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 - 2 wins in row
Last XRR race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (100th RTFR XL - KY GP Long w/ Boothy Chicane)
Most XRR race wins: 3 races,3 different winners (3 different countries)
Last Layout Square race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (80th RTFR XL - N.400S GT4 @ S1dusring)
Most Layout Square race wins: only 1 race so far
2025 standings after 10 of 12 races (best 10 scores count):
S1DUS*GáboR - 206
ZFRL•Thehemuli - 160
[MRc] jsk - 147
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+35.5 points)
Just for more information - XRR was used in april in the century race (6 races with different cars between) and current ruling locks out a car for next 5 races (raised value as last year only 4 races lock out was there). With so many cars now available I think we could raise the lock out to 6 for next year already.
* PENALTIES :
[MRc] cride - receives 10 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation.
hermanni - receives 20 seconds penalty added to his finish time for pit exit line violation on 2 occasions.
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This track received a lot of complaints and did not draw much interest to be raced in so the 107th RTFR XL turns out to be the least attended since 43rd RTFR XL in summer of 2020. Admitted the layout itself was not very well made,however it was up to needed standards to be used for racing. For many one of drawbacks was the inaccurate proportions of the track - if used to the actual replica,it was difficult to adapt. All of the drivers starting the race had their own share of trouble during the race as noone escaped this challenge without several dents to the car.
In the year when normal RTFR receives many new winners not experienced for years,RTFR XL starts to follow this trend as this race produced the 3rd new race winner in the series,however RTFR XL had 3 new winners each year since 2019 except in 2023 when there was just one. This tuesday it was Cride who joined the RTFR XL winners club as the 35th member - after qualifying 2nd to improve his best result by a single position,he was the main rival for polesitter whole race long. Even if he led just 4 laps,he was around the leader all the time and eventually used his chance to drive by to the victory lane - the race win in 4 positions better result than his previous best achieved 4 weeks ago. Also Thehemuli profited from the late race tyre drama and upgraded his finishing position to 2nd place,repeating his best finishing result and scoring 5th top5 finish in row,12th in total. Being fastest in pure single lap pace can help,but it's deffinitelly not enough - Suforr scored his 3rd pole position and during the race set a new lap record to score also his 1st fastest lap of the race,but overestimated the durability of his tyres,finishing the race with 2 of them being flat in 3rd position,which is a repeat of his only other top5 finish. Jsk was the only one in top5 to finish the race with same set of tyres still in tact and he took 4th position in results,which is his 5th top5 finish. Rony benefited from shorter pitstop than his main rival in race as he changed just 2 tyres and barely kept the 5th position in last few laps to score his 33rd top5 finish,breaking the tie with Unite for 2nd most.
* FUN FACT OF THE MONTH :
It's not so much fun for the mentioned driver - by adding 42 lead laps from this race,Suforr has collected a total of 67 lead laps through 3 races,that means he is now driver with most lead laps without a race win. Previous leader was TJ with 49 laps led in 4 races who remains tied most led races without a win.
* CLOCK PITTER OF THE RACE :
This time it was possible to finish the race without pitwork,but noone tried that,so this mention goes to simply shortest pitstop - 2 tyre renewal insted of 4 resulted in 10.25 seconds pitstop for Rony,which is 0.22s faster than 2nd shortest pitstop featuring just refuelling.
* FIELD RUSHER OF THE RACE :
Also here the organizer put himself on top - the 3 positions gain was matched also by Hermanni,but the higher finishing driver still counts as the better one.
VOD at Youtube:
Just one RTFR XL race is left to run in this year,the combo hasn't been properly submitted yet,but currently looks like the car from 92nd RTFR XL might make it's return - Radix might become the 3rd mod car to be run twice,track is yet to be decided. But next tuesday will feature a race with relativelly modern car in the only real life environment - full details as always to be posted during this weekend. If you're curious about tuesday after next - there are plans to host a special race which will be based on idea of one specific league,however will have it's differences from it.
Server has Airio as laptimes tracker,access the table with command !top