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*GáboR - 2 wins in row
Last PROTOTYPE 2 race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Kyoto race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (74th RTFR XL - FORMULA AMERICAS 2019 @ KY National Rev)
Most Kyoto race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 5 wins (Netherlands & Finland - 5 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+52.5 points)
2023 standings after 9 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 194
S1DUS*GáboR - 137
Iron|Doni - 104 Event rating and other statistics
2 drivers go for same track spot,meet each other and cause high speed incident,made worse by Lucas,who run into spinning car without releasing throttle.
* PENALTIES :
[Tﾏ] Lara - receives a WARNING for causing an incident - at high speeds in a group driver should not focus only ahead and do sudden moves.
｢ﾏｧ｣ Dark - receives a WARNING for causing an incident - at high speeds following closelly 2 drivers driver should be more cautios.
｢ﾏｧ｣ Lucas - receives a WARNING for failing to react on situation ahead,increasing the severity of the incident by causing retirement of other driver,controls show full throttle until impact to a spinning car. Time between obviously visible incident and impact was 2.4 seconds,proving there was plenty of time to react on situation. Future incidents will lead to actual penalty or even race ban.
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2 days after an 8 hour race RTFR XL featured the same car in the relativelly shorter distance. Results showed some advantage for those running in the other race,having still best feeling for the car deffinitelly helped them achieve better result - 8 of top10 qualifyers took part in 8h race and 4 of top5 finishers finished also in top5 in the 8h race. However the race was plagued by several incidents,many of those were 1 car accidents caused by own mistakes,mostly in the very fast chicane leading off the oval section. After the infamous 55th RTFR XL (we could call it also "shortcutgate"),organization made sure to force drivers to stay within track limits by placing soft objects in potential shortcut lines - this had other negative effect,so until the Kyoto track receives the update,RGE will avoid using Kyoto GP long in original direction with cars being rated faster than PL200 (TBO) class without the altering Boothy chicane.
Even if not directly head to head,duel for the race win was carried over from the 8 hour race - representants of top2 teams of it were racing each other for win also on tuesday. True Alpha returned to RTFR XL after a while and did it by celebrating his 5th RTFR XL race win. He won the race by doing a simply shorter pitstop,where he refuelled the car without changing tyres (only driver to finish race with same set he started) - the finn had 11 seconds shorter pitstop and won by just 6 seconds margin,revenging the 2nd place finish on sunday. Additionally True Alpha scored the 30th RTFR XL race win for Finland. One of the sunday's race winners Gábor was the fastest on track as he scored his 9th pole position (tied 2nd most now) and 9th fastest lap of the race,but could not regain the time he lost during pitstop,so he had to settle for 2nd place finish,which is his 17th top5 finish. Igor had also a minor redemption as he finished higher than sunday - the 3rd place finish is his 1st ever RTFR XL race finish from 7 starts. R.Kardol was the highest finisher between those not having the 8h long practice from sunday - after some trouble he had to settle for 4th place finish,43rd top5 finish overall for the dutchman,8th alone this year. Top5 was closed by another top5 finisher on the sunday - Rony scored his 29th top5 finish,1st this year.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Prototype 2 is actually the 1st car who did a full cycle of RTFR events. During the early stages it was run in the experimenting RTFR CCCC (in a custom Kyoto configuration) last year,this january it was featured in normal RTFR,running in the Westhill's longest standard config and 4 weeks ago it was selected to be run also in the XL version.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Being the clock pitter actually put him in the race lead - True Alpha had the shortest pitstop of the day by only refuelling the car (12.87 seconds),all others did even more pitwork.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
P.Koivunen had a weak qualifying by setting 35th fastest time (last of those marked as actually qualified),started from 33rd position he gained 21 positions to finish 12th despite a full minute long pitstop.
VOD at Youtube:
RTFR XL will now make a long 6 weeks break - it was decided that each RTFR XL event will take place on a different month,so for simply calendary reasons it had to be pushed 2 weeks later as it is still october in 4 weeks. The combo for that race has still not been submitted by winner of this race - he has time until the coming tuesday to answer the message. Until next XL there will be a total of 3 normal RTFR races,3 last VERL rounds and the season finale of RandomCar in 2 weeks time. The closest race of all of those is 317th RTFR,which will use one of the user created street legal cars on a Caribbean island. More info will be posted in the weekend.
