Hello,racers!

The new year has started and in same day the year number has changed,we'll ready to announce the plans for RTFR in the 2025 - it will again consist of 3 seasons,2 of RTFR on each half of the year and one for RTFR XL lasting whole year long. The best through these scored seasons again receive money prizes,once again kindly sponsored by World Class Lions team. Full details can be found in Sponsorship document.

For season standings the same points system will be used as in the evergoing rating system - for full details hower mousepointer over rating sheet's green colored title bar,here are the links to both spreadsheets: RTFR and RTFR XL.

Some key information points:

* Just like in past 3 years,also this year RTFR will be divided into 2 seasons - first of those will start right on the coming tuesday,the 7th january and will last for 12 rounds until 10th june,then RTFR will have 3 off-season events which will be simply just for fun and single race winning glory. Season 2 this year will be just 10 rounds long,starting on 5th august and ending on 9th december,while the year will end with another standings free event on 23rd december. During the seasons we will keep as before a 50/50 ratio between LFS original cars and user created content,mostly using mods with approved status,however in off-season races we might try something more unusual.

* After experimental prizing system last year,this RTFR XL season will return to scoring system of 2022-2023 - from the 12 rounds during the scored season,only best 10 scores will count towards standings,meaning a failure or two won't affect overall result. As always the winner will have the honor of selecting combo for next race - these selections are limited to 2 per calendar year and once someone has selected a combo,the lockout of selection ends only with end of winning streak (no back to back selections possible). Couple of minor changes in selection - car will be now locked out for 5 races (before it was 4) and track environment will be locked out for 2 races (only 1 before).

* Points system stays the same - each event has it's own system,both however are very similar. RTFR keeps the base of 20 points for winner based on 20 (or less) starters,where each 3 starters more than 20 adds 1 point to winner's gain. RTFR XL has additional attendance based base score increasement,which 2022 reached the same 20 points for winner - if 5 races in row have more or less attendees in race than current base score,it get's increased or decreased by 1. Not affecting the yearly standings which leads to money prizes is the ever going rating,which puts up on top of the table most successful racers in last 15 races in RTFR and last 12 races in RTFR XL. In both of those ratings the latest 2/3 of races count fully,but the oldest 1/3 of scores are halved.


Both events have been entered into lfs.net racing calendar,where the combos will be updated as soon as possible - the currently set "XFG at BL1" is simply a placeholder. Info about each event will be posted in this forum subsection as it was always done previously in the information threads.


For past 4 years RTFR and RTFR XL were honored by having a great promotion through livestream by the best broadcasting company around LFS - Sim Broadcasts. With sponsors support,the broadcasting will continue also for 2025,giving a great chance for people not in race to follow the action live and to racers in the race - relive the action from the spectators view. SB.tv will broadcast by availability all races that are part of standings,taking a break in summer when the non-championship race will be held.

Additionally you can visit SimBroadcasts.tv for their full streaming schedule and contact details,or their lfs.net forum thread for local updates.