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*uNite
Last XFR race won by: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins in row (260th RTFR - SO Town Course Rev.)
Most XFR race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 4 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Last Blackwood race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (282nd RTFR - UFR @ BL RGE Container Rush)
Most Blackwood Historic config race wins: 4 races,4 different winners (4 different countries)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*uNite (+6 points)
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Mantas - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
B2ﾏ 136mph - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation. Post race penalty conversion results in lost last lap.
ZFRL•LG-mies - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Blackwood Historic configuration is relativelly short,consisting by 1/3 of one long straight and that results in close racing also with faster cars like NGTs,especially in early laps. That lead to a "big one" - an incident on lap 2 exiting 1st turn,where some rubbing lead to chain reaction involving directly or at least impacting time wise at least 1/3 of the field. Result was a quite unusual 11 pitstops in a 30+ minutes mid-distance race where mostly noone makes a pitstop. Still despite damage and low position expectations,most drivers kept on racing as there were just 2 retirements from 28 starters,which is 2nd highest attendance in RTFR races with XFR.
The last year's champion was on top of the game in this edition of RTFR - R.Kardol's time was tied in qualifying,but just like in LFS's WR standings,the 1st to set best time counts as the fastest,therefor the dutchman scores his 12th pole position in the event,tying Gábor (who tied the laptime) and Litro for 4th most pole positions in RTFR history. By leading all 26 laps,R.Kardol did not see much of competition even if the closest rival was gettting bigger in his mirror in last 1/3 of the race,so he tied another big value in RTFR history - 15 wins (3rd most together with Agent and Merenui,the latter also was attending this race),scoring also his 64th top5 finish. Botsi started 3rd,gained a position soon and finished 2nd just like 4 weeks ago on his previous visit after longer break - 67th top5 finish for him,still 2nd most. Current season standings leader Gábor lost that position to his teammate and finished 3rd to score his 33rd top5 finish,while chasing the leaders he set the fastest lap of the race,his 13th,tying Agent and Fast for 3rd most of those. Current 10 race racing leader Unite closed the S1dus row of drivers with 4th place finish,scoring his 66th top5 finish. Top5 was closed by driver from other team,but still having "S1dus" in his name - a monkey representing the sponsoring team WCL scored his 17th top5 finish here.
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Next week is the speed week as RGE will offer 2 events running high average speeds - on monday VERL 2022 round 4 in Aston National will be the fastest round of the 5 round season,which might bring some decisions for the championships. Still new entries possible,everyone can still enter themselves in league history books as competition for current leader is needed - info and signups in VERL forum section. Tuesday is RTFR day and next week it's time for the XL version,which will feature the fastest LFS original car BF1. The venue however will reduce the speeds - South City's longest configuration is a very tricky concrete canyon. But in 2 weeks next RTFR will bring something slightly different - some information was given out in the stream,additionally we can reveal that the track is for next race was tried to be made as autentic as possible for the specific car,more details as always on the weekend before the event.