NOTE ABOUT RACE DISTANCE:
Due lack of activity in laptime testing in past for the custom combos,it has been decided to give an estimated lapcount in information. The actual lapcount will be announced after qualifying as it will be calculated using fastest laptime in qualifying (same rule as always - minumum lapcount to exceed 75 minutes).
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: S1DUS*GáboR - 3 wins in row
Last FUND MUTSAND GT3 race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Westhill race won by: B2ﾏ M (86th RTFR XL - PROTECH 92 GT3 @ WE International rev.)
Most Westhill race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & B2ﾏ M - 2 wins (Lithuania - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*uNite (+6.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
kyr1l? - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
W/ jordan - receives 10.85 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
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The new season of RTFR XL started with a car many did not like when starting the testing,but it still produced intense racing in the shorter configuration of Westhill. Even if the racing calmed down in the 2nd half of the race,lacking experience with car cought quite few drivers with tyre wear estimation - many underestimated the car's impact on it's rubber layer and needed to pit for 2nd time to put a new set on,in many cases already after blown tyre[s].
The second paragraph of the sum up of race is starting to get very repetitive - for the 4th time the same driver is fastest in both qualifying and race,including the fastest lap of the race. Gábor put himself into stats recordings as the 3rd driver to win 4 RTFR XL races in row,tying the record originally set by L.Paddewwa and repeated by M less than a year ago. Even if at one point of the race it looked like the streak will be ended,the other front row starter Jordan made a crucial mistake by destroying a tyre with 5 laps to go while being in lead,but since he made an error in pitlane by making too short pitlane,he decided simply to quit without trying to recover... Gábor however nursed his tyres with paper thin thread during the last few laps and crossed the finish line as race winner,adding 14th race win,16th pole position,15th fastest lap of the race and 24th top5 finish to his stats,additionally scoring also the 20th pole position for Hungary. As a great example how close at the end everything was,winners teammate reduced the big lead to just over 3 secods over finish line - R.Kardol finished 2nd,scoring his 53rd top5 finish. Dodislaw joined the XL version of RTFR just for the 3rd time and set new personal bests - 4th place in qualifying already was an improvement of 5 positions,however finish result was an improvement of 8 positions as he finished 3rd compared to 11th he achieved 3 races ago. 2 drivers got promoted up a position due other driver's penaly - Jsk is scored 4th,which is a repeat of the better of his 2 previous top5 finishes,Falcon is 5th in results to score his 4th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
GTR class cars seems to be the most popular in RTFR XL - with official attendance number of 36,the Fund Mutsand GT3 ties other GT3 car for 2nd position in most attended cars chart. Now 7 of top8 cars in this chart belongs to various GTR classes and 3 of top5 - to GT3,however only XRR in 8th position has been raced twice.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Some drivers finished the race on same set of tyres,some without refuelling,but neither managed to do both - every pitstop had some work in it,the shortest this time was Hachiroku's pitstop where he refuelled the car for 10.08 seconds. In all fairness - the driver however retired after crash,caused by tyre failure with less than 4 laps to go. Shortest pitstop between drivers who finished the race was Hermanni's 11.54 seconds,but also he did not complete full race distance as he was lapped 3 times. Between drivers who completed full race distance,3 managed to clock identical 13.18 seconds pitstop by changing all 4 tyres.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Low qualifying result many times has been helpful to get mentioned here,same happened also this week as tbug started from 33rd position and finished 14th to make a gain of 19 positions.
VOD at Youtube:
Top2 drivers from this race are locked out from selecting combo for next race (Gábor is still on winning streak,R.Kardol selected this combo),so the selection has been relayed to 3rd place finisher. And the decision has been already made - in 4 weeks the 98th RTFR XL will feature currently 3rd least popular car in series - Formula V8,which will be visiting Kyoto for the 3rd time in it's 6th appearance (most between all single seater cars),running the race in Kyoto's GP Track in reversed direction with race featuring 39 laps. Until then RGE will feature several other races - already this weekend AWS round 4 will be run with an electric version of LFS's XFR around Westschleifenring,full information of the round will be posted later this evening. 2 days later in tuesday RTFR will return with one of the street legal cars. Then in the week after than 2 different events will be run - the brand new World Rally Cup on monday and RandomCar on tuesday,where both are season opener rounds.
Server has custom laptimes tracker,access the table with command ;tt