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Some historic stats:
Last race won by: GenR Ricardo
Last FOX race won by: S1DUS*Final Boss (330th RTFR - WE International)
Most FOX race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & S1DUS*Final Boss - 3 wins (Finland - 9 wins)
Last Rockingham race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (360th RTFR - FBM @ RO ISSC Long)
Most Rockingham infield configs race wins: S1DUS*Botsi & S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Finland - 6 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+46.5 points)
RTFR 2025 season 2 started with the classic LFS mid-range formula car FOX,run in the longest configuration of Rockingham that does not use any sections of the oval. This created a fast paced racing,where drivers could press the trottle to max for majority of the track with only few rather short braking zones. Season opener raised the attendance numbers again - with 30 drivers this was the most attended race since other race in Rockingham in end of april.
After the 3 unattended off-season races,Gábor returned to RTFR and did what he did many times before - put his name on top of all tables,scoring more achievements to his account. The hungarian was fastest in qualifying to score the 44th pole position for himself and 50th for Hungary (2nd country after Finland to reach this number). He kept the race lead after few competition attempts and run away from everyone to finish 12 seconds ahead after leading all 32 race laps,increasing his all time lead laps count to 993,so only 7 more needed to reach 1000. This was Gábor's 100th RTFR race finish,from which 45 he has crossed the finish line as race winner,scoring also his 42nd fastest lap of the race and 83rd top5 finish. The number 2 of this round was Suforr,who qualified 2nd (repeated personal best result) and despite being chased closelly by several drivers also finished 2nd to score his 9th top5 finish. Only 2 previous FOX race winners attended in this race,the other one besides Gábor was J.Katila,who finished 3rd from 7th position on grid,scoring his 28th top5 finish. Rest of the top5 was filled also by experienced FOX drivers from other series - 4th was TJ,scoring his 18th top5 finish,5th was the only winless driver of RTFR in today's top5 - Rex finished in top5 for the 2nd time.
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Next week RTFR will feature the longer version - 104th RTFR XL will also be run in Rockingham,however additionally to yesterday's configuration it will use also most of the oval and couple tricky sections connecting oval to the national configuration. The selected car has also been seen in Rockingham,however run only in oval 3 months ago - next tuesday Ereso will use also most of the rest of Rockingham's roads. The race length is estimated to 36 laps,however if drivers beat certain laptime,it can be extended. Normal RTFR will return in 2 weeks with a race with one of the default LFS road tyre cars,running in previously used Layout Square custom racetrack.