General:

 

Dark Horse Open-Wheel

Monday Nights

Fixed Setup (HDF) Formula 3 cars

Server opens @ 8:30 PM Eastern for 20 min practice

8 min/2 lap qual @ 8:50  {Qualifying Scrutiny – Moderate}

Grid(2mins)Green flag @ 9:03

Three 14 Min Heats (Heat 1/Consolation/Feature)

Top 8 cars inverted for Heat 2 and 3

Start with 75% track usage

Setup - HDF 85% Fuel

65 Degree Weather/Dynamic Sky/4x Sun

Fast Repairs – 1

iRating maximum -  3000 and below {hard cap, if you’re over 3000, you can’t get in to the race server}

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Points:

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8 race season

2 drop weeks

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We will use golf scoring to calculate points at the end of the event. Lowest avg finishing position is 1st overall and so on. All tie breakers will default to the best finishing position in the 3rd/final heat.

 

Points are as follows:

1st - 20   2nd - 18   3rd - 16   4th - 14   5th - 13   6th - 12   7th - 11   8th - 10   9th - 9   10th - 8   11th - 7   12th - 6

13th - 5   14th - 4   15th - 3   16th - 2   17th - 2   18th - 2   19th - 2   20th – 2   21st - 1   22nd - 1   23rd - 1  24th - 1  25th - 1

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Any tie breakers in final standings at the end of the season will be broken by event wins. If further tie breaker is needed it will be decided by heat wins.

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Safety Bonus Points: 2 pnts = 0 Incs. 1 pnts for 1-5 Incs. (driver must finish within 1 lap of class winner to gain safety bonus points)

Every heat will award safety points

Safety Bonus Points are permanent, they do not get dropped with your 2 drop weeks

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Race/Comms Etiquette:

 

Firstly, all iRacing rules/guidelines will apply unless otherwise stated. If it applies to an iRacing official series then it applies here. Black Flags will not be cleared for anything...period. https://www.iracing.com/iracing-official-sporting-code/

If you are involved in an off track situation, pay attention to your relative screen and only merge when it is safe to do so. In general just have some damn courtesy. We are here to foster a fun learning environment. No one here is a pro. Mistakes will be made. Crashes will happen. Unless you think it was intentional we encourage you to shrug it off and move on. Retaliation will not fly here. It will earn you a very quick ban from the league. Bashing other drivers, or even their friends/family, will also not be tolerated. We encourage our drivers to take the high road and not create any enemies/drama within the league. It is strongly suggested that if you incur contact with another driver you apologize in some way.

 

 

 

 

 

Starts:

 

This series will utilize rolling single file starts. Once cars start rolling on the parade lap drivers will manually get in to single file order. The race will start on the green flag. It is strongly suggested that people take the first few corners conservatively to get some heat in the tires. No passing until after turn 1 or later if designated in the pre-race driver's brief.

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Penalties - The parade lap as well as lap 1 will be reviewed after every race. Any driver who is deemed responsible for contact with another driver, that is significant enough to cause damage or incident points, will start from the tail of the field in their next race(heat).

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Race Protests:

 

Procedure - This is billed as an Amateur's league. None of us are actual pros, none of us are racing for thousands of dollars, none of us are or will be perfect. If you wish to file a protest against a driver, wait 12 hours and then consider it. If you think a valid protest is in order, then you need to give details of what happened and what lap/time stamp. If you're not going to take the time to figure out when something happened, we won't do it for you. You may file a protest against another driver for a few reasons, as follows:

1 - Driver violates any/all race start procedures

2 - Driver maliciously/purposely/intentionally wrecks you

3 - Driver uses voice comms/text comms to bash/harass/threaten someone in a reason deemed to be way out of line from the general public

4 - Driver violates the iRacing sporting code

5 - Driver causes you damage or inc points due to a bad star/bad rejoin/not holding the brakes in a crash/reckless driving

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To file a protest, utilize the contact/protest form on the website with a minimum of a description of what and when it happened(lap/time/corner). It may take a couple days for review but we will get back to you.

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​Penalty System:

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1 - A driver who is found to be successfully protested against will receive a warning on how/what they should correct

2 - If a driver is successfully protested a 2nd time in the same season, they will be docked 3 points in the race that the complaint occurred.

3 - If a driver is successfully protested 3 times in a season they will be docked 6 points in the race where the most recent incident happened.

4 - A driver who is successfully protested 4 times in a season will be suspended for 1 race.

5 - A driver who is successfully protested 5 times in 1 season will be parked for the remainder of the season. 

​[successfully protested means the admins received a protest, we found it to be a complaint worthy of filing a protest, and we found the accused party at fault (beyond a reasonable doubt) based on any/all evidence received]

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***Asshole Clause***

If a driver goes rogue and loses their shit in a race, i.e. driving backwards/wrecking people, or even flipping out on voice comms, an admin can/will throw a full course caution so that they can remove that person from the race server and Discord.

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All rules and regulations are subject to interpretation by the admins.

We also reserve the right to update the rulebook at any time.