Hello,racers!

The year 2024 has started and it's time to announce plans for RTFR and RTFR XL! The 1st race of the year is already finished,but the actual scored standings season is set to begin in 16th january with RTFR XL starting week later. The best through these scored seasons again receive money prizes,once again kindly sponsored by World Class Lions team. Full details can be found in Sponsorship document.

For season standings the same points system will be used as in the evergoing rating system - for full details hower mousepointer over rating sheet's green colored title bar,here are the links to both spreadsheets: RTFR and RTFR XL.

What stays same and what changes:

* RTFR's year will be split into 2 seasons again,this year each will consist of 12 races. Season 1 will start on 16th january with 324th RTFR and finish on 18th june with 335th RTFR. The 336th RTFR will be an off-season event,but the 337th RTFR will start the season 2 on 16th july which will end on 17th december,where 348th RTFR will be the season finale and also the last RTFR race of the year as we will not be hosting races on either 24th or 31st december. As always combos will be selected with same method where one race is using cars with street tyres,next with slick tyres and so on. As the user created cars are increasing in quality,they will be used more,however we will stick also to our classic LFS cars,which will be used at least in 5 rounds out of 12.

* The prize format for RTFR XL has slight changes,therefor the scoring has also altered - now all 12 season rounds will count towards standings (in 2 seasons the 2 lowest scores were dropped). Now the prize money amount will be affected by scored points count with some bonuses for overall standings positions. There have been also alterations how combos can be selected - first noone will be allowed to select combo for 2 races in row and also one driver's selections are now limited to 2 per calendar year,that guarantees at least 6 different drivers per year who will be eligible to select next combo. Another minor change is that car used in a race will be locked out for next 5 races (4 before this year),class lockout stays the same - 2 next races,while mods will be allowed to be selected max 2 races in row,forcing LFS standard cars to be used at least in each 3rd RTFR XL race. Full details on combo selection can be read in RTFR main info thread on this same forum section.

* Points system stays the same - each event has it's own system,both however are very similar. RTFR keeps the base of 20 points for winner based on 20 (or less) starters,where each 3 starters more than 20 adds 1 point to winner's gain. RTFR XL has additional attendance based base score increasement,which 2022 reached the same 20 points for winner - if 5 races in row have more or less attendees in race than current base score,it get's increased or decreased by 1. Not affecting the yearly standings which leads to money prizes is the ever going rating,which puts up on top of the table most successful racers in last 15 races in RTFR and last 12 races in RTFR XL. In both of those ratings the latest 2/3 of races count fully,but the oldest 1/3 of scores are halved.


Both events have been entered into lfs.net racing calendar,where the combos will be updated as soon as possible - the currently set "XFG at BL1" is simply a placeholder. Info about each event will be posted in this forum subsection as it was always done previously in the information threads.


For past 3 years RTFR and RTFR XL were honored by having a great promotion through livestream by the best broadcasting company around LFS - Sim Broadcasts. With sponsors support,the broadcasting will continue also for 2024,giving a great chance for people not in race to follow the action live and to racers in the race - relive the action from the spectators view. SB.tv will broadcast by availability all races that are part of standings,taking a break in summer when the non-championship race will be held.

Additionally you can visit SimBroadcasts.tv for their full streaming schedule and contact,or their lfs.net forum thread for local updates.