The decade season opens in environment not visited for 5 years - Kyoto! Previous race in Kyoto was held in 2019 where the good old Formula V8 was run in roval configuration named National reversed,so why not celebrate the return in exactly same track which features both high speed oval section using roughly 80% of the oval itself and the infield section with very variating turns complexes. Setting car's aero for high speed will give you free pass over oval section,but you'll have hard time in infield,however with other way round you might be a sitting duck for competition - what will be your choice?

The 600 horsepower car is awaiting it's challengers - currently the signing up activity is low,however the list already includes 2 vice champions,so don't miss out the chance to put your name in the 10 years long history of V8 Racing League - either as polesitter,race winner or even series champion! Newcomers have the chance to become the best rookie of the season,while everyone else can be a vital part for their team or country on way to teams or nations championships.

Round info:
Track: KY National reversed (KY2R)
Laps: 39
Previous winners: v\A.Wiśniewski (2019)

VERL 2024 results and standings

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[FM]ˆStrutter - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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The decade season started in Kyoto,marking new car's first ever race in this environment. Signups list just before round start was missing all previous champions,so this sunday it was a start of 4 rounds long race for being crowned new champion,however any of previous champions still have a chance to join and get involved in the last 3 rounds. 13 drivers attended season opener,with all of them qualifying for the race and also standing on grid,however 5 drivers retired before reaching 2/3 of the distance,leaving just 8 drivers in points scorers table.

It was actually 2 in row for Zesty - the malaysian won the last race of the previous season and carried winning over to the new season,with this making a distinctive application for drivers championship. Zesty scored his 3rd pole position in qualifying,lost the lead early on,but just for 4 laps as he returned to lead to finish almost half a minute ahead of competition,scoring also his 3rd VERL race win. His teammate Unite joined the race winner on front row on grid,took over race lead for few laps until conceding race lead,however he kept his 2nd position alive. The vice champion of previous season Thehemuli qualified just 7th,but made a good progress in race to finish 3rd,which marks his 10th top5 finish in the league.


As always standings order after 1st round matches finishing order of 1st race - Zesty has 5 points advantage over Unite due taking both bonus points from 1st round,Thehemuli's gap to leader is 8 points. The other individual award currently is on hold - only a single rookie has finished a race so far,without 2nd rookie finishing race during season there will be no rookie of the year award.

The 2-time teams champions Team S1dus collected all possible 31 points from this round and logically takes the 1st position in table after round 1,defending champions RGA is already 18 points behind with Zafiralis in 3rd with 21 points gap. The defending 8-time nations cup winners Finland started also this season with highest points score,but their advantage over race winner's nation Malaysia is just 5 points now,Latvia is 3rd with 16 points gap.

Round 2 is pretty much a VERL classic - the own built challenging course in containers field of Blackwood. The 2.5 kilometer sprint track will punish drivers with tricky high speed 1st turn,various hairpins and few chicanes,most of that going over the bumpy surface of storage field. During 5 previous races,no driver has won here twice - will there be another 1st time winner?