NA Mazda MX-5 Cup Car Championship - Rulebook

General Rules & Driving Etiquette

Motor racing as defined by TORA, is a non contact sport. It is understandable that on occasion some contact may occur that is not expected by either party, for example due to lag. Competitors with 'lag' issues will not be penalized, but may be asked to improve their connection, if the issue is persistently hindering other's experiences please see connection section.

TORA expects competitors who partake in its championships and meetings to behave in an appropriate and respectable manner. Insulting comments or behavior towards fellow competitors and race stewards is unacceptable and will be dealt with severely. Also respectable on-track etiquette is expected of all competitors, including on-track battles, track limits etc.




2014 TORA NA Mazda MX-5 Cup Car Championships

The TORA NA Mazda MX-5 Cup Car Championships will take place between the 24th of July and the 21st of August 2014 in a 5 round championship. The series will have two championships up for grabs.

DRIVER CHAMPIONSHIP

This will be a championship fought by each driver for themselves. The total amount of points at the end of the series will be their final points total and will result in their position in the overall drivers standing at the end of the series.

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

A team will be made up of a minimum of 2, and maximum of 3 drivers, all driving the same car and livery design in the same class. This championship will be scored by the total points scored by the top two team drivers at each round over the course of the championship.

Team Driver Changes

There are no team driver changes in this series

Substitute Drivers

There are no Substitute Drivers in this series

Car Changes

There are no Car Changes in this series

Car Rules

Please see this thread for Car Build rules
TORA Liveries rules are as stated in the TORA Sporting Regulations.

There will not be a number box for this series. Driver numbers must be placed in between the front and rear wheel wells along the sides of the car and be visible. The number must be placed on the hood (bonnet) of the car as well. The TORA URL logo must be placed above the front grill opening, and a TORA logo must be placed  on the sides and rear of the car.

Race Rules

Race Meeting Set-Up

We ask that all competitors are on Xbox live 15 minutes prior to the start of the race session, and be appearing online. Anyone who is not online, or not attempted to accept a game invite will not take part in the event. All competitors must post "In" in the relevant thread in order to be accepted into the event. If a connection issue is apparent please contact the race director or lobby host as soon as possible and they will do their best to ensure you can connect to the qualifying lobby.

QUALIFYING

Qualifying will be set to 7 laps with 1 warm up lap followed by 5 flying laps and 1 lap to take down the times.

Qualifying Settings

Damage - Cosmetic
Collisions - Off
STM - Off
TCS - Off
ABS - Off
Gears - Any
Steering - Any

RACE

There will be 2 races in an evening and each will last around 30 minutes dictated by a lap count .

Race One will form up in the order in which the competitors qualified.
Race Two will form up in the order in which the competitors finished Race One.

All races will be Rolling Starts.

Race Settings

Damage - Cosmetic
Collisions - On
STM - Off
TCS - Off
ABS - Off
Gears - Any
Steering - Any

Pit Stops

There will be no mandatory pit stops during the races.

Safety Car Rules

Standard safety car rules in effect please refer to sporting regulation handbook

Steward Inquirers Rules

Standard SI rules in force please refer to sporting regulation handbook

Series Points

Points system for this series

1st = 50
2nd = 49
3rd = 48
4th = 47
5th = 46
6th = 40
7th = 39
8th = 38
9th = 37
10th = 36
11th = 35
12th = 34
13th = 33
14th = 32
15th = 31
16th = 30
17th = 29
18th = 28

The top three drivers in Qualifying will score extra points.

1st = 3
2nd = 2
3rd = 1

Calendar

Thursday 24th July – Sebring International Raceway
Thursday 31st July – Road Atlanta
Thursday 7th August - Grand Prix of Long Beach
Thursday 14th August – Road America
Thursday 21st August – Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

All Races are Thursday at 8 PM EST.