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: [WCL] True Alpha
Last FZR race won by: [WCL] s1dus Monkey (67th RTFR XL - KY GP Long w/ Boothy Chicane)
Most FZR race wins: 6 races,6 different winners (Finland - 3 wins)
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (81st RTFR XL - FO8 @ AS North Rev)
Most Aston race wins: S1DUS*GáboR & L.Paddewwa & S1DUS*R.Kardol & S1DUS*Botsi & [WCL] True Alpha - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+47 points)
2023 standings after 10 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 220
S1DUS*GáboR - 169
RGˆRony - 121 Event rating and other statistics
* PENALTIES :
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 20 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 2 occasions.
AA™| Yasin - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Even if in reversed direction,the FZR race in one of the longer Aston configurations can be described as LFS GTR classic. The 75 minute race turned out to be quite a tyre-trouble - many drivers underestimated the lifetime of their tyres and were cought out by surprise,damaging the possible good result. With 24 drivers participating the attendance was a bit under the average of this year,but still gathered up enough to make the race interesting for most drivers.
Just like 6 weeks ago,mister True Alpha wasn't really fast in qualifying,putting himself on 3rd row again,but race pace and better planning gave him a race deciding lead on penultimate lap,so the finn could cross the finish line as a winner for the 2nd race in row - this is already 2nd winning streak for him in RTFR XL,making him 5th driver with multiple winning streaks. In total it was True Alpha's 6th race win,raising him to 4th place in all-time success ranking (overtaking the inactive Litti),fastest lap of the race was his 6th and 30th for Finland,additionally scoring the 15th top5 finish. Mantas scored his 4th pole position in qualifying,but despite leading bigger half of the race,he finish just 2nd,scoring his 5th top5 finish. Rest of the top5 was filled by S1dus drivers - best of them was Gábor who used the option to start without qualifying allowed for previous race winners. The hungarian started from back of the grid,rallied through the field and even spent some time in gravel trap due blown front tyres,still used trouble of teammates to climb up to 3rd place in results,which is his 18th top5 finish. United was the only driver to finish full race distance on same set of tyres,but his pace on late stage was heavily impacted by fading tyres,so he dropped down to 4th place - 23rd top5 finish in his account. R.Kardol however found out exact lifetime of his tyres,losing the lead with less than 2 laps to go,at the end rescueing 5th place finish,which is his 44th top5 finish.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
With this race FZR becomes the most selected car in RTFR XL - it has been picked already 7 times,overtaking simple crowd favourites like XFG and UF1 and the more skills requiring LX4,which all have been selected 6 times (XFG was selected by organization for the very 1st RTFR XL).
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
10.45 seconds long refuelling stop was the shortest yesterday - made by 4th place finisher Unite.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Again starting last is a good opportunity to get into this section - Gábor started from 24th position and finished 3rd to make a +21 in the race.
VOD at Youtube:
RTFR XL now will return to the normal 4 weeks gap between this and next race,which will be the last race of this year,however the combo is not known yet - the winner of this race has to reply the message until coming tuesday. Regarding next tuesday,it will return the racing to one of the reversed Aston tracks,however the car will be quite different - more information as always will be posted in the weekend.
