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: YES Trespasser
Last LX4 race won by: [FM]ˆﾁαtαι (70th RTFR XL - FE Black Rev.)
Most LX4 race wins: 6 races,6 different winners (Hungary - 2 wins)
Last Fern Bay race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (96th RTFR XL - SLX180 TYPEX @ FE Classic Modified)
Most Fern Bay race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Finland - 5 wins)
2025 standings after 6 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*GáboR - 152
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 96
ZFRL•Thehemuli - 89
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+76.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
YES Trespasser - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
dﾞchaseﾏ`samet - receives 14.14 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
dﾞchaseﾏ`samet - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
/SRP/ HachiRoku - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
RGˆM@CI3K - receives 5.48 seconds penalty added to his finish time for minimum pit time violation.
O.A - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation. The penalty results in loss of last completed lap.
dﾞchaseﾏ`zecky - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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Last race featured the slowest default LFS car,4 weeks later we raised the speeds by quite a lot by losing weight and adding power - the ideologic sibling of Catherham was featured in latest RTFR XL race. LX4 however is the slower of the 2 LX cars as it has "just" 140 horsepower,but with dry weight just a kilogram under half ton it's still in the quicker half of LFS street legal cars,especially in twisty circuits like the one we run this week. Standard Fern Bay Black in reversed direction was the venue for previous LX4 race in RTFR XL,this time we run pretty much same track but differently mixxed,which resulted in longer back straight and very tricky first turns section. With just 20 drivers qualifying,this was already under all time average attendance numbers,but competition for most positions was still very alive.
The 2-time RTFR XL race winner A.Valta was the first one and during qualifying also the only one to break the 2 minutes and 44 seconds laptime mark,with this the finn scored his 2nd pole position. During the race he led every single meter until diving into pitlane just before completing half distance,but returned to race lead undisturbed and despite seeing a competitor in distance slowly growing in his mirror,never really had doubts about race winner - 3rd RTFR XL race win goes into normal RTFR 2024 S2 champion's account,scoring him also 5th top5 finish out of 5 starts. 2 other drivers also were able to beat the 2:44 laptime mark during the race,one of them retired due rolling car,other one finished 2nd within distance of visibility,however was demoted further in time due penalty - the winner of previous race and selector of this combo Trespasser tried hard but had to settle for 2nd place finish which is his 3rd different podium finish in latest 3 races,but at least he added his 1st ever fastest lap to his stats and also 3rd top5 finish. The 2 time RTFR standings winner R.Kardol was nowhere near the chances for race win,but still was good enough to take 3rd place finish home to score the record extending 55th top5 finish. The debutant Samet made a bid for podium finish this tuesday,however the penalty for shorter pitstop demoted him from originally taken 3rd place finish to 4th position in results. Top5 was closed by Thehemuli,who scored his 8th top5 finish - this resulted in top6 finishing in exactly same order as they started without taking 2nd place starter into account as he retired.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Since introduction of car mods in LFS,RTFR XL never had more than 3 races with standard cars in row - this record was broken this week as the eligible drivers (and also voting) opted for 4 LFS default cars in row,this streak however end now as a mod has been selected for next race.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
Despite needing just about 24 kilograms of fuel for whole race distace,majority still opted for fuel refill in pits and just 3 drivers went for work free pitstop,one of them leaving pitstall 0.16s too early - the race organizer did not had much competition for this mention with his 10.04 seconds pitstop,0.08s faster than the other legal one.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Also here the race organizer put his name on top - with 4 positions gain between start and finish,he had twice as much progress as several other drivers.
VOD at Youtube:
Next RTFR XL combo is already known - both car and track have been used once in normal RTFR,however not together. The Ereso was featured in exiting race in Rockingham's Oval less than 3 months ago,in 4 weeks it will make it's debut in RTFR XL also in Rockingham,however making a very long way around the straight between oval turns 3 and 4 - we will use Rockingham Extended ISSC custom configuration,run in 291st RTFR in october of 2022. Full details and estimated race distance will be found out later this week,just like also the combo for normal RTFR in next tuesday - all we know it will be a race with one of the road tyres wearing mods.
Server has Airio as laptimes tracker,access the table with command !top