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: A.Valta
Last ERESO race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Rockingham race won by: YES V.Lakūnas (77th RTFR XL - UFR @ RO Sportscar w/o Chicane)
Most Rockingham race wins: S1DUS*R.Kardol - 2 wins (Netherlands & Lithuania - 2 wins)
2025 standings after 7 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*GáboR - 152
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 114
ZFRL•Thehemuli - 105
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+51.5 points)
* PENALTIES :
B2ﾏ Rubi - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
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The rear engined lightweight Ereso returned in RTFR this tuesday,but now switched to the longer XL version - extended was not only the race distance compared to it's debut,but also the track as we used most of the racing surface of Rockingham in a custom configuration. Since the car hails from late 70ies,it featured a bit tricky handling due to having engine behind rear axle and lack or antiroll bar of the same rear axle. But with some practice and set up,most were able to get decent control over the car - some better,some not so good while some found out one of the weak parts of the car - if not careful,clutch tended to overheat when launching with the rather tall 1st gear. With 22 drivers this was pretty much average attendance since the anniversary race,however 6 drivers retired for varios reasons resulting in repeated lowest finishers count since 99th RTFR XL.
During practice Loco set himself as main candidate for race win in this race - he had the best laptime during practice,best laptime also in qualifying (thus earning his 1st RTFR XL pole position),during race he improved the lap record once more to score also his first fastest lap of the race and after leading his first 21 laps in the series,he crossed the finish line to score his 1st RTFR XL race win - Loco's previous best finish was 7th in the far 68th RTFR XL 3 years ago. Even if one driver run away from competition,more attention was drawn to 2nd place finisher and the several laps long race for it - Twincam eventually was able to hold off charging competitor and brought home his best RTFR XL result of 2nd place finish. His previous best was 5th which he scored twice and during qualifying he also improved his best result - from 5th to 3rd. With good start TJ jumped into race lead and led the first 15 laps until his pitstop,after that his only highlight was the battle for 2nd position,which he could not conquer,settling only for 3rd place finish which is his 5th top5 finish out of 5 total finishes. 4th was P.Koivunen,who joined RTFR XL for the first time this year and repeated his best result with his 30th race finish - 3rd top5 finish for him. For 2nd race in row top5 was closed by Thehemuli,who scored his 9th top5 finish out of overall 40 race finishes.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
Besides the dominating Finland in RTFR XL Winners club,Lithuania is the only other country that has back to back new winners and that only for 2nd time since the far 9th and 10th RTFR XL when the club was joined by Dzidoris and Fast. Now with Trespasser 2 events ago and Loco in this race Lithuania repeats 2 new winners in row record.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
...is the 5th place finisher Thehemuli,who had a 10.18 seconds long work free pitstop. He had close competition,however the 0.01s longer pitstop would not be eligible for mention anyway as the setter did not finish.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
With only 2 drivers finishing in same position they started,there was plenty of movement in the field,most of it again was the organizer,who halved his 16th position start into 8th place finish - 2 positions better progress than closest rival.
VOD at Youtube:
Combo for next race is yet to be cleared - due real life activities organization was not able to send according message yet (will be done today),however it's known what's ahead for next tuesday - one of the standard LFS road cars will be raced in previously used custom track in next normal RTFR,full info will be posted in the weekend.
Thanks! Interestingly the concept of this configuration has came into minds of 2 people completelly independantly - the track we used in this race uses the 1st hairpin from much shorter layout (which includes oval's turns 2; 3 and the closest infield section that connects both oval exits. Eventually I came up to idea to make a longest possible configuration and used the 1st hairpin from the mentioned sprint layout.
At some point (apparently earlier) the driver you can see in 3rd place of results TJ came also to very similar configuration,which features different 1st turn towards infield in same location and not the sharp hairpin and interestingly he named it RO12,which kinda suggests official numbering - it's a configuration that could eventually be a candidate to make in LFS as official configuration,not sure if that would have been supported in real world,but since the track is effectivelly defunct,the I don't see a problem with that.
Personally I've found myself wanting to make a few modifications to the curbs and build a few more green bitumen runoff areas similar to the official curb reviews they did over 10 years ago. BUT I think it's best to honor our original agreement with the last track owners and keep the LFS default version standard, if that makes sense.
What if maps would have additional selector, just like you can alternate between FZR [default] / [alternate] versions? This way, aside from providing RO[lore accurate] and RO[envisioned], we could load Westhill[vanilla] and Westhill[winter] for example? If the changes would only encompass some small portion of the track being diffrent, storage-wise that would only require the delta to be stored, so no seperate map required to download and keep on disc.
P.Neves whole 1st lap was review and driver has proved his unwillingness to learn from previous incidents - despite being almost 6 seconds off leading laptime and more than 2 seconds off laptimes of majority of drivers,the driver still goes for overoptimistic overtaking manouvers not avoiding contacts to other drivers,but retires when noticing he cannot keep up with the field. This raises questions about drivers attitude towards longer races,so it has been decided to time out driver from our competitions.
[MVR] P.Neves (lfsw: PedroNeves110) - receives a DISQUALIFICATION from this race and additionally is banned for 3 months from Race Green Events organized events.
Server has custom laptimes tracker,access the table with command ;tt
