6.1 – Protest Submission
6.1.1 – Stewards will investigate incidents post-race and distribute penalties which are appealed by teams via the penalty submission form available in Discord
6.1.2 – Protests must be submitted by 23:59 GMT on the Sunday after the race. Protests submitted after this will not be investigated
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 – For every 2 license points a team has at the end of the season, they will receive 20 penalty points
6.2.9 – Penalty points will be applied to a team’s total season points, meaning they’ll count, even if the incident was at a meeting the team drops
6.2.10 – Apex Racing League reserve the right to remove drivers or teams with poor driving standards from the series. They will receive a refund based on section 8.0 of this rules document. They may also not be invited back to any future ARL seasons or events
6.3 – Pit Lane Starts
6.3.1 – If a team has 2 or more points on their license, they will be mandated to start from the pits at the next race
6.3.2 – A pit lane start subtracts 2 points from the team’s license
6.3.3 – Pit lane starts can be served in any race. For example, if a team has 4 license points, they will need to start from the pits in both race 1 and 2
6.3.4 – If a team delays serving their pit lane start, they will be penalised with a level 2 offence. An example of this would be a team, who has 2 points on their license, serving their pit lane start in the second race of a meeting instead of the first race. This is to avoid tactical serving of a pit lane start
6.3.5 – If a team is supposed to start from the pits at a meeting, but does not start from the pits in any of the races, they will be banned from the next meeting (with no refund). They will not have 2 points subtracted from their license. If the team had multiple pit lane starts to serve, but only serves 1, they will not be banned from the next race, but instead be penalised by 6.3.4
6.3.6 – If a team is supposed to start from the pits at the final meeting of the season, but does not start from the pits in any of the races, they will have their points from the final round removed. They will not have 2 points subtracted from their license
6.3.7 – Teams must not qualify when they are serving their pit lane start. If a team does qualify when serving their pit lane start, they will still have 2 points subtracted from their license but also be penalised with a level 1 offence
6.4 – Intentional Wrecking
6.4.1 – Intentional wrecking during the race will result in a team being banned from the season (with no refund)
6.4.2 – Intentional wrecking after the race will result in a team 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 – Teams 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