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).
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: YES V.Lakūnas
Last XRT race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (49th RTFR XL - KY National)
Most XRT race wins: 3 races,3 different winners (3 different countries)
Last Fern Bay race won by: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (70th RTFR XL - LX4 @ FE Black Rev.)
Most Fern Bay race wins: 9 races,9 different winners (Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+29.5 points)
2023 standings after 5 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 103
S1DUS*GáboR - 81
[WCL] Arska - 64 Event rating and other statistics
SOLO win by MANTAS, who triumphs in the 78th RTFR XL race with a huge 17 seconds lead over Rik Kardol of S1dus
3rd place for one of Race Green's drivers, it's NOSLE who gets a great third place! Irondoni stormed from the back to grab a solid P4, ahead of the second RG driver, Mandula
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Mantas - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
RGˆNOSLE - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
AS™| Yasin - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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This tuesday the RTFR XL featured another bottom half car in the popularity table - XRT,a pretty much standard for front engined rear wheel driven sports coupe in LFS. Still the somewhat lower than average in last 2 years attendance was higher than car's all time average. Unfortunatelly the racing was not really action packed,still there were plenty of battles through the race.
The day went under the star of Mantas - he was the fastest in qualifying and led 2/3 of the race to finish 1st and collect the fastest lap of the race. Even if the performance wasn't really dominating,he still picked up all possible achievements for the 1st time in one race. It was already his 2nd RTFR XL race win,3rd pole position and the fastest lap of the race was his 1st. It was the 4th top5 finish for the lithuanian. The current rating and 2023 standings leader R.Kardol was the other driver to lead the race,but the pace was not enough and he finished 2nd for the 5th time this year,scoring also his 39th top5 finish,marking exact half of all RTFR XL races. Doni did not really put much effort in qualifying,but increased it heavily in race by finishing 3rd - that's a repeat of his best RTFR XL finish result and his 5th top5 finish. Nosle was the one who crossed the finish line 3rd,but was caught ignoring the pit exit line,so the 10 second penalty put him down to 4th position in final results,still it's an upgrade by 9 positions compared to his only previous RTFR XL finish. Mandula returned to the event after more than half a year break and did exactly the same as in the shorter RTFR version on his return - he finished 5th,which is his 7th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
There aren't much events using combos available for S1 licence owners anymore,this however was one of few. The fun fact in this is that previous S1 combo in this event series was also run on same Fern Bay configuration and all 3 previous S1 combos were run using LX4 car.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
10.07 seconds was the length of shortest work free,made by Michal,who had some slight competition though as it was just 0.06s shorter than 2nd best result.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
The 3rd place finisher Doni started from 17th position,which means a gain of 14 positions in the race - 10 more than 2nd best effort.
VOD at Youtube:
Next RTFR XL will be held using another standard LFS car - the only street legal real world car in our simulator known under the name Raceabout. The finnish made car will be run on the high speed configuration of Aston National,which will be the 2nd race held on this track - previous time was in 14th RTFR XL,where it was run with another real world car FBM. But that's something in 4 weeks,next week RTFR will be on the off-season mode,so the combo will be announced just on sunday,but the 2nd tuesday from now is the RandomCar day,where the colorful field will be run on custom layout at Layout Square.
