Schedule:
11.02. Round 1 - South City City Long reversed (SO4R)
11.03. Round 2 - TBA
08.04. Round 3 - TBA
06.05. Round 4 - TBA
03.06. Round 5 - TBA
01.07. Round 6 - TBA
29.07. Round 7 - TBA
26.08. Round 8 - TBA
23.09. Round 9 - TBA
21.10. Round 10 - TBA - 1 hour race
* Track will be selected by winner of previous race and added to the schedule once known

Event times:
18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET - 60 minutes qualifying
19:10 UTC / 20:10 CET / 21:10 EET - Race start
* During sunlight savings time in Europe the UTC time will be changed 1 hour earlier to keep the event in same time in area of main userbase Europe (accordingly 17:00 UTC for qualifying).


Track selection rules:

• The winner has to submit the choice for next track until end of the week (sunday midnight UTC time).
  
• The selection is limited to next 3 environments accoring to standard LFS list. Custom configurations/layouts allowed as long as they're deemed to suit the PL200 class. Both LFS ovals (KY1 and RO3),other very high speed courses and tracks partially or fully without pavement not accepted.
  
• No selections in row,max 2 selections in year.

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Championships:

• RandomCar Series Champion - awarded to a driver with the most points scored through all 10 rounds - only best 8 scores count
  
• RandomCar Teams Champion - awarded to a team with the most points scored through all 10 rounds (team will score finishing points from it's 2 highest finishing drivers and all round bonus points)
  
• RandomCar Nations Champion - awarded to a nation with the most points scored through all 10 rounds (nation will score finishing points from it's 2 highest finished drivers and all round bonus points)
  
• Best Car Award - awarded to a car model with the most points scored through all 10 rounds - only best 4 scores count,round 10 will score base points without doubling (car model will score finishing points from it's highest finished driver and all round bonus points)

In all championships - in case of a tie,higher rated will be driver/team/nation/car model with highest finishing position,if equal - it's amount,if equal - second highest position etc. If all finishing positions happen to be equal,higher rated will be selected using same system from qualifying results. If they also happen to be equal then as a tie-breaker will be used last round finishing position. In case a tied driver had a disqualification in one or more rounds,it counts as a primary rating lowering factor,when deciding tiebreak.


Points system:
Finishing points:
1st=20
2nd=19
3rd=18
4th=17
5th=16
6th=15
7th=14
8th=13
9th=12
10th=11
11th=10
12th=9
13th=8
14th=7
15th=6
16th=5
17th=4
18th=3
19th=2
20th and lower=1
(must finish 50% of race distance to score these points)
* System based on 20 drivers starting,extra 1 point for every 3 drivers more starting the race - this adds extra positions to receive more than 1 point.
* In 10th round double points except for drivers finishing under base count (20 in default) - 1 point

Round bonus points:
1st in qualifying - 3 points
2nd in qualifying - 2 points
3rd in qualifying - 1 point
(if qualifying time is equal,both/all will receive this bonus point)
Fastest lap in race - 1 point (if laptime is equal,both/all will receive this bonus point)


Car redraw option:
Each driver receives one chance during the season to redraw the car that has been drawn. This option can be used only if car has been drawn during 1st wave of cars draw and the driver will be added to list of 2nd wave of cars draw. Please note that redrawing car means a less than 2.5% chance of drawing the same car also with 2nd try - in that case the driver has to use the drawn car the redraw option will be reactivated for new use in future round. Option availability is marked in Drivers championship tab in spreadsheets right behind driver's name (✓ = available,x = not available).


Signing up:
In order to compete in RandomCar 2025 Series,you have to visit RandomCar 2025 Signups thread and fill the registration form.


Miscellaneous info:
Full league information in RandomCar - main info
RandomCar results/stats spreadsheets: LINK
Series will be run using the latest stable version of LFS (currently 0.7F) - compatible client versions accepted.
All information above can be changed,if so,there will be posted a notification about it!

Time flies when you're having fun - seems like it was just half a year ago when people were waiting for the first time to know what they will be racing in the new series,but actually almost 3 years have gone since the first ever race with the concept of RandomCar and this post marks the end of the 3rd season of this league. Just like last season,a total of 44 cars were on the RC's list,however this season all of them were run at least in one race and all of them scored at least 2 points. Unfortunatelly during the season 2 cars needed to be retired from competition as updates made them uncompetitive,so at the end of the year there were 42 active cars.

To confirm the overall trend in LFS,also RandomCar suffered minor attendance loss this season compared to previous 2 - 22.9 drivers per round was 0.9 less than last season,however round 3 repeated 3rd highest round attendandce of RC's history with 32 drivers. 4 drivers attended all 10 rounds,while 12 drivers attended at least 8 rounds - max number or point scores that counts towards championship standings,which was one of 2 new additions this season. The other new addition was a single option in season to redraw the car,which was used 6 times - significantly less than expected,but it seems like many were saving it for later or were affraid to get a "worse" car,eventually letting it expire.


RandomCar 2025 Drivers Champion: ｢ﾏｧ｣ TJ
With experience of a single RC series race before this season,the brazilian driver joined the 2025 season only in round 3,starting the season with 1st of 4 wins he achieved through whole season,tying both single season and all time most wins count in the leagues. Besides the 4 wins TJ finished in top5 in 3 other races,set fastest lap in qualifying in 3 rounds and fastest lap in race 3 times. He was scored 34th in 2023 season stadings,which was a result of the sole previous race before this season.

Thehemuli took over standings lead after round 8,however could not keep it for long,finishing 2nd in season standings - 2 positions better than last season,continuing the trend of improvement between seasons. The 2-time RC race winner was not able to add another win to his achievements this year,however he was consistently finishing in top10 - after removal of 2 worst scores,his worst scored finishing position is 7th. The finn ended the season with 3 straight podium finishes,adding another 2 top5 finishes to results,finishing the season just 13 points behind champion. 3rd position in standings is taken by Twincam,who had rather ups and downs filled season - between 3 podium finishes he has also 2 outside top10 finishes and non attendace,still the win in season finale raised him 2 positions in standings,which is an improvement of 7 positions compared to previous season.

RandomCar 2025 Teams Champions: Born to Race
B2R marks the 1st successful title defence between teams - they started the season rather slow,but eventually picked up more and more points,taking over lead after round 3 and never giving it up. Consistancy was the key to their success as they scored just a single win this season compared to 3 in each of previous 2 seasons,but their drivers finished in top5 for total of 8 times,building out the lead point by point. Also 2nd best team of the season Zafiralis did not had any huge successes,but climbed up the table on consistancy,scoring a total of 6 top5 finishes without race win,including 2 podium finishes in season finale. The finnish based team finished 4th in standings in both previous seasons. The champions of inaugural season and vice champions of past season RGA slipped another position lower on the podium,taking just 3rd this year,where only double points scoring season finale raised them up from 5th in standings. Achievements include only 3rd place and 5th place finishes on both ends of the season.

RandomCar 2025 Nations Champions: Finland
The northern country once again proved to be a dominant force in LFS as they scored 3rd RC Nations championship out of 3. Even remaining winless in races,finnish drivers still scored lots of points from rounds,scoring a total of 9 top5 finishes,2 pole positions and a fastest lap of the race. However the big 126 points gap to closest rivals does not tell the whole story - 76 points of this advantage were scored in the final round,where (now 3-time) vice champions Lithuania did not score a single point - despite nibbling points off the leader's advantage,lithuanians could not find the deciding force to pass leaders and settled for 2nd position in standings for 3rd year in row. Lithuanians gathered up 2 race wins,1 each pole position and fastest lap and a total of 8 top5 finishes. To make the nations podium identical to previous season,Poland successfully defended their 3rd position in standings with a win,a 4th place finish and plenty of good points scores from 2 drivers through the season.

RandomCar 2025 Best Car: XR GT Turbo
The Manufacturers championship has been renamed to "Best Car Award" for this season as with league format it's not entirely correct to call this a proper championship - success is quite relevant how many times and to what drivers cars have been drawn. Still only good performing cars can be on top,this year it deffinitelly was the LFS's home grown XRT,which celebrated it's first RC race win on round 2 of the season,taking over also standings lead - something that was never given up as XRTs took podium positions 4 times this season (half of them in round 2). Acosta Starlin established itself in 2nd position this year by adding 2 race wins to the one scored last year,finishing on each of other podium positions once. Best car in qualifying is RB4,which took pole position 3 times this season matching the overall count in both previous seasons,but the car is known to lose some pace due tyres,which effectivelly demoted them to 3rd position in standings,still scoring each podium spot once.

With sights towards season 4,no changes in format are planned - most likelly it will be 10 race season again with double points scoring 1 hour long season finale to keep up the intrigue until the end. It is yet to be decided if drivers championship will keep the 8 best scores counting towards standings or raised to 9,while despite not being used much,the redraw option will be kept unchanged.
What will change - there will be few polls in our discord server about removal of an unpopular car and addition of new car,so expect to have up to 2 worst cars removed and 1 added. Also car restrictions will receive a bigger update - the performance level is based on LFS own TBO class,from which currently all 3 cars have at least 2% intake restrictor,effectivelly making this a PL191 class instead 200hp/ton. Between seasons all FXO,RB4 and XRT will get a percent of restriction removed and all other cars will be accordingly balanced out (in most cases also losing 1% of restrictor),while the 3 currently unrestricted cars will have to prove their competitivity during next season.
Additionally just like this year,4 weeks before the season opener of 2026,we might host a test race with least used cars and candidate cars. But in the next opening between RTFR races,there is a plan to organize a one off special RandomCar race - stay tuned for more info.