NOTE ABOUT RACE DISTANCE:
Due lack of activity in laptime testing in past for the custom combos,it has been decided to give an estimated lapcount in information. The actual lapcount will be announced after qualifying as it will be calculated using fastest laptime in qualifying (same rule as always - minumum lapcount to exceed 75 minutes).
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
Pitting rules:
Race requires a minimum time spent in pitstall of 10 seconds. That can be done either with single pitstop or sum of multiple pitstops. Driver who has spent less time will receive penalty time added to his finish time,which will be calculated by tripling the missing time to complete neccesary minimum time and adding additional 5 seconds. Drivers failing to pit at all will receive 1 minute penalty added to finish time (10s*3 + additional 30s).
Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*GáboR
Last BF1 race won by: [MRc] Zesty (85th RTFR XL - AS Classic Rev.)
Most BF1 race wins: S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Hungary - 2 wins)
Last Westhill race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (97th RTFR XL - FUND MUTSAND GT3 @ WE National)
Most Westhill race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & B2ﾏ M & S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Lithuania - 3 wins)
2025 standings after 4 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*GáboR - 104
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 79
Wj/ dod1slaw - 70
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+53 points)
* PENALTIES :
YES Number - 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.
B2ﾏ Suforr - receives 9.56 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
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The 1st RTFR XL race of the 2nd century was run with the fastest standard LFS car BF1 in a soon to be standard configuration - the Westhill International without last chicane. Since making it standard will take a while,we have to make it ourself first using open config method. The fast BF1 with it's specific handling as always was a challenge for drivers,for some big enough to not even try - with 21 attending drivers this was not the least popular race of the year,but being around all time average values means lower attendance than in latest few years.
One week after celebrating his first ever RTFR race win,Suforr scored his own and his country's first pole position in the other RTFR series,setting sights also on the other winners club. However he was passed very early in the race and led 10 laps in 2 pitstop shuffling phases before retiring after spinning the car 2 turns after completing half of the race distance. The driver who has won 8 of latest 11 RTFR XL races incresed his winning percentage to 75% after this race - Gábor once again was the driver to beat,this time leading 42 of 54 laps and finishing 44 seconds ahead of competition to score his 17th RTFR XL race win,picking up also his 17th fastest lap of the race and 27th top5 finish. A driver with a win with different F1 car in RTFR XL was the best of the rest this week - Number also took over race lead for 2 laps during pitstops shuffling,but was no danger for race win and finished 2nd to score his 5th top5 finish. Trespasser scored his best qualifying result 3rd,improving the best result by 1,but could not find any way to upgrade the position during race and scored 3rd position also in race results,which is his 2nd top5 finish. Last on the lead lap was a driver who decided to opt for a funny name for this race - mr Puntola scored his 31st top5 finish. Despite losing a lap,Ayoub still managed to clinch a top5 finish,which is the 9th for the maroccan.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Attendance in previous 4 RTFR XL races with BF1 has been quite stable - all races featured 18 to 24 drivers,so the 21 this week was the exact middle between those values and just above the average.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
With need of more than 2 full fuel tanks for this race,everyone completing full or clost to full race distance stopped twice in pits,shortest pitstop time was done by the winner himself,who did 2 very similar pitstops of refuelling only,totalling 15.55 seconds spent in pitstall. There was a driver with less time spent in pitstall,however the driver retired before needing the 2nd pitstop.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Low effort in qualifying and big improvement during the race - quite a trend for some drivers,this time it was Nandolonso,who improved own qualifying's best laptime by more than 2 seconds during the race. Starting from 19th grid position and finishing 7th gave him progress of 12 positions during the race,one more than 2nd best positions upgrade.
VOD at Youtube:
Since it's not allowed to select combo for back to back races,the winner may not pick another combo,so the selection was relayed to 2nd place finisher,who did not need to decide it - it will be 8th running of the slowest LFS standard car (tying for most selections with FZR) UF1,which will be run for just 21 laps in Aston Historic on 18th june. Before that tuesdays will be filled with 2 last races of RTFR 2025 season 1,first one running with one of the road legal cars,between those - RandomCar 2025 round 5.
Server has Airio as laptimes tracker,access the table with command !top