LFS Forum - 345th RTFR

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Quote from MRc Michal via RGA discord :Event: 345th RTFR
Lap: 1, sc3, double left-hander before oval entry
Involved drivers: Michal, Thehemuli, Nosle(?)
Description: Thehemuli approaches the second left-hander at a very sharp angle and despite two cars just ahead about to make the apex he opts to go full throttle into the corner skidding across the inner kerb and grass and hits the larboard of Michal, causing him to spin into the gravel and lose chances for a meaningful result.

Thehemuli enters the turn with full throttle without a chance to keep car on inside lane with 2 cars on the outside - this results in contact,that could be significantly less affecting with no throttle input.

* PENALTIES :
ZFRL•Thehemuli - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for avoidable incident in last section of lap 1.

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This was the 2nd road tyres race in row with rather slow car,which once again turned into pack racing in early stages of the race,with many 3 and even 4 wide situations all over the track,but besides few incidents,nothing more that "rubbing is racing" happened. Later in the race positions on track changed more for tyre temperature reasons - some drivers were able to keep them better in control than others as this car features quite narrow rubber surface to road,which was well loaded with over 1 ton of car's weight.

The 2nd road tyre car race in row was won by brazilian TJ,who late in qualifying session set the fastest lap,but lost it moments later,earning the outside position of front row. But his start was significantly better than polesitter's and after few battles in early laps,he established his race lead with an increasing gap to competition,crossing the finish line first to score his 3rd win in this season and 4th win overall,setting also fastest lap of the race,which is his 3rd. TJ scored his 12th top5 finish and led all 15 laps in this race,which is 5 more than in his previous 3 racewins together. Kyr1l was the fastest through most of the qualifying session,but was demoted to 3rd late in qualifying - that's still 7 positions better than his previous best qualifying result out of 4 tries. In the race he tried to challenge the leader few times,but eventually had to concede,finishing 2nd 6 seconds apart from race winner,improving his only previous finishing result by 18 positions. Also Dod1slaw improved his previous best results by some margin - his 6th place in qualifying was 3 positions improvement,during the race he progressed up to 3rd position in finish to reach 4 positions improvement for his best finishing result. Arska beat the best result very late in qualifying and scored his 3rd pole position in RTFR,but with high 1st gear saw competition flash by at start,losing positions not only on start but also later in race - 4th position for the finn is a repeat of his season best result and 33rd top5 finish in total. The winner of previous race R.Kardol qualified 5th and had to pass many cars to regain that position in finish as he managed to get involved in few incidents early on,still increasing the all time leading top5 count to 96.

VOD at Youtube:

Next week RTFR XL will return after 6 weeks break and it will be another front wheel drive car to race - LFS's slowest standard car UF1 will be run South City's shortest configuration that uses the default start/finish straight - the 2 kilometer Classic configuration will be run in reversed direction,with laptimes just above 1 minute,it will be a 73 laps race to have the usual 75 minutes RTFR XL race. Full information will be posted tomorrow. Normal RTFR version will return in 2 weeks with one of the faster cars - some hints about next combo as always can be heard when watching stream of previous race.

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