International Touring Car Racing

Season 1

Rules Package



Contents

 

  • About The Series

  • Fee

  • Liveries

  • Communication

  • Championships

  • Driver PRO/AM Selection

  • Race Sessions

  • Point Scoring

  • Bonus & Penalty Points

  • Schedule

  • Steward Reviews

  • General

  • Admins



About The Series

 

This is a championship for people who want to experience the thrill of driving touring cars, during European friendly time slots, in a controlled friendly league.

 

Our races take place on Sunday evenings, every other week.

 

The car we will use is the Audi RS3 LMS TCR.

 

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 40 drivers.

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 meeting season is £15.00 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. 



Liveries

 

Paint packs are used for the series. You are required to upload your paint to our Google Drive folder here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vD1ZrdYAd9J4JxDSUx5sW42w97wqLLGc You will need to re-upload your paint if you make any changes.

To download the latest paint pack, simply visit the link above, click on iTCR, and select Download.

 

We strongly suggest than you download the latest paint pack just before you join the race server.

 

A decal layer will be added to each paint by the admins. This will cover the front windshield banner and rear wing end plates 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 and league sponsor logos that we can share if you want to help advertise 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

We have an Overall Championship, and a TEAMS championship.

Drivers are allowed 1 drop meeting to allow for any unforeseen circumstances, so your total points in the championship will be calculated from your best 9 meetings from the 10 available.

Teams are up to 3 drivers drivers, and the top two scoring drivers in each race score towards the team championship.



Race Sessions

Our servers start at 6pm UK on race days.

Practice = 60 mins

Qualifying = 15 mins

Race x 3 = 20 mins

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.

Race 1 grid will be determined by the qualifying result.

Race 2 grid will be determined by the Race 1 result.

Race 3 grid will be determined by the Race 2 result, plus a random reverse between 6th and 15th.

Cars will not be fuel limited.

There are no free repairs in this series.

We use the iRacing heat system to provide a single server race night. There is no need to disconnect and reconnect to a new server.

All drivers will be in all races

Heat Race = Race 1, Consolation Race = Race 2, Feature Race = Race 3

Because the heat system has limited gridding time, race control will manually increase gridding time to 2 minutes.

The following is a rough idea of in game times for the sessions................

Practice - 9am

Qualifying - 10am

Race 1 - 11.30am

Race 2 - 2.30pm

Race 3 - 4.30pm

 

 

Point Scoring



Position

Points

  

Position

Points

1st

100

  

21st

37

2nd

95

  

22nd

36

3rd

90

  

23rd

35

4th

80

  

24th

34

5th

75

  

25th

33

6th

70

  

26th

32

7th

65

  

27th

31

8th

60

  

28th

30

9th

55

  

29th

29

10th

50

  

30th

28

11th

48

  

31st

26

12th

47

  

32nd

25

13th

46

  

33rd

24

14th

45

  

34th

23

15th

44

  

35th

22

16th

43

  

36th

21

17th

42

  

37th

20

18th

41

  

38th

19

19th

40

  

39th

18

20th

39

  

40th

17

 

Bonus & Penalty Points

Pole Position - The driver gaining pole position from the qualifying session will receive 10 bonus points.

Fastest Lap - The driver with the fastest lap in each race will receive 5 bonus points.

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

Drive Through Penalty - On reaching 17 incident points in any race, a driver will receive a black flag drive through penalty.

 

Schedule

 

Please Note - Homestead on Oct 31st will be replaced by Knockhill if it is available.

 

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 (protests received before the cooling off period will be deleted)

  • 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.

  • If your protest is unsuccessful, you will be penalised 25 championship points.

  • If a protest against you is successful, you will be given a pit lane start for the first race of the next meeting you attend + 1 licence point.

  • Any driver reaching 12 licence points will be given a 1 race meeting ban.

  • Drivers are only permitted to protest incidents they were actually involved in.

 

All race control and admin decisions are final.

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

We pride ourselves on sportsmanship and clean racing so if you recognise that you have unfairly gained a position, then please allow a position reversal to take place at your earliest opportunity.

 

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.

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



Admins

Clyde Whiting

Pete Bingham

Sam Buzin

Bill Switzer

Chris Shaw

Jamie Wilson

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