A reminder - 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
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*GáboR
Last XRT race won by: S1DUS*uNite - 2 wins in row (291st RTFR - RO Extended ISSC RGE)
Most XRT race wins: Agent - 3 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Last Layout square race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (323rd RTFR - PZG COMPACT @ LA FoRGE Viaduct 8)
Most Layout square race wins: only 1 race so far
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+44 points)
After 2 well attended rounds,this one suffered a minor setback - the LFS classic XRT racing in a custom circuit layed in the Layout square did not seem to be an appealing combination for many usual RTFR guests. 22 drivers started the race,marking the lowest number of this relativelly new year,however most of them had their share of fun during the race as you can see on livestream recording - there were plenty of battles for positions.
To defend the honor of track builders,team S1dus arrived with 3 of their most regular drivers in this racing series,2 of them were main favourites for taking the race win and keeping the team's winning streak in races with XRT alive. R.Kardol was beaten in qualifying,so he had to start from outside of front row,however he kept following the polesitter early in the race until he found a way past him - the dutchman took over race lead on lap 8 and kept it for the remaining 11 laps to score his quarter-century race win,setting also fastest lap of the race when trying to run away - that's R.Kardol's 18th of those,while he also started the 2nd century of top5 earning by scoring his 101st. Gábor was the fastest in qualifying,scoring his 39th pole position,but unlike in most races latelly,he was not able to use it to score another win in his 100th RTFR race - the hungarian had to settle for 2nd place finish,scoring his 76th top5 finish. However he put this race in history books for other reason - finishing just 0.3 seconds behind race winner,this was the 18th closest finish between all 353 races. Adam scored his best ever qualifying position by being the 3rd fastest in session,improving his personal best by a single position,despite some struggles during the race he returned in the same position for the race finish,repeating his best race result and scoring his 6th top5 finish. Also Thehemuli started his 100th RTFR race and also he was able to put the anniversary race into top5 counting position - he finished 4th being included in same position fights as both in front and behind him drivers,scoring his 18th top5 finish,top5 was closed by the slowest trackowners driver of the day - Unite scored his 93rd top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week RTFR takes a break and leaves the server free for some RandomCar action - round 2 of the season will be run in a custom track at Fern Bay,which is very similar to Black Alternate configuration,however it does not use the track part with original starting grid and pitlane,cutting the track over Cadet's connection between roads. In 2 weeks RTFR will return as usually with one of the slick tyre cars - some information about combo can be heard in the livestream recording in video above. In 3 weeks RTFR XL will feature one of the most difficult cars from approved cars list - the wild McLarry D8M will be make the list complete by being featured now in all 3 RTFR versions (including the neglected RTFR CCCC). The drivers will have to tackle Aston's 8 kilometers long Historic configuration for estimated 33 laps (lapcount will be calculated using fastest laptime of qualifying session).