16th january, 2018. 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
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!"
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: 86 L.Kovács
Last XFR race won by: Ardeeé (154th RTFR - WE National)
Most XFR wins: 23-troy - 2 wins (Switzerland,Finland - 2 wins)
Last Kyoto race won by: Ardeeé (156th RTFR - FBM @ KY GP Long Rev)
Most Kyoto wins: S M.Kapal, Iron|J.Vähäkuopus, ixion.Zeus - 2 wins (Latvia,Finland - 4 wins)
Last oval race won by: *‹[TC-R] Nick (143rd XFG @ RO Oval)
Current rating leader: RGˆRony (+6 points) Event rating and other statistics
Server is up and running: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (feel free to spam the Airio top table with your laptimes)
Too bad you support that lame bumpdrafting, I would've joined, but this makes no sense at all. 2 people can bumpdraft from start to finish and you can do nothing to catch them. Sounds like a lot of fun, right.
I didn't try bumpdrafting with XFR, but knowing the car behaviour itself + netcode, sometimes i think it is a bit unstable. Isn't it dangerous-ish to bumpdraft with XFR anyway?
Neither you can do something if these 2 do a perfect slingshot-draft,so your point is? It's oval and with this heavy draft we have in LFS,it's always good to have a pal in field. Also - bumpdraft is something that can go horribly wrong with a little mistake or small network fluke (a.k.a. technical failure in simracing),so the chance for everyone is still there.
I support serious bumpdrafting (not just random bumps at corners, or like a heavy ram from behind).
If two leaders tandem draft and seem to be pulling away, I'd drop back a little and get a 2-car draft from the car behind to catch up. It's all tactical - and it's why NASCAR has lifted the restrictions on bumpdrafting.
Other cars driving off into the sunset without breaking a sweat whilst you turn in the drive of your life just keep them on screen between corners? Welcome to the other end of the grid!
30th january, 2018. 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
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!"
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: 86 L.Kovács
Last XFR race won by: Ardeeé (154th RTFR - WE National)
Most XFR wins: 23-troy - 2 wins (Switzerland,Finland - 2 wins)
Last Kyoto race won by: Ardeeé (156th RTFR - FBM @ KY GP Long Rev)
Most Kyoto wins: S M.Kapal, Iron|J.Vähäkuopus, ixion.Zeus - 2 wins (Latvia,Finland - 4 wins)
Last oval race won by: *‹[TC-R] Nick (143rd XFG @ RO Oval)
Current rating leader: RGˆRony (+6 points) Event rating and other statistics
Server is up and running: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (feel free to spam the Airio top table with your laptimes)
* PENALTIES :
DK's ciMin - receives a WARNING for unsportsmanlike behaviour during finish stage of the race. Repeated offences will lead to race ban.
[WCL] Eza - receives 20 seconds penalty added to finish time for pit exit line violation on 2 occasions. Additionally he receives 1 lap penalty for causing an incident by pit exit line violation and under blue flag condition. This sums up to 2 laps penalty.
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Oval racing has always been different,making different names than usually being high players in the event. As usual the oval race had one of the top closest finishes,this time it's the 4th closest finish with calculated time of 0.054 seconds,it was also 19th race with margin of victory of 1 second or lower.
The world record holder of this combination named himself WR Man yesterday and entered the event - he proved that being fast alone is very helpful also when in actual race,as he took his 2nd RTFR vicory,also setting his 3rd fastest lap of the race and 5th top5 finish. It was also 40th win for Finland. Cimin was the winner's drafting partner for the late stage of the race,pulling away from the rest,but he was outraced on the final straight to finish line,2nd place finish and a warning for unsportsmanlike behaviour for the newcomer. Rony was in lead group earlier,but got dropped off it around half distance,3rd place finish and collected 68th top5 finish. Kurkku used the chance on hanging on 2 best bumpdrafters during qualiying and got his 1st pole position,but during race he could not keep up with lead group and also was dropped off,ending with 4th place finish,which is great improvement previous best finish - 17th. M@CI3K finished 5th in his 1st appearance here.
RTFR now takes the 2 weeks break and will return with one of the road cars,but between now and then Race Green Events offers another opportunity to race - already this sunday we have the 3rd round of AWS 2018 - Westhill Street Cup is a race on support roads of Westhill Raceway using RB4.
13th february, 2018. 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
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: WR MAN
Last FXO race won by: TEM/Y.Laprevotte (151st RTFR - FE Cadet)
Most FXO wins: 8 races,8 different winners (8 different countries)
Last Rockingham race won by: 86 L.Kovács (169th RTFR - LX6 @ RO ISSC)
Most Rockingham wins: MareX #88,Ardeeé - 2 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Current rating leader: RGˆRony (+18 points) Event rating and other statistics
Server is up and running: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race (feel free to spam the Airio top table with your laptimes)
This was a relatively difficult race requiring a lot of patience in terms of tyres - many had trouble with the fronts getting glowing red (of course just graphically in F9 menu),some lost positions because of this problem,some just pace. As always there was someone,who was better than the rest,this time it was Mikke,who led every single meter of the race and finished unchallenged,taking his 2nd win,pole position and fastest lap of the race,also increasing his top5 amount to 4. 9 seconds apart was Ring,who repeated his best finish and collected 7th top5 finish,another 9 seconds apart was 9397,who upgraded his previous best 6th position to 3rd today. 4th was Rony collecting his 69th top5 finish and top5 was closed by J.A.Katila who rounded up his top5 count to 10.
Race Green Events action continues sunday with 4th round of 2018 AWS - Winter 200 featuring FXR race at Kyoto Oval,already next tuesday RTFR XL is scheduled with FBM race at Aston National track,which should be relatively easy combo. And the normal RTFR will return in 2 weeks with a race with some of the slick tyre cars - there should be something interesting for most racers!
Such a shame no more ppl joined the event, wich was held on maybe the most interesting layout of Rockingham. Nevermind, it was good for me, my first top5 position in RTFR
