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: B2ﾏ Mantas - 2 wins in row for Lithuania
Last RAC race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol (59th RTFR XL - KY GP Long Rev.)
Most RAC race wins: 2 races,2 different winners (2 different countries)
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (75th RTFR XL - UF1 @ AS Cadet)
Most Aston race wins: L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*Botsi & [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+64.5 points)
2023 standings after 6 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 126
S1DUS*GáboR - 81
RGˆRony - 70 Event rating and other statistics
* PENALTIES :
ZFRL•Thehemuli - receives 5.18 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
[WCL] P.Koivunen - receives 18.77 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Even at this point this is aimed at certain individual,it also counts to everyone - if you have absolutelly no intention to finish the race,PLEASE DO NOT START IT! It is unfair to other drivers who practiced hard and are interested to achieve a good result if someone just joins,goes for agressive moves in first few laps,impacts race progress of others in negative way and then just leaves as they had their "fun" in field of cars without caring about main goal of a race - finishing it. If this behaviour will continue,organisation will be forced to deny entry of these individuals.
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According to LFSW chart of car usage the finnish made real world car Raceabout is the least used default car of LFS,having completed just half of the lapcount online than the 2nd least used car FZ5 and 46 times less than the most popular car XFG. Despite that this race had repeated highest attendace in the past 14 RTFR XL races with 31 drivers qualifying and the attendance will put RAC in 5th position in most attended cars chart of RTFR XL. As seen on broadcast the race for win did not really had any intrigue,but there were plenty of position disputes through the field,so it was deffinitelly not a boring race for many drivers.
When looking at current 2023 standings one might think R.Kardol is dominating the season,but in the 1st half of it he is still winless despite being 2nd most winningest driver in RTFR XL history. The race this week finally ended his dry streak - qualifying was very close,but still brough the dutchmen his 9th pole position in RTFR XL,while in the race his opponents made their own lives difficult and left R.Kardol lead 27 laps on his way to the 1st victory lane visit of this year. In total it is his 11th RTFR XL race win,with this tying his teammate Botsi for most all time wins,while his 12th fastest lap of the race just extended his lead in the chart,just like his 40th top5 finish. Trespasser qualified just 0.12 seconds off polesitters time,still it was just 4th position on grid,but the lithuanian upgraded it to 2nd place finish in his 1st RTFR XL race. Unite started 3rd and finished 3rd with his early pitstop strategy,scoring his 21st top5 finish. Ayoub Maroc led 11 laps on the pitstops shuffle increasing his total to 15 in RTFR XL,but finished just 4th to score 4th top5 finish,5th was another B2R member - Twincam repeated his best RTFR XL finishing result,doubling his top5 count.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
It is the 2nd 2-race winning streak with a specific car for R.Kardol,the other one is also with one of the LRF class cars - LX6. Both of these streaks are still alive and have a potential to tie or even beat Botsi's 3-race winning streak he achieved with UF1,which was ended by R.Kardol (Botsi finished 5th in the race that ended his streak).
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
With normal consumption this race required around 108% of a fuel tank,meaning it's not possible to complete the race without additional resources,still there was a single driver,who finished full race distance without pitwork running the race in eco-mode - that alone makes him clock pitter of the race as Michal just stopped in pits for 10.18 seconds. There was one shorter legal pitstop - 10.13 seconds,but S.Martin did refuel the car.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Three kids in trenchcoat started the race from 19th position,but were classified 10th in results - that's a progress of 9 positions,highest number between all in the results.
VOD at Youtube:
The winner still has not submitted his choice for next RTFR XL race,scheduled in 4 weeks,so there is not much information about next 4 tuesdays,but still we can provide some basics - next tusday it's time for normal RTFR,which will have it's 3rd and last off-season race,as per schedule it will be a road legal cars race,more info will be known only on coming weekend. The tuesday after next is RandomCar tuesday,again 2 parameters are known about this race - the track is South City City Long in reversed direction and the cars will be drawn out of pool of 25 PL200 class cars. The 3rd tuesday from now will be the start of 2023 season 2,running one of the slick tyre cars - with this the SimBroadcasts live promotion of the event will restart for the next 10 RTFR races counting towards 2023 S2 standings.
