Rockingham 150 oval race has been run twice in AWS,both times were less oval racing,more a fast road course race with 4 left turns as the RB4 tortured it's road super tyres too much. This year AWS will introduce a different car,which is equipped with R4 slick tyres - even if they do not provide substantially more grip,they provide much more constant grip ensuring the focus on racing the competition rather keeping the tyres under certain temperature. The car itself however might feel out of place - the Fraud Wheeler E2 was designed to be a rally car originally,crossing over to rallycross competitions later,so oval racing will be something new to it. Still a car is a car and can be raced almost anywhere,so in AWS such combo is pretty much standard as the series started with GTR car running rallycross!

As always in the oval rounds we will use hotlap qualifying to ensure solo effort being decisive in order to take high grid positions. The running order of qualifying will be decided from Drivers Championship standings - lowest placed drivers will start qualifying while standings leader will take his run last. Everyone will have to run 3 laps - outlap and 2 timed hotlaps,after which driver should spectate,only fastest lap counts of course. 2nd timed lap is optional - theoretically cars are faster in 2nd lap,but in case of a mistake,driver can spectate without finishing 2nd timed lap.

As usual,to avoid many questions,Race Green Events' statement about bumpdrafting:
"With closed wheels cars it is not forbidden,but in case of any reported incidents it will be treated as intentional contact,so everyone has to make sure that he knows what he is doing!"

Previous round pretty much broke the competition for drivers title as series leader does not need to put much effort in,but in high paced racing mistakes can happen and turn things upside down. Also the winner of Oval trophy is on the line in this round - after the 1st round for this award,there are certain favourites,who have better chances than others.

Round info:
Track: Rockingham Oval (RO3)
Laps: 64 (151km)
Car: FRAUD WHEELER E2
Previous winners : RGˆDzidoris (2021 & 2017)


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LEGENDARY last lap at Race Green's All-WheelDrive Winter Series 2023, Round 7!! 🔥

MRC's Michal beats ZFRL's Thehemuli & S.M Kapal in a last lap, last corner showdown at Rockingham's Oval!

After 64 laps, it was all decided in the very last corner of the race: with Michal taking it ahead of Thehemuli & S.M Kapal: these two tried to take Michal's slipstream to beat him on the line, but touched slightly, allowing MRC's Michal to take the chequered flag in front! 🔥
It was a matter of a few tenths, separating the Top 3!

P4 finished Championship Leader A.Valta, who's controlling the big advantage in the standings. P5 today for LLM Sobis

Full report coming later in the week

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The in oval displaced rallycar turned out to be quite challenging especially when run in pack - for better handling cars had to be set up quite loose,which made them quite handful when side by side in turns or when bumpdrafting. Even if there was almost no practice at all,during the race some drivers found out quite effective and yet risky ways to increase pace with common effort.

One of the drivers who used teamwork effectivelly was Michal,who teamed up with his countryman in chase for race lead - that brought success as on the very final lap they caught the race leader and Michal was able to slip by and take the race win. Just like in previous oval round also in this one race winner led only the final lap of the race. It was Michal's first ever race win in AWS in 6 seasons and more than 20 races,his previous best result 2nd place finish was achieved in 2019,which was his vice-champion season. It is bitter to lose the race on very final lap,especially if you started from your first ever series pole position,were a leader for 57 of 64 laps and even had solid 4 seconds lead with 1/4 of the race left. And yet running solo was not enough for Thehemuli to score his 2nd AWS race win and he was able to rescue at least points for 2nd position. M.Kapal was the one who did a lot of the work for the temporary team Czechia in this race,but his reward was just 3rd place finish.

A.Valta could just watch from behind the decision for race win,but his 4th place finish was enough to score necessary points to clinch AWS drivers champions title with one spare round - exactly same performance as in 2016 in his other championship season. With this A.Valta becomes the 1st ever AWS double champion in league's 12 seasons. The current 23 points gap in theory can still be nullified,but with 4 race wins through the season,A.Valta secures upper hand in any points tie scenario. Last year's rookie of the year has now lost his chances on main title,so his focus should be attended to not lose 2nd position - he has 11 points gap over 3rd place driver Michal.

Thehemuli however clinched other award this season - the Oval trophy belongs to him as he scored most points in 2 rounds run in ovals,Michal takes 2nd position and 2019 oval trophy winner Sobis - 3rd.

Since the 1st oval round winner Happyd did not arrive for 2nd oval round either,his gap in rookie of the year standings is slowly cut to just 3 points - if the driver with backwards name repeats same finishing position as in last 2 races,the award is his.

In teams championship there were just minor points differences between scores of 3 leading teams - RGA still has a healthy lead of 33 points,which means scoring 7 points in season finale is enough to clinch the 6th teams title. However the battle for 2nd position in standings intensified - MRc overtook Zafiralis and is now a single point ahead over their rivals. Without any surprise the nations cup is awarded to Finland - even if for the 1st time of the season they were outscored in a single round,the points score was enough to secure the award for 2nd year in row. Also Czechia has secured the 2nd position in standings,3rd is still open,but Lithuania's lead of 27 points is bigger than Italy's performance in any previous round.

A total of 29 drivers have qualified for the season finale - as always only drivers with at least 1 point scored are allowed to participate in final round. And they have to decide the fate of final points standings positions,rookie of the year award winner,cross challenge award winner,megawatt award winner and teams champions title. And all of that will happen in same combo as last season's opening round - the electrified XFR will be run in the green plains of Summer Grass Rally layout. There is a twist however - last season LFS offered a very fast battery recharge,which is not available anymore. That's the reason why the format of electric powered rounds has been changed (2 races) and the car itself received an update - it lost 50kW power and gained 15 kWh bigger battery,increasing the weight by 80 kg. Even with the bigger battery it is not enough to complete each race's distance with full performance,so the drivers will have to manage the energy to avoid a lengthy recharge pitstop.