BSTV UK Clio Cup

Season 1

Rules Package

 






Content

About the series

Fee

Liveries

Communication

Championship

Race Sessions

Points

General

Admins




About The Series

This is a championship for people who want to experience single make racing, during European friendly time slots, in a controlled friendly league.

Our races take place on Friday evenings (UK).

The car for this series is iRacing’s all new Renault Clio Cup.

This is an open setup series where faster drivers are encouraged to help slower drivers with help, advice and hopefully the sharing of setups.

There are no minimum requirements for iRating or Safety Rating.

All of our races are shown live by Backfire Simsport TV.

 

 



The league is limited to 30 drivers, on a first come first served basis.

As a league driver, please let us know if your circumstances change and you can no longer race with us. We can then offer your place to another driver.

 

 Fee

The fee for each 10 week season is £10.00 GBP, this covers the broadcast cost and also the hosting fees.

Fees are payable to backfiresimsporttv@gmail.com via PayPal and need to be in GBP. 

All drivers joining from the start of the season, up to and including race day 5, pay full price.

Drivers joining after race day 5 will get a 50% reduction.

 

Liveries

Liveries can be uploaded through our website.

You will need to re-submit your paint if you make any changes. 

A decal layer will be added to each paint by the admins. This will cover the front windshield banner and custom number blocks so please leave these area’s blank.

Any driver that does not submit a paint will be given our league default paint. 

We have a number of BSTV logos that we can share if you want to help to advertise the broadcaster on your car. 

We do ask that you have permission to use any logos on your car from the owner. 

 

 Communication

We have our own Discord server for race nights and general chit chat.

We know most teams and drivers run their own voice comms so it is not mandatory to use our Discord. However, the broadcast and post race interviews will be done using the BSTV Discord server. 

A link to join our Discord server is on our website.

 

 Championships

UK Cio Cup.

Drivers score points for every race they participate in. Scores are totalled up throughout the season.

Drivers are allowed 1 drop week to allow for any unforeseen circumstances, so your total points in the championship will be calculated from your best 18 results from the 20 races.

Teams Championship.

Teams are made up of two drivers and both scores will count towards the championship.

Driver of the season.

Each week the commentators will vote individually for a Driver of the Meeting. These votes are tallied up so that a Driver of the Season can be crowned at the end of the season.




Race Sessions

Our servers start at 7pm UK on normal race days.

Practice = 30 mins

Qualifying = 15 mins

Race = 20 mins

Break = 10 mins

Race 2 = 20 mins

Interviews

 

We strongly suggest that you join any session through the LEAGUE > LEAGUE SESSIONS tab on iRacing as some drivers have had issues in joining sessions through the HOSTED tab.

If there are less than 10 drivers for any given race, the admins reserve the right to cancel the race and the broadcast and remove it from the schedule.

 

Point Scoring

 

Position

Points

  

Position

Points

1st

55

  

16th

24

2nd

50

  

17th

23

3rd

46

  

18th

22

4th

43

  

19th

21

5th

41

  

20th

20

6th

39

  

21st

19

7th

37

  

22nd

18

8th

35

  

23rd

17

9th

33

  

24th

16

10th

31

  

25th

15

11th

29

  

26th

14

12th

28

  

27th

13

13th

27

  

28th

12

14th

26

  

29th

11

15th

25

  

30th

10



Bonus & Penalty Points

Pole Position - The driver gaining pole position from the qualifying session will receive 2 bonus points.

Fastest Lap - The driver with the fastest lap in each race will receive 2 bonus points.

Incident Points - Each driver will receive 1 penalty point for every incident point they collect.

Drive Through Penalty - On reaching 15 incident points in any race, a driver will receive a black flag drive through penalty.

 

Steward Reviews

From time to time things can get heated and/or mistakes may happen.

 If you feel aggrieved by a situation, we ask that you do the following.

Allow a 12 hour cooling off period before protesting

View the incident from different angles and different cars

DO NOT abuse any other drivers involved via voice or text

If after reviewing the incident, you feel that you need to protest it, please use the protest form stating which race, which lap, and which cars were involved.

The race control admin team will review the incident, give you an honest view on the incident, and apply penalties where required.

All decisions are final.

Drivers gaining a position using unfair means are expected to give places back.

Any driver found to be abusive towards another driver, on any of our media platforms, Facebook, Discord or iRacing, via chat or text will face a pitlane start for the next race they attend. A second offence will be penalised with a race meeting ban, and a third offence will result in the driver being excluded from the league. No arguments.

 

General

Black flags will only be cleared during practice sessions.

We use iRacing dynamic weather so bear in mind that the weather conditions will change from session to session.

You will get 1 free repair per race. Please note that any slight damage, even from taking a curb too vigorously can result in your free repair being used. You can turn this off and decide when you want to use your free repair.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact one of the admins or email one of us from the contact list below.

 

 Admins

Clyde Whiting

Pete Bingham

 

 By entering any race you are agreeing to have read and understood the above rules.