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
Pitting rules:
Race requires a minimum time spent in pitstall of 10 seconds. That can be done either with single pitstop or sum of multiple pitstops. Driver who has spent less time will receive penalty time added to his finish time,which will be calculated by tripling the missing time to complete neccesary minimum time and adding additional 5 seconds. Drivers failing to pit at all will receive 1 minute penalty added to finish time (10s*3 + additional 30s).
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last FXO race won by: S1DUS*Botsi (34th RTFR XL - WE International)
Most FXO race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 2 wins)
Last Rockingham race won by: RGˆM@CI3K (60th RTFR XL - MRT @ RO Oval)
Most Rockingham race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Netherlands - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (+23 points)
* PENALTIES :
[ﾏ] Yasin - receives 9.23 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm - receives 30.29 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
｢DD｣ tBug - receives a DISQUALIFICATION from results for unsportsmanlike conduct (intentionally cutting track to gain big advantage and cheat qualifying result). Since his server behaviour in chat has received multiple complaints and his past behaviour shows up multiple incidents (last noted was on 71st RTFR XL),Race Green Events has no other choice as to give out "cool down" ban for 1 month from all hosted events,starting from date of 73rd RTFR XL. If the behaviour does not improve after serving this ban,a longer race ban will be given.
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A very interesting coincident happened during the last 2 Race Green Events hosted races - in both AWS 2023 round 4 on monday and the 73rd RTFR XL on tuesday the race was won by a first time participant in the respective event series and both winners did so by leading just a single lap - the last one! If on monday that happened from race situation and the way how bumpdrafting in high speed oval works,then tuesday's situation was caused solely by actual leader's double mistake - first he did a too short pitstop,then the repeated pitstop was too long allowing the rival pass by - the 2nd pitstop was 3.5 seconds longer than required minimum and the race was lost by 2.2 seconds. Also this race saw the biggest attendance since 67th RTFR XL,which also gathered up 30 drivers in it's qualifying session.
The AWS 2023 standings leader A.Valta was not much seen on the broadcast as he was slowly losing sight to leader during the race while running 2nd,but the with the drama for race leader he just simply took over race lead on last lap and finished 1st to win his debut race in RTFR XL. Since he has chosen to hide his stats in LFSW,the win will be not awarded to any country (goes to "other"). After the finger biting mistake in pitlane,the leader of race's 50 laps R.Kardol rescued 2nd place,scoring his 8th pole position,10th fastest lap of the race and 35th top5 finish,but missed the chance to tie Botsi for all time most wins. Onur started 3rd and finished 3rd - that is his 2nd entry in top5,which is 2 positions better than his 1st entry. Fatal lost a lot of positions in 1st lap,did his mandatory pitstop right after it,rest of the race was just regaining positions to finish 4th - that's the 12th top5 finish for the 2022 RTFR XL standings winner. Texas closed the top5 by scoring his 5th top5 finish,that's his 1st one since 36th RTFR XL
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
FXO was the 1st car that featured 30 or more drivers in a round - in the 2nd RTFR XL there were 32 drivers in qualifying,30 on the grid. These values were not beaten until the february of 2021,where the chance being shown on livestream atracted 1st maximum grid. Same was with races featuring the FXO itself - the next 2 races after the 1st record featured 15 drivers average until this tuesday where FXO returned to 30 atendees.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
M@CI3K completed his mandatory pitstop right after 1st lap,sat there for 10.15 seconds and left the pitlane - that was the shortest legal work free pitstop of the day.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Dzidoris used a chance to join the race without qualifying,which is allowed by previous winners by default - he started from 26th position on grid,raced through field to finish 8th,gaining a total of 18 positions between start and finish.
VOD at Youtube:
Next week it's time for normal RTFR version,which will return us for another race in Rockingham,but the track will be a bit different. Full info will be posted here on the weekend as always. RTFR XL will return in 4 weeks time,combo is yet to be submitted by the winner of this race - he has time to reply the PM until next tuesday.
