* PENALTIES :
W/ kyr1l? - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for unsupported equippment (configuration with lightbar).
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A custom configuration in Fern Bay hosted the 2nd round of RandomCar 2025 Series and it went pretty much under sign of LFS's own XRT - the classic front engined rear wheel drive coupe was drawn to 3 drivers,one run only during pre-round practice,set the fastest laptime,but never joined the actual event,other 2 were best 2 drivers of the round,switching positions and leading laps. 25 drivers qualified for the race,which is pretty much league's all time average attendance,one of them was so displeased with the car,did not start while other driver retired from race,leaving us with 23 finishers. Despite several complaints about drawn cars,no driver has still used the redraw option,available once per season.
The leading duo was joined by 3rd driver with different car,however it was still decided by XRT drivers - the 2nd place starter Master led the latest 7 laps of the 11 laps race and despite competition's attempts was able to defend race lead also during the hectic last lap,clinching his 1st ever RandomCar race win (previous best was 5th place). For 2nd race in row,the 2nd position in finish is Dodislaw,who started the race from pole position (his first),but led just 4 laps before conseding to rival,finishing less than half a second apart race winner. If he would not have sinned with forbidden config,podium would have seen 2nd place finishers teammate on it,however after penalty kicked in,Twincam was promoted to 3rd position in official results,repeating his personal best result,this time running Piran Firefly.
2 second place finishes and several bonus points puts Dodislaw into commanding 10 points lead in drivers standings,2nd currently is 2023 series champion R.Kardol,who got a car quite unsuited for the twisty Fern Bay track,costing him standings lead. Just 2 points away from 2nd position are Nosle and Thehemuli,the former is ahead on tiebreaker for better finishing position.
Drivers standings leader's team has also taken over the lead in teams standings - Sosiski racing is 2 points ahead of defending vice champions and 2023 champions RGA,Team S1dus is 3rd with 12 points gap to leaders. No change in top of nations standings,2-time champions Finland has also lost some ground and are trailing by 9 points now,Poland has jumped up to 3rd position now. Following success in this round,XRT has taken over best car award standings lead and is now 6 points ahead of Nortz. Fraud Wheeler and LFS's own licenced real world car Raceabout are 3rd and 4th in points tie.
29 cars were drawn for this round for 43 drivers,however 18 of them did not attend,so the field represented 21 different cars in this round. The favourite car for the randomizer this time was XM-5,which was drawn for 4 drivers,3 of them were present on the grid. Talot remains all time most drawn car even without a single draw for this round.
Master did not score 1st win just for himself,but also for his car - XRT's previous best race result was 3rd,achieved by Nosle and Arska. N.400S' best qualifying result before this round was 6th position,also achieved by 2 different drivers Pedro and Fnatic,now it was improved by Kyril,who qualified 3rd - with his penalty he missed secured new best finishing result for the car,which stays 5th place finish. R.Kardol's results with Fend Torus also went into series history as best ever - 10th in qualifying is 4 positions better than J.Lavrikov's achievement while 11th place finish is just a position better than Arska's result.
Round 3 will be run in Kyoto - in a configuration that's a bit shorter than the one used last year. The 3.19km configuration known as Kyoto North consists of the oval's turn 2 and infield section and it will be run in anti-clockwise direction. Also BZG coupe has been nominated for voting which will take place after next round together with 2 other cars not nominated yet.
Have fun.