The following entries have not attended for 2 rounds in row and therefor have been marked as inactive - that means they will not be added to upcoming car draw:

B2R Loco
kyr1l?
sidus unite
㉿Tazкa
Maciukas
Adam
Neuroticat
Redasa
BAZSIBR4

To be added back to car draw,these entries have to quote own entry post and add "Reactivate" to it.

Quote from paket42x :

E-cars suck

Well,technically non-aspirated gasoline/diesel cars suck. And turbo/super-charged cars blow.
I could propose brainstorming what electric cars do,but that would be out of topic here.

Qualifying:


Race:


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Deadline for protests - wednesday,19:00 UTC

The 2nd car draw wave scheduled for today 16:40 UTC / 18:40 CET / 19:40 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3651603WNKR4LV738

1 ALi Ask ( GT ) - SALIVA15
2 AmirœcGT - SALIVA15
3 ZFRL•Motimoukari - COQUETTE Z5
4 J.Lavrikov - FEND TORUS
5 TRCan.. - IMPREZZIVE C8
6 Spiderman - ACOSTA STARLIN

This post will be edited after draw to add car names to drivers!
Signups are closed for this round,will be opened after the race!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:41. Reason : Added car names to drivers

Quote from rane_nbg :

"elapsed time since last restart"

This. And I don't think it's needed to show time more detailed than days.

The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3650662AVSSYL6ZYK

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - XF GARIS
2 RG^M@CI3K - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
3 ZFRL•Thehemuli - IMPREZZIVE B2
4 B2R M - BZ30 ROADSTER
5 [PM] Jam 616 - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
6 RG^RedBoT - FEND TORUS
7 [WCL] T.Soini - URC1
8 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - ACOSTA STARLIN
9 RG^RD2 - BZ30 ROADSTER
10 [MRc] jsk - FEND TORUS
11 Vincent Adultman - FRAUD WHEELER E2
12 B2R Loco - VSI-V2000
13 RG^NOSLE - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
14 LLM. Sobis - COQUETTE Z5
15 ZFRL•LG-mies - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
16 kyr1l? - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
17 YES Lagooga - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
18 B2R 136 - COQUETTE Z5
19 B2R Stiefla - XM-5 94 TURBO
20 sidus unite - VSI-V2000
21 J.Holmes - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
22 Three Jump - FZ50
23 [WCL]J.A.Katila - BZ30 ROADSTER
24 B2R TwinCam - BZ30 ROADSTER
25 [WCL] Arska - IMPREZZIVE C8
26 ㉿Tazкa - XM-5 94 TURBO
27 AA™| Firestarter - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
28 Maciukas - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
29 GT4tube - FZ50
30 Adam - XF COUPE TURBO
31 RG^LORENZO - VSI-V2000
32 [MRT]-Nacho - MZG SEDAN
33 SGR MadJester - COQUETTE Z5
34 Neuroticat - IMPREZZIVE C8
35 Redasa - SALIVA15
36 S1DUS*R.Kardol - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
37 J.Martins - FRAUD 040
38 BAZSIBR4 - FXO Turbo
39 [RP]Pedro - VSI-V2000
40 petrix2383 - MZG SEDAN
41 [WCL] Bozz - N.400S
42 /SRP/ Master - IMPREZZIVE B2

This post will be edited after draw to add cars names to drivers!
New signups will receive their cars drawn in 2nd wave (20 minutes before qualifying)!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:12. Reason : Added car names to drivers

Quote from Scawen :

the server had been running for 49.7 days and got hit by the known bug

Allthough not related to original topic,I wonder if there is any way to find out how long my server is running and if I need to restart it soon to avoid this bug. Server log unfortunatelly shows a very limited amount of lines.

2024 series - round 3

Tuesday, 2nd april
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Blackwood GP Track reversed (BL1R)
Race distance: 22 laps (72.5km)

* IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CARS:
Due recently added mod checks,several mods have been unpublished,that includes also 3 cars from RandomCar cars list:
CAMMERA 730 TURBO
PIRAN FIREFLY 200
VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
If these cars have not been fixed and re-published until monday 17:40 UTC,they will be suspended for round 2! For draw results,please refer to car number from spreadsheets (link below) and not main info thread!

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106827
RandomCar spreadsheets: LINK

Cars list and their restrictions is available also in server - type command !opt and select "RandomCar Info"
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Server will be passworded at least 1 hour before qualifying,server pass: random
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Cars will be drawn in 2 waves:
1st wave - 24 hours before start of qualifying
2nd wave - 20 minutes before start of qualifying - for late signups
Draw link and results will be posted in this thread!

Quote from TRCB :

how do i get my forum licence status to reflect S3 instead of "demo licenced"?

You have to buy an actual licence from https://www.lfs.net/shop

Even if it's just a schematic drawing,still the tyre should not intersect with damper,right?

Seen many sinning with this,like the attached example from a certain approved car.

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)


RTFR is known for running all kinds of cars - some are easier to handle,some difficult. The latest race was deffinitelly on the difficult side - late 60ies sports car with plenty of power,low weight and grip of road tyres was a challenge even for the most skilled. Car was no stranger to RTFR - less than 2 years ago it was selected in RTFR XL,where it was raced in the longer Kyoto GP Long configuration,this week the more sprintish format with shorter track and shorter race length. Track was not a very complicated - pretty much the same Aston National,just with a scenic route alternativelly to the normal route of cadet's part.

Same car,same winner - R.Kardol celebrated race win back then in XL with this car,so he was kinda bound to repeat it. The dutchman qualified 2nd and from outside of front row he eventually took race lead on lap 1 and kept it after some struggles with competition early on. Despite not beating the 1:46 mark in qualifying,he was the only one to crack it during the race - that's his 15th fastest lap of the race,but more important - the 21st race win in RTFR,while he rounded up the top5 count to 90. The driver of the season M was the fastest in qualifying to score his 6th pole position (4th this year alone),but he lacked the consistency in the race,having to recover at least a 2nd place finish,taking the 6th top5 finish out of 6 races this season,19th top5 finish overall. The finnish duel for 3rd position was won by Unite,barely beating his countryman over the finish line - that's 78th top5 finish for him. Arska had to settle for 4th place finish,improving his season's best by a position,27th top5 overall for him. Top5 was closed by someone who also improved his season't best by a single position - Thehemuli finished 5th already more than half a minute apart winner,scoring his 8th top5 finish from 75 overall finishes.

VOD at Youtube:


As some might noticed from broadcast,in 2 weeks RTFR will run a rather classic combo of LFS,that has never been used in RTFR,full details as always in the weekend before it,however next week the server will be "loaned out" to RandomCar - the 3rd race of the 2024 season will be run in Blackwood and there is plenty of fresh stock in the league's cars list.

I still don't understand the speculations about S4. There has never been any info or even slightest hints about that. S-numbers are licence levels which decide access of content,nothing else - the graphics are same and the physics are same for all licence holders.

These have been quite productive few weeks in mods department as there have been several waves of mod approvals,which per definition adds also the eligible cars to RandomCar cars lineup by default. A total of 5 cars have been added to the list,which consists now of 34 cars,however 3 are still not awailable due the strengthened checks. Here are all 5 new entries in alphabetical order:

FEND TORUS T joins it's heavier stock counterpart in the lineup - besides weight reduction,it has also wider tyres and reduced drag compared to stock version. It is set with 30% intake restriction for balancing.

Another AWD addition to lineup is the famous "Godzilla" - a replica of late 90ies japanese sports coupe,the GT-V34 was actually in the voting twice for being added to RC lineup,but did lost it to other cars. The car requires 8% restrictor to keep it in pace of other cars.

Coincidentally there is another car that joins it's model counterpart,but this time it's other way round - IMPREZZIVE C8 is the weaker version of B2 modification with less original power,slightly lighter and has narrower tyres. With 8% air restrictor it will be balanced to PL200 class.

The lightest car between newly added is ROKU TROENO,which received 80kg weight ballast to be on same performance as the rest of the PL200 class. It should benefit from low average speed twisty tracks with it's agility.

Despite being advertised as front-mid-engined car,we'll keep it simple and add the VSI-V2000 to the list of FR cars. The car is by default on same pace as PL200 class cars,so it will not be restricted from start,but we'll keep an eye on it's performance as with some setups developement it might be needed to slow it down.

If there are any new cars approved between now and next round,they will be added to RC lineup only after next round,however the 3 currently unpublished cars will be checked for republishing just before 1st draw wave before confirming them being suspended for next round.

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: YES Lagooga
Last WESSEX R69SP race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Aston race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (320th RTFR - RADIX P6 @ AS GP Rev.)
Most Aston national configs race wins: 8 races,8 different winners (Finland - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: B2ﾏ M (+15.5 points)

2024-S1 standings after 5 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 150
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 106
S1DUS*uNite - 101
Event rating,standings and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

For sake of consistency I would suggest to remove the Track kit configuration and make a seperate mod with it (Cup version or something like that),where it can have realistic aerodynamics values and settings like adjustable wings,where also addition of slick would make sense.

96/Eclipsed/Rony Kronpušs/Latvia/Race Green Autosports

Quote from Evolution_R :

I wonder why almost every thread leads to that same old nonsense posts every single time, resulting in locking it.

Because there are always some I-know-it-better people with extra much spare time who need to show their wisdom. Ironically none of them has even started their own better racing simulator.

The undercar panels should be updated to hide the transparent parts.

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR XL .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated during the week)

Quote from ZFRL•Thehemuli via RGA discord :

Session: 87th RTFR XL
Lap: 24
Involved drivers: Motimoukari and Michal
Description of incident: Motimoukari crosses the pit exit line in front of Michal who has to avoid, and ends up crashing hard.

Motimoukari exits pitlane and enters track right ahead of car on full speed - the following retirement however is just an unlucky coincidental consequence.


* PENALTIES :
ZFRL•Motimoukari - receives 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation and not yiedling to car on track racing on full speed.
[MRc] Michal - receives 5.06 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
W33D - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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XRT is pretty much a base car of LFS - road legal coupe with classic front engine/rear wheel drive layout,while fitted with turbocharger it is upgraded version of one of 2 LFS original cars from earliest ages of the sim. The Historic layout of Aston is very fast regarding average speed - this was the fastest race with XRT in RTFR XL history,beating the previous fastest race by full 10km/h. This introduced some challenge to the combo,being one of the reasons why attendance barely reached the all time average number.

Selecting combo has a potential of having advantage in it - this was one of the cases as the combo selector was one to beat in the race. Driver who uses just a single letter in his name has been winning races latelly in many leagues in LFS,celebrated victory for the 4th time in RTFR XL,starting his 1st winning streak here. The lithuanian was fastest in qualifying already for the 6th time (5th most),led 17 laps in race until his pitstop and retook the lead after his main rival served his mandatory pitstop to cross finish line first with safe 15 seconds gap. His fastest lap of the race was faster than any other driver's best lap in any session of the day - that's the 3rd fastest lap of the race for M,while the top 5 finish count went up to 8 for him. J.Lavrikov has been absent from RTFR XL for 29 events (qualified but did not start in 57th RTFR XL),however also he has a race win in his short record in this event - he did add the 3rd top5 finish with his 2nd place finish,leading a total of 8 laps in this one. The most successful racer in RTFR XL history R.Kardol was no contender for race win,finishing 3rd with 20 seconds gap to winner,still adding record increasing 47th top5 finish to his stats,4th was best of the RTFR XL winless drivers Arska,who finished 4th and last within 1 minute of winner's race time,scoring his 12th top5 finish. Top5 was closed by Unite,bringing home his 24th RTFR XL top5 finish.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Allthough there is no gathered statistic of past races about this,it's still remarkable that from all 18 in results classified drivers only one did not had the pitstop length between 10 and 20 seconds - and that one driver was the one with 0.02s shorter pitstop.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Unite did bring home not only a top5 finish,but yet another clock pitter mention - just like many he pitted just to serve the 10 seconds without any pitwork,spending 10.05 seconds in pitbox.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
The driver with only 4 letters in his 6-character name did best progress during the race - starting 16th the pole progressed a total of 9 positions to finish 7th,that's 4 positions better progress than any other driver.

VOD at Youtube:


The choice for next combo was relayed to 2nd place finisher as from this year on no driver may select 2 in row - J.Lavrikov has submitted his choice and it will be return of LX6 after 34 races absence in RTFR XL. The selected track is South City's Chicane Route,which will be run in standard direction for the very first time in the series history - the race length calculation results in 66 laps to exceed the 75 minutes requirement. Next week normal RTFR will return with a quite challenging combo,which will use parts of the same track as the most recent RTFR XL race,just in other direction - more info will be posted on the weekend as always. In 2 weeks however server will be handed over to RandomCar,where the field of cars is growing as more and more eligible cars get approved status - the race will be held in Blackwood GP Track reversed.

Season finale in Kyoto was not well attended - with 9 drivers it was the least attended round of the 2024 AWS season,weirdly only a late joiner in qualifying avoided the "half distance for half points" rule to kick in,which is activated with 8 or less drivers in qualifying. So the full 200km race was run and as always racers experienced unexpected turns of events while the finish was quite a controversy.

It's not the first time something like this happened in LFS racing history,so it bound to be repeated also in AWS some day - the day was this sunday,when 2 drivers crossed the finish line within LFS's smallest timing resolution of 100th of a second. As you can see in unofficial results,by LFS the declared winner is one driver,however the other one crossed the visual finish line first. It was decided to put this visual finish line as priority and overturn race results in favour of driver who crossed the visible finish line texture first.



Both lithuanians Sobis and Trespasser started from outside of rows 1 and 2,jumped into race lead already in 1st lap,broke the draft to 2 closest followers,which started their common journey towards victory lane. They constantly increased their gap over closest followers,finishing 14 seconds ahead of them. At the final lap,where all friends turn into rivals,Sobis passed his countryman entering last turn and tried to escape over the finish straight - despite LFS's results,the photofinish picture confirms he succeeded to keep the lead over finish line. That's is Sobis' 3rd race win this season and 5th overall in the league and 30th top5 finish. Ironically Trespasser gifted his countryman a race win in previous oval round in Rockingham,now he tried to win himself but failed and had to settle for another 2nd place finish. League creator Rony scored pole position in Winter 200 for 2nd year in row and 4th time in total,but did not led a single lap in the race,being just in the 1st chase group - he beat his teammate over the finish line to finish 3rd,scoring his 1st podium finish of the season.

Full season recap will be posted within 2 weeks.

Qualifying:


Race:


If you want to make a protest,please include all neccesary information.
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Session:
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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 UTC

Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all eligible entrants via PM.

If someone hasn't received it due some mistake,please give a notification!

Signups are closed - only drivers with at least 1 point scored through first 6 rounds are eligible to participate in final round!

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
Last XRT race won by: B2ﾏ Mantas (78th RTFR XL - FE Black Rev.)
Most XRT race wins: 4 races,4 different winners (4 different countries)
Last Aston race won by: [MRc] Zesty (85th RTFR XL - BF1 @ AS Classic Rev.)
Most Aston race wins: [WCL] True Alpha - 3 wins (Finland - 7 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+57.5 points)

2024 standings after 2 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 54
B2ﾏ Ayoub_MaRoC - 40
[MRc] Zesty - 38
Event rating and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

These are old images,the big MR2 is long gone,while the small one has undergone multiple rebuilds and damage repairs,but it's still alive. And standing around somewhere packed in a box... But the main idea was to have a miniature version of my own car.

The fast race around Kyoto Ring's oval with FXR has been held in every single season of AWS and additionally it has been season finale in 6 out of 12 previous seasons,so why not also this year? As always this round is all about teamwork - alone even the fastest racer will be slower than good teamwork,however great teamwork is what wins races. 4 previous winners of this round are eligible to compete also this season - maybe one of them can become the first 2-time winner of Winter 200?

As always in the oval rounds we will use hotlap qualifying to ensure solo effort being decisive in order to take high grid positions. The running order of qualifying will be decided from Drivers Championship standings - lowest placed drivers will start qualifying while standings leader will take his run last. Everyone will have to run 3 laps - outlap and 2 timed hotlaps,after which driver should spectate,only fastest lap counts of course. 2nd timed lap is optional - theoretically cars are faster in 2nd lap,but in case of a mistake,driver can spectate without finishing 2nd timed lap.

As usual,to avoid many questions,Race Green Events' statement about bumpdrafting:
"With closed wheels cars it is not forbidden,but in case of any reported incidents it will be treated as intentional contact,so everyone has to make sure that he knows what he is doing!"

23 drivers have qualified for season finale by scoring at least 1 point in AWS drivers championship standings,4 of them are still eligible for champion title,however even the closest rival has a lot of disadvantage to overcome - 10 points gap with 22 points available is everything else than easy task. But unpredictibility of contact based oval racing can still throw things around. Besides drivers championship,also rookie of the year,oval trophy winner and teams champions have to be decided in this race,allthough the last one is almost decided.

Round info:
Track: Kyoto Oval (KY1)
Laps: 67 (200km)
Car: FXR
Previous winners : [MRc] Hαppyd (2023), RGˆRony (2022), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021), Trespasser (2020), LLM.Sobis (2019), B2ﾏ FasT (2018), MTDZX-UM21 (2017), nsys|MareX (2016), RGˆM.Velikov (2015), 22 S.Jurvansuu (2014), S M.Kapal (2013), spdoReno (2012)


Server info and password will be PM'ed during sunday (european time) to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
AWD Winter Series

Race Green Discord