Tuesday, 8th April
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Information:
Track: Kyoto North ACW (KY2X)
Race distance: 21 laps (67km)
Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110337 (closes 30 minutes before qualifying start)
RandomCar spreadsheets (with cars list,their balancing and all results/standings): LINK
Cars list and their balancing is available also in server - type command !opt and select "RandomCar Info"
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (access the times table via command ;tt )
Server will be passworded at least 1 hour before qualifying,server pass: random
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
Cars will be drawn in 2 waves:
1st wave - 24 hours before start of qualifying
2nd wave - 20 minutes before start of qualifying - for late signups
Draw link and results will be posted in this thread!
Car redraw option:
Each driver receives one chance during the season to redraw the car that has been drawn. This option can be used only if car has been drawn during 1st wave of cars draw and the driver will be added to list of 2nd wave of cars draw. Please note that redrawing car means a 2.4% chance of drawing the same car also with 2nd try - in that case the driver has to use the drawn car and the redraw option will be reactivated for new use in future round. Option availability is marked in Drivers championship tab in spreadsheets right behind driver's name (✓ = available,x = not available). To use the option,write here a post with word "Redraw" before signups closure for round (16:30UTC)!
This post will be edited after draw to add cars names to drivers!
New signups will receive their cars drawn in 2nd wave (20 minutes before qualifying)!
(1) R.Kardol is already on inside of turn 2,contact happens because Dennis leaves too little space for a car on inside line.
(2) R.Kardol brakes a bit too late and hit's rear of Dennis' car,a minor contact which should be avoided.
(3) R.Kardol brakes a bit too late and hit's rear of Dennis' car,causing additional contact after initial one.
(4) 2 drivers not leaving space to each other and exchanging contacts without effort avoiding them.
* PENALTIES :
S1DUS*R.Kardol - receives a warning for several avoidable contacts.
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RandomCar's 4th visit to Kyoto was run in the base version of the custom configuration known under name "North",previously used in other direction with additional hairpins. The track with it's rather faster turns deffinitelly benefitted cars with more mechanical grip,especially during the race granting them more pace consistency than to cars with higher weight and narrower tyres. The round actually attracted highest number of drivers since 2023 round 3 and repeated for both qualifyers count and starters count the 2nd highest number of all time in the league.
3 drivers got the LFS's own RB4 and all of them qualified themselves in top5 - this eventually resulted in all 3 of them leading the field,however the constant battling between themselves probably resulted in lower pace and also higher tyre temperatures,which very likelly cost any of them chances for race win - a brazilian driver starting from 7th position advanced through the field and took the race lead with 1/3 of the race to go,keeping the lead to cross the finish line as winner for the first time in RandomCar. With this TJ put the Talot in victory lane for it's 3rd time - this car is only the 2nd one with more than 2 race wins. Ayoub started from even lower position - 12th,but also got the pace improvement during the race,climbing all the way up to 2nd position in finish. From leading trio of RB4s only one driver made to the podium - Adam,who was the slowest in qualifying with the specific car,made it to the highest position,leading 3 laps on the way.
With the XM-5 standings leader did not show high performance in the round 3 - he finished just outside top10. With this Dodislaw lost almost all of his lead and now has just a single point advantage in standings table over 2023 champion R.Kardol. Thehemuli in 3rd also cut some gap to table lead away and is now 7 points apart leader.
In teams standings the previous leaders were "freight-trained" by 3 teams,pushing them down to 4th position - new leaders are Team S1dus,who are 5 points ahead of defending champions B2R - both these teams scored 40 points in this round. RGA scored just half of that and dropped down a position in table to hold 3rd with 10 points gap. There is a new leader also in nations standings - the defending 2-time champions Finland have taken over lead and is 12 points ahead of previous leaders,Netherlands is the new 3rd,already 30 points away from leaders. Despite not being even drawn for this round,best car table is still led by XRT,currently 3 points ahead of 2 cars - Fraud Wheeler and XM-5.
49 drivers were active in this round and randomizer drew 28 different cars,interestingly drawing 7 different cars 3 times each,Talot still being all time favourite for randomizer with 48 overall draws,4 more than Acosta - both receiving one draw for this round.
Just 2 drivers improved all time best results for cars,both setting 4th position in each session - in qualifying Twincam was 4th fastest with VPI-3 which is a single position better than R.Kardol's previous best achievement,but MousemanLV finished 4th with Dorito SR,which is 3 positions better than Dodislaw's result.
4th round will be 1st ever RandomCar's visit to standard configuration of Westhill - previous 2 were in different custom configurations,which used the actual racetrack just partially. The 4.4 kilometer national configuration was selected to be run in reversed direction,the race will be 17 laps long,resulting in the highest race distance this season. Between rounds 3 and 4 there will be voting for a new additional car for series - each of 3 race winners submitted their selections,which will join 2 best car from previous voting and a car selected by organizer,the voting will be posted soon in our Discord server.