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 N.400S GT4 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Layout Square race won by: 1st race in this environment
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+89.5 points)
2023 standings after 7 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 155
Iron|Doni - 85
S1DUS*GáboR - 84 Event rating and other statistics
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Upsas - 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.
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 24.38 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
B2ﾏ Ayoub_MaRoC - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for failure to serve the mandatory pitstop.
[WCL] P.Koivunen - receives 60 seconds penalty added to his finish time for failure to serve the mandatory pitstop.
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LFS provided place and concrete objects - rest of this race was carried out with community's imagination. It was the first ever visit to the normally empty Layout Square for any of the RTFR series,where a 3.67km track was set up to be run with a GT4 class car. Compared to us well known LFS GTR class cars,this has more weight,narrower tyres,less aero effect and a bit less power,optionally tamable with traction control and ABS - that all created pretty much close racing,which resulted in a lot of paint trading,as some were very unpatient and some had to defend their positions by any means necessary. But there were no protests made,so the organization will let this pass but hopes for more respectful and clean racing in future.
Just like a week ago in normal RTFR,this race went under the sign of Gábor,who was the wastest through whole race evening. The hungarian was the only one to break 1:32 laptime mark in qualifying to take home his 7th pole position,tying for 3rd most all time in series and also scoring the 10th pole position for Hungary. Even if he did not led most laps through the race,he still did not leave any chances for competition,bringing home the 10th RTFR XL racewin for Hungary,7th for himself,setting also the fastest lap of the race - his 7th,putting him in sole 3rd in this chart. Additionally he scored his 15th top5 finish. Despite the penalty,Upsas finished in undoubted 2nd place,leading 29 of 50 laps during the pitstop shuffling phase,6th top5 finish for the previous 2-time racewinner. Unlike week ago,Zesty was able to improve his best finishing position - in both RTFR series his best result was 4th,week ago he just repeated it in normal RTFR,yesterday he improved it in XL version,scoring his 2nd top5 finish. 4th place finish was taken by Doni,who scored his 6th top5 finish,but top5 was closed by R.Kardol,who redeemed his false start (autospectated by LFS) and pitlane restart with his 41st top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With 30 drivers attendance,the N.400S GT4 puts itself into 3rd place in the most attended cars chart. The fun part about this fact - it makes the top of the table consist of already 4 different GTR class cars before cars of any other classes.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
This is probably the weirdest clock pitter in the history - just one driver finished the race without any pitwork,however M@CI3K needed 2 stops at pitbox to not score a penalty as his 1st stop was 0.1s too short. The custom pitlane gave him the advantage to make a 2nd pitstop in same pitlane visit - it's up to debate if such behaviour should be forbidden in future.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Doni had a rather weak qualifying by setting best laptime of the 2nd half of the field,however he was much better in race,improving his position by 12 places finishing 4th.
VOD at Youtube:
The submitted combo for the next race was no surprise knowing the driver who had the right to do so - Formula V8 was selected to be run in Aston North configuration in reversed direction. This will be a repeat of 41st RTFR XL,won by 2nd place finisher of yesterday's race - Upsas,who scored his 1st RTFR XL race win back then. It will be a 47 laps race again. That's about plans in 4 weeks,however next tuesday we will reduce race speeds to run one of the rather slower cars,full info will posted in the weekend as always.
