6.1 – Protest Submission
6.1.1 – Stewards will investigate incidents post-race and distribute penalties which are appealed by drivers via the penalty submission form available in Discord.
6.1.2 – Protests must be submitted by 23:59 GMT on the Thursday after the race. Protests submitted after this will not be investigated.
6.1.3 – Drivers must indicate their lap of the incident, not the other driver’s.
6.1.4 – All parties involved in a protested incident can receive a penalty.
6.2 – Penalty System
6.2.1 – Incidents will be judged to be a level 1, 2 or 3 offence.
6.2.2 – Light contact and minor offences such as accidentally impeding a driver in qualify will yield a level 1 offence.
6.2.3 – Accidental heavy contact or clumsy driving will yield a level 2 offence.
6.2.4 – Heavy contact caused by a driver acting recklessly, such as causing a piling into a pack of cars or re-joining the track into oncoming traffic will yield a level 3 offence.
6.2.5 – A level 1 offence will yield 1 license point and 5 penalty points.
6.2.6 – A level 2 offence will yield 2 license points and 5 penalty points.
6.2.7 – A level 3 offence will yield 3 license points and 10 penalty points.
6.2.8 – In addition to the above, additional rules apply for lap 1 of each race:
6.2.8.1 – Any penalties accrued during lap 1 will be upgraded by 1 level. Level 1 becomes level 2, level 2 becomes level 3 and level 3 incidents will have 4 license points and 15 penalty points applied.
6.2.8.2 – In the event of any significant incident ahead, any cars that are deemed to have not slowed sufficiently so that they could have stopped if needed, will receive a level 1 offence regardless of the outcome of their actions.
6.2.8.3 – All incidents on lap 1 are reviewed by the stewards regardless of protests submitted.
6.2.9 – For every 2 license points a driver has at the end of the season, they will receive 20 penalty points.
6.2.10 – Penalty points will count, even if the incident was at a meeting the driver drops.
6.2.11 – Apex Racing League reserve the right to remove drivers with poor driving standards from the series (with no refund). They may also not be invited back to any future ARL seasons or events.
6.3 – Qualifying Bans
6.3.1 – If a driver has 2 or more points on their license, they will be mandated to sit out qualifying for the next round.
6.3.2 – Complying with the above rule will subtract 2 points from the driver’s license.
6.3.3 – Drivers who have to serve a qualifying ban are supposed to NOT enter the race track during the qualifying session at any time. Should they enter the race track but not set a qualifying time, they will receive a level 2 penalty, but still have 2 points subtracted from their license.
6.3.4 – If a driver who has to serve a qualifying ban enters the race track and sets a valid qualifying time, they will receive a race ban for the next meeting (with no refund). They will not have 2 points subtracted from their license.
6.3.5 – If a driver is supposed to serve a qualifying ban in the final round of the season and sets a valid qualifying time, their result from said final round will be expunged.
6.4 – Intentional Wrecking
6.4.1 – Intentional wrecking during the race will result in a driver being banned from the season (with no refund).
6.4.2 – Intentional wrecking after the race will result in a driver being banned from the next race (with no refund) and be penalised with a level 2 offence. This includes crashes between teammates.
6.5 – Driver Conduct
6.5.1 – Drivers will be susceptible to penalties should they direct abuse to other drivers on the iRacing voice or text channels or on discord. Abuse could be in the form of racism, harassment, personal insults, inappropriate language and/or anything else the admin team deems to be unacceptable.
6.5.2 – Apex Racing League reserves the right not to allow drivers into the series who could have a negative impact on the league. 6.5.3 – The iRacing sporting code applies to anything not mentioned in this document.