MSA TORA Trans Am Cup (GRID) - Rules and Regulations

Welcome to the TORA Trans Am Cup, running beside the Trans Am on Forza Motorsport 4, and part of the first GRID Autosport series at TORA, with the TORA World Touring Car Cup.

Please read the following carefully. By entering the series, you are confirming you have read and understood the rules and regulations.


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.

Competitors who are being followed on a straight part of a track by another car may move their position on the track ONCE to defend, any further sufficient movement outside of cornering will be deemed as weaving and you may be reported to the race director or head steward after the race.

If a competitor leaves the track at any time, it is advised that extra caution is taken not to impede other drivers when rejoining, please check and look before rejoining the track. Common courtesy stipulates that a driver in a dangerous position on the circuit should alert oncoming drivers of their position to avoid additional incidents, (essentially the yellow flag rules.)

Track Limits

The track limits are determined by the solid white lines either side of the track. At all times, two wheels must remain on this part of the circuit, unless of an occurrence where it is near to impossible to keep two wheels on the track, like avoiding a collision. During a race meeting, each time the track limits are not adhered to, a warning will be given. Each driver are allowed five warnings of all four wheels leaving the track via the inside of a corner, at any part of the circuit. If a sixth and subsequent "corner cutting" occurrences happen within a race meeting, then that driver will lose a position for each corner cut. Again, if a corner is cut to avoid a collision, this would not be given a warning.

The track limits must be adhered to in the event of gaining an advantage whilst having an on-track battle. If a driver overtakes a driver by getting all four wheels off the track, the driver must give that position back before they may continue the race. If the driver which was overtaken backs off heavily either through incident or "mechanical" failure, then the position will not need to be given back.


IMPORTANT - All competitors must have read and understood the TORA Sporting Regulations for more Info.



2014 TORA MSA Trans Am Cup Championships

The TORA MSA Trans Am Cup series will take place between the 29th of August 2014 and the 19th of September 2014 in a 4 meeting championship.

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:
Drivers may use either of the two cars provided in the Classic Muscle class of the Tuner discipline;
- Dodge Charger R/T
- Plymouth AAR Cuda
Upgrades are forbidden and will be forced "off" in the lobby settings.


2014 TORA GRID Autosport Series 1 Championship

This is a combined score from the TORA Trans Am Cup and TORA World Touring Car Cup. Only drivers who are entered in both championships are eligible.


Race Meeting Set-Up

QUALIFYING

We ask that all competitors are on Xbox live 15 minutes prior to the start of the race meeting, and appear online. Where necessary, if each competitor could post "In" in the relevant race meeting thread on the TORA forums. Anyone who wishes to race without posting "In" will need to wait the race meeting organisers confirmation before being allowed to race.
TORA’s ‘Live Timing’ system will be updated prior to the race meeting with who your lobby host will be for qualifying, and will be updated during the meeting with the results. One invite will be sent out to all race entrants. This invite will also denote your qualifying lobby.

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.

Competitors who are not connected to the host’s room at the start time without reason stated before the start time of the race meeting will not be able to take part in qualifying. The qualifying session will start no later than 5 minutes from the designated race meeting start time.

Settings

- Qualifying will take place at the start of the race meeting.
- This will take place in a pre-determined Time Attack session of six laps
- The grid for race one will be determined by the qualifying times.

RACE

TORA’s ‘Live Timing’ system will be updated after qualifying has taken place to update you who your lobby host will be. We ask that all competitors remain on Xbox live for the start of the race. ONE invite will be sent out to all race entrants. This will denote your race lobby. If a connection issue is apparent please contact the race director or lobby host ASAP and they will do their best to ensure you can connect to the race lobby.

Competitors who are not connected to the host’s room, or contacted a race official to explain a delay, after 10 minutes of the race lobby invite has been sent will not be able to take part in race.


Parade Lap and Standing Start

Competitors will perform a single formation lap to set the grid positions, before a standing start begins in race conditions. We ask all competitors to listen to the lobby host for what speed they should drive on the parade lap - around 60mph maximum. Competitors are asked not to move until the lobby host reads out the grid order and confirms when they can move off. We ask that competitors do not race one-another in the formation lap as to not interfere with the grid order, any resulting infringements will be reported to the race director and penalties may be given.


Settings

- Damage will be set to Full
- All assists are forced off
- Force manual gears is On
- Flashbacks will be set to 0
- Upgrades is set to Off
- Tuning is set to Off