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: [WCL] J.Katila
Last Shark C race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Rockingham race won by: S1DUS*Botsi (259th RTFR - RAC @ RO Oval)
Most Rockingham race wins: GenR uNite & S1DUS*Botsi - 3 wins (Finland - 14 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*uNite (+20 point)
RTFR has done already few firsts in it's history - the first organized races in freshly updated Westhill and freshly released Rockingham (coincidentally both with XFG),now it was first organized league race featuring full grid of mod cars and first widely broadcasted event with mod cars (Z.Cagaš's stream of AWS round 1 was first ever stream with mod cars race though). But it's just start of the new age of LFS,where more than just default 20 LFS cars will feature in various events. For the season opening a very simple car was selected and again LFS server limits could not uphold racers interest as the server was full - the 68 horsepower Shark C made it's debut in LFS organized racing with a bang.
The first race of the new year was won by someone,who has more pole positions in RTFR than finished races and he added another pole position to his list - the 6th. In the first lap V.Laguckas lost lead to his countryman,but after bunch of attempts he finally found a way past him and led the remaining 1/4 of the race,scoring his 3rd RTFR race win and 5th top5 finish. Upsas led 12 laps,but eventually had to concede to his countryman and finish 2nd,that's his 4th top5 finish,while 2nd place in qualifying was repeated personal best - he also clocked the 19th closest finish in RTFR history. R.Kardol finished 3rd with gap of 0.73s to winner,which is just 0.02s more than previous 25th closest finish between top2 - 52nd top5 finish for the champion of previous year. Pedro finished 4th,scoring his 4th top5 finish,but on the way he set also fastest lap of the race,which is the first such achievement not just for him,but also for Brazil. Top5 was closed by another lithuanian - Fast finished 5th and that's his 19th top5 finish.
VOD at Youtube:
In 2 weeks RTFR will return to one of the LFS standard cars as we won't host 2 following races with mods yet,that of course will be one of the slick tire using racing cars,more details as always in the weekend before it. Next week however is kept free for possible RTFR-CCCC - no plans yet,but we might throw together a relatively spontanious gathering and test one of the mods in racing action. But until that (and actually after it) RTFR server will have testing for next RTFR XL scheduled at 25th january - as always a combo without world record data will be set for public testing to find out best laptime for distance calculation. Server will be set up shortly after this post is published!
