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RTFR and RTFR XL 2025 main info - WCL sponsorship and Sim Broadcasts livestream


Hello,racers!

The new year has started and in same day the year number has changed,we'll ready to announce the plans for RTFR in the 2025 - it will again consist of 3 seasons,2 of RTFR on each half of the year and one for RTFR XL lasting whole year long. 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.



Some key information points:

* Just like in past 3 years,also this year RTFR will be divided into 2 seasons - first of those will start right on the coming tuesday,the 7th january and will last for 12 rounds until 10th june,then RTFR will have 3 off-season events which will be simply just for fun and single race winning glory. Season 2 this year will be just 10 rounds long,starting on 5th august and ending on 9th december,while the year will end with another standings free event on 23rd december. During the seasons we will keep as before a 50/50 ratio between LFS original cars and user created content,mostly using mods with approved status,however in off-season races we might try something more unusual.

* After experimental prizing system last year,this RTFR XL season will return to scoring system of 2022-2023 - from the 12 rounds during the scored season,only best 10 scores will count towards standings,meaning a failure or two won't affect overall result. As always the winner will have the honor of selecting combo for next race - these selections are limited to 2 per calendar year and once someone has selected a combo,the lockout of selection ends only with end of winning streak (no back to back selections possible). Couple of minor changes in selection - car will be now locked out for 5 races (before it was 4) and track environment will be locked out for 2 races (only 1 before).

* 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 4 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 2025,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 details,or their lfs.net forum thread for local updates.
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2025 Season 1 RTFR final standings


The 7th year featuring seasonal competition with it's own standings is also divided into 2 seasons from which the 1st one was concluded more than week ago,now it's time to review it. In the 12 rounds a total of 90 drivers were able to score at least a point towards standings,22 of them by finishing in top5 in at least 1 race,6 were able to reach the victory lane. The attendance ranged from 40 in round with a JGTC car to 24,which happened twice,both times with default LFS cars. The average of 31.4 drivers per race is still significantly higher than all time average and 3 more than in previous season (2024 S2) - as always greatly boosted by both WCL sponsorship and SB.tv broadcasting promotion.


RTFR 2025 Season 1 standings winner: S1DUS*GáboR
The hungarian driver has been very active and successful recently in both RTFR event types,the win in 2025 S1 standings was secured before last race,however undoubted few rounds earlier. Gábor won half of the 12 season's races,finishing in podium positions in 1/3 of season's races,failing to score top5 finish just in the only oval round. Additionally he set fastest lap in 8 qualifying sessions and 6 race sessions,reaching top of the all time most laps led chart during this season. It's the 5th season standings win for Gábor,first since 2023 season 2 - he finished 2nd in previous standings.

Just like in season 1 of last year,2nd place is taken by 2021 standings winner R.Kardol,who chased his teammate through the season and with 3 rounds left had at least some chances alive,however did not attend 10th round and effectivelly signed off from chances for his 2nd success. The dutchman won 2 races and finished in top5 in another 7,adding pole position and 2 fastest laps to his achievements,securing 2nd place with 1 round left. The bottom step of season standings podium is taken by Suforr,who added himself to RTFR winners club in 10th round of this season,scoring another 4 podium finishes - big improvement for the spaniard compared to 15th position in last season's standings.

The defending standings winner did not show much activity in this season - A.Valta attended just a single round,was the fastest in qualifying in it,but got involved in incident early on 1st lap. The sole pole position effort brought him to 69th position in standings. 3 other drivers were able to win a race this season,one of them for the first time - Lagooga won round 6,joining the 10 race winners club,Jorpa won round 7 to score his 2nd RTFR race win and scottsman Adam,who scored 2nd RTFR race win for his country,coincidentally on same track configuration the first one was done.


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On coming tuesday the RTFR race will be the 1st of 3 off season races before the 10 rounds long season 2 starts on 5th august. Half of the RTFR XL 2025 season has also been completed - also there is starts to look quite a one-sided affair,but with 6 long rounds till ahead everything is far away to be decided.
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Sponsors geetings and prizes sharing for RTFR season 1 of year 2025
RTFR 2025 Season 1 is finished and prize winners can be announced.

The interest for the series has again been great and the prize winners needed to give the best they have to achieve positions to win money prizes.
Info of prize winners and how to get the prize will be shared within this post.

The season 1 of year 2025 has followed the very same concept from year 2024 with mod usage been around half of the combos in the races. Again mostly the mods have been quite good apart from few exceptions but like said last year its same for all the racers.

Now when season 1 of year 2025 is closed the prize money will be shared for racers who reached them.

Once again on behalf of team WCL we thank all the racers taking part on the RTFR Season 1 of year 2025, very enjoyable season with lot of action, team RGA as organizing body and Sim broadcasts team for their effort to broadcast the races and continuing the success story of the RTFR league in live for speed.

The earned prize money for RTFR 2025 Season 1 follows the list below

1st place: 30€
2nd place: 15€
3rd place: 10€
4th place: 10€
5th place: 10€

Therefore the racers receiving monetary price are as follows:

S1DUS*Gábor (Viperakecske) 30€
S1DUS*R.Kardol (rik97) 15€
B2マ Suforr (suforr) 10€
S1DUS*uNite (nikopdr) 10€
ZFRL●Thehemuli (thehemuli_) 10€

Congratulations to prize winners !!

Like earlier the payment method is paypal unless the prize winner has not a paypal account and is unable to open one. If that is the case then some alternative payment method need to be agreed. This is then to be agreed via private messaging as all the prize winners will be contacted for getting or checking paypal account information or validity. Winners are partly same as earlier seasons but information for transactions will be still checked with private message.

2nd Season of year 2025 starts 5th of August 2025 comprising 10 races so there is plenty of time to sharpen your racing skills, best way to do so is to take part to off-season RTFR races and throughout the year running RTFRXL Season. Experience racing with mods you can get for example taking part of RGA's Randomcar series 2025.

So see you on track !

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