RandomCar's 3rd stop in Fern Bay turned out to be an all midengined car race - top3 in qualifying and top4 in race were running car with this layout. A total of 17 different cars were used in this round,most popular in draw was XRT with 4 draws,however since half of them did not attend,in race the most popular was Acosta Starlin with 3 cars running. With 25 drivers attending this was the least attended round of the season,however with all 25 standing on grid this was not the smallest grid this year.

After missing round 4,J.Holmes returned to RandomCar action with the Acosta Starlin,which hasn't been used much through league's history,but he proved car's competivity in Fern Bay by setting fastest laps in both sessions and leading all 11 laps on the way to his 3rd RC race win,bringing the small italian based sports car to victory lane for the 1st time. For the 2nd time in row the runner up in race was R.Kardol,who run the defending manufacturers champion car URC1. Since the car has been changed between seasons,it's superiority is very limited now as the defending drivers champion had to work hard to keep up with the race leader to bring home 3rd podium finish in 3 tries. 3rd with over half minute gap was 136,who was running the agile XF Turbo 5,bringing it to podium from 5th position on the grid.


Top2 drivers in standings have not changed after round 5,however the points gap has reduced to 10 points between them - after half of the season M is leading over J.Holmes,followed by 136 in 3rd,who is already 31 points behind.

Same situation is in teams championship where top2 also kept status quo - B2R leads over defending champions RGA,however the points gap here is continuously increasing,now reaching 37 points. 3rd is now Team S1dus which jumped up from 5th position,however their gap to lead exceeds the count of their scored points - 98. Once again Lithuania scored most points in nations championship,growing it's advantage over defending champions Finland to 61 points,UK is increasing the gap over rest in race for 3rd position,but already 84 points apart leader. Top2 cars were not used in this round,therefor they keep their positions unchanged,however 3rd is now already withdrawn Coquette Z5. After next round 1st car can qualify for actual standings lead if XM-5 is used and scores it's 6th result which is minimum to be eligible for championship.

Talot is still the most drawn car in RandomCar with already 39 draws over 15 rounds,BZ30 and Imprezzive B2 still are following with 36 each - no real changes here. J.Holmes 1st position in both sessions were best achievements with Acosta Starlin,previous best were achieved by his closest follower in this race and were 6th in qualifying and 3rd place in race. Standings leader's run with the relativelly new Freud Serra was also the best achievement - 4th in qualifying and 6th in race are significantly better than Motimoukari's 25th/20th accordingly achieved in previous round. Yasin was the only one to run one of the new cars - he got the Poscher Caynam and scored the initial best results for it with 14th position in qualifying and 13th in race.

Again the track for next round has not been decided yet - the race winner selected already twice this season,reaching the limit,so the selection has been relayed to 2nd place finisher,who has the options between Autocross and Kyoto - noone has ever selected first of those,so traditionally we may expect visit in Kyoto in 4 weeks.

Quote from versiu :

Simple solution... Creator should prove that it's his work.

There is even simpler solution - no import options of any 3D objects. Everything has to be made in the track editor,only textures can be imported. Of course these might start problems too...

Quote from Scawen :

We have just released a huge system "vehicle mods" and it is not finished. So we are not doing major changes to the layout editor, or going to release a track editor in any imaginable time frame.

Feel free to search more posts regarding this matter,but there is currently nothing that points about intentions to release the track editor in near future.

As much as I would like more quality tracks for racing (have ideas of my own I would try to attempt),releasing full track editor would surely open another can of worms while devs together with volunteer mod reviewers are dealing with the worms crawling out of other can (known as car mods) - legal issues,quality issues,decisions what can be published,what not...

Clearly said I'm not against user created tracks,but I'm worried about problems that could come with those...

The following entries have not attended for 2 rounds in row and therefor have been marked as inactive - that means they will not be added to upcoming car draw:

RG^NOSLE
/SRP/ Master
ALi Ask ( GT )
AmirœcGT
Spiderman
Doofus
SGR Rav
[SRT] Jay
W/ Nalu
/SRP/ HachiRoku

To be added back to car draw,these entries have to quote own entry post and add "Reactivate" to it.

Qualifying:


Race:


If you want to make a protest,please include all neccesary information.
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Deadline for protests - wednesday,19:00 UTC

Still can't upload mpr here as it just shows "uploading..." without any progress info for many minutes,so you can get them here: QUALIFYING / RACE

The 2nd car draw wave scheduled for today 16:40 UTC / 18:40 CET / 19:40 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3696839KKXEKCE8UP

1 O.A - DORITO FD7
2 #106 O.Poilov - TALOT SUNS LOMIS

This post will be edited after draw to add car names to drivers!
Signups are closed for this round,will be opened after the race!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Tue, 28 May 2024 16:40. Reason : Added car names to drivers

There is no fix - it's how the mod creators have set it up. In the shown case it shows what you have set in your numberplate - it's meant to use a 1 or 2-digit number.

Turning off monitor might be most effective solution...

The 1st car draw wave scheduled for today 17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
Draw link: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=3695751JQMMWYHM3X

Drivers list (order of the drawn numbers):
1 RG^Rony - XR GT Turbo
2 RG^M@CI3K - XF GARIS
3 ZFRL•Thehemuli - ACOSTA STARLIN
4 B2R M - FREUD SERRA
5 [PM] Jam 616 - URC1
6 RG^RedBoT - XR GT Turbo
7 [WCL] T.Soini - XR GT Turbo
8 RG^RD2 - RB4 GT
9 [MRc] jsk - FEND TORUS
10 Vincent Adultman - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
11 RG^NOSLE - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
12 ZFRL•LG-mies - FRAUD 040
13 B2R 136 - XF TURBO 5
14 B2R Stiefla - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
15 J.Holmes - ACOSTA STARLIN
16 [WCL]J.A.Katila - XF GARIS
17 B2R TwinCam - Raceabout 06
18 [WCL] Arska - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
19 AA™| Firestarter - XR GT Turbo
20 GT4tube - 8JFZ SUPERCELESTRAL
21 RG^LORENZO - IMPREZZIVE B2
22 SGR MadJester - TALOT SUNS LOMIS
23 S1DUS*R.Kardol - URC1
24 /SRP/ Master - FRAUD WHEELER E2
25 ALi Ask ( GT ) - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
26 AmirœcGT - XF COUPE TURBO
27 ZFRL•Motimoukari - ACOSTA STARLIN
28 J.Lavrikov - FZ50
29 Spiderman - IMPREZZIVE C8
30 Doofus - Raceabout 06
31 SGR Rav - XF COUPE TURBO
32 AA™| Yasin - POSCHER CAYNAM 718
33 [SRT] Jay - CZR LUXURY SEDAN
34 RG^Mandula - XM-5 94 TURBO
35 Harri K. - FXO Turbo
36 S1DUS*GáboR - XM-5 94 TURBO
37 sidus unite - STELLAR K61
38 W/ Nalu - FXO Turbo
39 /SRP/ HachiRoku - VSI-V2000
40 tomce. - ROKU TROENO
41 tBug - PIRAN FIREFLY 200
42 B2R Ayoub_Maroc - BZ30 ROADSTER
43 LLM. Sobis - GT-V34 MINE9

This post will be edited after draw to add cars names to drivers!
New signups will receive their cars drawn in 2nd wave (20 minutes before qualifying)!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Mon, 27 May 2024 17:05.

2024 series - round 5

Tuesday, 28th may
17:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET

Information:
Track: Fern Bay Black reversed (FE4R)
Race distance: 11 laps (72.1km)

* IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CARS:
Due recently added mod checks,several mods have been unpublished,that includes also 2 cars from RandomCar cars list:
CAMMERA 730 TURBO
VPI-3 BASIC TURBO
If these cars have not been fixed and re-published until monday 17:40 UTC,they will be suspended for round 5! For draw results,please refer to car number from spreadsheets (link below) and not main info thread!

Signups: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/106827
RandomCar spreadsheets: LINK

Cars list and their restrictions is available also in server - type command !opt and select "RandomCar Info"
Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Server will be passworded at least 1 hour before qualifying,server pass: random
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Cars will be drawn in 2 waves:
1st wave - 24 hours before start of qualifying
2nd wave - 20 minutes before start of qualifying - for late signups
Draw link and results will be posted in this thread!

I'm encountering in past few weeks problems with lfs websites (also both lfsworld.net and lfsmanual.net) - the websites load very slowly,sometimes not at all,same with attachments - pictures need minutes to load,sometimes not loading at all. Sporadically the website runs ok,but that usually is a shortlived effect - few minutes,not more. That happens however only from my home network - been using phone's hotspot for internet access when posting stuff here as with that connection website loads flawlessly. Same other way round - using phone's browser over home network,website loads very slowly,however no problems over 4G connection.

Was wondering if something wrong with my router settings or provider,now tested with some random free proxy IP in Firefox settings and guess what - works as fast as it should (using home network),so that should be proof there is nothing wrong with router or provider.

I attached simple ping results when using home network.

Other facts - I have absolutelly no connection issues with LFS ingame servers,as connection is fast,stable and mods list loads as fast as it always had.
However in last few weeks I've been encountering also problems with Discord (which as we know is also hosted by same provider) - text is loaded ok,but any directly attached pictures/gifs/videos load slowly or not at all,then suddenly by next opening of specific channel they're loaded fine.

Could wonder long what has gone wrong there,but before complaining to anyone,I need info how to find what causes the problems - what tests I can perform to find that?

The 5th edition of the yearly Westhill endurance race had 2 increasements - the distance was increased to 400 kilometers for the 2nd time and the grid featured the biggest number of cars on it. From 27 signups 2 were never completed,1 withdrew,2 never arrived,but all remaining 22 qualified and also started the 22 laps race. There were entered 3 each 3-driver teams and 2-driver teams,however once again most entries were solo drivers,but from 16 of those only 9 actually completed full race distance. 11 different cars were entered,most popular for 2nd year in row was Piranmoto Firefly with 6 entries (twice as much as last year),followed by LFS's own RB4 with 4 entries,however 7 entries were running unique cars.



For the 3rd year in row the top running car is RB4,for the 2nd year in row it was driven by Born 2 Race team driver,however the driver itself was different this year - it's the lithuanian known using a single letter M for his name. He was the fastest in qualifying by over 1 second and led 19 of the 22 laps on his way to convincing race win,beating his own set lap record by 3.4 seconds during the race. M finished the race with over 1 minute big advantage and that despite drifting few turns during last lap as he was encouraged to do so by fans. This is a huge improvement compared to his only previous attendance of this event last year where he qualified 6th and completed just 5 of 22 laps to be scored 14th,which is last position between starters.

Another 2nd in row is 2nd place finishing team - YES motorsport repeated the performance of last year,but this time running FXO instead of other FWD car and having 3 different drivers to drive it. The team had deffinitelly a lot of experience and success in luggage - Trespasser was part of winning team in inaugural edition,Gábor was part of winning team in 2022 edition and their 3rd driver Lagooga was in runner up team last year. They led 3 laps due different pitstop strategy,but eventually had to concede and settle for 2nd place finish. During 4 previous runnings podium always featured 3 different cars (also in 2020,where only 3 cars were available),this year this tradition was broken - officially by 3rd place finisher Twin,who put 2nd RB4 on the podium. The defending winner just like last year run same car and did it alone,but this year got outrun by stronger competition as he finished 2 minutes 40 behind race winner.

For the first time in event's history the race was broadcasted live by SimBroadcasts.tv crew,giving the chance everyone outside event to see the action live with all the makes and breaks of the race. They put together a lot of effort setting up probably record amount of cameras for the 18km track and their commentating trio were around all 4 hours of race duration plus race recap. For those missing the livestream,here is the chance to rewatch the race on Youtube:


From 31 participating drivers,12 already had previous experience in this annual event - 4 of those in 3 or more runnings,however only 1 driver is now left being running on each edition as the other one was travelling at this time. With 3 previous winners this of course was the biggest gathering of those compared to previous editions,let's hope for at least 4 of them next year! Track extension coupled with longer mandatory pitstop length led to lower average speed compared to last year - winner's average speed was 100.04km/h,which is 3 less than last year.

Regarding future plans - there is one concept of possible extension of the track,extending it by estimated 1km,but that still has to be tested. Of course the 2 faster cars will have it's power cut once again to reduce their supremacy,motivating entrants to select more different cars,adjusting their balancing if needed - all of that will be started as always around january with 1st preperations of the 6th annual edition. Then we will check the situation of racing community to decide if it's ready for distance extention to 500km (another step towards wished 1000km),stay with 400km or go back to basics.

Race Green Events thanks all drivers for participation and guys behind the scenes for their input and efforts,especially J.Palmer from NDR for his administration and timing tools and Jam for his Carlimiter application. As always everyone is welcome to share their experience from the event,either in form of text,pictures or videos! Also (even if that rarely happens) - we're awaiting winner's speach!

Quote from ivancsx :

what car do you wish to exist btw?

As an MR2 owner would like to see one of these:

However would like to see road version of the car too as the only other try was rather bad made and already gone...

Checked the car (influenced from LFS discord messages) and for me fell 3 things in my eyes that did not seem correct:
1) Slick tyres seem quite unapropriate for such vehicle,not sure if these should be available. Even without testing,from experience with LFS I expect car with such high COG roll easily with grip from slick tyres.
2) LFS cars' default drag is deffinitelly way too low - this car is huge compared to for example XRT,so is it's wind resistance,the theoretical max speed in downforce tab shows 275km/h which is very unrealistic. Since the actual car is limited to 100mph,it was difficult to find out actual possible top speed of this car,the only figure I found is estimation of 210km/h. I would suggest to raise car's drag until theoretical max speed is around 220km/h - with roll resistance of tyres it might get close to the estimated value.
3) Engine brake reduction - why would this car need such feature found in F1 and other high tier motorsports? Does not seem correct to me.

Otherwise (even if I'm not fan of such cars) I have to say it looks like a quality model.

Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)

Quote from ZFRL•LG-mies via RG discord :

Event: 333rd RTFR
Lap: 1, turn 1
Involved drivers: Atte, Jouke Heddema, LG-mies
Description: Atte judges braking point far off and brakes too late, bumping in to the rear of Heddema, pushing him in to the side of LG-mies causing a flip.

The mentioned driver Atte was monitored in replay during first several laps and his actions and controls show rather low care about drivers around with lack of effort to avoid any contacts.

* PENALTIES :
Atte - receives warning for multiple avoidable contacts during several first laps. Repeated such behaviour will lead to actual penalty or disqualification.

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Result of this race is what happens if one driver with his mindset tests and schedules a specific combo which then later is raced by drivers with different mindset - in search for each milisecond they were ready to risk and jump over the improvised curbs of chicanes,leading to rather unpredictible results. The "celebration" of race of threes turned into a survival race,where from 32 starters only 17 crossed the finish line,from which only 12 without rejoining it. Still a total of 22 drivers are classified in results as all of them finished at least 50% of race distance. When looking at stats,the number 3 figured well there - race was finished after 33 minutes (and 2/3 of a second),there was a driver who finished 33 seconds after the race winner and special mention goes to Dario,who qualified 33rd.

The event started with Gábor winning the qualifying,setting laptime just 3 hundreds over 59 minutes mark,scoring his 3rd pole position of the season,26th overall,but he run out of luck with his risky driving style and rolled the car before completing 1/3 of the race. Winner of the race is someone who scored his 3rd top5 finish in row - after missing chances to win in several races,the only 3-time winner of this season M returned to the victory lane after leading all 33 race laps,scoring his 6th RTFR race win,setting his 7th fastest lap of the race,totalling his top5 finishes to 22. R.Kardol did not have a good qualifying as he was just 7th fastest,but climbed through the field to finish 2nd (for the 3rd time this season),also scoring his 3rd top5 finish in row,93rd overall. The true man of 3 yesterday was driver with a 3 in his name - 136 qualified 3rd and finished 3rd - while qualifying result was just a repeat of previous best,his finishing position was 3 positions better than previous best. The only 3 Thehemuli managed was best laptime of one minute and 3 hundreds as the finn finished 4th in this race,but his top5 total is now 3 times 3. The top5 was closed by Arska,who made a gain of 3 positions during this race,his top5 total is now one short of 30.

VOD at Youtube:


The race of 3 is over,but we can still have some overlook over the races in next 3 weeks - next week RandomCar returns with it's round 5 of the season,which will be raced in Fern Bay,making the series 3rd stop in this environment. In 2 weeks RTFR will return with one of the rather fast cars running in Kyoto - which and where as always will be posted in the weekend before the race. The combo for next RTFR XL scheduled on tuesday in 3 weeks is also now known - the well known Formula XR will be run in Aston's 3rd configuration in reversed direction,which will feature a fourty 3 laps race. 3.

Not really weird choice as with it's performance level,the car is pretty much an FWD XRG with road super tyres,and LFS GTI class cars are quite popular for racing.

This evening this car will be raced in the 333rd RTFR! Let's see how the old lady will handle constant high revs and lot's of braking...

Full info and link to livestream: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/108036-333rd-RTFR
(Skin attached in case someone likes to use it)

These have been another productive 4 weeks as we have a total of 4 new cars in the list,while one having it's balancing adjusted,here are the updates in alphabetical order:

The first in list is DORITO FD7 SR,which is a sister car to base model and is featuring different aero kits. The classic FR layout car has been set to use 22% air restrictor.

Just yesterday FZ70 4GTS made it's first and most likelly last appearance in our annual endurance race,now it's time to add the recently approved car also in RandomCar lineup - it will be the first car with the engine/transmission layout of RA (rear engine/all wheel drive). The car was in voting few times,but always lost out to other cars,now it's added by default due approved status and will start it's journey with 41% restrictor.

Soon after addition of the original,also the tuned version joins RC thanks to approval of community - GT-V34 MINE9 might look similar to it's original,however it's 100kg lighter,has wider tyres and more aerodynamic help. By default this car is so fast it will be restricted with max possible 50% air restrictor and carry additional 10kg ballast to keep it with PL200 class pace.

IMPREZZIVE B2 has been struggling latelly with it's top end speed,therefor it was decided to help it by reducing air restriction by 1% - from now on it will use 21%.

Last in the list is car which was expected to be approved quickly as it's made with a lot of attention to details - POSCHER CAYNAM 718 is the 6th MR (mid-engined/rear wheels driven) car in RandomCar and the restriction is set to 17% for it.


When other cars have been added,some dissapear from the list - unfortunatelly due some weird behaviour of several modders,also one of RandomCar's vehicles were deleted. COQUETTE Z5 was the 1st car voted in the RandomCar between the 1st test race and 1st official scored championship round. The car is the 2nd retired car in RC,first which was still competitive as it was known for it's outright straight line speed. Best results of COQUETTE Z5 were achieved by B2ﾏ 136,who qualified 3rd and finished 4th in this season's 3rd round at Blackwood,while it was scored in rather low 21st position in last season's manufacturer's championship,however this year it's currently holding 4th position in it with destiny to slip down.

Last edited by Eclipsed, Mon, 20 May 2024 15:50.

Unofficial race results:

https://tracker.newdimensionracing.com/archive/rge/400kmwesthill/2024/

If you want to make a protest,please include all neccesary information.
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Deadline for protests - wednesday 24th may,20:00 UTC

MPR files download:
Qual / Race

Unofficial qualifying results:

A r3mind3r - s3rv3r will b3 password prot3ct3d 1 hour b3for3 qualifying start to k33p not knowing crowd3d s3rv3r jump3rs out of way,pass will b3 always the sam3: green

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: S1DUS*R.Kardol
Last DORITO LUCY 130R race won by: 1st race using this car
Last Autocross race won by: S1DUS*GáboR (326th RTFR - FBM @ AU Race Green International CW)
Most Autocross race wins: v\A.Wiśniewski & S1DUS*GáboR - 2 wins (Poland & Hungary & Finland - 2 wins)
Current rating leader: B2ﾏ M (+18 points)

2024-S1 standings after 9 of 12 races:
B2ﾏ M - 243
S1DUS*R.Kardol - 194
S1DUS*uNite - 178
Event rating,standings and other statistics

S3rver link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Please complete your entries if you wish to participate in today's race!

Quote from Jhoinerc :

Entry number : 06
Entry name : tba
Car: tba
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : TAM Jhoiner / jhoinerc / Venezuela

Missing entry name and car selection!

Quote from vaneaa :

Entry number : 54
Entry name : vancik
Car: MURGESE CABRIO V8
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : <†VaNeA†>/vaneaa/Moldova

Please select car from the list!

The 24 hours long qualifying session has started. Live results can be seen in https://tracker.newdimensionracing.com/
All entries have to set a laptime during this session to qualify for the race!

Quote from Eclipsed :

In case there are any changes to sign-up details,please quote your edited post in a new one with a note about changes!

Since thise line seems to be unseen,I'll repeat with extra big letters...
Reminder - organization has the right to refuse any changes if not notified! We're not robots who are checking posts for changes every minute.

Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all entrants via PM.

If someone hasn't received it due some mistake,please give a notification!

Signups are still open and new entries will receive PM at some point during saturday/sunday.