LFSCART Series 2011 Rulebook

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Regulations

Revision 2 Updated 27 May 2011

This document contains regulations for the 2011 Season of the LFSCART Series. The NDR Sporting

Code is in force with this document. Any conflicts between the two, unless explicitly stated herein,

defer to the Sporting Code.

2011 New Dimension Racing


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Contents

I.General Series Information..............................................................................................................3

II.LFSCART Car Restrictions................................................................................................................3

III.Entry Procedure..............................................................................................................................3

IV.Car Skins..........................................................................................................................................4

V.Qualifying Procedure......................................................................................................................4

VI.Race Procedure...............................................................................................................................5

VII.Pit Lane and Compulsory Pit Stop...............................................................................................6

VIII.Safety Car......................................................................................................................................7

IX.Red Flags.........................................................................................................................................9

X.Protests and Penalties...................................................................................................................10

XI.Official Classification...................................................................................................................10

XII.Championship.............................................................................................................................11

XIII.Server Failure..............................................................................................................................13

XIV.Communication .........................................................................................................................14

XV.Miscellaneous..............................................................................................................................15

LFSCART Series Regulations Revision 1 2


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I. General Series Information

1.The 2011 LFSCART Series (LFSCART) is a series running in the Live for Speed simulation

software using the Formula V8 (FO8) car on a combination of road and oval circuits.

II. LFSCART Car Restrictions

1.Drivers are restricted in the tyre compounds that they may use in LFSCART. Cars not using

an allowed compound will be black flagged and must change to an allowed compound.

a)Only R2compound tyres may be used on Ovals.

b)Only R2 and R3compound tyres may be used on Road circuits.

III.Entry Procedure

1.There are 30 start positions available in the LFSCART series. These spots are awarded based

on qualifying results.

a)On South City, due to limitations in grid size, only 29 cars will start.

2.Car Number 01 is reserved for the defending LFSCART Series Champion. Car Number 00 is

reserved for the defending Kyoto 500 champion. These are the only numbers that may

follow a driver. All other numbers must follow the team.

3.Drivers are automatically accepted to any circuit type after fulfilling one of the following

requirements:

a)5thor better Driver's Championship classification in the 2009 or 2010 LFSCART seasons.

b)3rd

or better Driver's Championship classification in LFSCART Light Summer Series 2010.

c)3rdor better in the finishing order of the 2008, 2009 or 2010 Kyoto 500.

4.All drivers not automatically accepted from III.3 will be accepted after completing all of the

following:

a)For Road Course Acceptance, a driver must have:

1.A hotlap uploaded to http://www.lfsworld.net using the FO8 on any road course in

the LFSCART 2011 schedule within 103% of the World Record

2.A total online driven distance equal to or greater than 12,340 miles / 20,000

kilometers

b)For Oval Acceptance, a driver must have:

1.A hotlap uploaded http://www.lfsworld.net using the FO8 on the Kyoto Oval (KY1)

within 103% of the World Record

2.At least 300 laps run online of FO8 at KY1


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5.All cars are single-driver cars. A Team is a grouping of at least one but no more than four

cars.

a)The Kyoto 500 does not have this 4thcar limitation.

6.A team may change their drivers during the season as long as the new driver fulfills all entry

requirements.

IV.Car Skins

1.All skins must fulfill the requirements as specified in the NDR sporting code, Article II.5, with

the following notations/amendments:

a)Cars entered by a team may be presented in substantially different liveries

b)The driver's name and national flag must be placed onto both sides of the engine cover.

c)If two or more cars of a team have substantially identical liveries, the rear wing end plates

shall have different colors.

2.Failure to run a proper skin during any official session will result in a 5-point penalty to the

team's and owner's points.

V. Qualifying Procedure

1.On Road Circuits:

a)Two 20-minute sessions, with approximately half of the available cars on track, called

1.These sessions will be titled Group 1 and Group 2

2.Groups will be assigned based on owner's points, with cars in odd positions in theowner's championship (eg 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc) in Group 1, and cars in even positions in

the owner's championshp (eg 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc) in Group 2. Cars that are tied (no

tiebreaker successful) will be placed in the same group. Round 1 will see groups

assigned randomly.

3.The sessions will run concurrently, on separate servers. Group 1 will be on the

primary LFSCART server Group 2 will be on a secondary server.

1.Should there be more than double the available track slots needing to beassigned, the groups may be split further to allow even groups over as many

servers as necessary.

4.These sessions will be held in the hardcore mode. All cars which spectate

(Shift+S) or go to the pits (Shift+P) are not allowed to continue the qualifying

session.


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5.No driver is to exit the pit lane if he cannot complete the outlap before time expires.

Pitlane Exit will be closed at such time when another outlap cannot be completed.

6.Grid positions 7-30 will be set by the combined results of these sessions.

b)One hot lap session for the fastest six from the combined session.

1.The one hot lap session will be titled Superpole

2.Each driver must drive 1 out lap, 1 hot lap, and 1 in lap.

3.The drivers will be sent onto track to qualify in time order, slowest qualifying time

first.

4.The results of the Fast Six Super pole are taken to set the grid positions 1-6.

2.On Oval tracks:

a)One session, using an automatic system to control the order and infom drivers of their

current status in the session.b)Each driver has one attempt to complete an out lap, two flying laps, and one in lap.

3.Any driver who is not within 107% (on ovals 103.5%) of the fastest time in the open

qualifying sessions will not be allowed to take part in the race.

a)This rule will not be enforced if the resulting grid would have less than 20 cars. However,

this rule may be invoked as a reason to prohibit a driver racing if administration deems

said driver unsafe for the round.

b)On road courses the drivers who have set a time within 107% of the pole position duringthe Official Free Practice Session may be allowed to take part in the race at administrator

discretion.

4.Drivers who have not competed in the qualifying session may take part, if the grid has open

spots and the 107% (103.5%) rule is not enforced.

5.Should the qualification be stopped and not restarted, the race grid will be set by Owner's

Points, with new entrants to the series starting from the back in number order.

VI.Race Procedure1.There will be one race per round. Oval races will be no less than 300 miles / 482 kilometers.

Road course races will be the minimum number of laps to exceed a distance between 150

miles / 241 kilometers and 200 miles / 320 kilometers.


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2.Each race has a time limit, with the exception of the Kyoto 500. Road Course races are either

their scheduled distance or 2 hours, whichever is completed sooner. Oval races are either

their scheduled distance or 3 hours, whichever is completed sooner. Time limit countdown

begins after the formation lap/laps is/are completed.

3.Starting procedure for oval races:

a)The Safety Car will lead the grid throughtwoformation laps.

b)The grid shall maintain double-file formation throughout the duration of the formation

laps.

1.The grid shall be in generally even rows of two with odd positions on the inside and

even positions on the outside of Turn 1.

2.Between the inside and outside lines there shall be at least 1 car width.

3.All cars shall keep 3 car lengths to the car in front.

4.After the Safety Car turns into the pit lane, the field shall keep 80 kph, 49 mph.

c)The Green Flag signal starts the race. Once the Green Flag is out, overtaking is permitted.

4.Starting procedure for Road Circuits:

a)The pole sitter will lead the grid through one formation lap. All cars will leave large gaps,

and generally travel at Safety Car Speed.

b)Entering the grid area the cars shall slow down.

1.The on-screen insim program will show the drivers where their destined gridpositions are.

2.When a car is in its correct place, the on-screen insim program will show Ok in the

head-up display.

3.After all cars are correctly in their grid slots, the head-up display will show the

starting lights and a delay. When they turn green, the race has started.

c)Should the insim program fail, the start will be done in single file like a Full-Course Yellow

restart. A failure in the application will be indicated, if not obviously visible, by displayingSafety Car Deployed on screen.

VII.Pit Lane and Compulsory Pit Stop

1.The blend line on pit exit is not to be crossed by all parts of the car. Crossing this line

completely will result in a DT penalty. Pit entry is not always enforced, but if it is, the same

penalty is available.


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a)While in pit lane under safety car conditions, you may overtake freely as cars slow and

speed up for pitting.

2.A compulsory pitstop must be made within an announced window which will be between

approximately 5% and 95% race distance.

a)No service is specified or required it is up to you to decide. A touch & go is all that is

required.

3.The final pitstall (closest to pit EXIT) is reserved for the car currently leading the Owner's

Championship. This is not effective during Round 1.

VIII.Safety Car

1.The Safety Car will be used if there is an incident on track from which the affected driver(s)

cannot self-recover back to the track or pits. The affected driver MUST NOT Shift + S or Shift

+ P. He must type$SCto alert admins to his situation.

a)Spectating from outside a pit garage will incur a 5 point penalty, 10 point penalty, and

then a series exclusion on the third offence.

2.When the message SAFETY CAR DEPLOYED appears on screen and the track indicator

button changed to T: YELLOW, all drivers are to cease racing for position, and gently show

down and be alert for any situation on track while proceeding around to catch the Safety

Car queue.

a)No overtaking may occur after the Safety Car is deployed and before the start/finish lineat a restart, except in the following cases:

1.If told to overtake the Safety Car by the administration;

2.Cars entering pit lane may overtake cars still on track after passing the first safety car

line;

3.Cars exiting pit lane may be overtaken by cars still on the track after before it crosses

the second safety car line;

4.When the safety car is returning to the pits it may be overtaken by cars on the trackonce it has crossed the first safety car line;

5.If a car spins or otherwise cannot maintain safety car speed, they may be overtaken

and must rejoin the queue in the position in which they recover;

6.Illegal overtaking under Safety Car will result in a Drive-Through Penalty, or;

7.On Ovals, overtaking is permitted as soon as the greel flag has been waved.


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b)The first and second safety car lines are perpendicular to the start of the pit entry and

end of the pit exit blend lines respectively.

c)Pit lane remains open for entry at all times during the race unless the entry is blocked by

an incident, or on ovals (see exception below). While the SC queue is passing the pit exit,

the pit exit will close and all drivers are to wait at the end of pit lane until the exit

reopens. Exiting a closed pit exit will result in an SG penalty.

1.Exception: On Oval, the pit lane entry will close until the field is caught up behind

the safety car. Entering a closed pit will result in a drive-through penalty to be

assesed after the restart.

d)Administration will wave around any cars between the leader and the Safety Car so the

leader is the first car to take the restart. Cars waved around must overtake the SC

carefully, and proceed with caution to catch the end of the queue, obeying rule VIII.2.a)3.On Road Courses, The Safety Car will remain in operation until at least the majority of

competing cars on the circuit are lined up behind it, and the SAFETY CAR IN THIS LAP

signal will be before the final sector of the lap.

a)Once the restart signal is given, the leader may go when he chooses to as long as he does

not

1.Overtake the Safety Car before it passes the first Safety Car Line

2.Slow the field down after beginning to accelerate for the restart, or except fornatural slowing points.

b)The Green flag will fly when the leader has started to accelerate on the start/finish

straight. Drivers may not overtake until they have crossed the start / finish line

4.On Ovals, the Safety Car will remain in operation until the field is collected after having

allowed ample time for all cars to make a pitstop.

a)Administration respects the fact that there may need to be two laps to allow all cars to

pit, due to the limited number of pit stalls. However, any driver pitting after the secondlap of pitlane being open risks being caught out - administration reserve the right to

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b)After the restart signal is given, the Safety Car will continue to lead the field around at

pace speed, until exiting turn to, at which point it will accelerate away, and enter pitlane

at the point all cars must enter under caution. The leader may accelrate any time after

Safety Car Line 1 (just before Turn 3), as long as he does not

1.Overtake the Safety Car before it clears the track (crosses completely into the pit

apron)

2.Slow the field down after beginning to accelerate for the restart, or except for

natural slowing points.

c)The Green flag will fly after the leader has started to accelerate, and the formation

deemed acceptable. Drivers may not overtake until the green flag has waved.

5.A start / restart is waved off in the event the formation is unacceptable, an incident occurs

between the time the restart signal is given and the time when the start/finish line iscrossed on that lap. A wave-off will be indicated by a reissuing of the Safety Car In This Lap

message OR displaying Safety Car Deployed again. The restart will be reattempted the

next lap if possible.

6.If the Green Flag message does not appear for any reason, and no wave-off is called (i.e. No

additional messages) prior to crossing the start/finish line, all drivers are to assume that a

Green Flag was intended and should resume racing.

7.If the race finishes under Safety Car, the order will be taken from the order at the time ofsafety car deployment, adjusted for cars who spin, pit, or otherwise fall under Rule VIII.2.a)

IX.Red Flags

1.The Red Flag will be issued for server failure, or may be shown in the case of a crash

affecting the majority of the field.

2.The number of laps completed by the leader will decide whether there will be a restart:

a)Less than 2 laps: Full Restart;

b)More than 2 laps but less than 75%: Race will be suspended, and restarted behind theSafety Car.

c)More than 75%: The race director has the option to not restart the race the results will

be taken from one lap previous to the red flag, minus any drivers who caused the red

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3.Upon issuance of the red flag, all drivers should cease driving at racing speeds and return to

the starting grid or other designated area (if possible) and wait for further instructions.

a)Administation will attempt to have the field under Saftey Car Control before calling a red

flag

b)A driver already in pitlane at the time of the red flag is permitted to carry out pitwork.

Any driver who enters pitlane after the red flag and subsequently takes service prior to

exiting the pitlane, will receive a one-lap penalty.

c)Should the red flag be as a result of a server failure, the situation will require ending the

session and starting again after a server restart or change, with race distance adjusted

accordingly. In this case, all drivers are free to make any service to their car in the garage.

The track will remain closed until the grid is sorted and ready to resume the race.

X. Protests and Penalties1.Protests must be submitted within 36 hours of race completion.

2.Protests must be submitted from drivers and/or team managers whose team are involved in

an incident. Teams submitting protests not involving their car, but stand to benefit from a

possible penalty as a result of; or submit multiple frivilous protests are subject to penalties.

3.All penalty options listed in the NDR Sporting Code are available for use in LFSCART.

4.Driver Penalties will be applied to their respective team, owner, and nations points should

their result be the one used in said calculationXI.Official Classification

1.All drivers who start a race will be classified in the results.

2.A driver must complete 85% of the race distance of the leader in order to receive points.

Bonus points may still be awarded regardless of percentage completed.

3.In the official results table, all drivers running at the finish will have Running placed as the

reason. Reasons for Not finishing are as follows:

a)Accident: This driver was involved in an accident and was unable to continue the race.b)Suspension: This driver was unable to return to pits or returned to pits and retired due to

excessive suspension damage.

c)Clutch: This driver was unable to continue due to an overheated clutch.

d)Fuel: This driver was unable to continue due to running out of fuel.

e)Connection: The driver lost connection or timed out from the server


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f)Retired: This driver did not finish with any other applicable reason.

g)Penalty: The driver was disqualified.

4.Drivers who time out or lose connection to the server while racing maynotrejoin the race

in progress.

XII.Championship

1.There are seven official championships of LFSCART.

a)The LFSCART Driver's Championship is awarded to the driver who scores the most points

in the season.

b)The LFSCART Teams Championship is awarded to the team which scores the most points

in the season.

1.Only the top two finishing drivers of a team may score points to this championship.

2.If a team has only one driver at a round, that team will not score any Teams'

Championship Points in that round.

c)The LFSCART Owner's Championship is awarded to the car number which scores the

most points in the season

1.Each car number scores points regardless of driver.

d)The LFSCART Nation's Cup is awarded to the nation which scores the most points in the

season.

1.Only the best finisher of a nation scores points towards this championship.e)The LFSCART Rookie Cup is awarded to the new driver to LFSCART who scores the most

points in the season

1.Drivers who have competed in 2 or more rounds of a previous LFSCART season are

not eligible for this championship.

f)The LFSCART Road Cup is awarded to the driver who scores the most points in the road

course rounds.

g)The LFSCART Oval Challenge is awarded to the driver who scores the most points in theoval rounds.

h)The LFSCART Qualifying Trophy is awarded to the driver who has the fastest average

qualifying time of the season.

1.A driver's qualifying time (prior to super pole) is divided by the fastest time for the

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2.A driver must attempt to qualify for at least three rounds of the season to be eligible

for this award.

3.A driver who is eligible for this award, but missed a round or is credited with No

Time will be assigned a time that is either 110% of pole, or the percentage of the

slowest driver credited with a time, whichever is higher.

2.There are bonus points available in addition to position points.. Points are awarded on the

following scale (on following page):


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Position Points Kyoto 500 Position Points Kyoto 500

1st 50 75 16th 14 32

2nd 40 65 17th 13 30

3rd 35 60 18th 12 28

4th 32 57 19th 11 265th 30 55 20th 10 24

6th 28 52 21st 9 22

7th 26 50 22nd 8 20

8th 24 48 23rd 7 19

9th 22 46 24th 6 18

10th 20 44 25th 5 17

11th 19 42 26th 4 16

12th 18 40 27th 3 15

13th 17 38 28th 2 14

14th 16 36 29th 1 13

15th 15 34 30th 1 12

Pole 1 2DNQ /

DNS0 10

Most

Laps Led2 4 DSQ 0 0

3.Should there be a tie for most laps led, both drivers will be awarded the bonus.

4.For the Kyoto 500 only, if a driver attends qualifying but does not qualify or cannot start the

race, they will be awarded the DNQ / DNS points. The 85% rule will not apply during the

Kyoto 500.

5.Any driver who attempts to qualify for all races of the season will earn a 10-point bonus.

Missing one race will see the bonus reduced to 6 points. Missing two will reduce the bonus

to 3 points. Missing three or more will result in no bonus.

XIII.Server Failure

1.Should the main server for LFSCART experience a mass disconnect, or an inability to

connect, the race will be suspended.

2.There will be a decision made as to whether or not to abandon the remainder of the race or

return to the original server or move to a new server.

a)The decision will be posted in the LFSCART forum and the server if possible.


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3.A failure during the race will see the order for a restart taken from the order at the last lap

completed by all cars prior to the server issues. The time of the race suspension due to

server failure (red flag issued mark to green flag for part 2) will be added to the time limit.

4.The second race will start behind the safety car as a standard safety car restart, with cars

credited with the laps completed at the back-count. Time gaps will be erased.

a)The laps will be credited to the cars in the final results, and the summation of the Part 1

laps plus the result of Part 2 will be totaled to get the results.

XIV.Communication

1.Race administration will be available in a voice chat server during the course of the race.

a)On road course races, voice chat is strongly recommended, but failure to be in will only

result in participation refused at administration discretion.

b)On ovals, voice chat is compulsory, and failure to be in designated voice chat server will

result in prohibition to participate in the event.

2.Blocking of in-game messages is prohibited and will result in an automatic warning to the

driver to unblock messages. If the messages remain blocked, a DT penalty will be issued to

the driver.

3.Chat is prohibited during any session. In qualifying, there will be one fastest session lap

removed for chat on a per line basis. In the race, a DT penalty is issued. Repeat offenses

may merit an SG penalty.a)Chat is automatically assumed closed when the session starts, should no message be

displayed indicating chat is closed.

b)Qualifying: Chat should be considered automatically reopened under one or more of the

following conditions:

1.The last car on a timed lap stayed on track through the first sector and completed it

2.The session has been announced as complete by race control, but no specific chat

open message was posted.3.One minute has passed since all cars completed a timed lap and the last car to do so

spectates before reaching split 1.

c)Race: Chat should be considered automatically repoened under one of more of the

following conditions:


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1.The session has been announced as complete by race control, but no specific chat

open message was posted.

2.All cars have returned to the pitlane (and Top 3 have arrived at Start/Finish

XV.Miscellaneous

1.Failure to format a driver name or number plate correctly will result in a DT penalty to the

driver. Please see the NDR Sporting Code for the correct format.

2.The administration reserve the right to modify this document at any time for any reason it

deems fit.

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