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
Important - in order to score points towards teams championship and receive prizes you must enter your team via RTFR 2021 team nominations thread.
Attention! This event will be hosted on server with LFS version 0.6V (0.6V3 compatible). Make sure you have a seperate copy of the stable version as you cannot join the server with new test patch. In case you need a stable version,you can download it here!
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last MRT race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (244th RTFR - WE RGE Westschleifenring)
Most MRT race wins: S1DUS*Botsi - 3 wins (Finland - 4 wins)
Last Aston race won by: [WCL] True Alpha (262nd RTFR - UFR @ AS GT)
Most Aston north side config race wins: RGˆLitro & Botsi - 2 wins (Finland & Latvia - 3 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*R.Kardol (+3 points)
2021 standings after 23 of 25 races:
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 489
S1DUS*uNite - 475
[WCL] True Alpha - 274
2021 team standings after 23 of 25 races:
Team S1DUS - 1212 (1st place secured)
Race Green Autosports - 528
World Class Lions - 454 Event rating,standings and other statistics
After some discussions it has been decided to revert back to stable LFS patch for this race (others were never planned to use test patch)! Server has been reverted to LFS version 0.6V!
First I would like to apologize for lapcount miscalculation - seems like there was a bug in my private brain.exe application and for some unknown reason I calculated 2 laps less than it should have been for normal distance of RTFR races. That might had influence on outcome,but then again - everyone had the same info and everyone set themselves up for the 13 lap race. Seeing the results of the race,seems like also the shortened race distance was too long to complete for some - from 33 starters just 21 drivers crossed the finish line,while additional 6 were classified as finished as they completed the 50% requirement.
Despite having a fresh WR holder as competition,Botsi was able to set the fastest lap in qualifying and score his 34th pole position in RTFR. He started from 1st position but did not lead a single lap during the race until the last one - there was an intense last lap fight where Botsi was the better one to cross the finish line just 0.04s ahead of his rival (4th closest finish in RTFR history) and score his 36th RTFR racewin. During the chase Botsi set his 28th fastest lap of the race and it was his 64th top5 finish. Despite leading 12 of 13 laps,the WR holder Gábor came short for the win yesterday as he lost the battle against his teammate,still the 2nd place finish is his 22nd top5 finish. Also Unite had his fair share of position battles,eventually coming ahead of his main rival in standings - 3rd place finish,49th top5 finish and he tied the fastest lap of the race,rounding his count of those to 20. Standings and rating leader R.Kardol finished 4th,losing to his main rival on his own mistake,but this race marked a milestone - he scored his 50th top5 finish. Top5 was completed by one of the other team drivers - Doni was sort of best of the rest even if he finished within 10 seconds of race winner,7th top5 finish in his account.
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In 2 weeks the RTFR 2021 series will have it's final round - the season finale will be held in Fern Bay and will be run with the most popular car in RTFR,few more clues are noticable in broadcast,but more precise details will be posted as always in the weekend before the race. But next week there is an "off week" and it will be filled with another RTFR CCCC - which car and in which track will be run is not decided yet - during the weekend we'll see what options are there. But 3 weeks after this also the RTFR XL season will come to the end - since Upsas did not reply to PM asking for the combo choice,the automatic choice* kicked in and it's a strange one - MRT at Rockingham Oval,so that's gonna be a second oval race in RTFR XL history.
* Most attended car of the least used cars is selected (MRT,because FZ5 is locked). Also most attended of the least used environments is selected (Rockingham),while most attended configuration from normal RTFR is selected,that has not been used in RTFR XL yet (oval).