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
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last SKODA FELICIA KIT CAR race won by: First race with this car
Last South City race won by: S1DUS*uNite (348th RTFR - IMPREZZIVE JGT @ SO Sprint 1)
Most South City town configs race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+58 points)
Who would know that a little czech car from 90ies would attract the biggest crowd in RTFR in the past 13 months time - a total of 38 drivers qualified for this race despite the tricky handling of NGT class car,which has been officially licenced by the manufacturer. However 6 of the qualifyers decided not to start and with addition of one wildcard starter a total of 33 Škoda Felicias were standing on grid,using all 3 car's configurations,most default skins and few user skins the field was very colorful. However there were plenty of incidents,eventually forcing 1/3 of the field to retire for various reasons - quite high atrition rate for a 170 horsepower FWD car.
Lagooga wasn't attending RTFR for one year,but yesterday kept doing the same he did before the break - winning,as the lithuanian won both his last attended RTFR race and coincidentally also the last RTFR race in this same configuration (275th RTFR 3 years ago,running with LX6). Yesterday he was the one to beat,however his advantage was really small - he earned his 19th pole position (tied 4th most) with just 0.03s advantage and despite leading all 22 race laps (with that exceeding 200 laps led mark),he finished just 0.29 of a second in front of closest rival,still adding the 10th race win to his stats,while his top5 count now is exactly the double of wins - 20. R.Kardol qualified 3rd,but quite soon climbed up to 2nd position in race,eventually reducing leader's gap under 1 second,clocking the all time 16th closest finish 2 weeks after he was in front of 18th closest finish (now 19th). The all time top5 finishes leader added the 102nd top5 finish to his stats out of 120 overall race finishes. The 15 race rating and current season standings leader Gábor was very close to fastest laptime in both sessions,however could not pull the best out of this car and settled for 3rd place finish,scoring his 77th top5 finish. The brazilian TJ was 4th in both sessions to score his 14th top5 finish,Unite managed to steal the fastest lap of the race in last lap,scoring his 27th of those (still all time 3rd most),but finished just on tale end of top5 to add 94th of those to his stats.
VOD at Youtube:
RTFR XL is next on menu and next tuesday it will be quite challenging - a high powered sports car from early 70ies will be run in Aston's configuration with very appropriate name - Historic. The race length is estimated 33 laps,however the lapcount may be adjusted as it depends from polesitter's laptime - full information will be posted this friday. In 2 weeks time normal RTFR will return with one of the street legal cars,as always hints about the combo can be heard during the latest livestream recording.