VERL 2022 - Round 4
V8 Racing League 2022
Round 4
Monday,31st October
18:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
* Note the UTC time change!
Round 4
Monday,31st October
18:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
* Note the UTC time change!
Penultimate round of the 5 round series is up next and this has a potential to be a decider - current standings leader can seal the deal with good performance or turn the championship around with some bad luck. Since there are only 6 potential candidates for the title,rest including new potential signups might be more interested to put themselves either in the winners list or polesitters list of the league rather than scoring points for championship,or help their team or nation to score more points than before.
Series returns to England after the low attended trip to tropical island - Aston awaits with the relativelly simple configuration built for high speeds. This will confuse the drivers when setting up car - is it better to have higher top speed or be better in the few turns and compromise the top speed? Being faster on straights will surely mean being slower in the 1st turn of the track,while most other turns are rather slow. Since this is the 1st season with these cars,the selection is quite open as noone has any experience in actual competition in this track.
Round info:
Track: AS National (AS3)
Laps: 36
Previous winners: S1DUS*GáboR (2021), Maunokasa (2020), Dzban (2019), v\A.Wiśniewski (2018; 2016), [SR] S.Litmanen (2015)
VERL 2022 results and standings
Server info and password will be PM'ed sunday to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
V8 Racing League
VERL 2022 signups
Race Green Discord
71st RTFR XL
Full event information and rules
RTFR 2022 sponsorship and prize info
Livestream at SimBroadcasts.tv
Stream starts 18:50 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
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: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι
Last BF1 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (46th RTFR XL - KY GP Long w Boothy Chicane)
Most BF1 race wins: 2 races,2 different winners (2 different countries)
Last South City race won by: YES V. Laguckas (62nd RTFR XL - Acosta Starlin @ SO City Long)
Most South City race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 5 wins (Finland - 8 wins)
Current rating leader: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (+44 points)
2022 standings after 10 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 195
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 151
S1DUS*uNite - 122
Event rating and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Mantas - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ 136mph - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation. Post race penalty conversion results in lost last lap.
ZFRL•LG-mies - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Blackwood Historic configuration is relativelly short,consisting by 1/3 of one long straight and that results in close racing also with faster cars like NGTs,especially in early laps. That lead to a "big one" - an incident on lap 2 exiting 1st turn,where some rubbing lead to chain reaction involving directly or at least impacting time wise at least 1/3 of the field. Result was a quite unusual 11 pitstops in a 30+ minutes mid-distance race where mostly noone makes a pitstop. Still despite damage and low position expectations,most drivers kept on racing as there were just 2 retirements from 28 starters,which is 2nd highest attendance in RTFR races with XFR.
The last year's champion was on top of the game in this edition of RTFR - R.Kardol's time was tied in qualifying,but just like in LFS's WR standings,the 1st to set best time counts as the fastest,therefor the dutchman scores his 12th pole position in the event,tying Gábor (who tied the laptime) and Litro for 4th most pole positions in RTFR history. By leading all 26 laps,R.Kardol did not see much of competition even if the closest rival was gettting bigger in his mirror in last 1/3 of the race,so he tied another big value in RTFR history - 15 wins (3rd most together with Agent and Merenui,the latter also was attending this race),scoring also his 64th top5 finish. Botsi started 3rd,gained a position soon and finished 2nd just like 4 weeks ago on his previous visit after longer break - 67th top5 finish for him,still 2nd most. Current season standings leader Gábor lost that position to his teammate and finished 3rd to score his 33rd top5 finish,while chasing the leaders he set the fastest lap of the race,his 13th,tying Agent and Fast for 3rd most of those. Current 10 race racing leader Unite closed the S1dus row of drivers with 4th place finish,scoring his 66th top5 finish. Top5 was closed by driver from other team,but still having "S1dus" in his name - a monkey representing the sponsoring team WCL scored his 17th top5 finish here.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week is the speed week as RGE will offer 2 events running high average speeds - on monday VERL 2022 round 4 in Aston National will be the fastest round of the 5 round season,which might bring some decisions for the championships. Still new entries possible,everyone can still enter themselves in league history books as competition for current leader is needed - info and signups in VERL forum section. Tuesday is RTFR day and next week it's time for the XL version,which will feature the fastest LFS original car BF1. The venue however will reduce the speeds - South City's longest configuration is a very tricky concrete canyon. But in 2 weeks next RTFR will bring something slightly different - some information was given out in the stream,additionally we can reveal that the track is for next race was tried to be made as autentic as possible for the specific car,more details as always on the weekend before the event.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Mantas - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ 136mph - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation. Post race penalty conversion results in lost last lap.
ZFRL•LG-mies - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Blackwood Historic configuration is relativelly short,consisting by 1/3 of one long straight and that results in close racing also with faster cars like NGTs,especially in early laps. That lead to a "big one" - an incident on lap 2 exiting 1st turn,where some rubbing lead to chain reaction involving directly or at least impacting time wise at least 1/3 of the field. Result was a quite unusual 11 pitstops in a 30+ minutes mid-distance race where mostly noone makes a pitstop. Still despite damage and low position expectations,most drivers kept on racing as there were just 2 retirements from 28 starters,which is 2nd highest attendance in RTFR races with XFR.
The last year's champion was on top of the game in this edition of RTFR - R.Kardol's time was tied in qualifying,but just like in LFS's WR standings,the 1st to set best time counts as the fastest,therefor the dutchman scores his 12th pole position in the event,tying Gábor (who tied the laptime) and Litro for 4th most pole positions in RTFR history. By leading all 26 laps,R.Kardol did not see much of competition even if the closest rival was gettting bigger in his mirror in last 1/3 of the race,so he tied another big value in RTFR history - 15 wins (3rd most together with Agent and Merenui,the latter also was attending this race),scoring also his 64th top5 finish. Botsi started 3rd,gained a position soon and finished 2nd just like 4 weeks ago on his previous visit after longer break - 67th top5 finish for him,still 2nd most. Current season standings leader Gábor lost that position to his teammate and finished 3rd to score his 33rd top5 finish,while chasing the leaders he set the fastest lap of the race,his 13th,tying Agent and Fast for 3rd most of those. Current 10 race racing leader Unite closed the S1dus row of drivers with 4th place finish,scoring his 66th top5 finish. Top5 was closed by driver from other team,but still having "S1dus" in his name - a monkey representing the sponsoring team WCL scored his 17th top5 finish here.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week is the speed week as RGE will offer 2 events running high average speeds - on monday VERL 2022 round 4 in Aston National will be the fastest round of the 5 round season,which might bring some decisions for the championships. Still new entries possible,everyone can still enter themselves in league history books as competition for current leader is needed - info and signups in VERL forum section. Tuesday is RTFR day and next week it's time for the XL version,which will feature the fastest LFS original car BF1. The venue however will reduce the speeds - South City's longest configuration is a very tricky concrete canyon. But in 2 weeks next RTFR will bring something slightly different - some information was given out in the stream,additionally we can reveal that the track is for next race was tried to be made as autentic as possible for the specific car,more details as always on the weekend before the event.
292nd RTFR
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
Last XFR race won by: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins in row (260th RTFR - SO Town Course Rev.)
Most XFR race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 4 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Last Blackwood race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (282nd RTFR - UFR @ BL RGE Container Rush)
Most Blackwood Historic config race wins: 4 races,4 different winners (4 different countries)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*uNite (+6 points)
2022-S2 standings after 5 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 113
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 110
S1DUS*uNite - 101
Event rating,standings and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
Where did you get such info? According to Wikipedia,it doesn't even have the current 417HP,but 50HP less. It even weights about 300kg more than the model here.
Anyway - the car with it's high weight has enough power to load the R4 slick tyres to their maximum as we found out in a hosted race,here are the results: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2020692#post2020692 (replay is under link to .mpr folder). Unfortunatelly current tyre physics do not support such heavy cars to be raceable,so we need to wait for the long awaited update.
There is no such option currently,I assume they are in editor as future extension possibility.
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR-CCCC .mpr folder
RTFR CCCC race wins:
2 - S1DUS*uNite (Alexis GR-2, FAT GTR)
2 - YES V. Laguckas (Bacalhau, Tyler 018 1990)
1 - B2ﾏ Antonio (FEND TORUS T)
1 - S1DUS*R.Kardol (MASTER RACE KART)
1 - S1DUS*GáboR (MCLARRY_D8M)
1 - [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (Swirl Sport 06)
1 - Dzban (Prototype 2)
1 - B2ﾏ Upsas (JDM80 JZ)
1 - S1DUS*Litti (P1666)
1 - LLM.Sobis (Transam)
The RGE winter league is closing and the organization is starting to gather up cars list for it,sometimes it's not clear if the car really fulfills the requirements,so this time the RTFR-CCCC was used as a testing ground for a candidate - the 1.7 tons heavy Fend Torus T,which is equipped with slick tyres. Still the heavy weight created such load on the tyres,that the race turned out to be one of the usual tyre tortures,where it's more important to not overheat tyres than focus on racing. Admitted it's also a kind of a skill when racing,but with RB4 and another realistic candidate we have this kind of racing covered already - thanks to the racers this tuesday we found out that this car will not be featured in AWS.
Regarding the race itself - it has a distinctive favourite for the win,as Antonio was fastest in pre-event practice,set the fastest lap in qualifying and led every single lap to achieve something he never got close to in standard RTFR races - a race win (best result so far is 5th place in RTFR). P.Koivunen started the race right behind the polesitter,lost few positions early in race,but later climbed up to 2nd,closing up to leader in latter half of the race to finish 2.32 seconds behind winner,setting also fastest lap of the race during the chase - that's something he never achieved in standard RTFR. 2nd position is a repeat of his best finish in RTFR. Texas was one of those,who slipped by P.Koivunen early in the race,but eventually he lost position to him and settled in 3rd position to finish just over 20 seconds behind race winner - that's also a repeat of his best achievement in both RTFR and RTFR XL.
Next week it's back to the basics - the normal RTFR will return with one of the slick tyres wearing default LFS cars. More info can be seen in broadcast of previous race,other option is to wait for the weekend and read full info here in this forum section. In 2 weeks RGE will offer 2 fast single seater races - on monday the round 4 of 2022 VERL season will take place in Aston's National configuration,on the next day the BF1 will be featured in RTFR XL race at South City's longest standard configuration.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR-CCCC .mpr folder
RTFR CCCC race wins:
2 - S1DUS*uNite (Alexis GR-2, FAT GTR)
2 - YES V. Laguckas (Bacalhau, Tyler 018 1990)
1 - B2ﾏ Antonio (FEND TORUS T)
1 - S1DUS*R.Kardol (MASTER RACE KART)
1 - S1DUS*GáboR (MCLARRY_D8M)
1 - [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (Swirl Sport 06)
1 - Dzban (Prototype 2)
1 - B2ﾏ Upsas (JDM80 JZ)
1 - S1DUS*Litti (P1666)
1 - LLM.Sobis (Transam)
The RGE winter league is closing and the organization is starting to gather up cars list for it,sometimes it's not clear if the car really fulfills the requirements,so this time the RTFR-CCCC was used as a testing ground for a candidate - the 1.7 tons heavy Fend Torus T,which is equipped with slick tyres. Still the heavy weight created such load on the tyres,that the race turned out to be one of the usual tyre tortures,where it's more important to not overheat tyres than focus on racing. Admitted it's also a kind of a skill when racing,but with RB4 and another realistic candidate we have this kind of racing covered already - thanks to the racers this tuesday we found out that this car will not be featured in AWS.
Regarding the race itself - it has a distinctive favourite for the win,as Antonio was fastest in pre-event practice,set the fastest lap in qualifying and led every single lap to achieve something he never got close to in standard RTFR races - a race win (best result so far is 5th place in RTFR). P.Koivunen started the race right behind the polesitter,lost few positions early in race,but later climbed up to 2nd,closing up to leader in latter half of the race to finish 2.32 seconds behind winner,setting also fastest lap of the race during the chase - that's something he never achieved in standard RTFR. 2nd position is a repeat of his best finish in RTFR. Texas was one of those,who slipped by P.Koivunen early in the race,but eventually he lost position to him and settled in 3rd position to finish just over 20 seconds behind race winner - that's also a repeat of his best achievement in both RTFR and RTFR XL.
Next week it's back to the basics - the normal RTFR will return with one of the slick tyres wearing default LFS cars. More info can be seen in broadcast of previous race,other option is to wait for the weekend and read full info here in this forum section. In 2 weeks RGE will offer 2 fast single seater races - on monday the round 4 of 2022 VERL season will take place in Aston's National configuration,on the next day the BF1 will be featured in RTFR XL race at South City's longest standard configuration.
Official results
As report says - Unite simply cuts over grass patch in order to pass,which is clear illegal passing situation.
PENALTIES:
S1DUS*uNite - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for illegal pass on lap 15. Repeated offence will lead to higher penalty.
S1DUS*uNite - receives a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct after the race finish (deliberate crashing). Repeated offence will lead to actual penalty.
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Seems like even in virtual world teams are having trouble to ship their cars to Caribbean as once again the Jamaican round had a significant attendance drop. At least there were 9 drivers ready to tackle the challenge and we had the first actual Caribbean 200 as the first try 2 years ago technically was Caribbean 100 due shortened distance. Fern Bay as usually brought a difficult task to complete the race distance with the tricky VERL car,barely anyone finished without mistakes.
Once again Fatal did not have real competition - he was the fastest through whole raceday,setting 1.7 seconds faster laptime in qualifying than closest rival,while he never saw anyone from behind except for lapping. Another full set of round points in his account also in 3rd round of the season. Rony was the best of the rest in this race,barely escaping lapping just before own final lap - 2nd place for the other front row starter. Unite was actually the only one to break out of order - everyone else finished in same order as they qualified. He started 7th and advanced 4 positions during the race (one not legally,luckily for him without actual consequences for now) to finish on 3rd position,but already one lap down.
The situation after the middle round now shows all the cans and cant's - theoretically only 6 drivers are now eligible for drivers champion title,practically even less,as Fatal leads standings by 24 points over Unite,meaning he needs no not let to outscore him in next round to grant the title already before final round,assuming both closest followers won't outscore leader by more than 7 points. These are Rony and Thehemuli,who both are tied in points,where the latvian is ahead due better highest qualifying position. In the 2-men battle for rookie of the year award Motimoukari broke away from his rival by 4 points,increasing his lead to 6 points.
Teams championship is the venue for biggest intrigue this season - Fragmaster took over the lead and has a new rival in form of RGA,which is just 2 points behind,defending champions S1dus now are demoted from lead to 3rd position with 7 points gap,closelly followed by team which fielded 1/3 of the 3rd round's field - Zafiralis. Nations cup however is practically sealed - in theory only Latvia can pass Finland,but also only if a second driver from the nation signs up,if that does not happen,Finland is announced as award winners even before the 4th round starts. In the battle for 2nd position Latvia leads Italy by 8 points.
4th round is the fastest round of the season - the Aston National configuration consists of 3 long straights,connected to various 180° or similar degree turns,each of them in different tightness,while the final chicane will try to trick racers with weight transfer through it. If there is still no competition,then we can assume also drivers championship will be wrapped up before season finale and hope for at least interesting battle for teams championship.
Unofficial results
Qualifying:
Race:
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Race:
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After 12 weeks break the event returns as we're getting closer to winter and with it to our winter league. Already previously RTFR has been used as testing ground,this will be the 1st time when a car will be tested for it's competition ability. On the line is the modern sports sedan carrying all the luxury with it - that's the reason it weights close to 1.7 tons,but with 400+ horsepowers,slicks and all-wheel-drive system it's everything else than slow - the pace is rated to be just few seconds slower than the NGT class cars. R4 tyres is probably the only option on front axle for the race if we have learned something from many years using FXR.
Link to mod: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/F88735
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (pass as always = green)
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
When selecting correct filters in https://www.lfs.net/online/activity there are currently 37 demo servers that are not marked private or cruise,yes,most of them are empty - as long noone joins them,noone joins them,the weird cycle noone likes to break. Just join a server with a combo you like and get yourself some warm up - eventually people will join,with some luck you might end up with a full 12-car grid (max in demo).
I would suggest AA or MRc servers - both are active teams,however I have to admit I have no clue how activelly the servers are admined. Additionally there is GD server,which hosts month long competition where you can even win licence if you're good and active,info here: https://www.lfs.net/leagues/670/season/862
I would suggest AA or MRc servers - both are active teams,however I have to admit I have no clue how activelly the servers are admined. Additionally there is GD server,which hosts month long competition where you can even win licence if you're good and active,info here: https://www.lfs.net/leagues/670/season/862
No,you have to manually log out from that device to cancel access to licenced content. However the online mode is not available from the moment you changed GAME password.
VERL 2022 - Round 3
V8 Racing League 2022
Round 3
Monday,17th October
17:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
Round 3
Monday,17th October
17:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
The only trip outside England marks the middle of the season - this also marks the point of championship where decision will fall who will still be in the hunt for drivers championship and who will just race for single round pride and help team or nation to gather points for collective effort. Currently series has a distinctive leader,who can increase his lead to raise chance of securing title before season finale,but even in simulator this is a technical sport - technologies have still the margin of error with influencing consequences,so nothing has been decided yet!
The Caribbean island has it's own unique track - Fern Bay differs from all other LFS environments with it's specifics and therefor has it's own challenges. The Gold configuration is 3.5 kilometers long and it's required to circle the track 57 times to complete VERL nominal race distance of 200 kilometers. The first attempt did not succeed and due low attendance the race distance was halved as per ruling,so this might be the 1st ever actual Caribbean 200. The configuration includes plenty of challenging sections,requiring both precise handling and throttle control - faster turns are quite dependant of aerodynamic help,so rather high downforce setups are expected from drivers.
Round info:
Track: FE Gold (FE3)
Laps: 57
Previous winners: [WCL] J.A.Katila (2020)
VERL 2022 results and standings
Server info and password will be PM'ed sunday to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
V8 Racing League
VERL 2022 signups
Race Green Discord
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
* PENALTIES :
｢DD｣ tBug - receives a WARNING for extreme track cutting during qualifying,adittionally his laptime was removed from results as he failed to improve it with legal lap.
TomTom - the unserver drive through penalty is converted to 30 seconds penalty added to finish time as per standard LFS rules.
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The very classic XRT was featured in this edition of RTFR and it was introduced to a brand new custom configuration of Rockingham - an extended version of ISSC that surpasses the 1st hairpin with a route previously used in STARL. The combo required skills to handle the car at high speeds through 3 oval turns besides the usually needed road course racing. The fast approach to the new 1st hairpin created a new opportunity for passes as seen on broadcast - some not so successful.
Current 10-race rating leader Unite started from 5th position and climbed up to 3rd during first 7 laps until 2 leaders had a physical dispute at end of lap 7. The finn found a way past the 2 slowed down cars and led the remaining laps to cross finish line first to enter the 2nd decade of race wins,passing Fast for 7th most wins in RTFR,early in the race he also set the fastest lap of the race,which is his 24th,also adding 65th top5 finish to his stats - one less than all time 2nd most of Botsi. Also Gábor profited from same incident between 2 early leaders to improve positions,however he had to race hard to keep the 2nd position in last few laps - the success earned him the 32nd top5 finish. R.Kardol was the one to try the pass for lead at the end of lap 7,but the 2 cars aiming for same piece of tarmac caused multiple position loss instead of lead gain,so the dutchman could salvage 3rd position with some luck - 63rd top 5 finish for him and full podium lock up for the team for 2nd race in row. A.Valta was the only driver to beat 2:02 mark in qualifying,scoring his 7th pole position in RTFR,but after the mentioned incident he lost his lead and after some battles he had to concede to 4th position in finish,which is his 11th top5 finish. Despite qualifying 3rd,Fatal never was a competitor for win,lost 2 positions to finish 5th,that's his 17th top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week not plans to run RTFR,but RGE offers other option to race - on monday it will be the middle round of V8 Racing League season,run in the Fern Bay's Gold configuration,which will be a proper work out with the low aero assisted 650 horsepower single seater. Next RTFR is in 2 weeks - if curious about combo,you have to watch broadcast,otherwise info will be posted in the weekend before it.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)
* PENALTIES :
｢DD｣ tBug - receives a WARNING for extreme track cutting during qualifying,adittionally his laptime was removed from results as he failed to improve it with legal lap.
TomTom - the unserver drive through penalty is converted to 30 seconds penalty added to finish time as per standard LFS rules.
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The very classic XRT was featured in this edition of RTFR and it was introduced to a brand new custom configuration of Rockingham - an extended version of ISSC that surpasses the 1st hairpin with a route previously used in STARL. The combo required skills to handle the car at high speeds through 3 oval turns besides the usually needed road course racing. The fast approach to the new 1st hairpin created a new opportunity for passes as seen on broadcast - some not so successful.
Current 10-race rating leader Unite started from 5th position and climbed up to 3rd during first 7 laps until 2 leaders had a physical dispute at end of lap 7. The finn found a way past the 2 slowed down cars and led the remaining laps to cross finish line first to enter the 2nd decade of race wins,passing Fast for 7th most wins in RTFR,early in the race he also set the fastest lap of the race,which is his 24th,also adding 65th top5 finish to his stats - one less than all time 2nd most of Botsi. Also Gábor profited from same incident between 2 early leaders to improve positions,however he had to race hard to keep the 2nd position in last few laps - the success earned him the 32nd top5 finish. R.Kardol was the one to try the pass for lead at the end of lap 7,but the 2 cars aiming for same piece of tarmac caused multiple position loss instead of lead gain,so the dutchman could salvage 3rd position with some luck - 63rd top 5 finish for him and full podium lock up for the team for 2nd race in row. A.Valta was the only driver to beat 2:02 mark in qualifying,scoring his 7th pole position in RTFR,but after the mentioned incident he lost his lead and after some battles he had to concede to 4th position in finish,which is his 11th top5 finish. Despite qualifying 3rd,Fatal never was a competitor for win,lost 2 positions to finish 5th,that's his 17th top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week not plans to run RTFR,but RGE offers other option to race - on monday it will be the middle round of V8 Racing League season,run in the Fern Bay's Gold configuration,which will be a proper work out with the low aero assisted 650 horsepower single seater. Next RTFR is in 2 weeks - if curious about combo,you have to watch broadcast,otherwise info will be posted in the weekend before it.
291st RTFR
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 XRT race won by: S1DUS*uNite (263rd RTFR - AU Race Green International ACW)
Most XRT race wins: Agent - 3 wins (Bosnia and Herzegovina & Finland - 3 wins)
Last Rockingham race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (283rd RTFR - UF1 @ RO Handling Rev.)
Most Rockingham race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & S1DUS*uNite & S1DUS*GáboR - 3 wins (Finland - 14 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*uNite (+18 points)
2022-S2 standings after 4 of 10 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 92
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 88
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 80
Event rating,standings and other statistics
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
It was the european server,which was occasianally attacked,I never saw any reports about problems with US servers,so in theory you should have no problems.
If you want to be sure about uptime reliability,open your LFS client,run a free host from it by selecting US location and check for any interruptions from another connected client. It won't happen in hourly or even daily basis though.
If you want to be sure about uptime reliability,open your LFS client,run a free host from it by selecting US location and check for any interruptions from another connected client. It won't happen in hourly or even daily basis though.
Official results
Qualifying:
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)
Review from the unclearly defined report about 2 very similar incidents between B2ﾏ naluyluka and RGˆLORENZO approaching hairpin after alternate start/finish straight on laps 8 and 19:
Judging from controls both drivers moved towards each other which led to contact - therefor both drivers deemed to be at fault in both incidents. No further action as both drivers suffered loss,however future incidents might attract attention of administration in terms of post race actions - general ruling to avoid contacts should be respected.
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Antonio - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for intentional contact (PIT manouvre) on final lap against cq.goszki. Future misconducts of such art will lead to disqualification or even race ban.
Adittionally several drivers seems to forgot about track limits - not just cutting a corner is a violation,also running wide outside track limits is a violation! 2 drivers fell in the view (several others did that occasionally) when randomly cheching a specific location - exit of the chicane leading to the alternate (FE2/5) start/finish straight. Even if the gain is minimal,the sheer lack of effort to stay within track limits has been deemed as intentional action and therefor is a violation.
B2ﾏ Antonio - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for track limits violation on 13 occasions.
[MRc] Michal - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for track limits violation on 18 occasions (including other track sections besides mentioned above).
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RTFR XL has kinda stabilized in terms of attendance - the last 3 races has 22-23 participants,which is few above all time average value. Combination of tricky lightweight road legal racing machine LX4 and Fern Bay's longest configuration was challenging already by default,racing in small packs increased the intensity of the race as seen on broadcast,while drivers alone had distant time-trial like competition with either cars ahead or behind.
Since his fellow front row starter got himself in a 1st turn incident,polesitter Fatal was able to run away from competition right from 1st turns (kinda repeat of monday's VERL race situation),so the finn led every single meter and joined the RTFR XL winners club as it's 28th member. The pole position was Fatal's 2nd such achievement,but also 30th for Finland,the top5 finish was his 9th. With over half a minute gap,2nd in finish was Unite,who set the fastest lap of the race,his 4th,adding 18th top5 finish in his stats. Goszki set a new best result in qualifying - 5th position is an improvement of one position compared to his only previous attempt,but the race brought a repeat of his only previous result - 3rd. Doni joined late and missed qualifying,but seems like he was well prepared as climbed up to 4th position in race results,repeating best finishing result from 3 top5 finishes. Top5 was closed by Arska,who scored his 8th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
By being selected for the 6th time,LX4 tied XFG and FZR for being most used car in RTFR XL. Even better - with the attendance from this week's race LX4 has the exactly same attendace average as FZR has - 20.5 drivers per race,which is 14th position in most attended cars chart.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
This is one of the rare occasions where race organizer has to mention himself - he was the one with shortest work free pitstop of 10.12 seconds,just 1/20 of a second faster than 2nd best effort.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
By starting as a wildcard from back of the grid Doni had the best theoretical chances to be best climber and he realized the chances in praxis by finishing 17 positions higher than he was on grid.
VOD at Youtube:
The 71st RTFR XL will be 2nd F1 car race of this year,but unlike the 1st F1 appearance,this will be the well known classic F1 car for the LFS users - BF1 (3rd overall appearance of this car). The selected track is also well known - the armcos and concrete walls maze of South City in it's longest standard configuration named City Long. The race will be 62 laps long and knowing car's hungriness for resources,most drivers might need 2 pitstops without thinking about 10 seconds requirement. Also next week there will be no need to think about pitstop requirements as normal RTFR does not require any - the combo was already mentioned in broadcast,but full details and full view on the new Rockingham configuration will be available this weekend.
Race:
Winner:
Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)
Review from the unclearly defined report about 2 very similar incidents between B2ﾏ naluyluka and RGˆLORENZO approaching hairpin after alternate start/finish straight on laps 8 and 19:
Judging from controls both drivers moved towards each other which led to contact - therefor both drivers deemed to be at fault in both incidents. No further action as both drivers suffered loss,however future incidents might attract attention of administration in terms of post race actions - general ruling to avoid contacts should be respected.
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Antonio - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for intentional contact (PIT manouvre) on final lap against cq.goszki. Future misconducts of such art will lead to disqualification or even race ban.
Adittionally several drivers seems to forgot about track limits - not just cutting a corner is a violation,also running wide outside track limits is a violation! 2 drivers fell in the view (several others did that occasionally) when randomly cheching a specific location - exit of the chicane leading to the alternate (FE2/5) start/finish straight. Even if the gain is minimal,the sheer lack of effort to stay within track limits has been deemed as intentional action and therefor is a violation.
B2ﾏ Antonio - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for track limits violation on 13 occasions.
[MRc] Michal - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for track limits violation on 18 occasions (including other track sections besides mentioned above).
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RTFR XL has kinda stabilized in terms of attendance - the last 3 races has 22-23 participants,which is few above all time average value. Combination of tricky lightweight road legal racing machine LX4 and Fern Bay's longest configuration was challenging already by default,racing in small packs increased the intensity of the race as seen on broadcast,while drivers alone had distant time-trial like competition with either cars ahead or behind.
Since his fellow front row starter got himself in a 1st turn incident,polesitter Fatal was able to run away from competition right from 1st turns (kinda repeat of monday's VERL race situation),so the finn led every single meter and joined the RTFR XL winners club as it's 28th member. The pole position was Fatal's 2nd such achievement,but also 30th for Finland,the top5 finish was his 9th. With over half a minute gap,2nd in finish was Unite,who set the fastest lap of the race,his 4th,adding 18th top5 finish in his stats. Goszki set a new best result in qualifying - 5th position is an improvement of one position compared to his only previous attempt,but the race brought a repeat of his only previous result - 3rd. Doni joined late and missed qualifying,but seems like he was well prepared as climbed up to 4th position in race results,repeating best finishing result from 3 top5 finishes. Top5 was closed by Arska,who scored his 8th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
By being selected for the 6th time,LX4 tied XFG and FZR for being most used car in RTFR XL. Even better - with the attendance from this week's race LX4 has the exactly same attendace average as FZR has - 20.5 drivers per race,which is 14th position in most attended cars chart.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
This is one of the rare occasions where race organizer has to mention himself - he was the one with shortest work free pitstop of 10.12 seconds,just 1/20 of a second faster than 2nd best effort.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
By starting as a wildcard from back of the grid Doni had the best theoretical chances to be best climber and he realized the chances in praxis by finishing 17 positions higher than he was on grid.
VOD at Youtube:
The 71st RTFR XL will be 2nd F1 car race of this year,but unlike the 1st F1 appearance,this will be the well known classic F1 car for the LFS users - BF1 (3rd overall appearance of this car). The selected track is also well known - the armcos and concrete walls maze of South City in it's longest standard configuration named City Long. The race will be 62 laps long and knowing car's hungriness for resources,most drivers might need 2 pitstops without thinking about 10 seconds requirement. Also next week there will be no need to think about pitstop requirements as normal RTFR does not require any - the combo was already mentioned in broadcast,but full details and full view on the new Rockingham configuration will be available this weekend.
Official results
PENALTIES:
ZFRL•Motimoukari - receives 1 lap penalty (conversion of 60s penalty in this round as per rules) for multiple avoidable incidents on lap 1
S1DUS*GáboR - receives a warning for offensive language
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2nd round brought new cars in the sprint-like maze layed out in container storage field near Blackwood's actual GP track. The 80 laps distance was completed 20 seconds faster than last year with the old car - best laptime in qualifying was faster,but fastest lap of the race was slower than last year's best effort in each case. Race started with few ugly incidents,leading to damages for many drivers,only later the actual race went on,demanding high endurance from the drivers.
Fastest driver in qualifying was the only one who was able to escape all troubles and was leading the field by 6 seconds after comleting 1st lap. Fatal led all 80 laps and collected all 22 points from this round,scoring 3rd VERL win for himself - he's the 6th driver to reach this count of wins. Thehemuli started from outside of 3-wide grid and had some adventures on lap 1,but quickly gained 2nd position,finishing as the last driver on lead lap. Last year's 3rd best rookie scored his 1st ever podium finish - the 2nd position is 3 positions better than his previous best achievement. For 2nd race in row 3rd position was taken by driver who finished last year's standings in same position. Unite qualified in the low 10th position,but had a lot of progress through field in the race - with +7 he is the best climber of the race.
As always 2nd round marks the current trend in the championship - by scoring all 44 points from first 2 rounds,Fatal has built a solid gap over competition and placed himself as top candidate for drivers title. 2nd in standings is Unite with 16 points gap to leader,closelly followed by Thehemuli in 3rd. Motimoukari is still leading the 2-men rookie competition over his teammate LG-mies,but his lead is reduced by 1 point due his penalty.
With one of the drivers retiring,defending teams champions S1dus now have lost most of their lead and now are just a single point ahead of team of current drivers standings leader - Fragmasters. Zafiralis scored most points in this round and moved up to 3rd position,currently 6 points behind leaders. Nations cup is effectivelly over - Finland has already 56 points gap over closest followers,which is estimated more than any other nation will score in whole season - most of the other nations has only 1 points scorer. The competition is only for 2nd position in this table,currently posessed by Latvia,but competition is tight as positions 2-5 are seperated by a single point between each other.
The middle round of the season is the only trip outside England - it's the 2nd edition of Caribbean 200,which again will be held in Fern Bay's Gold configuration. With 3.5km length it's the 2nd shortest track of the season and surely will challenge drivers with it's various turns and their combinations.
Unofficial results
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Group C cars of late 80ies - early 90ies LeMans
GT1 cars from 90ies,early 2000 - also LeMans
F1 and Indycars of various eras that aren't covered yet
Touring cars from the classic BTCC era,DTM cars
Here are few ideas,surely some might add other interesting options.
GT1 cars from 90ies,early 2000 - also LeMans
F1 and Indycars of various eras that aren't covered yet
Touring cars from the classic BTCC era,DTM cars
Here are few ideas,surely some might add other interesting options.
It has LFS's default drag values,so that's surely not the reason.
VERL 2022 - Round 2
V8 Racing League 2022
Round 2
Monday,19th September
17:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
Round 2
Monday,19th September
17:30 UTC / 19:30 CET / 20:30 EET
The new VERL challenge started almost 2 weeks ago,now it's time to continue it - everyone still has a chance to join the action and with great performance even mix in the fight for the championship glory as nothing is decided yet. Even better - especially in both teams and nations competitions additional signups might have a deciding effect towards either current leaders or chasers.
The shortest and bumpiest track is next up - sneaking through few left containers the 2.5km course has plenty of challenging turns and their combinations. Front stretch is over 30 meters wide for most of it's length,but narrows a lot through the 1st turn,where drivers will feel the lack of modern formula cars' downforce which VERL 2022 car does not have - rest of the track has rather slow turns,meaning that precise handling and throttle control will be the key to success. The pitlane does not have a mandatory speed limit,however the tight chicanes on both ends of it will slow cars down for additional safety in case many drivers decide for same fuel strategy.
Round info:
Track: BL Container Sprint (BL4X)
Laps: 80
Previous winners: S1DUS*GáboR (2021), GenR uNite (2018), Botsi (2017)
VERL 2022 results and standings
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