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
GABOR wins in the Kyoto Ring!! 🔥🔥😎
After 1 h & 16 min of hard racing between the bends of Kyoto Ring, the S1dus ace mastered the Formula Americas car, counterpart of the Indycar series car.
It was a close contest with teammate Rik Kardol, who finished just 2 sec behind the leader. 😱
Poleman FM's Fatal tried to resist the S1dus offensive, but had to surrender in the end, finishing 3rd! 👍
Around 50 sec from the lead finished MRC Zesty, who edged out FM's Number in the final few laps, for the Top 5. 🚗
Full Race Recap & Results coming later in 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.
