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
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*GáboR
Last LX6 race won by: YES V. Laguckas (275th RTFR - SO Town Course)
Most LX6 race wins: R. Kardol & Lacko - 2 wins (Netherlands & Hungary & Finland - 2 wins)
Last Fern Bay race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (301st RTFR - SHARK C @ FE Black)
Most Fern Bay black config race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+41.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
PP - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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There are only 18 main hotlap rank combos where drivers decide between themselves who is the best hotlapper,one of them was run this tuesday in RTFR - the one with longest laptime and deffinitelly the one hardest to make right. LX6 alone is a handfull car to control,but visit at Fern Bay's longest config made it even worse,still 27 racers tackled the challenge in qualifying,25 of them were ready to start the 12 laps race.
Late in qualifying with his last attempt Mantas secured himself a front row start for the race,missing pole position by 0.04s. That was still 1 position better than his previous best result in qualifying,but with this his best RTFR event did not stop - after chasing hard for 4 laps,the lithuanian found a way past polesitter and took over the lead for the first time in this event series to lead last 8 laps. With this Mantas became the 78th driver to score a race win in RTFR,first since november of last year. The win was 3 positions better finishing result than previous best and 7th top5 finish. R.Kardol was the fastest in qualifying to score his 14th pole position,but race pace was not good enough to convert it into another win - the 2nd place finish is his 76th top5 finish. Fnatic qualified just 7th,but during the race found a lot of pace improvement to climb up to 3rd,which is 2 positions better than his only other top5 finish,during the race he also set the fastest lap of the race - that's his first such achievement in RTFR. Current rating and standings leader Gábor finished just 4th,losing some valuable points to his main rival,but his 46th top5 finish actually should be enough to not worry about losing lead in the final round of 2023 season 1. Top5 was closed by Arska,who scored his 19th top5 finish,1st this year.
VOD at Youtube:
With estimated (before proper calculations) 38 points gap over competition Gábor most likely does not even need to arive at 12th race of the 2023 season 1 as scoring such amount of points requires scoring all possible points in event with record attendance. Let's see if the mod car which is equipped with slicks at a sprint track will attract such numbers - more information about next combo can be heard when watching the broadcast recording. But that's something happening in 2 weeks,next week it's time to activate randomized,who will draw cars for drivers out of pool of 23 relativelly well balanced TBO class cars - yes,it's time for our newest series RandomCar,5th round of the inaugural season will be held in Aston North configuration. in 3 weeks however we will return to Fern Bay Black reversed,where XRT will be run in the next RTFR XL round.