TORA MSA ISCC Season 3 - Rules and Regulations

Update- 06/02/2012 (update highlighted in green)

General Rules & Driving Etiquette

Sports Car 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 behaviour 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.

2012 TORA MSA ISCC Championships

The TORA MSA ISCC series will take place between the 15th of January and the 3rd of June 2012 in an 8 race championship with spans Europe. The series will have 3 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, minus the lowest scoring round from their overall points will be their final points total and will result in their position in the overall drivers standing at the end of the year. This championship is for team and privateer drivers.

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

A team will be made up of a minimum of 2, and maximum of 3 drivers, all driving the same car in the same class. This championship will be scored by the total points score for all team drivers over the course of the championship.

- Team Driver Changes
From the start of the series, the full time driver line up may have a maximum two driver changes for the entire series. If another full time driver change occur, the total point score for the team will take a 10% reduction at the end of the year, and a subsequent 10% more for each further change. A fulltime driver change would need to be applied for via a new entry form as per championship sign-up.

- Substitute Drivers
For the length of the entire series, a team may make use of substitute driver if a full time driver cannot make a meeting. This substitute driver is eligible to score points for the drivers championship, and towards the point for the team they are driving for that meeting. A team has a maximum of 2 substitutes per season. Any further substitutes, and the replacement driver will not score points for the team they are driving for. Substitute drivers must be made aware to the series runners before commencing the race meeting itself.

The substitute 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.

PRIVATEER CHAMPIONSHIP

Competitors may sign up to race without a team and race in the Privateer category. These drivers will compete one another in the various classes to win the championship.

Race Rules

Safety Car Rules

There is no Safety Car in place for the ISCC due to the nature of multi-class racing. This is an endurance race and it is up to you to keep your car on track and out of the wall.

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 should no later than 5 minutes from the designated race meeting start time.

Settings
- A 6 second roll off delay will be in effect to accommodate a greater opportunity for clean running and driving concentration. Collisions will be set off, and damaged will be limited.
- Qualifying will be set to 15 minutes in which you must set your best lap. An extra 5 minutes will be added at the end for the lobby hosts to collect times before competitors finish the session. "Clean" qualifying laps take preference "Dirty" laps. A slower "Clean" lap will start the race ahead of a quicker "dirty" lap. Make it count!
- Once Qualifying is over, ‘Live Timing’ will be updated along with who will host the various racing lobbies. TORA will ensure that this process is completed as quickly as possible but please expect a minimum of a 10 minute break after the qualifying session for which the TORA team will set up race lobbies.
- Any driver who had not set a qualifying time will be required to make a pit start, to do this drivers that did not set a time will go into the pit lane at the completion of the warm up lap (this pit stop does not count as one of your mandatory pit stops)

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.

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. The race begins in this order by a rolling start. Races will take pace over a pre-determined amount of time. Please see the Season Calendar for details.

Rolling Start
Competitors will perform a single Formation lap to set the grid positions, before a rolling start on lap 2 begins race conditions. We ask all competitors to listen to the lobby host for what speed they should drive on the parade lap. 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.

To achieve a rolling start the competitors may be led by the lead car until the start signal is given. All rolling starts must be in 2 x 2 formation. Once the lead driver reaches a pre-designated section on the track (usually the final corner), they shall let the pack bunch up side by side in a two by two formation. the lead driver is given the choice what side he wishes to begin the race on, and all following competitors must follow this lead.

When all drivers are in position and the field are all on the start / finish straight, getting confirmation from the last driver that all are in position, the lead driver may start racing conditions by shouting "Go" and accelerating.

Under no circumstance shall any competitor be allowed to pass the vehicle in front until they have passed the start and finish line.

Mandatory Pit Stops

There will be 2 mandatory pit-stop during each race. The first stop must be made within the first 25 minutes of the race, the second can be made anytime after the first 25 minutes of the race. Failure to adhere to the rule will result in a 1 lap penalty that will be taken from the drivers finishing distance. If you make two pit stops within the first 25 minutes (i.e. you recieve damage after your first pit stop) you must still make a further pitstop after the initial 25 minute period in line with the rest of the field.

Settings
- Collisions during all races will be on, and set with Simulation 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.
- The race will be set to a pre-determined time limit which the lobby host will make aware to the competitors in the lobby.

Race Etiquette
-Slower cars (Those who are going down a lap to any car in any class) are to hold their racing line. Do NOT move over for the faster cars as you may be moving over into their path. Faster cars are to find their way around the slower cars. Failure to adhere to these rules will result in the following penalties.

1st offense- Warning
2nd offense- One lap penalty that will be taken from drivers finishing distance.
3rd offense- Exclusion from the race.

Success Balance

There will be No success Balance in this championship- Lobby's will be separated by 7 seconds (no matter the number in each lobby) so that at the start each lobby is down by 7 seconds from the get go (Lobby A is at 0, Lobby B is at 7 seconds, Lobby C is at 14 seconds etc.)

TORA MSA ISCC Carlist

There will be three classes in this season of the ISCC. LMP, LMPC and GT. Please take note of the builds in the table below.

LMP Classes (LMP and LMPC) are open to all competitors, however those who are in LMP that cause to many accidents or show carelessness in your driving (i.e. not respecting your fellow competitors) you will be required to step down into LMPC and participate in a minimum of 3 races in that class. Once the 3 races are complete you may apply to return to LMP if you wish or stay in the class. Applications can be made to ISCC Co-ordinator's (Louis or Conner) where they will be reviewed by all staff.

Note: When painting your cars, use the font in the number box that is supplied. All you have to do is "Change Vinyl Shape" to your number. LMPC's class color has changed from Purple to Blue so please update as needed



The cars are limited to TWO teams and TWO privateers using each car, on a first come first served basis.


Season Calendar

The ISCC Europe takes place between the 15th of January 2012 and the 3rd of June 2012.

15th January - ISCC Europe R1 - Nurburgring GP
5th February - ISCC Europe R2 - Camino Extreme
4th March - ISCC Europe R3 - Mugello
18th March - ISCC Europe R4 - Silverstone GP
22nd April - ISCC Europe R5 - Hockenheim
6th May - ISCC Europe R6 - Bernese Alps
20th May - ISCC Europe R7 - Catalunya GP
3rd June - ISCC Europe R8 - Le Mans

Note: This is NOT a registration thread, an appropriate thread will be open at the 1st of the year (January 1st) at 5PM BST (12PM EST)

cant wait well done Louis looks awsome

One question.. What exactly is the ''car in front'' defined as? Is it the car directly in front of you in the row ahead, or is it the car that qualified ahead of you?

answer to that question is the cars directly ahead of you, we understand that those who share the same row may be a little bit ahead of one another so it would be the one directly ahead of you!

update: posted rule/note on number boxes update is posted in Green please read!

Also, gen3ral ts0, Selective Rogue, and F4H Carrera are allowed to run the numbers 1, 2, and 3 (respectively) on their cars because of their finishes in the Driver's Championship in last year's ISCC.

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Pebb wrote:In

Your meant to post that in this thread

http://forums.theonlineracingassociation.com/t7010-msa-tora-iscc-europe-round-1-nurburgring-grand-prix-15-1-2012

I got my tabs mixed up.

it happens dude

Need a rule for a restart due to lag spike damage in the first few laps

yep defo, and must remind every 1 to make lobbys prvt

GLRmikem wrote:Need a rule for a restart due to lag spike damage in the first few laps

Once we go green, we go green, if we do that within the first 3 laps and restart, what happens if it happens again? then again? that's almost 20 minutes behind on that, we can deffo look into trying this however until then once we go green we stay green, on the warm up lap is another story

after the race, i looked back at the lobby settings, and it was set to Private. not sure who's friend that was who randomly popped into Lobby A.

could have been a server acting up as well, OR ACTUALLY CRAP THIS JUST OCCURED TO ME! matt you need to turn your becon off!

Yea Mark was not your fault some 1 just jumped in on there friends race which caused a big lag spike when he left hence my retirment