2023 series - round 4

Tuesday, 2nd May
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Kyoto National reversed (KY2R)
Race distance: 16 laps (82.2km)

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/102273
RandomCar spreadsheets: LINK

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!

The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3353286BPMCQWR5GZ

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - XF COUPE TURBO
2 RG^M@CI3K - CAMMERA 730 TURBO
3 [PM] Jam 616 - IMPREZZIVE B2
4 ZFRL•Thehemuli - VGI-6 TEDAVI
5 ZFRL•LG-mies - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
6 RG^LORENZO - XF TURBO 5
7 A.Valta - URC1
8 (kvsyenhoj) - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
9 YES V. Lakūnas - ACOSTA STARLIN
10 [WCL] T.Soini - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
11 [MRc] PedroBR - IMPREZZIVE B2
12 RD2 - URC1
13 S1DUS*R.Kardol - BZ30 ROADSTER
14 Vincent Adultman - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
15 Three Jump - FRAUD WHEELER E2
16 RG^NOSLE - XF COUPE TURBO
17 RG^Fαlcon - FZ50
18 [OH]Torpido - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
19 ZFRL•Motimoukari - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
20 S1DUS*FasT - VGI-6 TEDAVI
21 SIDUSN'T*uNite - MZG SEDAN
22 B2R 136mph - FXO Turbo
23 [WCL] Arska - VGI-6 TEDAVI
24 [WCL]J.A.Katila - VGI-6 TEDAVI
25 RG^RedBoT - XF TURBO 5
26 [MRc] Texas - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
27 dod1slaw - VGI-6 TEDAVI
28 kyr1l - COQUETTE Z5
29 B2R Mantas - FZ50
30 B2R Rayman - XR GT Turbo
31 Iron|Doni - IMPREZZIVE B2
32 B2R TwinCam - FRAUD WHEELER E2
33 PP - URC1
34 AA™| Gui - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
35 LLM. Sobis - BZ30 ROADSTER
36 [OH]McWer - Raceabout 06
37 Adam - XF COUPE TURBO
38 Konfl1ct - XF TURBO 5
39 B★S`NoScOpE - IMPREZZIVE B2
40 Jamf - N.400S
41 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - URC1

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)!

The 2nd car draw wave scheduled for today 16:40 UTC / 18:40 CET / 19:40 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3354458CKRTV9JAZT

1 [FR] Raigs - XF TURBO 5
2 max max - MZG SEDAN
3 Denialator - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
4 W33D - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
5 FUR M. Neiva - N.400S
6 FUR V. Veloso - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023

This post will be edited after draw to add car names to drivers!
Signups are closed for this round,will be opened after the race!

Qualifying:


Race:


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Deadline for protests - wednesday,20:00 UTC

PENALTIES:
Denialator - receives 10 seconds added to finish time for pit entry line violation.

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The first RandomCar race at somewhat faster track was held at Kyoto's roval configuration named National and regarding winner there was no surprise - the Ultimate Road Car keeps dominating the racing and since it was used by 2 drivers at same race for the 1st time ever,it happened to take a double victory,making itself still unbeaten. With this trend it will receive another set of extra kilograms for next round and if max possible restriction does not slow it down enough,the car's future in this league will start draw question marks.

Series newbie Ayoub Maroc got the URC right at his 1st round and got used to the car quickly enough to upgrade his 3rd position in qualifying to 14 lead laps out of 16 and race win. However his win was everything else than easy as 2 cars were chasing him whole race long,the closest one was fellow URC racer with experience with this car - RD2 won series' 1st ever race with this car and tried to convert his 2nd draw of this car into 2nd win,but never really found a way past,so he clocked the closest finish in league's history by finishing 0.14 seconds behind race winner. The bulgarian set the fastest lap of the race,scoring his 2nd one of these as the 1st ever driver. Fastest in qualifying for the 3rd time in row was Mantas,scoring this achievement with 3rd different car,however during the race he could only follow the URC duo and finished less than a second behind winner in 3rd position.

The current standings leader did not get a great race with his Acosta,but still scored a decent set of points by finishing 8th to keep lead in standings as his closest rival had even worse race - Fast is still 2nd,but now 10 points behind lead,Nosle jumped into 3rd position with 12 points gap to lead.

The top3 in teams championship are still the same - S1dus leads,but their lead was reduced to 20 points and closest rival is now B2R,who overtook RGA with highest points score in RandomCar. RGA also outscored table leaders,but just by 2 points to get to 21 points gap in standings. No real changes at the top of nations cup - Lithuania keeps pulling away from competition as they have extended their lead to 50 points. Finland is still in stable 2nd position,but best of the rest is now 1 driver nation Luxembourg. With 4 out of 4 wins,URC of course leads manufacturers standings and their gap is increased to 30 points over FXO. 3rd position has changed however - Imprezzive took over the last podium position step and is 39 points behind leaders.

When looking at the stats,we can see that few cars happened to be drawn more often than others - the AWD Imprezzive is currently drawn most with 17 draws,followed by Talot with 15 draws. 8 drivers already have been drawn same car twice,most prominent seems to be 136mph who got the FXO twice out of car's total of 7 draws. The 4th round set not only new race average speed record of 133km/h but also was the 1st race with 100% finishing percentage as all 29 drivers completed at least half of the race distance.

End of the 1st half of the season will be run in the Aston - North seems to be one of the most popular user selections in RTFR XL,so it's no wonder it was selected also in RandomCar. The race will feature lowest number of laps in the series - 14. Next week the server will be returned to it's original duties - the next 2 weeks of RTFR will feature 2 different LFS's own GTR cars,which and where will be run on coming tuesday,will be announced this week in it's info thread.

Regarding the performance of the cars: It's difficult to judge. Some are fast on a straight but slow in the corners, for others it's very much the oppsite (driving the Fraud against some other cars on the straight was ridiculous). This makes it also very hard to judge braking zones and corner speeds of your opponents when racing. Some cars also seem to be easier to drive than others. Having that said I think we need to think about a better method to balance cars and maybe even drop some outlier cars (or class them together, so race A is just cars from class 1 and race B is only class 2). Rally cars come to mind here (Fraud, Talot, Starlin). Unless the URC is tamed, it should be removed though. A limited number on cars might also help the less skilled "setup-developers" or more time restricted drivers to close up the gaps between cars as having someone driving the same car / sharing setup is more likely.