rules and regulations

DISCLAIMER

Stewards may be required to exercise their own judgment or refer to FIA regulations when rules are ambiguous, or no rule applies. The outcome will result in a new rule or clarification of existing rules.

1. TEAM OUTLINE

a. Team construct is listed in Season Information.

b. Teams will be assigned a private channel within Discord to post liveries.

c. Team manufacturer requirements are listed in Season Information.

2. PRIVATEERS

a. Are not affiliated with any team.

b. Privateers will have access to a channel within Discord for privateers only to post liveries.

c. Privateer manufacturer requirements are listed in Season Information.

d. A Team Owner may purchase a Privateer during a season to fill an empty team spot.

3. DRIVER VALUE

a. Each driver will be assigned a value with the highest ranked driver worth $1,000,000 and the lowest being ranked $50,000.

b. Driver value will be assessed at the start of each new season based on the driver’s overall performance in the preceding season(s)

4. TEAM ECONOMY

a. Reserved

b. Team Owners will have a budget equal to the sum of all team registered driver’s values divided by the number of teams with which to purchase drivers.

c. The team budget ensures that team owners must select drivers from a range of abilities and experience levels and prevents any one team owner from achieving a power monopoly.

5. DRIVER REPLACEMENTS

a. If a team driver is unable to race on a given week, then a team member from a lower division may race on the absent driver's behalf. The replacement driver would also participate in their own division's race.

b. Drivers standing in as replacements for other drivers must use THE EXACT SAME CAR AS THE DRIVER THEY ARE REPLACING. This includes Manufacturer, Car, and Livery.

c. Each member can be replaced by a replacement driver a maximum number of times per season, as listed in Season Information. After they have exhausted their replacement availability, drivers will score 0 points for any subsequent missed round.

d. In order to formalise the replacement driver arrangement, the form at #driver-replacements must be submitted no later than 9PM AED/ST on the Saturday prior to the race. Forms submitted after this time will not be accepted and a replacement driver will not be permitted.

6. RSVPS

a. Reserved

7. LOBBIES

a. Drivers will be assigned to a lobby each season based on their Driver Value.

b. New members or members with attendance less than 66% will usually be placed in the D-League Division. All other members will be distributed evenly across divisions 1-5 based on the previous season's results. Members returning to W2W with a hiatus of one whole season or less may be eligible to return to their previous division at Admin discretion.

c. Lobbies are fixed and are promulgated prior to advising team budgets to permit Team Owners to strategise potential points earnings in various divisions.

d. Lobby race start times are listed in Season Information.

8. CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS

a. Championship points are accrued based on a driver’s finishing position in their divisional lobby

b. 600 Championship points are available per round.

i. Rounds with 2 Sprint races are worth 300 maximum points per race

ii. Rounds with 3 Sprint races are worth 200 maximum points per race

iii. Endurance races are worth maximum 600 points

c. Reserved

d. A driver’s best rounds of the season will be counted towards their overall points tally. The number of rounds dropped in each season are promulgated in Season Information.

e. All bonus or penalty points apply to the final total point score and as such are not dropped in any dropped round's point.

f. A team's total points are derived from the collective best rounds of each team member, not the team's best rounds after drops.

9. LIVERIES

a. Livery requirements are listed in Season Information.

b. Drivers liveries must be approved by the Livery Administrator.

10. TYRES

a. Tyre requirements and limitations are listed in Season Information.

b. Available tyre choices are advised each Monday. Drivers must note the tyres available in each race and adhere to the tyres required.

c. The tyre compound must be the same on all 4 tyres. Splitting of compounds between front and rear tyres is not permitted. Drivers found doing so will be disqualified and will receive 0 points for that round.

11. INCIDENTS AND APPEALS

a. After a race, drivers will be afforded the opportunity to report any incidents occurring that round at #incident-reports-appeals.

i. The stewarding team exists to investigate incidents and apply penalties to apply an environment of healthy competition with sportsmanship at a premium level irrespective of any involved driver’s skill or ability.

b. The team of stewards will review the replays associated with the submitted incidents and determine the causal factors of that incident.

i. It is the responsibility of the reported offender to upload a replay of the incident including all camera angles required by #upload-replay

c. A driver is permitted to appeal the submission of an incident report to show their perspective. This permits procedural fairness and allows the right of reply. If an appeal is not submitted by the required deadline, the driver willingly forfeits their right of reply.

i. After this appeal is reviewed, a driver has no further avenue of appeal.

ii. A driver submitting an appeal or a respondent may be invited to participate in a discussion with the stewards to explain their thoughts, actions and perspective in an incident.

iii. Appeals are assessed based only on any new information or considerations which were not already considered or debated by the stewards in the initial incident investigation.

d. Incident Reports or Appeals will not be reviewed if they are submitted after the deadlines below.

e. The weekly schedule for incident resolution is below:

i. Incident Reports due 2100 AES/DT Monday night

ii. Video Uploads due 2100 AES/DT Wednesday night

iii. Appeals due 2100 AES/DT Wednesday night

iv. Stewards' Report released by 1400 Saturday

12. PENALTIES

a. Stewards may impose the following actions after an incident at any time including on track in race, on track in qualifying, on track in practice, off track in Discord, or anywhere else deemed appropriate by the stewards:

i. Finishing Position penalties

ii Points penalties

iii. Black Flags

iv. Suspensions

v. Bans

b. In awarding penalties, stewards will consider the incident type, severity and the presence of any malice or intent to hinder other cars.

13. STANDARD PENALTIES

a. The following standard point penalties apply to all cars in all races:

i. Disconnections

1. Driver will receive zero points for that race

ii. Reserved

iii. Reserved

iv. Livery displayed on a driver’s car failure to meet requirements at 9.

1. Category 1 penalty per round raced with incorrect/unapproved livery

2. Members will receive a 1 week grace period for incorrect liveries if they registered less than 1 week before round 1, registered mid-season, or if they have been traded/purchased by a Team mid-season.

14. CALCULATION OF PENALTIES

a. Each incident is observed by the stewards from various angles and assessed based on the car location, speed, inputs, telemetry and connection.

b. Primary means of penalty calculation relies on the force of impact to the victim, and whether or not the offending driver fully redresses the position.

i. A full redress requires the offending driver to slow their car off the racing line (ensuring they do not hinder other drivers) and wait for the victim to pass them, at which point the offender may continue racing.

ii. Drivers are not expected to redress for secondary loss of control when victim re-enters the track.

c. Repeated incidents of the same type by the same driver attract an additional penalty.

d. The penalty application process by the stewards is, like most Wheel 2 Wheel processes, democratic.

i. Stewards make an individual assessment of an incident and recommend a penalty.

ii. If the majority of stewards recommend a penalty, the average of all penalties is taken.

iii. If stewards disagree and there is an even split, the Chief Steward is required to break the tie.

iv. If a steward is involved in an incident they may not participate in adjudicating the incident.

v. Assessment of penalties is in accordance with the tables below:

If a redress is not fully performed, an additional Category 1 penalty will be applied to the extant penalty determined by the Stewards.

15. TRACK CONDUCT

a. Entering & exiting pits must be done with care and without hindering other participants. Drivers must not cross the pit exit line. Drivers exiting the pits may defend their position if the pit exit line extends into the braking zone.

b. All penalties accrued on track (shortcut etc) will be burnt automatically in the penalty burn zone. Drivers must burn penalties off the racing line and must give way to all overtaking cars until they are at full race speed.

c. Drivers must take extra care on 1st corners (and 1st lap) of races. Incidents will be judged more harshly on lap 1.

d. Flag Rules

i. Flag Rules are switched on as part of the GT7 Lobby settings for W2W. Flag rules must be adhered to by all drivers.

ii. Yellow Flag - Caution. Drivers must take particular care and are not to overtake other cars while the "Overtaking is prohibited" is showing on your screen.

iii. Blue Flag - Give way. Drivers have a faster driver approaching from behind and must not impede the faster car. This includes moving off the racing line where safe to allow the faster driver past, and not attempting to 'defend' their position or block a passing attempt by the faster car behind.

e. Contact is to be avoided. A driver attempting to pass may not gain a position by bumping or punting another vehicle, no matter how slight. Likewise, defending vehicles may not block or create contact to prevent a pass.

f. A full redress is expected where a car causes a loss of time to another racer.

i. Drivers are not expected to redress for secondary loss of control when victim re-enters the track. If a driver redresses more or less time than required, this may be reflected in penalty issued.

ii. Redressing must be done without impeding other drivers.

g. In all overtaking situations, the overtaking car must take care to execute the overtake cleanly and without contact.

i. During an overtake on the inside line of a corner, racing room must be given at the apex if the attacking vehicle has reached the defender's B-Pillar (rear of the door on 2 door cars) prior to turn in. If not, then the defending vehicle is under no obligation to leave racing room at the apex and is entitled to the racing line. The attacking car must withdraw to allow the defending car rights to the apex.

ii. During an overtake on the outside of a corner, the attacking car must have established an overlap of the inside cars b-pillar at the apex to be entitled to racing room on corner exit.

iii. In any overtaking maneuver, if any part of the two cars are overlapped throughout corner exit, the car on the inside must leave at least one car width on the outside of the track (not including ripple strip)

iv. If any overlap is present in non-overtaking situations, racing room must be given.

h. Drivers may make one move on a straight to defend their position. More than one move on a straight is considered weaving and is not permitted, whether intended to block a move from an attacker, or to stop the car car behind from slipstreaming.

i. A move off the racing line to defend the inside on a straight is considered one move. That driver is permitted to return to the racing line prior to the braking zone without violating rule 15h.