European GT championship. Rulebook!

Racing and Driving Etiquette:
The European GT Championship is a non-contact sport. But, some contact is expected or unavoidable. If you feel that you have been involved in intentional contact whereby you have lost ground in the race, please take 5 minutes to file a Report within 48 hours whereby the Stewarding team will privately review it and decide what action is taken,

We expect each and every competitor that attends at any of the championship meetings to behave and communicate in a respectable manner to every single competitor, Steward and Race Marshall. If you feel a comment may be offensive, hurtful, or unnecessary then please don't say it at all.

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 will be 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.

If at any point you leave the track, you must wait for a chance to return, at NO point may a driver return to the track into oncoming traffic.

Driver and Team Entry Rules:
You have the option to be a team of two or three drivers, or a single privateer entry. The European GT Championship will have the use of Two championships. These championships are: Team and Privateer.

There will be no allowed Car Changes after initial Sign Up. Once you have signed up with your team and completed your first Qualifying/Race, you are then 'locked-in' with your choice and current Driver line up for the remainder of the series, however a new driver may be added to a spare seat in a team entry if they have not yet competed. Privateer entries may only become a team entry IF the original Privateer driver has not yet completed a round.

Championship Scoring:
Drivers Championship: All drivers are by themselves when earning these points. The points will be scored starting at 120 for first place and then subtract one point for every position down.

Teams Championship: This championship is to determine the team with the most points at the end of the season. However, only the top two drivers will score points for their team in any given race in order to keep it fair for teams that choose to run just two cars.

Privateers Championship: This championship will be run for drivers that decide to enter as privateers.  Whichever driver is in that car for that race scores points for the privateer championship.

Reserve Drivers: You may only use one reserve driver per Team or Privateer over the course of the entire championship. The reserve driver can come from an existing team, privateer, or any other friend. A substitute driver may only score points for the team they are driving for in any particular race, and must remain in a single car/team for an entire race meeting.


Race Format Rules

Qualifying:
Qualifying procedure will be the following:
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 organizers 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 good 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 10 minutes from the designated race meeting start time.

The Qualifying lobby will be set to Seven Laps: one warm-up lap and five flying laps, upon the final lap, all drivers must pull off to the first turn and away from the immediate track to allow anyone still qualifying to not be distracted, once all drivers are finished, the host will take down each drivers lap time, however each driver MUST confirm their time with the host before leaving to minamise any errors.  

The final round at Nurburgring Nordschleife will be two flying laps due to the longer track length.

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.

Grid will be the results of the qualifying session. All drivers with "clean" laps in qualifying will be before all drivers who set "dirty" laps. Races will take place over a pre-determined amount of laps.

Race 1:
There will be TWO races per evening for the first 5 Evenings, Race 1 will start with the host arranging the drivers in order, which will be done by calling positions and names, all drivers will do a lap of the circuit and realign within the marked grid spots.

The host will call a time for the race to start (10 seconds minimum) and the race will begin from a standing start, any jumping before the designated time will result in a penalty.

The first race will last for a pre-designated amount of laps (added to sign-in thread), and all drivers will do a full sprint to the finish.

Race 2:
The host will call out the grid in reverse order by name, so the driver who finished 12th will be 1st, 11th will be 2nd, and so on.

All drivers will then drive a lap of the circuit and form up in the grid slots, same as Race 1 but in reverse order.

The host will call a time for the race to start (10 seconds minimum) and the race will begin from a standing start, any jumping before the designated time will result in a penalty.

The Second race will last for a pre-designated amount of laps (added to sign-in thread), however this race will require a Mandatory pit stop which must be done between laps 5 and 19, failure to pit within this window will result a penalty OR in severe cases, points removed, so please be aware.

Driver Aids/Assists:

- Collisions during all races will be on, and set with Limited Damage. TCS, Driving Line and Normal/Simulation Steering are the only allowed driving aids that may be used. ABS, STM, Auto-brake and Auto-gears are prohibited. Manual gears must be used but it is up to the competitor if they wish to use the clutch or not.


Pit stops:
There will be only one race per week which will feature a mandatory stop in the European GT Championship. Round 6 of the championship at the Nordschleife will be a one hour race and will include a mandatory pit stop that the driver can elect to take at any time except for the first and last lap of the race. Failure to make a mandatory pit stop during these races will result in exclusion from the results.

At the completion of the race the finishing results will be recorded and the points will be tallied up, If a person should lag out before the conclusion of the race their finishing position for that race will be counted as the back of the grid.




Above all please have fun, this Event is based around sportsmanship so we do hope no action is needed for intentional rule-breaking, Good Luck to all competitors and we hope you Enjoy the Championship!

Updates!

Due to the popularity of this Event, We have elected to update the rules and the process descriptions accordingly, all drivers should already be familiar with these rules upon entering, however ALL drivers MUST read and understand the rules before the first race.

Thank You.