2024 series - round 9

Tuesday, 17th September
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Rockingham ISSC Long (RO4)
Race distance: 19 laps (62km)

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106827
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=3783268ZQ4KVSKC67

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - ROKU TROENO
2 RG^M@CI3K - DASH 46
3 ZFRL•Thehemuli - FZ70 4GTS
4 [WCL] T.Soini - STELLAR K61
5 ZFRL•LG-mies - ADDA AR-EIGHT V10
6 B2R 136 - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO
7 B2R Stiefla - FREUD SERRA
8 J.Holmes - IMPREZZIVE C8
9 [WCL]J.A.Katila - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
10 B2R TwinCam - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
11 [WCL] Arska - FXO Turbo
12 GT4tube - XF COUPE TURBO
13 SGR MadJester - BAVARIA A34 N POWER
14 ZFRL•Motimoukari - XF GARIS
15 Harri K. - 2020 HIRO CCF2
16 sidus unite - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
17 tBug - FRAUD WHEELER E2
18 O.A - XR GT Turbo
19 /SRP/ Master - XF COUPE TURBO
20 hermanni - XF TURBO 5
21 [MRc] jsk - XF TURBO 5
22 B2R Rejekt - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
23 VM.January - FEND TORUS T
24 mut - FRAUD 040
25 B2R M - N.400S
26 RG^Mandula - XF COUPE TURBO
27 S1DUS*GáboR - XR GT Turbo
28 [RDSR]Fearr - POSCHER CAYNAM 718
29 [PM] Jam 616 - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
30 dod1slaw - DORITO FD7 SR
31 kyr1l? - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO

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=3784132MS5X4Y5E5G

1 RG^LORENZO - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
2 #27 P.Pegasus - 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!

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Deadline for protests - wednesday,19:00 UTC

As expected this round did set a new record - this was the all time slowest race in almost 2 years short RandomCar history. The average speed was just 3.5km/h over 100,which is 2km/h slower than previous slowest race,held in custom track in Layout Square - an interesting switch right after the fastest race in series. With 20 starters on grid,this was on lower side side of attendance chart,however all 20 drivers completed the 50% of distance to be classified - a 100% finishing rate for 2nd race in row.

Arska received the LFS own built FXO for this round and used it well to achieve everything from a single round - he was fastest in qualifying to score his 2nd pole position (interestingly his other pole position was also with a LFS default car XRT and done also on round 9,just in previous season),led 15 of 19 laps and scored his 1st RandomCar race win. Another FWD car finished 2nd - GT4tube received the XF Coupe Turbo,which is based on other default LFS car,and steered it from 3rd position in qualifying to 2nd place in finish. Twincam had a great start with his all wheel drive CZR Luxury Sedan,jumping into strong lead right after green lights from outside of front row,however on longer term struggled with pace and dropped down to 3rd position in finish,repeating best results ever achieved with this car.


The championship top3 stayed in status quo after round 9 - 2 of them attended qualifying,but left server before race start,so J.Holmes still leads 2 lithuanians from B2R team by 12 points - M is 2nd and 136 is 3rd. A total of 7 drivers are still eligible for drivers championship (based on points amount possible if season's highest attendance is repeated). With double points available for season finale,J.Holmes may not finish more than 6 positions behind both main rivals,4 positions if better of them takes all 4 bonus points - with 4 wins the briton has advantage in any points tie scenario.

With 75 points gap between leaders in teams championship,the deal can be considered sealed - RGA has never scored high enough positions this season that might give the needed points count to close the gap even with double points system,however B2R should not leave this to a random chance. But the battle for 3rd position is heated up now - WCL overtook Zafiralis and has now 4 points advantage. Even closer is situation in nations championship - the defending champions Finland used well the 0 points round of Lithuania and slipped into 2 points lead. Also 3rd position sees a great competition ahead - Poland overtook UK and is just a single point ahead now. Also manufacturers championship saw a lead change - XF Coupe Turbo is leading the table over previous leader BZ30,with potential of FXO getting into mix with a good points score.

2 cars were drawn 3 times for this round - Nortz and XF Coupe,while 4 others got 2 draws. But all 4 most drawn cars were undrawn for this round.
Once again there were plenty of best results for cars - first of course is FXO's 1st pole position and 1st race win,Arska improved his own previous best (shared with Twincam) in qualifying by 1 position and Twincam's 3rd place finish. Thehemuli was just the 2nd driver to get FZ70 and with it improved his teammate's first results - 9th in qualifying halved the previous result,but 6th in race was 5 positions better. Dodislaw took away best result from other Zafiralis member - his Dorito FD7 SR results are 6th in qualifying (10 positions better) and 7th in race (5 positions improvement). Also his teammate Kyril set best results for his car - being 1st to run it there were no previous bests for Bavaria A30,which are now 4th in qualifying and 8th in race. Roku Troeno hasn't seen much action either,Rony got it for this round and set 13th in qualifying (5 positions improvement) and 10th in race (9 positions better). Madjester was the 2nd driver to use Bavaria A34,he was 11th in both sessions,which beats Unite's previous effort of 14th and 19th respectivelly in qualifying and race. Despite being drawn 7 times already,the Imprezzive C8 still hasn't seen race action - J.Holmes was the first to run it in qualifying,setting 7th position as initial best for the car.

The winner of this race still hasn't replied about his selection of track for season finale - he has options of either a custom layout set in Layout Square or anything but rallycross in Blackwood. Hopefully he replies until end of this week,otherwise we'll be forced to do some automatic selection based on previous activity in both RandomCar and RTFR. Season finale once again will be a 1 hour race with double points for finishing positions.