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: jorpa
Last TROENO JGT race won by: First race with this car
Last Westhill race won by: A.Valta (347th RTFR - LX4 @ WE Central Road Course 3)
Most Westhill national configs race wins: Botsi & S1DUS*Litti - 2 wins (Finland - 8 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+83.5 points)
A car class similar to LFS GT3 class from old times seems to be popular also in the newer times with car mods available. Plenty of grip,decent aerodynamic assistance,rather low weight and 300 horsepower engine - properties that makes the racing relativelly easy,which automatically attract more drivers. The 356th RTFR is the first for over one year to have 40 or more drivers participating,however 4 of them did not attempt to start the race. Many drivers of course increase chance for incidents and this race wasn't spared from those - exiting 1st turn,several cars collided,involving several others,however most kept running - with 34 classified finishers,it's a repeated highest number in almost 3 years time.
Late in qualifying session,Gábor found the missing few hundredths of second to beat the provisional polesitter by the smallest of margins possible in LFS - 0.01s,scoring his 40th RTFR pole position from 107 qualifying sessions. After a little shuffles with 2 drivers in the 1st lap,the hungarian settled in the leading position,keeping in for whole race to score his 42nd RTFR race win,taking also the 39th fastest lap and 79th top5 finish. Despite starting also from front row and leading few hundred meters in 1st lap,Lagooga had to work hard to regain his 2nd position - that's 22nd top5 finish in his stats. Also Suforr led the race for short while,but eventually could not follow the race leader and getting involved into struggle for 2nd position put him down to his original 3rd position,which is his 6th top5 finish. Also 4th place finisher MousemanLV finished in same position he started,improving his best result by a position with the 2nd top5 finish,Adam had a weak qualifying,but was able to climb up plenty of positions to finish on tale end of top5,which is his 7th of top5 finishes.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week in the plan is the longest ever RTFR event - the centurial 100th RTFR XL will be celebrated with century of minutes of race lenght. The community voted XRR to be the car for this race (also 300th RTFR was run with this car) and selected Kyoto's GP Long with extra chicane as the venue,full information will be posted later today while server has already seen some practice activity. In 2 weeks time normal RTFR will return with usual 30+ minutes race,combo as always was mentioned during the broadcast in video above.