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 M - 4 wins in row
Last FOX race won by: [WCL] J.Katila (52nd RTFR XL - FE Gold)
Most FOX race wins: 3 races,3 different winners (Finland - 2 wins)
Last Aston race won by: B2ﾏ M (87th RTFR XL - XRT @ AS Historic Rev.)
Most Aston race wins: [WCL] True Alpha - 3 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+11.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
S M. Kapal - receives 10.19 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
[PR] Shinigami - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
[MRc] CoNiks - the unserved stop-go penalty is converted in 45 seconds penalty added to his finish time as per standard LFS rules.
Raigs - receives 22.10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
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Formula XR with promotion from Fragmasters has turned into pretty much an LFS classic car,so after 3 years break the classic returned to RTFR XL. The selected track was relativelly simple as majority was run with throttle all the way down and upshifting,however these few sections without that were the ones deciding who's best and who's just rest. With 28 drivers qualifying and 27 starting the race,this surely was not a record breaking attendance,but still the most attended RTFR XL race between last 4. But there was some noticable driver who was not attending - the driver with active 4 race winning streak did not even attempt to stretch the series to new RTFR XL record.
One of the local LFS single seater junkies Gábor was on top of the results sheets this week - being fastest in both sessions he secured all the possible achievements for himself even if the results were everything else than dominating. Both pole position and fastest lap of the race were his 10th,with this tying for 2nd most in both charts,while the racewin was his 9th - still 3rd most,additionally the hungarian scored his 19th top5 finish and exceeded 300 laps led in RTFR XL. TJ was absent from RTFR XL for over 2 years,but returned with his best ever finish - 2nd place,which is an improvement by 2 positions and 3rd top5 finish out of 3 race finishes (5th race start however),the 2nd place finish is also repeated best result for all brazilian drivers here. The winner of this year's 1st race Zesty finished 3rd with a single position gain during the race - that's 4th top5 finish for the malaysian,R.Kardol finished 4th to extend his top5 streak to 5 and total top5 count was rounded up to 50. To complete S1dus dominance in the race,Unite finished 5th to make 4 of the same team in the top5 - 26th top5 finish for the finn.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Average race leaders count in RTFR XL has been stabilized to 2 in the past 29 races as all races had 1, 2 or 3 different leaders,for the 1st time since 60th RTFR XL (MRT @ Rockingham Oval had 6 race leaders) a race had more than 3 leaders as this tuesday there were 4 drivers finishing a lap as a leader,2 of those however just once.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
With ~120% of fuel tank needed to complete the race distance,there were no pure clock pitters this race,however many just refuelled the car and waited to 10 seconds for remaining time. The fastest legal pitstop was done by M@CI3K who also changed tyres in his 10.05 seconds pitstop.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Despite losing a total of 5 positions due penalty,M.Kapal still is the biggest gainer between start and finish - a plus of 10 positions is still 1 more than best of the rest.
VOD at Youtube:
Gábor is quick also with decisions and the next combo will be return of the most used car in RTFR XL - FZR will have it's 8th race in the series (2nd most used are UF1,XFG and LX4 with 6 races each) and 4th in South City,luckily for change it will be also 4th different configuration of South City - Town Course in reversed direction (run last in 38th RTFR XL with other GTR car). A 64 laps race will await racers in 4 weeks. Next week normal RTFR will return with one of the LFS own street legal cars - which and where can be found out if watching broadcast of previous race,full info as always will be posted on sunday. In 2 weeks time RandomCar will start up it's randomizer and draw all the entrants cars for a race in Kyoto's Sprint 8-track.
