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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 UF1 race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (50th RTFR XL - FE Gold)
Most UF1 race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 3 wins (Finland - 3 wins)
Last Aston race won by: [FM]ˆNumber (66th RTFR XL - FORMULA RC11 @ AS Grand Touring)
Most Aston race wins: L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*Botsi & [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (+13.5 points)
2023 standings after 2 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 52
[FM]ˆﾁαtαι - 43
ZFRL•Thehemuli - 26 Event rating and other statistics
It's a S1DUS 1-2 in Aston Cadet with the UF1000 machinery! 🔥🔥🚗 GáboR triumphs after 68 laps of racing, ahead of teammate Rik Kardol, 6 seconds behind.👍 Ric98 completes the podium, he managed to beat J.Pickard on the line, just 4 tenths between them! 😱 B2ﾏ's TwinCam completes the TOP 5! 5️⃣
This race was just another proof of variations in this event - a month ago we raced a high speed single seater,just like a week ago in the shorter version of the event. And yesterday - the slowest standard car of LFS,the 55 horsepower compact car,which could not even exceed 100km/h average race speed yesterday. And despite variations between the last 2 races,we have a back to back winner.
There was no real competition in this race for the hungarian Gábor,who was the only one to beat the 1:07 laptime mark and he did that in both sessions,setting same best laptime. Even if he led just 2 laps more than half of the full distance,there were no doubts about winner even if his advantage in finish was everything else than dominating - 6 seconds. Gábor scored his 5th RTFR XL race win,tying his teammate Litti for all time 3rd most. He also scored his 6th pole position (now sole 3rd most),5th fastest lap of the race (tied 4th most) and 13th top5 finish. R.Kardol led the remaining laps during the race,taking over race lead due different pitstop strategy,returning the lead to the rightful owner with 2 laps to go. With this the dutchman extended his lead in most top5 finishes chart by scoring his 37th and also he extended his lead in 2023 standings as his only close rival did not attend. The other Ric had his best ever RTFR XL performance - he qualified 4th improving his best previous effort by a single position,while his 3rd place finish was 2 positions better than his only other previous top5 finish. Also J.Pickard had his best ever qualifying in RTFR XL - 2nd place is an improvement by 2 positions,however his race did not go so well and he slipped down to 4th position in finish,scoring his 3rd top5 finish. Twincam joined the improvers club too - 5th place in both qualifying and race is a position better than previous best in both sessions - and he is also the first irishman to finish in top5.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
During this race a driver exceeded 500 laps led mark,but it was not the race winner - R.Kardol leads this chart since 73rd RTFR XL and this was already the 21st race where he led at least a lap. His success rate however sinks under 50% - he won "just" 10 of these 21 races.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
In most cases this mention seems to go to Finland and this race was no difference - Thehemuli stopped for 10.10 seconds without any pitwork.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
There were not much high positions movers in this race,still many improved - Lorenzo had the highest climb with a +7 positions effort. However he finished just 18th.
VOD at Youtube:
Next RTFR XL as per schedule is in 4 weeks,however at this point it's unknown where and which car will be used - with mods available for selection,there are a lot of options. But it's known what will be run next week in normal RTFR - a standard LFS's home made road legal car,which will be quite a classic combo,as always full details in the weekend.
