's standard configuration!

The in oval displaced rallycar turned out to be quite challenging especially when run in pack - for better handling cars had to be set up quite loose,which made them quite handful when side by side in turns or when bumpdrafting. Even if there was almost no practice at all,during the race some drivers found out quite effective and yet risky ways to increase pace with common effort.

One of the drivers who used teamwork effectivelly was Michal,who teamed up with his countryman in chase for race lead - that brought success as on the very final lap they caught the race leader and Michal was able to slip by and take the race win. Just like in previous oval round also in this one race winner led only the final lap of the race. It was Michal's first ever race win in AWS in 6 seasons and more than 20 races,his previous best result 2nd place finish was achieved in 2019,which was his vice-champion season. It is bitter to lose the race on very final lap,especially if you started from your first ever series pole position,were a leader for 57 of 64 laps and even had solid 4 seconds lead with 1/4 of the race left. And yet running solo was not enough for Thehemuli to score his 2nd AWS race win and he was able to rescue at least points for 2nd position. M.Kapal was the one who did a lot of the work for the temporary team Czechia in this race,but his reward was just 3rd place finish.

A.Valta could just watch from behind the decision for race win,but his 4th place finish was enough to score necessary points to clinch AWS drivers champions title with one spare round - exactly same performance as in 2016 in his other championship season. With this A.Valta becomes the 1st ever AWS double champion in league's 12 seasons. The current 23 points gap in theory can still be nullified,but with 4 race wins through the season,A.Valta secures upper hand in any points tie scenario. Last year's rookie of the year has now lost his chances on main title,so his focus should be attended to not lose 2nd position - he has 11 points gap over 3rd place driver Michal.

Thehemuli however clinched other award this season - the Oval trophy belongs to him as he scored most points in 2 rounds run in ovals,Michal takes 2nd position and 2019 oval trophy winner Sobis - 3rd.

Since the 1st oval round winner Happyd did not arrive for 2nd oval round either,his gap in rookie of the year standings is slowly cut to just 3 points - if the driver with backwards name repeats same finishing position as in last 2 races,the award is his.

In teams championship there were just minor points differences between scores of 3 leading teams - RGA still has a healthy lead of 33 points,which means scoring 7 points in season finale is enough to clinch the 6th teams title. However the battle for 2nd position in standings intensified - MRc overtook Zafiralis and is now a single point ahead over their rivals. Without any surprise the nations cup is awarded to Finland - even if for the 1st time of the season they were outscored in a single round,the points score was enough to secure the award for 2nd year in row. Also Czechia has secured the 2nd position in standings,3rd is still open,but Lithuania's lead of 27 points is bigger than Italy's performance in any previous round.

A total of 29 drivers have qualified for the season finale - as always only drivers with at least 1 point scored are allowed to participate in final round. And they have to decide the fate of final points standings positions,rookie of the year award winner,cross challenge award winner,megawatt award winner and teams champions title. And all of that will happen in same combo as last season's opening round - the electrified XFR will be run in the green plains of Summer Grass Rally layout. There is a twist however - last season LFS offered a very fast battery recharge,which is not available anymore. That's the reason why the format of electric powered rounds has been changed (2 races) and the car itself received an update - it lost 50kW power and gained 15 kWh bigger battery,increasing the weight by 80 kg. Even with the bigger battery it is not enough to complete each race's distance with full performance,so the drivers will have to manage the energy to avoid a lengthy recharge pitstop.

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Signups are now closed permanently for this season - in round 8 only drivers who have scored at least 1 point in standings can take part!

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Welcome a new addition to RandomCar cars lineup: NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023 - the initial restrictor is set to 17% air restriction.


The car won the voting in our Discord server by a single vote.

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: YES V.Lagooga
Last SHARK C race won by: YES V. Laguckas (271st RTFR - RO ISSC Long)
Most SHARK C race wins: only one race so far
Last Fern Bay race won by: [WCL] s1dus Monkey (294th RTFR - FOX @ FE Gold Rev.)
Most Fern Bay black config race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+9 points)

2023-S1 standings after 4 of 12 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 94
A.Valta - 93
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 83
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

Rockingham 150 oval race has been run twice in AWS,both times were less oval racing,more a fast road course race with 4 left turns as the RB4 tortured it's road super tyres too much. This year AWS will introduce a different car,which is equipped with R4 slick tyres - even if they do not provide substantially more grip,they provide much more constant grip ensuring the focus on racing the competition rather keeping the tyres under certain temperature. The car itself however might feel out of place - the Fraud Wheeler E2 was designed to be a rally car originally,crossing over to rallycross competitions later,so oval racing will be something new to it. Still a car is a car and can be raced almost anywhere,so in AWS such combo is pretty much standard as the series started with GTR car running rallycross!

As always in the oval rounds we will use hotlap qualifying to ensure solo effort being decisive in order to take high grid positions. The running order of qualifying will be decided from Drivers Championship standings - lowest placed drivers will start qualifying while standings leader will take his run last. Everyone will have to run 3 laps - outlap and 2 timed hotlaps,after which driver should spectate,only fastest lap counts of course. 2nd timed lap is optional - theoretically cars are faster in 2nd lap,but in case of a mistake,driver can spectate without finishing 2nd timed lap.

As usual,to avoid many questions,Race Green Events' statement about bumpdrafting:
"With closed wheels cars it is not forbidden,but in case of any reported incidents it will be treated as intentional contact,so everyone has to make sure that he knows what he is doing!"

Previous round pretty much broke the competition for drivers title as series leader does not need to put much effort in,but in high paced racing mistakes can happen and turn things upside down. Also the winner of Oval trophy is on the line in this round - after the 1st round for this award,there are certain favourites,who have better chances than others.

Round info:
Track: Rockingham Oval (RO3)
Laps: 64 (151km)
Car: FRAUD WHEELER E2
Previous winners : RGˆDzidoris (2021 & 2017)


Server info and password will be PM'ed during sunday (european time) to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
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Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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


A north american single seater series car visited RTFR XL this week - it's a 700+ horsepower car weighting just a bit more kilograms than it's power,coupled with high performance aerodynamics and wide tyres it was not really a high difficulty car,but still required plenty of skill to master. Still not many accepted this challenge - only 24 drivers have been counted as attending officially,17 of those were classified in results as finished. With relativelly narrow pit window (about 1/5 of the race distance) there were not much different options,but still some had different strategies,like keeping same set of tyres or taking new ones.

Gábor was one of those using same set of tyres for whole 280 kilometers and that brought him success - he started from outside of front row,kept the outside line through 1st corner after oval's turn and took the lead of the race,which he kept for all 55 race laps. Despite losing most of his lead advantage in late stage of the race,the hungarian still crossed the finish line 1st to score his 4th RTFR XL race win,tying 2 drivers for 4th most,climbing also to 4th position in all time success ranking,it was also his 12th top5 finish. Despit being fastest on track,R.Kardol was denied once again the race win - with much fresher tyres he chased hard the leader,but ended up 2 seconds short,clocking 10th closest finish in RTFR XL history,however he did set the fastest lap of the race,which puts him in the sole lead in this chart - he is the 1st driver to set one in 11 races,also it was his 36th top5 finish. Fatal was the fastest in qualifying,resulting him the 3rd pole position,but his hopes for 2nd win were fading away early with each lap - 3rd place finish is his 13th top5 finish. Zesty however had his best race of RTFR XL - 4th place finish is an improvement by 6 positions compared with his previous best result,while his 6th place in qualifying was an improvement by 2 positions. Number closed the top5 already 1 minute behind race winner and scored his 3rd top5 finish.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With 24 drivers attending it was enough to put this car in lead between all single seater cars in most attended cars chart,6th place overall. FOX is close 2nd with 23.3 racers per race,but had a 41 attenders in the last race.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Is also the winner of the race - Gábor spent 10.22 seconds in pitstall during refuelling pitstop,which is the shortest time from all drivers. Mention worth is Michal,who did a shorter legal pitstop twice,one of them exactly 10 seconds,but his total time is over 20 seconds.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Number arrived rather late in qualifying and did not had much time to set faster laptime,so he qualified 17th,but gained 12 positions during the race to finish in top5.

VOD at Youtube:


Normal RTFR returns next week - another mod will be used in that event,which and where can be found out if rewatching the stream of previous race,or simply wait for weekend,when the full info will be posted. But a day before that AWS will take action to Rockingham's Oval using a car that was designed for rally - how that will go? Join and find out yourself! In 2 weeks the tuesday will be filled with our newest series - round 2 of RandomCar will take place in streets of South City,we're currently are still in voting for a new additional car for the series,join our discord server for more info (link in opening post). And there is also some info what will happen in 4 weeks - the racewinner of yesterday's race has already submitted the choice for 75th RTFR XL,which is a repeat of combo from 221st RTFR run 3 years ago.

That's why people normally use white default skin on non-paint schemed colors. In your case player is forced to make a skin when he wants a car in simple one color (red for example) which isn't available in the colors list.

Quote from Gods_CadeT :

Its by amazing if latter on game will by optimized for different size monitors like now I using 49 inc and chat with track just standing in the middle.

With some settings trickery you can get it wider instead of middle 1/3 - you can have the HUD in the middle 1/2 where 1/4 of each side are not usable,that's a current limitation of LFS. I don't remember what settings I have now (also using 49" on my rig),if you can't find it yourself,later could take a screenshot when I'm at my rig.

If the flux capacitor isn't fluxing,no deal!

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).
Note that it is required to use apron on both entering and exiting pitlane in Kyoto National configuration - enter pitlane on apron before last oval turn (follow the guideline and stay left of posts before turn) and exit pitlane on apron and join track after first oval turn (stay left of posts after turn and don't cross the yellow line with more than 2 wheels)! Each infraction will lead to 10s penalty added to finish time as always.

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: A.Valta
Last FORMULA AMERICAS 2019 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Kyoto race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (2 wins in row) (72nd RTFR XL - FXO V8SUPERCAR @ KY National)
Most Kyoto race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 5 wins (Netherlands & Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (+24.5 points)

2023 standings after 1 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 28
A.Valta - 25
Onur - 22
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)


* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ 136mph - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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Already 3 centuries of races have been completed and in the anniversary 300th event on the community's voted combo a total of 35 drivers gathered up for intense and exciting racing,2 drivers however did not attemt to start the race. The organization "allowed" itself to make a little failure as it was simply forgotten to load the 40 grid slots layout and the very quick hotfix caused the unlucky 33rd driver start from a bit of a gap. More than 1/3 of the grid consisted of previous race winners (counting both RTFR and RTFR XL),meaning the competition level was relativelly high.

Mr. Lagooga was on top of the game this time round,leading all 15 race laps on his way to victory lane,becoming the 1st non-finnish century race winner. He was also the fastest in qualifying to score his 13th pole position,tying R.Kardol and Fast for 4th most pole positions,while his win was 7th,raising him into top10 of all time success ranking,while his top5 count is still quite low - 13. Despite his face crossing the finish line first,the WCL driver who calls himself Monke finished in 2nd position 1/3 of a second behind the winner,making this the 17th closest finish in RTFR history. The finn took over the fastest lap of the race on final lap - that is his 8th,while the top5 finish is his 20th. The 3rd most successful racer in RTFR finished 3rd this time - R.Kardol scored his 70th top5 finish,breaking the tie for 2nd most. A.Valta finished 4th exactly 10 seconds behind winner to score his 15th top5 finish,but Mantas was the only top5 finisher that did not finish in position he started - the lithuanian gained a position between green and chequered to score his 4th top5 finish.

VOD at Youtube:


In 2 weeks RTFR will start it's 4th century with 301st RTFR - combo was announced during broadcast,but full info as always will be posted in the weekend before the race. But inbetween the longer version will jump it for the 2nd race of the year - next week RTFR XL will feature Indycar-like action with Formula Americas 2019 car in the most famous LFS roval Kyoto National in it's reversed direction. Full info of the event will be posted later today.

One of the 2 LFS standard cars was run this week in AWS - the RB4 GT. And it was selected to run the Westhill Street Cup round just like for past 6 seasons,this year the course was chicane rich Tunnels configuration,torturing drivers with a lot of quick direction switching. The very first visit of the field to the roundabout led to some minor contacts,where effect was expanded by some network latency,effectivelly deciding drivers championship,but the race action heated through mid field with plenty of position changes.

For the 2nd race in row the top of the podium was taken by A.Valta,but this time he did not pass a single car - he was a whole second faster in qualifying and more than a second per lap faster in race,leading all 22 laps,taking all 22 points from the round. The 2016 AWS champion was followed in finish by 2019 AWS champion - Sobis finished 2nd,which is his best finishing position since his championship season. Last step on the podium was taken by first timer - V.Adultman never finished in top5 before this season in his 19 races,this year brought him more success and 1st podium finish.

By scoring 17 points more than his closest rival in this round,A.Valta raised his gap over competition to 28 points. Even if 5 drivers still are eligible for drivers championship,A.Valta just needs to avoid being outscored by more than 6 points by Thehemuli in next race to clich the title before final round. Thehemuli still keeps his 2nd position in table,but now has near impossible task to challenge current leader. The race for 3rd place in standings is almost as tight as before this round - Michal now took over the 3rd position,but his advantage over 5th position is just 3 points with 4th position just a point behind.

Happyd still leads rookie of the year standings,but his lead has been decreased to 7 points - the driver with backwards spelled name got 4 points closer to him and can overtake him with same points rate.

The turn 4 incident made an impact also on teams championship - RGA almost doubled their lead in the table as they are now 35 points ahead of Zafiralis,MRc closed up to 1 point to 2nd position. Theoretically only Czechia can still overtake Finland in nations standings,but it is very unlikelly that Finland won't score at least 11 points during next 2 rounds,which would secure 2nd nations cup for them in row without counting points of rivals.

In 2 weeks AWS will return to Rockingham Oval after 2 years of absense - the previous 2 Rockingham 150 editions were run with RB4,this year the car has been changed to Fraud Wheeler E2,which is equipped with R4 slick tyres,making this round more racing focussed rather than tyre survival focussed. But also this brings a bit of unknown effect to the race - noone really knows how draft works with this car in this track,but surely again some teamwork might be advantageous if practiced and executed well.

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If AI cannot shift gears,the redline (revlimiter) is too low - raise the value!

Ok,let's tell Scawen to scrap the started 1000Hz conversion and turn towards 300Hz so 50/60Hz monitor owners can have perfection. Who cares about people having monitors with different refresh rate.

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These inside lower walls is bullshit! But I guess you wanted some flipping action for broadcast...

yes/96/Eclipsed [PowerUp activation Round 2 Race 2]

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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: A.Valta
Last XRR race won by: [WCL] J.Katila - 2 wins in row (270th RTFR - AS Cadet Rev.)
Most XRR race wins: [WCL] J.Katila - 2 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (297th RTFR - LX4 @ AS Clasic Boot Chicanes)
Most Aston historic config race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Netherlands - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+9 points)

2023-S1 standings after 3 of 12 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 73
A.Valta - 70
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 65
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

Quote from Scawen :

do we need the music player at all? Well... no, we don't really need an intro video

I cannot speak for others of course,but personally I never used it - even if hearing the setupscreenloop gives me the nostalgy of first ever tries with LFS,it was disabled pretty much within couple of days using LFS as I always had my music playing on external player (still winamp - yes,I'm that old...). Also skipping intro has become a thing in every single game that allows it - it's something one might want to see only in 1st ever use. Regarding that - surely someone from community would be able to provide a nice intro to give 1st time user a good preview of LFS,but option to disable it is a must.

After the little tour around the globe AWS returns to home of LFS - England. 2 of last 3 rounds are held in Westhill,both in custom configurations. And custom configurations is a key word in Westhill Street Cup - a round that has been held since 2017 in various support road courses around Westhill,this year - Tunnels configuration. The front stretch is surrounded by tricky chicanes,while turn 3 will turn many minds crazy as the downhill left curve vanishes in 1st tunnel and will await many drivers scraping their cars against wall. The track features quite few signature turns - the roundabout,semi-fast righthander after back straight,the dipping lefthander that leads back towards main straight,which cut with 2 chicanes... Even if RB4 is known being heavy on it's tyres,track's average speed is quite low,which will help most drivers,but still the trait of this car has to be respected if driver wants to perform well.

With 3 rounds to go it feels like just few turns left before finish straight - the championship table has 2 distinctive leaders,so this round probably will increase or decrease a lot the intrigue for title battle. Same situation is in teams championship - if one of leading trio performs significantly better than others,the situation will be either decided or heated up,while nations leader can even wrap up the title with 2 rounds to go.

Round info:
Track: Westhill RGE Tunnels (WE1Y)
Laps: 22 (81km)
Car: RB4
Previous winners : LLM.V Laguckas (2022, 2019 & 2017), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021), RGˆDzidoris (2020), B2ﾏ FasT (2018)


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 2023 signups thread
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Quote from three_jump :

Session: Race
Lap/MPR time: 18:50 onwards (lap 13)
Involved drivers: #1: [MRc] PredroBR, #2: Three Jump
Description of incident: #1 turns into the right rear corner of the car of #2 causing #2 to spin off and take damage.

PedroBR does not avoid contact and causes an incident.

Quote from ZFRL•LG-mies via RG discord :

RandomCar 2023 round 1: Lap 20, start/finish straight just as the lap starts
bananas was behind me with significantly more speed so I drove the rightmost side of track to prevent him getting inside line on t1, but he decided to cut through grass to overtake me and have the inside line to t1

Bananas makes a pass outside track limits.


PENALTIES:
[MRc] PedroBR - receives a 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for avoidable incident with multiple position loss and damage on lap 13.
bananas - receives a 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pass outside track limits.
bananas - the unserved DRIVE-THROUGH penalty is converted in 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time as per standard LFS rules. Both these penalties result in loss of last completed lap.

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The inaugural officially scored RandomCar race gathered up 33 drivers in the qualifying,featuring 15 different cars,however 5 did not take the earned position on grid,which caused loss of another different car.

A total of 4 drivers were drawn the Ultimate Road Car,but 3 of them did not even attend,at least the 4th driver made up for it and raced his heavily restricted supercar to victory,leading a total of 5 laps. The rather inactive in our events bulgarian driver named RD2 used the cars handling abilities and situation on track to progress from 5th position on grid to 1st in finish. 2nd place was taken by Fast,who received a car based on late 70ies compact car,gaining 2 positions between start and finish. Half of the race results top6 was taken by drivers with Imprezzive,best of them was V.Lagooga,who took the lowest step on podium.

Round 2 will take place in 4 weeks and the track for it has been submitted already - the longest standard South City configuration with self explaining name City Long. This race will be 17 laps long. Also the car for voting has been submitted,the voting for new addition will start on the weekend on our discord channel. Also next week will be busy at Race Green Events - on monday the AWS 2023 season will start looking to it's conclusion with the 6th of 8 rounds,which will be run with RB4 at Westhill Tunnels configuration. But tuesday will be the big celebration of 300th RTFR,combo is still to be decided in public voting - check out the RTFR forum section and cast your vote until sunday!