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

FZR racing in Blackwood might sound very classic and give a feeling of having done that many times before. But it's not the case in RTFR as yesterday it was the very first FZR's visit to Blackwood in this event series - the only previous FZR race here under this logo was done back in 2017,when RTFR XL hosted race with this car in Blackwood's GP track. Yesterday we run the version without chicane,where laptimes are just 5-6 seconds over a minute,giving another reason for fast paced race feeling. A total of 30 drivers attended this race - 11 more than all time average of FZR races.

A.Valta entered himself into RTFR history books as the 17th driver to score back to back races - the current standings leader started from outside of front row,slipped into lead on backstraight during 1st lap and led rest of the race,holding off polesitter's few overtake attempts. The finn scored his 9th RTFR race win,which puts him into 10th position in all time success rank,rounding up his top5 count to quarter century. The all time success rank leader Gábor was the fastest in qualifying as expected for a world record holder in this combo,scoring his 33rd pole position (1 less than all time highest),however his race pace was not up to performance to convert pole position in win,so the hungarian had to settle for 2nd place finish,scoring his 67th top5 finish,on the way setting also fastest lap of the race - his 33rd. Another milestone was reached by Unite,who finished 3rd - with this he scored 86th top5 finish to tie for all time 2nd most of these. 136 finished 4th to score his 5th top5 finish,Arska closed the top5 to score his 32nd top5 finish with his 100th RTFR race finish.

VOD at Youtube:


Next up on RGE schedule is round 2 of VERL 2024 season - this sunday we will be racing the 600 horsepower single seaters in much different Blackwood track,full information and signups in VERL forum section. RTFR XL follows 2 days later on coming tuesday - the car well known from Retro Cup will be run in it's full performance mode on Aston's longest configuration in reversed direction. Full information will be posted on friday. Info about next normal RTFR combo was mentioned during this week's broadcast - a rather slow car will be run on other configuration of Aston,more details as always will be posted on weekend before it.

Quote from Elgordos :

LFSW name:Do0t2

Sign up rejected! Please sign up using actual account - otherwise there is suspicion of account sharing,which is not supported by LFS terms of service!

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: A.Valta
Last FZR race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (306th RTFR - SO Chicane Route)
Most FZR race wins: Agent & RGˆRony & YES V. Laguckas - 2 wins (Latvia & Finland - 3 wins)
Last Blackwood race won by: ｢ﾏｧ｣ TJ (338th RTFR - MRT @ BL RGE Container Sprint)
Most Blackwood historic configs race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Lithuania & Netherlands - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+7.5 points)

2024-S2 standings after 5 of 12 races:
A.Valta - 119
S1DUS*GáboR - 103
S1DUS*uNite - 80
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

So taking a letter off from trademarked name is now enough? Let's go,make some Ercedes,Hevrolet,Oyota,Ubaru...

As expected this round did set a new record - this was the all time slowest race in almost 2 years short RandomCar history. The average speed was just 3.5km/h over 100,which is 2km/h slower than previous slowest race,held in custom track in Layout Square - an interesting switch right after the fastest race in series. With 20 starters on grid,this was on lower side side of attendance chart,however all 20 drivers completed the 50% of distance to be classified - a 100% finishing rate for 2nd race in row.

Arska received the LFS own built FXO for this round and used it well to achieve everything from a single round - he was fastest in qualifying to score his 2nd pole position (interestingly his other pole position was also with a LFS default car XRT and done also on round 9,just in previous season),led 15 of 19 laps and scored his 1st RandomCar race win. Another FWD car finished 2nd - GT4tube received the XF Coupe Turbo,which is based on other default LFS car,and steered it from 3rd position in qualifying to 2nd place in finish. Twincam had a great start with his all wheel drive CZR Luxury Sedan,jumping into strong lead right after green lights from outside of front row,however on longer term struggled with pace and dropped down to 3rd position in finish,repeating best results ever achieved with this car.


The championship top3 stayed in status quo after round 9 - 2 of them attended qualifying,but left server before race start,so J.Holmes still leads 2 lithuanians from B2R team by 12 points - M is 2nd and 136 is 3rd. A total of 7 drivers are still eligible for drivers championship (based on points amount possible if season's highest attendance is repeated). With double points available for season finale,J.Holmes may not finish more than 6 positions behind both main rivals,4 positions if better of them takes all 4 bonus points - with 4 wins the briton has advantage in any points tie scenario.

With 75 points gap between leaders in teams championship,the deal can be considered sealed - RGA has never scored high enough positions this season that might give the needed points count to close the gap even with double points system,however B2R should not leave this to a random chance. But the battle for 3rd position is heated up now - WCL overtook Zafiralis and has now 4 points advantage. Even closer is situation in nations championship - the defending champions Finland used well the 0 points round of Lithuania and slipped into 2 points lead. Also 3rd position sees a great competition ahead - Poland overtook UK and is just a single point ahead now. Also manufacturers championship saw a lead change - XF Coupe Turbo is leading the table over previous leader BZ30,with potential of FXO getting into mix with a good points score.

2 cars were drawn 3 times for this round - Nortz and XF Coupe,while 4 others got 2 draws. But all 4 most drawn cars were undrawn for this round.
Once again there were plenty of best results for cars - first of course is FXO's 1st pole position and 1st race win,Arska improved his own previous best (shared with Twincam) in qualifying by 1 position and Twincam's 3rd place finish. Thehemuli was just the 2nd driver to get FZ70 and with it improved his teammate's first results - 9th in qualifying halved the previous result,but 6th in race was 5 positions better. Dodislaw took away best result from other Zafiralis member - his Dorito FD7 SR results are 6th in qualifying (10 positions better) and 7th in race (5 positions improvement). Also his teammate Kyril set best results for his car - being 1st to run it there were no previous bests for Bavaria A30,which are now 4th in qualifying and 8th in race. Roku Troeno hasn't seen much action either,Rony got it for this round and set 13th in qualifying (5 positions improvement) and 10th in race (9 positions better). Madjester was the 2nd driver to use Bavaria A34,he was 11th in both sessions,which beats Unite's previous effort of 14th and 19th respectivelly in qualifying and race. Despite being drawn 7 times already,the Imprezzive C8 still hasn't seen race action - J.Holmes was the first to run it in qualifying,setting 7th position as initial best for the car.

The winner of this race still hasn't replied about his selection of track for season finale - he has options of either a custom layout set in Layout Square or anything but rallycross in Blackwood. Hopefully he replies until end of this week,otherwise we'll be forced to do some automatic selection based on previous activity in both RandomCar and RTFR. Season finale once again will be a 1 hour race with double points for finishing positions.

PENALTIES:

[FM]ˆStrutter - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.

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The decade season started in Kyoto,marking new car's first ever race in this environment. Signups list just before round start was missing all previous champions,so this sunday it was a start of 4 rounds long race for being crowned new champion,however any of previous champions still have a chance to join and get involved in the last 3 rounds. 13 drivers attended season opener,with all of them qualifying for the race and also standing on grid,however 5 drivers retired before reaching 2/3 of the distance,leaving just 8 drivers in points scorers table.

It was actually 2 in row for Zesty - the malaysian won the last race of the previous season and carried winning over to the new season,with this making a distinctive application for drivers championship. Zesty scored his 3rd pole position in qualifying,lost the lead early on,but just for 4 laps as he returned to lead to finish almost half a minute ahead of competition,scoring also his 3rd VERL race win. His teammate Unite joined the race winner on front row on grid,took over race lead for few laps until conceding race lead,however he kept his 2nd position alive. The vice champion of previous season Thehemuli qualified just 7th,but made a good progress in race to finish 3rd,which marks his 10th top5 finish in the league.


As always standings order after 1st round matches finishing order of 1st race - Zesty has 5 points advantage over Unite due taking both bonus points from 1st round,Thehemuli's gap to leader is 8 points. The other individual award currently is on hold - only a single rookie has finished a race so far,without 2nd rookie finishing race during season there will be no rookie of the year award.

The 2-time teams champions Team S1dus collected all possible 31 points from this round and logically takes the 1st position in table after round 1,defending champions RGA is already 18 points behind with Zafiralis in 3rd with 21 points gap. The defending 8-time nations cup winners Finland started also this season with highest points score,but their advantage over race winner's nation Malaysia is just 5 points now,Latvia is 3rd with 16 points gap.

Round 2 is pretty much a VERL classic - the own built challenging course in containers field of Blackwood. The 2.5 kilometer sprint track will punish drivers with tricky high speed 1st turn,various hairpins and few chicanes,most of that going over the bumpy surface of storage field. During 5 previous races,no driver has won here twice - will there be another 1st time winner?

What happened with the technical data? If it's supposed to be a recreation,then engine and weigth are totally wrong - the real car has a 2.8 liter V6 with just 132hp (there were some euro models with 2.7 liter V8 with 156hp) while it weights only 1.2 tons instead of 1.8 you have set up.

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:

VM.January
mut
S1DUS*GáboR

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

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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=3784132MS5X4Y5E5G

1 RG^LORENZO - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
2 #27 P.Pegasus - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023

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 17 Sep 2024, 16:40. Reason : Added car names to drivers

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=3783268ZQ4KVSKC67

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - ROKU TROENO
2 RG^M@CI3K - DASH 46
3 ZFRL•Thehemuli - FZ70 4GTS
4 [WCL] T.Soini - STELLAR K61
5 ZFRL•LG-mies - ADDA AR-EIGHT V10
6 B2R 136 - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO
7 B2R Stiefla - FREUD SERRA
8 J.Holmes - IMPREZZIVE C8
9 [WCL]J.A.Katila - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
10 B2R TwinCam - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
11 [WCL] Arska - FXO Turbo
12 GT4tube - XF COUPE TURBO
13 SGR MadJester - BAVARIA A34 N POWER
14 ZFRL•Motimoukari - XF GARIS
15 Harri K. - 2020 HIRO CCF2
16 sidus unite - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
17 tBug - FRAUD WHEELER E2
18 O.A - XR GT Turbo
19 /SRP/ Master - XF COUPE TURBO
20 hermanni - XF TURBO 5
21 [MRc] jsk - XF TURBO 5
22 B2R Rejekt - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
23 VM.January - FEND TORUS T
24 mut - FRAUD 040
25 B2R M - N.400S
26 RG^Mandula - XF COUPE TURBO
27 S1DUS*GáboR - XR GT Turbo
28 [RDSR]Fearr - POSCHER CAYNAM 718
29 [PM] Jam 616 - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
30 dod1slaw - DORITO FD7 SR
31 kyr1l? - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO

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 16 Sep 2024, 17:03. Reason : Added car names to drivers

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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 UTC

2024 series - round 9

Tuesday, 17th September
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Rockingham ISSC Long (RO4)
Race distance: 19 laps (62km)

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!

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

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

Signups are still open (until 16:50 UTC raceday) and new entries will receive PM at some point during saturday/sunday.

The decade season opens in environment not visited for 5 years - Kyoto! Previous race in Kyoto was held in 2019 where the good old Formula V8 was run in roval configuration named National reversed,so why not celebrate the return in exactly same track which features both high speed oval section using roughly 80% of the oval itself and the infield section with very variating turns complexes. Setting car's aero for high speed will give you free pass over oval section,but you'll have hard time in infield,however with other way round you might be a sitting duck for competition - what will be your choice?

The 600 horsepower car is awaiting it's challengers - currently the signing up activity is low,however the list already includes 2 vice champions,so don't miss out the chance to put your name in the 10 years long history of V8 Racing League - either as polesitter,race winner or even series champion! Newcomers have the chance to become the best rookie of the season,while everyone else can be a vital part for their team or country on way to teams or nations championships.

Round info:
Track: KY National reversed (KY2R)
Laps: 39
Previous winners: v\A.Wiśniewski (2019)

VERL 2024 results and standings

Server info and password will be PM'ed saturday to all entrants,until then server remains publically accessible:
V8 Racing League
VERL 2024 signups
Race Green Discord

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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

Once again we had a race which proved that RTFR is running a high variability of cars - this week we run a high difficulty car,representing F1 from mid-to-late 60ies. That's an era,where engine powers were growing,car sizes and weights shrinking,but grip levels - not keeping up with other advances. This,coupled with bumpy and twisty South City,created probably biggest challenge of the year,but still we had 25 brave drivers ready to take it in qualifying,one less standing on the grid. The race caught up plenty of high tier drivers in incidents as without the real life dangers known when racing such cars,some were too brave and got way too close to each other... Atrition rate was somewhat better than the one in this car's original time - only 1/3 of starters retired.

Current standings leader A.Valta seems was able to adapt to this car best - he was fastest in practice,2nd fastest in qualifying and after using polesitter's mistake to take lead,he led 16 laps on his runaway drive to victory lane. The finn scored his 8th RTFR race win,9th fastest lap of the race (3rd this season) and 24th top5 finish. Gábor was fastest in qualifying for the 3rd time this season and 32nd overall (still 2nd most),but could not keep the pace unter pressure,which ended with a lead losing mistake,so he had to settle for 2nd place finish,scoring his 66th top5 finish. 3rd in finish with already half a minute gap was Unite,who scored his 85th top5 finish (still all time 3rd most),followed by Sean in 4th position,who scored his 5th top5 finish in his 10th total finish. Top5 was closed by driver,who had only his 2nd attendance in RTFR - Shoulda improved his previous result by 8 positions.

VOD at Youtube:


Next week the server is given to other series - RandomCar 2024 Series round 9 is to be held in Rockingham,which will set up standings for season finale in october. In 2 weeks RTFR will return with one of the slick tyre cars - again some hints about combo can be seen in broadcast,but full info will be posted in weekend before. And there are also some news about next RTFR XL now - the combo for next race has been submitted by winner of previous race. It will be the 4th visit of the year in Aston,where on GP reversed configuration we will race the car well known from Retro Cup - Cammera JGT. This combo will be set up in RTFR server shortly for laptime testing. Another activity from RGE this week - this sunday the 10th season of V8 Racing League will be started in Kyoto! Make sure you don't miss a chance to join the action and chances to become the new VERL champion - full information and signups in VERL forum section.

Yes - add them normally just like default cars,then LFS will generate path files for them and you're good to go.

For those who missed - video on demand from today's race,works as a showcase for the car:

Quote from MousemanLV :

Just accept the fact that there are many aspects where LFS lacks and we can't do nothing about it.

Funny and very ironic you say this,because I am one of those who accepted the way LFS is (hence my free time input with all the events without intention to search for "greener fields") while you're one of those who moan about everything,complain how slow devs are and praise how good everything is in other sims.
But hey,don't worry,it's just another 3rd grader type of answer.

How about an old school short distance Grand Prix race in London's borough with this death trap? Not sure if there are enough ambulance cars around today...



Attached the RTFR promo skin in case someone likes it to have even if it's design is a bit out of car's time.
Full event info and links to livestream: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/109134-341st-RTFR

Quote from JayDeM :

people have spent their money on.

And that exactly is the biggest problem here! The money people spent is not enough to live with for 2 (and a half?) developers AND maintain web services with high level DDoS protection,which in normal world (with people with healthy thinking) would not be even needed.

Quote from JayDeM :

10+ years and can't come up with solution.

Can you?

Quote from JayDeM :

why isn't scawen able to prevent this

Because there is no magic switch to turn off idiots with access to way too much resources. And high level DDoS protection costs a lot of money,which is obviosly not involved in this indy project LFS is.
From various Discord discussions I've seen many wannabe experts (including you) who propose to simply turn off DDoS attacks or suggest other very simple solutions,howeven none of them actually maintains any internet based service - so their "expertise" is very questionable.

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*GáboR
Last F67L race won by: 1st race using this car
Last South City race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (335th RTFR - RAC @ SO Chicane Route Rev.)
Most South City long configs race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 4 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+0 points)

2024-S2 standings after 4 of 12 races:
A.Valta - 95
S1DUS*GáboR - 80
S1DUS*uNite - 60
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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

* PENALTIES :
[FM]ˆStrutter - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
[MRc] jsk - receives a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct (crashing driver on victory lane).
hermanni - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
ｨﾑm® E.Lima - receives 5.18 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
[MRc] Michal - receives 7.01 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.

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Formula BMW has always been rather a people's car - relativelly simple and yet fast due it's low weight,slick tyres and downforce. However in RTFR XL it has been very unpopular - in both terms of selection and attendance. Last time it was selected for 25th RTFR XL (more than 5 and a half years ago) and it has lowest all time average attendance. With 20 drivers attendace it will climb up to penultimate position now,but it still recorded repeated lowest attendance of this year.

Having in field just a single driver with a win recorded in latest 3 seasons,this was again a race for a potential new first time race winner. This honor was taken over Fragmasters' representant Rex,who had his best ever RTFR XL race as in his previous 4 attempts,where he finished 6th as best result. This week the pole led 21 laps having several lead changes with the polesitter,leading also the last 7 laps on his tyre survival run to victory lane. His 2nd position in qualifying was also an improvement - 2 positions better than previous best,while Rex set also fastest lap of the race. After scoring his 1st pole position,the defending race winner Mandula set sights on a 2-in-row possibility,however late in race encountered hardware issues and had to settle for 2nd place finish,scoring his 9th top5 finish,but by leading most of the laps he exceeded 100 laps led mark. Best personal race was also for 3rd place finisher Suforr,who's previous best finish was 8th position,also his qualifying result was an improvement - from 7th to 3rd. 30th finish for Thehemuli resulted in 2nd top5 finish in row - he crossed the finish line 4th,increasing his total of top5 finishes to 4. The most successful racer in the field was Unite,who finished 5th,scoring his 29th top5 finish (still 3rd most).

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Despite running a full spec racecar,this race was the slowest in past year - this race clocked just 146km/h average speed,which is 35km/h slower than average of previous 12 races and almost 3km/h slower than latest LX6 race in South City.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
...is once again T.Soini - this time his workfree pitstop was 10.10 seconds long - just a tenth shorter than 2nd best.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Despite blown tyre and penalty which cost him a position,Strutter still managed to have the highest progress during the race with 7 positions gain - from 15th in grid he is classified 8th.

VOD at Youtube:


Currently the race winner has not answered message about next combo,so information about that will be posted later. But information about next RTFR will be posted already this sunday - some already got hints from broadcast what to expect,and that will be probably one of the most difficult tuesday evening drives for many participants. In 2 weeks server will be relayed to RandomCar,where penultimate round of the 2024 series will be held in Rockingham.