The fastest race of AWS returned as penultimate round of 2025 - Winter 200 as always was a 200 kilometer race around Kyoto's oval track with FXR. And as always cooperation was the main element of success. Quite early in the race it was clear that only 5 drivers are candidates for race win as other 4 had or got involved in some trouble,losing touch with leading five. First both front row starters got some gap to rest early on,but around half distance all leading 5 drivers were running together until next split happened.

The 2-time polesitter of Winter 200 Falcon got a great lap together and scored his 3rd ever AWS pole position and led 6 laps during 1st half of the race,however 2nd half a lot went wrong for championship candidate as he lost contact to leading duo and eventually lost connection due power issues. The defending drivers champion and Winter 200 winner Sobis led his first lap in this race just in 2nd half of the race after the "reunion" on the track - eventually he together with M.Kapal run away from competition with effective bumpdrafting as both set the fastest lap of the race on same lap. As always in such situations,everything came down to decision on the final lap - Sobis stayed behind M.Kapal before last turn,got a great pull over the start finish straight,which was enough to pass his rival by length of car's nose over finish line,clinching his 3rd win of Winter 200 (only driver to score more than 1 win). Despite leading more than 3/4 of laps during the race,the 2013 race winner M.Kapal had to settle for 2nd place finish. Late in the race Rony was able to drop off his teammate and run the 3rd position home to score his 7th podium finish of this round.


Both championship leaders did not appear on podium for the 1st time this season,despite one of them losing connection,there was not a big difference of points scores for both - Dzidoris finished 4th and Falcon was classified 7th,taking also the bonus point for pole position,so the gap between both leaders was increased by 2 points,reaching a total of 4. This means that 2nd place finish in season finale is enough for the 3-time vice champion Dzidoris to score his 1st series champion title of AWS as with 3 wins he wins every points tie situation - setting fastest laptime in qualifying for last round lowers the requirement to 3rd place finish to clinch title. Falcon however needs to outscore his teammate by 5 points. The defending AWS champion Sobis is the only other eligible driver for championship win,however with 11 points gap he needs huge failure of his countryman for any chances for another title.

Oval trophy has been now concluded as Winter 200 was the 2nd of 2 rounds for this award - by winning the last race,Sobis repeated last year's success and scored his 2nd Oval trophy award in row,3rd overall,winner of 1st round for this award Falcon was classified just 7th in this race,pushing him downd to 2nd place in Oval trophy standings,3rd is Dzidoris. Rookie of the year award is also pretty much secured - leader Cyk needs to score just 2 points in final race in Fern Bay to clinch the award without caring if his main rival Madjester wins or not - the gap between 2 only active rookies is 16 points.

Even if the Teams championship has been secured,RGA still scored the most points of the round between all teams,even if it was the smallest amount of the season. Yes motorsports is in clear 2nd place,however still needs to score few points to make sure 3rd place team Zafiralis does not pass in the final round. The 5-time Nations cup winners Lithuania added another success as they clinched the 6th title after this race - their points gap now is 64 points which cannot be decimated anymore. The defending champions Finland was a weak competition this season as they barely can hold their 2nd position over single driver nation Canada which is just 2 points off 2nd position.


The season finale of this winter league is set in the winterless island in the Carribean - Fern Bay will host the final round in it's rallycross configuration,where the low power K-car Chorus Attendanze will be used as the transportation around the 2 kilometer mixxed surface track. Last season it was the most attended round of the season with 17 drivers standing on grid - this year 18 drivers have qualified for season finale (1 point in standings requirement),hopefully most of them will join for exciting end of the season!

Tomorrow GT4 racing in RTFR - with this car in the LFS's own classic track Blackwood. Join to race or just follow the action via livestream,race info and links to livestream in the event's info thread: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110558-352nd-RTFR
The attached RTFR promo skin is public and free for use.

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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last POSCHER CAYNAM 718 GT4 race won by: First race with this car
Last Blackwood race won by: A.Valta (342nd RTFR - FZR @ BL Historic)
Most Blackwood historic configs race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Lithuania & Netherlands - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+33.5 points)

2025-S1 standings after 3 of 12 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 82
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 78
TAV-Suforr - 62
Event rating,standings and other statistics

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race Server has custom laptimes tracker,access the table with command ;tt
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Signups are still open and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

The 3rd season of car randomizer series started in South City under typical english weather,only rain was missing. What wasn't missing was the action on track - as always different car characteristics gave chances for some drivers to progress through the race,for some it was trying to not lose positions. From 26 attending drivers,2 retired,but only one before reaching the 50% distance completion required to be classified in results.

This exact track has been used before in RandomCar - in the inaugural season the round 7 was held here and also then there was the same winner. Just like 2 seasons ago R.Kardol led all 17 laps,this time with slightly faster car as the dutchman finished the distance almost 11 seconds faster than in previous race,giving organization the thoughts of possibly adding another 1% of restriction for the Nortz XRT2 in future. Dodislaw drew the lightweight mid-engined coupe Acosta Starlin and deffinitelly used well it's great handling to finish 2nd in the twisty track,allthough losing a total of 16 seconds to winner over 17 laps race. Last step on podium was taken by Nosle in the classic LFS car XRT.


By scoring all possible points out of this round,R.Kardol takes 3 points lead in the standings over Dodislaw,Nosle is 3rd with 5 points gap to leader - after 1st round everyone else is lined in same order as they finished the race this week.

The lead in teams championship has been taken by inaugural season's champions RGA,who leads Sosiski Racing by 11 points and Team S1dus by 12. In nations championship there's an unexpected leader - nation that has been actually banned from most international competitions due certain military actions,closelly followed by race winner's nation Netherlands in 2nd position and defending 2-time champions Finland in 3rd. The constructors championship has been renamed to Best car award and is currently led by the winning car Nortz,which leads Acosta by 3 points and XRT by 5.

A total of 25 different cars were drawn for the season opener,spread over 37 drivers,11 drivers did not attend,taking 3 cars away the chance to score some points. 3 different cars were drawn 3 times,however only 2 of them had at least 2 drivers. Talot remains the all time most drawn car,despite having just a single draw this time,2nd most drawn is Acosta,which got 2 draws this time.
There was another addition to drivers who got the same car for the 4th time - Three Jump received the FZ5 once again,scoring also his best results with the car in this round. The newest addition to RC cars lineup is MZ-S Roadster,which was drawn for 2 drivers,however only one of them attended and set the initial best results for it - 9th in qualifying and 10th in race were achieved by defending RC drivers champion. Houssem was the 2nd driver to receive Hiro CCF2 and also the first to use it,setting the initial best results for the car - 18th in qualifying and 13th in race,interestingly finishing one position behind his own made car.

The winner has already selected the track for next race - we're going right to the next track in list,where a rather unknown configuration has been selected. The Fern Bay Silver Alternative has been used in RTFR 2 times in it's early times,but in reversed direction,so technically it's a new track in Race Green Events hosted races - layout is yet to be properly made,measured and tested before announcing race distance. Also the winner has nominated Coquette for voting that will take place between rounds 3 and 4 - the car will join Cammera in popularity contest to get selected for RandomCar.

After race with longest lap comes the race with fastest race speed - welcome to AWS diversity racing! The Winter 200 is the most classic AWS round as it has been in schedule in every single season,often even as season finale. This year as penultimate round the race at Kyoto Oval will once again benefit drivers who can cooperate with others - 2 cars have twice the engine power,but less than twice of wind resistance! With high speeds,any errors can be costly,so winning this race has proved to be difficult on regular basis - event's history shows only a single 2 time race winner during 13 years.

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!"

Previous round pretty much sealed the championship of being a duel for title with 3 outsiders still eligible,but all of them need high points scores and hope for both leaders to have a bad race - if any of the leading 2 wins,it will pretty much rule out of championship the positions 3 to 5. Also the minor award Oval Trophy is at stake this sunday where one of the drivers will enter round with 4 points advantage over the only 2-time winner of Winter 200.

Round info:
Track: KY Oval (KY1)
Laps: 67 laps (200km)
Car: FXR
Previous winners : LLM.Sobis (2024 & 2019),[MRc] Hαppyd (2023), RGˆRony (2022), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021), Trespasser (2020), 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:
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The 2nd car draw wave scheduled for today 17:40 UTC / 18:40 CET / 19:40 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3876730RT4G9RTRY2

1 hermanni - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
2 [LCS-R] Aplazt - STELLAR K61
3 SGR MadJester - FRAUD WHEELER E2
4 Houssem.221b - 2020 HIRO CCF2
5 [WCL]J.A.Katila - FRAUD 040
6 Wj/MousemanLV - XF GARIS
7 [SyN]tBug - XR GT Turbo
8 S1DUS*uNite - FEND TORUS
9 B2R Rayman - GT-V34 MINE9

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 11 Feb 2025, 17:41. Reason : Added car names to drivers

The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3876163CSQXPSWD7J

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RGˆRony - MZ-S ROADSTER
2 J.Holmes - N.400S
3 GT4tube - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
4 ZFRL•Thehemuli - XR GT Turbo
5 [MRc] jsk - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO
6 RG^M@CI3K - Raceabout 06
7 RG^Falcon - SALIVA15
8 ZFRL•LG-mies - RB4 GT
9 [PM] Jam 616 - ACOSTA STARLIN
10 RG^NOSLE - XR GT Turbo
11 Adam - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
12 S1DUS*R.Kardol - NORTZ XRT2 V6 BITURBO 2023
13 ZFRL•Motimoukari - XF TURBO 5
14 B2R 136 - VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
15 W/ jordan - SALIVA15
16 S1DUS*GáboR - IMPREZZIVE B2
17 B2R Twincam - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
18 [MRc] Michal - XM-5 94 TURBO
19 /SRP/ Master - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO
20 dod1slaw - ACOSTA STARLIN
21 kyr1l? - FREUD SERRA
22 B2R Stiefla - XM-5 94 TURBO
23 RG^RD2 - POSCHER CAYNAM 718
24 RGˆRedBoT - IMPREZZIVE B2
25 Three Jump - FZ50
26 siemks - BAVARIA A30 N POWER EVO
27 [WCL] T.Soini - FRAUD WHEELER E2
28 Gマ™ZMaty14Z - MZ-S ROADSTER

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 10 Feb 2025, 18:03. Reason : Added car names to drivers

96/Read & Understood
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2025 series - round 1

Tuesday, 11th February
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: South City City Long reversed (SO4R)
Race distance: 17 laps (69km)

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110337 (closes 30 minutes before qualifying start)
RandomCar spreadsheets (with cars list,their balancing and all results/standings): LINK

Cars list and their balancing is available also in server - type command !opt and select "RandomCar Info"
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (access the times table via command ;tt )
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!

Car redraw option:
Each driver receives one chance during the season to redraw the car that has been drawn. This option can be used only if car has been drawn during 1st wave of cars draw and the driver will be added to list of 2nd wave of cars draw. Please note that redrawing car means a 2.4% chance of drawing the same car also with 2nd try - in that case the driver has to use the drawn car and the redraw option will be reactivated for new use in future round. Option availability is marked in Drivers championship tab in spreadsheets right behind driver's name (✓ = available,x = not available). To use the option,write here a post with word "Redraw" before signups closure for round (17:30UTC)!

Just before season opener there are another 2 updates to cars lineup.

BAVARIA A34 N POWER has been updated,gaining some weight,but not enought power to keep it on same performance level,therefor the restrictor has beed reduced by a single percent - new balancing restrictor is 4%.

MZ-S ROADSTER won the voting held in our Discord server and is now the 42nd car in RandomCar cars line up. The lightweight roadster does not have much power (it's the 3rd car with power below 200hp),but compensates the lack with great agility. The car will start it's journey with additional weight of 150kg.

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


FXO is well known for it's trait to overload and torture it's front wheel tyres - it has plenty of power and if both acceleration and steering goes through one pair of tyres,it's unavoidable to have some overheating problems. Many complained and yet this was the most attended RTFR round between the past 11 events,however to see higher finishers count than this week's 34,you have to scroll history data all the way up to 279th RTFR,held on april 2022.

The winner of past 3 RTFR FXO races was practically unchallenged also this week - R.Kardol was the only driver to beat 1:55 laptime mark in qualifying and came very close to do that also in race,leading all 17 laps on the way to his 1st ever RTFR win in Rockingham,24th overall. Additionally he scored his 21st pole position,17th fastest lap of the race,by completing the 1st lap of the race he led the 500th lap in RTFR (3rd most) and by finishing he also reached the 100th RTFR top5 finish from his 125 race starts. The driver with 2nd most top5 finishes added the 92nd of those to his stats - Unite started and finished 2nd. The driver,who is winning plenty of races latelly and before this one had 2 race winning streak,found his foe in this car - Gábor had to work hard to keep the 3rd position his and score his 74th top5 finish. Twincam was the one to challenge the hungarian driver,but eventually had to settle for 4th place finish,scoring his 7th top5 finish - all 4 top finishers finished in same position they started. The only difference between qualifying and race top5 is Thehemuli,who started just 10th,but found way to score his 17th top5 finish.

VOD at Youtube:


Next tuesday RTFR will be traded for RandomCar - the new season of mixed cars racing will start in South City,full round information will be posted during the weekend. In 2 weeks RTFR will return with one of the slick tyres car,some details about combo were announced during broadcast,while in 3 weeks RTFR XL will feature relativelly classic LFS combo with FO8 at Kyoto.

Quote from michal 1279 :

Coming tomorrow: THE WEATHER

With 10 kilometers lap length,this was the longest ever circuit in AWS history,but it was not the deciding factor why drivers needed to save some energy of their batteries to complete the race distance,it was simply the restriction of the car - being a race car it should still be relativelly light to be agile,so it cannot carry too much of batteries around. As 2 years before,RGE again opted for 2 race format for a round using electric car,adding a bit more intensity with 2 starts,but also giving 2nd chance of good result if something went wrong with 1st try. The concept of this combo seemed to be quite attractive in comparision as this round set the highest attendance of the season.

The championship leader Dzidoris wasn't as fast as earlier in the season in qualifying as he set only the 3rd fastest laptime in what felt to be very short 20 minutes session,however he still managed to find his way to race lead in each first lap and led all 10 laps of the round to score his 3rd round win of the season. His teammate and also main rival for championship Falcon qualified a position lower and also found in each race 2 positions progress to finish 2nd in both races and also in overall result,finishing 6 seconds behind in total result. The defending champion Sobis did not had a good first race,finishing 4th with 18 seconds gap,but still set the fastest lap of it,however his 2nd race was much better and he finished on podium in both 2nd race and overall round results.


None of the 2 standings leaders scored a bonus point in this round,so the earned points gap is just 2 - that's now the new gap in standings between leading Dzidoris and chasing Falcon. The defending champion Sobis is still 3rd,but now already 18 points behind leader. With the high performance of leaders,this round eliminated majority of competitors from title chances as only the top5 are now still mathematically eligible for drivers championship,however realistically it seems to end as a duel between season long rivals.

As the only round using electric car,this round was not part of any minor championships,but in race for rookie of the year award we have a competition - current leader Cyk lost 5 points of his lead and has 7 points gap over Madjester,who also scored a bonus point for pole position in this round. No other rookies took part once again,however the award is still open for everyone who would join the league for the first time.

With 2 of their drivers battling out for championship,the defending teams champions were running away from competition right from the start of the season,now their advantage has exceeded the points count where the gap is enough - Race Green Autosports are already teams champions with 2 rounds still left to run,clinching the 3rd title in row and 8th overall. 2nd place is still open for decision,currently Yes Motorsports leads Zafiralis by 5 points - bringing in series 2nd driver would be decisive for either of the teams. In nations cup standings it's the 5-time champions Lithuania,which is running away from competition and they're currently 1 round short to secure the title. Unless defending champions Finland heavily upgrades their performance and/or Canada brings 2nd top performing driver in the play - that's the only chance for title for the north american country,no other countries are eligible for the title anymore.


To set things up for season finale,the penultimate round brings the most unpredictible race - Winter 200 has been in schedule in each AWS season,this year as round 5 from 6 the drivers will have to cooperate with their friends and rivals for better result in the race. Risky bumpdrafting or very effective slingshot drafting are the 2 options,history however favours the risky drivers when it comes to race win,where occasionally one of the involved drivers suffers with many positions loss due some error.

That seems to be intentional - now they're sorted in order of activity,sections with latest posts are on top. Same happens in each subsection too.

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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 - 2 wins in row
Last FXO race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins in row (303rd RTFR - BL GP Track rev.)
Most FXO race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 3 wins (Netherlands - 3 wins)
Last Rockingham race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (346th RTFR - FO8 @ RO ISSC)
Most Rockingham international configs race wins: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Finland - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+41.5 points)

2025-S1 standings after 2 of 12 races:
S1DUS*GáboR - 56
TAV-Suforr - 46
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 46
Event rating,standings and other statistics

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

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 and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday.

After shortest lap in the schedule comes the longest one - the over 10 kilometers long Westhschleifenring is the venue for 4th round of the season. Even if being just a shortened version of Westschleife configuration,it's still quite a long challenge,requiring more than 4 minutes to complete a lap in the recently updated AWS own electric version of XFR. After 1 season break,an electric car returns to AWS and brings back a 2 race round as the cars simply cannot be run for normal nominal race length of AWS of 40 minutes. Even that brings a energy conserving challenge as car's energy reserves are around half a lap short of the 5 laps of full power racing,adding additional factor for the racers. As usually the 2 race format will result in a single result as results of both races will be summed together.

After half of the season there are 2 rather distinct leaders in table with 2 others still within one round striking distance - after this round first few ineligible drivers will be sorted out of chances for championship while for all contenders it's time to step up the performance if they want to have good chances.

Round info:
Track: WE Westschleifenring 2024 (WE1Y)
Laps: 2 x 5 laps (2 x 53km)
Car: XF EGTR-RX AWS SPEC
Previous winners : S1DUS*uNite (2024 / RB4), A.Valta (2023 / RB4), LLM.V Laguckas (2022, 2019 & 2017 / RB4), S1DUS*R.Kardol (2021 / RB4), RGˆDzidoris (2020 / RB4), B2ﾏ FasT (2018 / RB4)



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

AWS 2025 signups thread
Race Green Discord

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


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

* PENALTIES :
kyr1l? - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
SGﾏ MadJester - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
W/ jordan - receives 10.85 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.

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The new season of RTFR XL started with a car many did not like when starting the testing,but it still produced intense racing in the shorter configuration of Westhill. Even if the racing calmed down in the 2nd half of the race,lacking experience with car cought quite few drivers with tyre wear estimation - many underestimated the car's impact on it's rubber layer and needed to pit for 2nd time to put a new set on,in many cases already after blown tyre[s].

The second paragraph of the sum up of race is starting to get very repetitive - for the 4th time the same driver is fastest in both qualifying and race,including the fastest lap of the race. Gábor put himself into stats recordings as the 3rd driver to win 4 RTFR XL races in row,tying the record originally set by L.Paddewwa and repeated by M less than a year ago. Even if at one point of the race it looked like the streak will be ended,the other front row starter Jordan made a crucial mistake by destroying a tyre with 5 laps to go while being in lead,but since he made an error in pitlane by making too short pitlane,he decided simply to quit without trying to recover... Gábor however nursed his tyres with paper thin thread during the last few laps and crossed the finish line as race winner,adding 14th race win,16th pole position,15th fastest lap of the race and 24th top5 finish to his stats,additionally scoring also the 20th pole position for Hungary. As a great example how close at the end everything was,winners teammate reduced the big lead to just over 3 secods over finish line - R.Kardol finished 2nd,scoring his 53rd top5 finish. Dodislaw joined the XL version of RTFR just for the 3rd time and set new personal bests - 4th place in qualifying already was an improvement of 5 positions,however finish result was an improvement of 8 positions as he finished 3rd compared to 11th he achieved 3 races ago. 2 drivers got promoted up a position due other driver's penaly - Jsk is scored 4th,which is a repeat of the better of his 2 previous top5 finishes,Falcon is 5th in results to score his 4th top5 finish.

* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
GTR class cars seems to be the most popular in RTFR XL - with official attendance number of 36,the Fund Mutsand GT3 ties other GT3 car for 2nd position in most attended cars chart. Now 7 of top8 cars in this chart belongs to various GTR classes and 3 of top5 - to GT3,however only XRR in 8th position has been raced twice.

* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Some drivers finished the race on same set of tyres,some without refuelling,but neither managed to do both - every pitstop had some work in it,the shortest this time was Hachiroku's pitstop where he refuelled the car for 10.08 seconds. In all fairness - the driver however retired after crash,caused by tyre failure with less than 4 laps to go. Shortest pitstop between drivers who finished the race was Hermanni's 11.54 seconds,but also he did not complete full race distance as he was lapped 3 times. Between drivers who completed full race distance,3 managed to clock identical 13.18 seconds pitstop by changing all 4 tyres.

* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Low qualifying result many times has been helpful to get mentioned here,same happened also this week as tbug started from 33rd position and finished 14th to make a gain of 19 positions.

VOD at Youtube:


Top2 drivers from this race are locked out from selecting combo for next race (Gábor is still on winning streak,R.Kardol selected this combo),so the selection has been relayed to 3rd place finisher. And the decision has been already made - in 4 weeks the 98th RTFR XL will feature currently 3rd least popular car in series - Formula V8,which will be visiting Kyoto for the 3rd time in it's 6th appearance (most between all single seater cars),running the race in Kyoto's GP Track in reversed direction with race featuring 39 laps. Until then RGE will feature several other races - already this weekend AWS round 4 will be run with an electric version of LFS's XFR around Westschleifenring,full information of the round will be posted later this evening. 2 days later in tuesday RTFR will return with one of the street legal cars. Then in the week after than 2 different events will be run - the brand new World Rally Cup on monday and RandomCar on tuesday,where both are season opener rounds.

Not sure if the cross pattern is a good idea,however ability to select tyre type/compound on each wheel individually could bring benefits on specific tracks and/or cars.

For those who missed the livestream,here's video on demand:

Make sure to watch until the end of race for plenty of tyre drama.

Tomorrow this car will be raced in Westhill as season 2025 opener of RTFR XL,the shorter Westhill configuration means lower speeds,more workout for both hands and feet. Join to race or just follow the action via livestream,race info and links to livestream in the event's info thread: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/110323-97th-RTFR-XL
The attached RTFR promo skin is public and free for use.

Regarding skin I would like to make an suggestion for future mods (what's done,is done,no need to change) - please don't map different panels so close to each other,leave some space between them. In skin template of this car there are several places,where 1 pixel to the wrong side and you're already painting a stripe on different part of car. It's better to have 5% smaller logos on skin file than torture with pushing each pixel correct while on lower resolution skin it will look not well made anyway - if someone desperatelly wants to have super high quality skin,he can still make a 4K resolution.