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
Link to car mod: MGR V8 GTR
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: YES V. Laguckas - 2 wins in row
Last MGR V8 GTR race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (54th RTFR XL - RB4 @ AS North Rev.)
Most Aston race wins: L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+32 points)
2022 standings after 3 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
YES V. Laguckas - 76
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 60
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 57 Event rating and other statistics
* PENALTIES :
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ IVA - receives 8.90 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
(FJ) Young - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
RGˆM@CI3K - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
lerssi - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 3 occasions.
lerssi - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for dangerous driving (including reversing on track) under mechanical conditions (blown tyre[s]). Future misconducts might lead to bigger penalty.
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Another previously untested mod featured in this RTFR XL - the GTR class car called MRG V8 GTR made it's debuth in organized racing and proved to be very close to original LFS GTR class regarding laptimes,despite being less powerful but also lighter. The car delivered it's own handling characteristics and new challenges to experienced GTR racers. With official number of 38 participants this car will take the 1st position in most attended cars chart. Despite few questionable incidents,no actual reports/protests were received,so everyone seems to have accepted the mishaps being racing incidents.
The seasoned GTR driver mr. Alpha returned to RTFR XL after 4 unattended races and put himself into history books as the 1st winner using this car allthough the win did not came easily - he was in chaser position for most of the race and led just 1/3 of race laps,making the pass for lead in final lap - the finn scored his 3rd RTFR XL racewin. He also scored his 3rd fastest lap of the race and 11th top5 finish. V.Laguckas was fastest in qualifying and scored his 5th pole position,tying Litti for 3rd most pole positions,but could not convert this into 3rd racewin in row despite leading 2/3 of the laps,including the penultimate lap - 2nd place finish is the 8th top5 finish in account of the lithuanian. 2nd most successful driver of RTFR XL R.Kardol finished 4th,but got promoted to last podium step - extending the leading count of top5 finishes chart to 29. Fatal blasted directly out on track after completing pitstop and earned himself the position deciding penalty to be scored 4th in final results,that's 4th top5 finish for him,Rony closed the top5 and scored his quarter-century of top5 finishes.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Aston North configuration seems to be an obvious favourite between all Aston configurations - from 13 RTFR XL races run in Aston,7 were selected to be run in this exact configurations,bigger half of them in reversed direction. South City's longest configuration is a close 2nd with 6 selections.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Only 2 drivers did not had any pitwork during their only pitstop - Jaroslav Dohnalík was the better one of them with a 10.09 seconds pitstop,beating the pit clocking veteran by 1/10 of a second.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Starting from behind gives one a good advantage over others when it comes to opportunity of gaining positions - Young started from the 37th position and gained a total of 21 positions between start and finish.
VOD at Youtube:
The combo of the 65th RTFR XL is currently unknown as this specific winner is never really fast answering the messages,so it will be announced later - when received in our discord channel,here at first opportunity. But next week we will use majority of the same track as this week,but with very influencing addition - more details as always in the upcoming weekend. Besides RTFR,RGE organizes also other races - currently we're in a phase of public testing for the upcoming edition of Westschleife event,which will be most likely another 300 kilometers long edition. Cars list (32 ready cars plus few candidates) and more info currently available only in our discord server (link in opening post of this thread) in according channel.
