This is now how every day starts - sadly everything older is gone. I hope it's just some temporary setting as now it's impossible to check stuff on the next day after an event for example.
Tuesday, 23rd july
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Information:
Track: Westhill South Loop Extended (WE3X)
Race distance: 10 laps (69km)
* IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CARS:
Due recently added mod checks,several mods have been unpublished,that includes also a car from RandomCar cars list:
VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
If this car has not been fixed and re-published until monday 17:40 UTC,it will be suspended for round 7! For draw results,please refer to car number from spreadsheets (link below) and not main info thread!
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!
Season 2 of 2024 did not start with such bang as season 1 - and that's a good sign. The compact roadster which isn't that light as it's older counterpart in real world produced pretty much typical TBO class racing,which is anything else then than surprising as this car runs with minor 4% intake restriction in our PL200 class series RandomCar. However the rather narrow rear tyres did not provide as much grip as the performancewise similar XRT,therefor besides focusing on cornering,racers had to keep their throttle foot light when exiting turns.
A lot of views were towards Gábor during this race - he was on the way to reach few milestones here and since there was not the strongest possible competition around,he did not dissapointed his fans. In qualifying the hungarian was more than half a second faster than closest rivals,scoring the 30th pole position for himself. Gábor started good and was starting to build advantage on competition,which was enough to lead all 29 race laps,however his gap was shrinking and he crossed the finish line with just over a second lead. That was still enough to score his 36th RTFR race win,tying the all time best win count of Botsi,held since november 2021. Besides this,Gábor set another history books entry - his winning streak continues and with 4th win in row he has now 2 winning streaks of 4 wins,that hasn't been done by anyone before. Additionally it was his 63rd top5 finish. A.Valta qualified just 3rd,but during race found some pace and even nicked fastest lap of the race to score his 7th of those. But in the chase for win the finn run out of laps and finished 2nd in his 1st RTFR race this year,scoring his 21st top5 finish. Thehemuli used the chance to snatch 3rd position from 2 rivals fighting for it and added 12th top5 finish to his achievements,Arska lost the battle for 3rd position,but won the one for 4th position,scoring his 31st top5 finish. 136 achieved his best qualifying result yesterday by setting 2nd fastest laptime in session - that's 1 position better than his previous best,however the race brought some regress in positions as he finished just 5th and that for the 3rd race in row - 4th top5 finish in total.
VOD at Youtube:
Hints about 338th RTFR can be seen in broadcast recording,however the combo for next RTFR XL is now known too - it will be the Radix P6 in Blackwood's chicane free configuration Historic reversed. The server will be set up for combo testing soon as we need to find out best possible laptime for distance calculation. Next week the server will be taken by RandomCar,where the 7th round of the season will take place in custom configuration in Westhill.
For those who missed the livestream,here's video on demand with all the action from the race:
Regarding handling - it is very tailhappy unless set up understeery,however I did not expect it to be different considering it's weight,wheelbase and rather narrow tyres.
Additionally could suggest to make a cup version of this car - with slightly reduced weight (interior strip),slightly raised power (engine tuning),rollcage and slicks.
Tomorrow we will take this car for a spin in Fern Bay - if anyone interested,join,if just curious how it looks - check the livestream. The public RTFR promo skin attached in case someone wants to use it.
Info (including link to livestream): https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/108553-337th-RTFR
Another productive 4 weeks between 2024 rounds 6 and 7 - total of 4 cars have been added to the lineup,coincidentally all based on cars hailing from same region,3 of them even based on same manufacturer. With cars list exceeding 40 cars,we will start to slow down a bit new cars additions as all new approved cars will now have to go through approval of our discord members,while unapproved car voting will be done only between seasons.
The alphabet starts with A and so the descriptions will start with ADDA AR-EIGHT V10 - it is the 2nd supercar type car in the cars list besides the URC1 and also the 2nd car with double figure count of cylinders as it has 10 of those. With AWD system,wide tyres,paddle shift and some downforce help it's rather easy to drive,the 37% intake restriction results in the lowest power to weight ratio (172.6hp/ton) in the field,but still might be restricted more once setups have been developed.
B for Bavaria is added twice in this addition - first one is the smaller BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO,a 2 door sedan type coupe hailing from late 80ies. Being pretty much on similar pace as rest of the PL200 class,this car requires just 1% restrictor for balancing.
The other one is BAVARIA A34 N POWER - a slightly younger and bigger brother of previous car. It's a 4-door sedan with rather high weight and it joins the series as the 4th car with 300 or more horsepower engine power and that is with already added 5% air restrictor.
The 4th car is actually 2 generations younger version of BAVARIA A30 - the DASH 46 hails from very late 90ies and brings modern features to help the driver keep the car under control. It had to be tamed with 14% intake restriction to be on same pace as rest of the cars.
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 - 3 wins in row
Last 2020 HIRO CCF2 race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Fern Bay race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (332nd RTFR - XRR @ FE Black XL Paved)
Most Fern Bay club configs race wins: 7 races,7 different winners (Finland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+2.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
R.Guy - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for failure to serve the mandatory pitstop. The penalty results in loss of last completed lap.
#29 J.Coetzee - receives a final warning for low awareness of surroundings and low driving standards.
[PACT] tBug - receives a final warning for multiple avoidable contacts. A driver with incidents records in many series still proves lack of ability to learn - while others are racing a 64 laps race,taking care of material and recources required to finish race without repairs,this particular driver seems to be interested in passing others by any means necessary without care of damage and retires when realizes that good result is not possible. This kind of behaviour is not welcome here!
AA™| Goico - receives a warning for chatting while not participating in race. We don't need commentators or wannabe helpers - other drivers are well aware of blue flags and if not,your repeated impersonal binds will not help either but just distract others.
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The most used car in RTFR XL returned once again - this was already the 8th race in series with FZR. Another repeat was South City Town Course,used already in 58th RTFR XL with this car,however yesterday we run the track in reversed direction,so at least this was an unique combo. With 24 drivers in qualifying this was pretty much average attendance this year,however 4 of them left server and did not start the race.
Just like in other RTFR version,Gábor also here started a winning streak (his 3rd in RTFR XL) - he used his own selected combo and run away from competition finishing 47 seconds ahead of everyone,not lapping just 3 others. The hungarian started the event by tying Botsi for all time most pole positions (11),the race win is his 10th,the fastest lap of the race is his 11th (now sole 2nd most) and the top5 finish - his 20th (4th driver to reach this count). Winner's teammate completed S1dus duo on top in results in both qualifying and race - however Unite needed some luck to finish 2nd,which is his 27th top5 finish. This was only the 2nd RTFR XL for Doktor and his previous attendance did produce a rather low result as he finished 23rd,however yesterday he improved his achievements here to 4th position in qualifying and 3rd place finish in race. Sean was the last driver on lead lap,4th place finish is repeat of his best result here and 3rd top5 finish in total. Also for Madjester this was the best RTFR XL - it was his 9th event and 6th place in qualifying was and improvement by 5 positions and 5th place finish - improvement by 4.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Having races in both directions we can compare times - world record lap is 0.48s faster in original direction,while the 64 laps race was completed 47.56 seconds slower than in 58th RTFR XL or 33.81 seconds slower when comparing same driver Gábor,which is 0.52s per lap difference - that is just 0.04 seconds more when compared to world record difference.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Again it was rather unlikelly to complete the race without pitwork (except for one driver who did not pit at all finishing all but 2 laps),so the mention goes to one with simply shortest pitstop - Rony changed only 3 tyres compared to most others with full new set,recording pitstop with 10.27 seconds length.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
There was not much advancements - most were done by Ayoub Maroc,who started (technically) 16th and finished 10th,making 6 positions progress in the race,which is 2 more than 2nd best.
VOD at Youtube:
Since noone may select combo for 2 races in row,the selection has been relayed to 2nd place finisher Unite - he is yet to reply to message,so currently combo for 92nd RTFR XL is unknown. Also unknown is combo of 337th RTFR (which is also 2024 season 2 opening round) scheduled for next week - this will be announced only this weekend.
I saw this in server's log. Question is - did you actually went on track? I mean if you pressed ready button and your car was actually in pitlane. Because on the setup screen the app cannot actually see your settings,only when you're on track - that's why the app gives you 30s time to actually join the track (or change settings if button clutch has been set 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
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: S1DUS*GáboR
Last FZR race won by: [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins in row (83rd RTFR XL - AS Historic Rev.)
Most FZR race wins: [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Last South City race won by: B2マ M (88th RTFR XL - LX6 @ SO Chicane Route)
Most South City race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 5 wins (Finland - 8 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+20.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
Joshie #56[G920] - removed the right to start the race for lack of awareness of surroundings and multiple incidents under blue flag.
Joe Coetzee - disqualified from race results for multiple incidents,lack of awareness of surroundings,low driving standards.
Both drivers should gather up experience elsewhere before returning - currently you both are just a dangerous moving chicane that disturbs racing for other drivers. Repeated such behaviour will lead to race ban.
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Form07 was the 3rd most attended car until yesterday,so it was bound to return to RTFR. But knowing it's handling specialities,an offseason race was selected for return - so yesteday we raced it in the tricky short track of Aston Cadet. Without surprise,the event repeated lowest attendance of this year (1st RTFR of the year was also off-season race) while last time with 10 cars in finish was recorded in 309th RTFR.
Gábor however was not influenced by lack of competition and extended his winning streak to 3 - that is his 2nd such streak with a chance to extend it to repeated his longest winning streak in 2 weeks. After leading the latest 34 laps of the 35 laps race,he picked up his 35th RTFR race win,taking also 29th pole position,31st fastest lap of the race (40th for Hungary) and 62nd top5 finish. Thehemuli set new personal best result in qualifying - 2nd place is a position better than his previous best,he had a great start and led the 1st lap of the race,which is his 1st led lap in RTFR,however had no arguments against polesitters pace and had to settle for 2nd place,repeating his best result in series,scoring his 11th top5 finish. Arska took the bottom step of podium in his 100th RTFR,rounding also his top5 count - to 30. Unite snoozed the qualifying and started from back of the grid,but still climbed up to 4th position in final results,scoring his 82nd top5 finish,driver with number in his name 136 closed the top5 for 2nd race in row,scoring his 3rd top5 finish in total.
Next week on the menu is RTFR XL with FZR at South City's Town Course configuration in reversed direction - full info will be posted on friday,however in 2 weeks normal RTFR will start the 2024 season 2 with one of the road legal cars - which and where is yet to be decided.
3rd running of this event attracted much more riders than previous one - a total of 15 were able to finish the course at least once,putting their names in the results,few more attempted but failed to finish. A total of 32 attempts were completed during the 3 hours of partially interrupted event time,7 of those were done by most experienced rider while 7 riders finished just a single attempt. The inbetween improved bike physics helped with stability and speed - this year the 2-lap course was finished 50 seconds faster with average speed of 151 km/h,which is 13 km/h more than last year. In fact a total of 4 riders were quicker than last year's best result with 5th one coming quite close.
The winner's name is no surprise - it's still the same lithuanian Simox,who's topping all bike competitions he attends,also here he was the only to beat 9 minutes mark and that by almost 20 seconds. Unlike last year,Simox focused on riding only a single bike model,setting time in 6 of his 7 attempts faster than everyone else's try. Rest of the podium was taken by winner's teammates - all 3 riders from the Squid team finished in top3 of event results,Philippines rider Red was 2nd best with 20.84 seconds gap to winner in his debuth in the event,beating his british teammate Yung by 8 seconds.
Top4 times were set by currently the fastest road going bike Chimera,2nd best was Reaper,which put Clas in 5th place in overall results,3rd fastest was Vulcan,which best time was set by Unite,who later switched to Chimera. A total of 6 different bikes were used during the event,interestingly each of them having a different rider to set the fastest time of it.
Since this edition is considered as success as the attendance increased a lot compared to last year,there should not be doubts about 4th running next year - again same time (estimated 3-4 weeks after cars race),same place. What's unsure is if there will be any changes to track,however bike lineup should stay same as this year plus new mods if they're eligible for event format and fullfill basic quality standards.
Race Green Events thanks all riders for participation and guys behind the scenes for their input and efforts - voluntary testers and modders. As always everyone is welcome to share their experience from the event,either in form of text,pictures or videos! Also (even if that rarely happens) - we're awaiting winner's speach!
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A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins in row
Last FORM07 race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (280th RTFR - RO International Long)
Most FORM07 race wins: only 1 race so far
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (329th RTFR - WESSEX R69SP @ AS Modified)
Most Aston cadet/south configs race wins: Lacko & CR|troy - 2 wins (Finland & Hungary & Switzerland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: B2マ M (+15 points) Event rating,standings and other statistics
Same with car mods - legal issues,every track will be needed to check for licenced content (if not track itself,maybe some 3D models of buildings etc),meaning there will be so much more manpower and time required - something that has been done with volunteers with car mods.
The 8-track in Kyoto brought an extra question mark to the game - long straights surely benefitted the more powerful cars,however the few turns - lighter and also AWD cars. 24 drivers attended this round,which is again a new lowest number of the season,however 23 of them were standing on grid - one more than in round 2 at Rockingham. All the position switches happened from mid to back of the field as top3 finished in same order as they started,however 3rd place had to do some passing to return to his position.
J.Holmes recorded 2nd ever winning streak in RandomCar as he run away from competition slightly through whole race with his RB4,scoring for the car model it's 1st ever race win (and also 3rd pole position),while his fastest lap of the race was also the 1st ever for LFS's own AWD machine. By leading all 27 laps,the britton climbed up to the top of most laps led chart passing previous leader M. Unite got another winless car with a pole position in it's history - BZ30 Roadster brought him to 2nd place in results with 2.7 seconds gap to winner over the finish line. 136 was the only other driver to beat 1:07 laptime mark,but with FWD car he had some disadvantage on start,so he had to regain plenty of positions to return his XF Coupe to 3rd position - coincidentally finishing 3rd in back to back races with 2 different XF model versions.
With leader not attending the change at the top of the table was unavoidable - J.Holmes is now the new standings leader,15 points ahead of M. Another B2R driver 136 is still 3rd,currently 26 points off leader.
In teams championship status quo remains as top6 teams finished the latest round in exactly same order as they are in standings,therefor only points gaps were changed - B2R increased their advantage over 2nd position RGA by a single point to reach 38 points gap,S1dus lost 6 points in this round and is now 104 points apart from lead in 3rd place. For the 1st time this year nations championship leaders Lithuania was outscored in one round,however their lead is still big enough to not worry about losing position - 49 points gap over Finland in 2nd and 68 points gap over UK (round winner) is still a big margin. There is a change in manufacturers championship - XM-5 is the 1st car to have scored 6 results,therefor being the 1st to be eligible for championship,being placed on top of table with 11.8 points. 2nd best is BZ30,which has not reached the minimum scores yet,followed by XF Coupe in 3rd.
Saliva15 was the car of the round - it was drawn 6 times and 4 drivers were attending,however the most drawn car Talot did not received a single draw this round,but still leads most draws chart by 1 over BZ30 and Imprezzive B2. Before this round there were 2 drivers who had same car drawn 4 times,now this number has been doubled - Thehemuli had the Imprezzive B2 for the 4th time this round and Jsk got the Fend Torus for the 4th time in 5 latest rounds,tying T.Soini (also Imprezzive B2) and Motimoukari (Nortz XRT2) for most single car draws.
There were also plenty of changes for best results of cars - J.Holmes repeated best result in qualifying and set new best finishing result for RB4,improving Fast's best result by 1 position. Unite repeated BZ30's best finishing result with his 2nd place finish. Also 4th place finisher Madjester repeated best result for his car XM-5. With lots of draws it was bound that Arska's 17th position in qualifying and 18th in race will be improved - that was done by 3 drivers,best of them was Master,qualifying 4th and finishing 5th. Arska regained best racer's status for other car - he brought the Poscher to 5th in qualifying and 9th in finish,improving Yasin's 14th and 13th positions respectively. Motimoukari got the Dorito FD7 SR as the first driver and set the initial best results for it - 16th in qualifying and 12th in finish. Twincam improved only race result for Fend Torus - 14th place finish was 5 positions better than best result from Jsk. J.Katila was the one to get other improved Fend Torus T for the 1st time and brought it to 20th position in qualifying and 16th in finish. Sobis is still the only one to get drawn GT-V34 Mine9 and with 2nd draw he also used it,setting it's initial best results of 24th in qualifying and 19th in finish. Tbug improved best qualifying result for Roku Troeno by 10 positions (previous best by Tomce was 28th position) and was the 1st to start this car in race,placing 23rd.
Round 7 will take place 4 weeks after this round and will be run in custom configuration in Westhill - South Loop Extended (track provided by Unite). The track is expected to be completed in over 3 minutes - it is yet to be determined if the race will be 9 or 10 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:
RG^RedBoT
RG^RD2
AA™| Firestarter
tomce.
To be added back to car draw,these entries have to quote own entry post and add "Reactivate" to it.
No,it's really just what is accessible in console,nothing more. I would prefer at least like 3 days worth of log - just in case something needs to be checked (like last Crashmas where a guy joined with 2 accounts).
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)!
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We have run out of fingers of one hand counting scored years in RTFR - this was the "finger one of 2nd hand". The 6th year is also divided in 2 seasons,the first of those was concluded last tuesday,however without any intrigue for the 1st position in last race. This season started with a big bang - both in terms of numbers and... Well,we know what happened and we hope to not repeat that. The 1st race gathered up 42 drivers in qualifying,which is season highest attendance,later through the year attendance it dropped reaching the "low" 22 twice in last 4 races,averaging 31.75 drivers per round - that's 4 more than in previous season and over 11 more than all time average. A total of 81 drivers scored at least 1 point in this season,24 of them finished in top5 at least once,while there were 5 different race winners,2 of those attending just that single race they won.
RTFR 2024 Season 1 standings winner: B2マ M
Already before final round it was clear who will take the honor of being the best of 2024 season 1 - lithuanian driver using a single letter in his name won 4 races out of 12,finished 2nd in another 4,scoring an additional 4th place finish to finish the season 26 points clear of competition despite bad race in penultimate round and not attending the last one. Besides the frequent victory lane visits,M set the fastest lap in qualifying 4 times and in the race 6 times,climbing up to 15th position in all time success ranking. He was between best 9 in both seasons of 2023,5th in 2023 S2 was his previous best result.
The 2021 season champion R.Kardol scored his 6th overall standings podium this time,finishing 2nd for the 4th time in row. The dutchman won 2 races and finished 2nd 4 times,tying the champion for most top5 finishes in the season with 9. Another S1dus driver took the other side of the podium - Unite scored most 3rd place finishes through the season (3) and total of 6 top5 finishes with 2nd place finish as best result. It's the finn's 5th season podium in RTFR,2 of those were 2nd positions in the table.
The defending 4-champion Gábor (winner of last 3 seasons) repeated this season's champions count of race wins,but due low activity in the 1st half of the season he wasn't between candidates for the glory,but at least secured one 1st position in tables - the hungarian scored 5 pole positions,1 more than next best. The race winners list includes 2 further names - J.Holmes and Lagooga both won a race this season,however without attending other rounds,none of them made in top30 of overall standings.
This year there is only one off-season race before starting the 2024 season 2 on 16th july - this time the season will start with a road tyres using car,however any information about that will be published on weekend before the race. 1 week before that the RTFR XL season will start it's 2nd half in South City - the championship in longer RTFR version is longer and lasts through whole year and currently also here M is holding top position of the table with R.Kardol and Unite currently in positions 2 and 3.