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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: A.Valta
Last FZR race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (306th RTFR - SO Chicane Route)
Most FZR race wins: Agent & RGˆRony & YES V. Laguckas - 2 wins (Latvia & Finland - 3 wins)
Last Blackwood race won by: ｢ﾏｧ｣ TJ (338th RTFR - MRT @ BL RGE Container Sprint)
Most Blackwood historic configs race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Lithuania & Netherlands - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+7.5 points)
FZR racing in Blackwood might sound very classic and give a feeling of having done that many times before. But it's not the case in RTFR as yesterday it was the very first FZR's visit to Blackwood in this event series - the only previous FZR race here under this logo was done back in 2017,when RTFR XL hosted race with this car in Blackwood's GP track. Yesterday we run the version without chicane,where laptimes are just 5-6 seconds over a minute,giving another reason for fast paced race feeling. A total of 30 drivers attended this race - 11 more than all time average of FZR races.
A.Valta entered himself into RTFR history books as the 17th driver to score back to back races - the current standings leader started from outside of front row,slipped into lead on backstraight during 1st lap and led rest of the race,holding off polesitter's few overtake attempts. The finn scored his 9th RTFR race win,which puts him into 10th position in all time success rank,rounding up his top5 count to quarter century. The all time success rank leader Gábor was the fastest in qualifying as expected for a world record holder in this combo,scoring his 33rd pole position (1 less than all time highest),however his race pace was not up to performance to convert pole position in win,so the hungarian had to settle for 2nd place finish,scoring his 67th top5 finish,on the way setting also fastest lap of the race - his 33rd. Another milestone was reached by Unite,who finished 3rd - with this he scored 86th top5 finish to tie for all time 2nd most of these. 136 finished 4th to score his 5th top5 finish,Arska closed the top5 to score his 32nd top5 finish with his 100th RTFR race finish.
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Next up on RGE schedule is round 2 of VERL 2024 season - this sunday we will be racing the 600 horsepower single seaters in much different Blackwood track,full information and signups in VERL forum section. RTFR XL follows 2 days later on coming tuesday - the car well known from Retro Cup will be run in it's full performance mode on Aston's longest configuration in reversed direction. Full information will be posted on friday. Info about next normal RTFR combo was mentioned during this week's broadcast - a rather slow car will be run on other configuration of Aston,more details as always will be posted on weekend before it.