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*R.Kardol
Last RB4 race won by: AA™| spiky (21st RTFR XL - BL Industrial Eurus)
Most RB4 race wins: 2 races,2 different winners (2 different countries)
Last Aston race won by: [WCL] J.Katila (51st RTFR XL - XRR @ AS GP)
Most Aston race wins: L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+10 points)
* PENALTIES :
[WCL] True Alpha - receives a WARNING for unnecessary and unrelated chatting during the race.
Iron|Doni - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation. Additionally he receives a WARNING for not yielding to a car racing at full speed when rejoining track from pitlane.
[FM]ˆﾁatass - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
CCR Cossi - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for avoidable incindent on lap 20.
RGˆDzidoris - receives a WARNING for not yielding to a car racing at full speed when rejoining track from pitlane.
RGˆRony - receives 5.03 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
oilburner - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
Additionally from organization side - Race Green Events urges all the racers desperate for communication during the race join any voice chat channels for your needs and leave the ingame chat free from unrelated chatter during the race. There are plenty of other options for communication,you are welcome to use even our Discord server's voice channels if needed. If the problem with chatting will persist in future,we'll be forced to close chat during the race completely and award penalties for infractions!
Same goes also for all the drivers retiring from race for whatever reason that happened - please DO NOT explain what happened or even start discussions about it! If you are so much in need to release steam or discuss incidents - use the same old Race Green Discord server or join broadcast stream and use the chat there (that might give even insight in incident for commentators).
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Yet another difficult combo was featured in RTFR XL race - the simple car/track combo maybe was not so tricky to race,but the well know RB4 tyre overheating trouble deffinitelly had a huge impact on pace for many drivers as they had to balance pace and tyre temperature for best overall performance during the 34 laps long race. Despite pessimistic prognoses of this being the least attended RTFR XL race of the year,there were a total of 29 attendees,from which 5 just set a laptime in qualifying and never joined the grid,while only 75% from 24 starters reached 1/3 of the race distance - all of them carried to the finish.
After good performance 4 weeks ago,R.Kardol had even better this week - there were no doubts about this race's winner and R.Kardol celebrated his 2nd win in row,starting his 2nd racewin streak in RTFR XL. It was his 6th overall RTFR XL racewin,while in qualifying he scored his 5th pole position,breaking the tie for 2nd most pole positions,during the race he set his 4th fastest lap of the race and finished in top5 for the 21st time. True Alpha finished 2nd for the 2nd race in row,this time not entering himself in the closest finishes chart - 8th top5 finish for him from 10 overall finishes. Unite started from front row,but could not keep the 2nd position through the race and finished 3rd,which is his 9th top5 finish here. Top5 was closed by 2 high climbers - Michal in 4th position,scoring his 8th top5 finish and Sean Lee in 5th position,who improved his only previous finish here by 2 positions.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With lower than average finishing rate of 75%,this race still was better than both previous RB4 races (64% and 72%),might had something to do with the fact,that this was 1st RB4 race in a standard configuration in RTFR XL.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Unite spent in pitstall 10.04 seconds without any work,just waiting for the mandatory 10 seconds running out,shortest legal pitstop by a good gap in this race.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Sean Lee started 14th and finished 6th,but due other's penalty got the additional position to be the field rusher of this race with 9 positions gain. Otherwise Michal would be on top as his +8 was higher rated due higher finishing position.
* HONORABLE MENTION :
Seeing this many penalties,organization this time would like to praise everyone staying trouble free and not getting involved in any incidents!
VOD at Youtube:
There is still no information about next RTFR XL in 4 weeks after this one,the 2nd place finisher still has to reply to PM here. Interestingly it will be last chance to choose the combo also for him as rules limit 3 choices per calendar year for each driver. But already next week normal RTFR returns and the combo is known there already - allthough until official announcement in the weekend only for those closely following broadcasts of the RTFR races.
