2010 Rules
EDD Racing rules are to ensure fair, even racing and good conduct while running in all racing divisions. All rules are created and subject to amendment by the EDD Racing membership and officials.
All EDD
meetings are recorded. For Past Meeting Minutes ask management.
TECHNICAL INSPECTION - ALL SERIES:
Technical Inspection is a review of your replay of at least 1 lap of the race event. EDD has 2 cheat detection programs. 1 program monitors the simulation live and is resident on the drivers computer. Our post race cheat detection program can detect all know cheats.
The Officials for each series may request a technical inspection night. Officials must announce technical inspection night at the drivers meeting prior to that evening's events.
The officials will get replays from the winner and 2 random finishing positions to be predetermined and announced at conclusion of event. Replays to be emailed and received by Officials, within 10 minutes of the finish of the race, unless working with Officials via Team Speak with technical issues relevant to sending the replay.
Failure to submit a replay in the allotted time will give the driver a forfeit of points and position for that race.
To learn how to save and find replays...click here. How To
This is administered as a review process. A review is a request by a driver or Official to review an incident at a race event. The review request must contain the following:
A replay from your simulation, cut to one lap with the incident in question (How To). This must be sent to Series Officials management@eddracing.net within 24 hours after race.
The Officials will review and vote what level penalty, if any, and The Officials will compile and figure the average. They will file, then send all results to the drivers involved. If the results of the review find a penalty for the offending driver or drivers, the results of the review will be emailed to the driver or drivers involved then be placed in the EDD forum.
Unless
otherwise noted, penalties are series specific.
Flaming
Flaming: Verbal abuse, attacks and profanity.
Penalty: 1st Offense:
Immediate ejection from race, 3 league race suspension in that
division, Loss of admin privileges. 2nd Offense:
Ban from all competition at EDD Racing.
Level 1
Level 1: When it is determined that a driver intentionally wrecked another competitor on the speedway during a race event. All 3 judging reviewers to agree on intent to wreck.
Penalty:
1st Offense: 2 league race suspension in that division.
Loss of 100 points. 1 month probation*. 2nd offense
within 1 season: 1 month suspension from all activities at EDD
Racing.
Level 2:
Level 2: Driving with disregard for the consequences of your actions and reckless behavior on the track. This will include barrelling through wrecked cars, improving on position by wrecking other cars, putting other competitors in a hazardous situation by the driver in questions actions.
Penalty:
4 week probation*. Loss of 75 points.
Level 3:
Level 3: Aggressive driving resulting in other cars being taken out of competition or damaged by the offenders actions.
Penalty: 2 week probation*. Loss of 60 points.
Level 4:
Level 4: Causing an incident by careless actions, or not paying attention.
Penalty:
Warning and consultation with officials before the next event.
2 careless drivings in a 1 month period will result in a 1 week
probation* and loss of 50 points.
Chatting during race event:
Chatting during race event: Chatting more than 2 times at a Race event in League competition will result in a penalty. Chatting should only be used for line up issues under caution and/or after the lucky dawg.
Penalty: 3 race probation*
Probation
*Probation is a period of time that any breaking of the rules or disregard for the rules or competitors of EDD will result in a violation of probation.
Violation of Probation: 1 race suspension in that series and loss of 50 points. This penalty is added consecutively to any other penalty that resulted in the violation.
Current Director of Operations, Director of Competition and the Chief Steward to agree unanimously on violation of probation.
Drivers in all divisions do not race back to the line when a caution is waved. This is for entire race until 20 laps to go. After the leader takes 20 laps to go, drivers race back to the line. When the caution waves every driver must hold their position and pass the flagman in the running order they were in when the caution came out. The Lucky Dawg rule is in effect for all divisions except for the following sprint type racing series: Modified B-Mains, Trans Am and ARCA.
Drivers do race back to the line after 20 laps to go in the event. It is up to the driver to know the leader of the event has taken the 10 to go lap.
The Lucky Dawg is the 1st car 1 lap down after the cars thake the caution. If the eligible LD is involved in the caution, then the next eligible car is the lucky dawg.
Lucky Dawg recipient must pit on the 2nd caution lap. Upon exit the driver must exit the pit safely but faster than the pit road speed limit, and/or drive directly onto the racetrack after exit. This will give the driver the End Of Longest Line penalty (EOLL). At this point driver stays in that position, according to his spotter for the duration of the caution period. When the flagman gives the green flag, the Officials will give the driver his lap back. The drive MUST be get the EOLL penalty to receive the LD.
After the driver gets the EOLL penalty, inform the officials and the field you have the penalty by typing EOLL in the chat. After you are in position with the EOLL penalty, as stated, stay in that position and let your spotter guide you. This whole process is to enable you to not hold up the other lapped cars that will need to pull up on the inside for the restart without penalty for passing the LD.
Official will give you 1 lap back after the green flag waves. If the official does not get the driver's lucky dawg, driver holds position. This occurs with a miscue or a quick caution that did not give the official time to get the lap back. Every attempt will be made to assure that the final standings place you in the right position if there is no more cautions and you did not receive the lap back before final standings at the end of the event.
All racers
must use Team Speak, our communication program at edd, and be able
to hear and understand instructions from the officials.
The purpose of the following rules are for Officials to run the event and for drivers to concentrate on their driving without verbal or visual distractions.
During caution periods it is important to keep the channel free for drivers and officials to find their positions, and also to hear the driver's spotter, who is giving warnings and positioning to the driver.
Verbal chatting is encouraged for line up issues only.
The following chat rules are in effect for all series:
The only typed chat allowed during an event is a warp chat (ie: 98W) and "EOLL".
Autochats may be used for the following: pitting, pit exit, pass low, pass high.
no “sorry”, “thank you”, etc. Wait until after the event to communicate well wishes to other competitors. This applies to caution laps also.
No verbal or
typed chatting at all during race. Officials will warn, give final warning,
then black flag or eject from the event if not followed.
No chatting during
cautions until the fields is straightened out unless it has to do
with where you are supposed to be on the track
Do not chat
immediately after a caution – Keep quiet until lucky dawg is
announced, unless a line up issue
No chat on one to go lap
or after admin says "going green"
No chat about anything
other than the race at hand during cautions
During practice you are
encouraged to move to another channel if you need to have a lengthy
discussion with another driver about any subject
If you have an issue with
a driver or admin, do not put yourself at risk with a penalty.
Talk it out after the race
with the driver or an admin away from the Team Speak race channel –
this is a simulation and it’s meant to be fun as well as competitive.
Any chatting after an official's warning will lead to penalties.
Officials must not approach any drivers concerning incidents on the track that night that involved themselves personally without a Staff member present.
caution with under 20 to go, all lapped cars must drive through pits, without stopping on their turn to pit. This will only be done for 1 caution period under the 20 to go mark.
Wrecking under pace laps. After the Pace car has picked up the field if a pacing racer runs into or causes a wreck under caution (such as wheel spin) and causes damage to any competitor as a result, the driver will receive a Level 3 penalty.
Self Spin Rule. If you bring out a caution with a self spin 2 times in a race, you will be asked to park the car. Failure to do so, if caught on a subsequent review of the race, offending driver will receive no points for that event.
Warp Rule. If a driver sees his car number typed (ie: 98W) more than 1 time by different drivers, he is to pull immediately out of the groove and fall to the rear of the field. Failure to do so, if caught on a subsequent review of the race, offending driver will receive a level 4 penalty. If the warp driver does not respond to the warp warnings, and is a cause of an incident as a result, driver will be subject to both the Warp Rule Penalty and the incident penalty served consecutively.
Server Glitch occuring after half way point of race will be an official race. If a Glitch occurs before halfway. 1 attempt will be made to restart the race.
Black Flags: We will not clear black flags. Driver must pit under green to clear blacks. 99% of time black flags occur from an error of judgment by passing cars outside of you entering the pits.
Super Speedway Yellow Line Rule: No driver is to gain position by passing under the yellow line. If passing to avoid an incident, driver must give position back immediately. Passing 2 wheels under the yellow line at any SuperSpeedway will result in a last place finish for the offender.
Complete Restart:
All 3 top series may use discretion for 1 restart, if caution comes out before last car crosses the S/F line.
Late Model/Modified Tour has 1 discretion restart if there is wreck within the first completed lap.
Restarts: Drivers have every right (and are encouraged) to try and get your lap back during restarts. If you do not get past the leaders, fall back, the LUCKY DAWG RULE is in effect. DO NOT hold up the folks in second, third, etc. Go high or go low depending on track unless racing for position. Do not get yourself into avoidable situations with the leaders that may result in penalties.
Cup, Nationwide, Truck Series Rules
Cup Series 2010- Set and Pit stop variable, and chosen and announced the week before the event - 35% race. Cup will be following the Sprint Cup schedule and race Tuesdays Nights after each Sprint Cup race.
Nationwide Series - 3x expert setups - 30% race. GN will be following the Nationwide Series schedule and race on Mondays preceding each GN race.
Truck Series - 2x expert setups - 30% race. Truck series will be Sunday Nights following the Craftsman Truck Series as outlined by NASCAR for 2010.
Late Model series is on hold. There is not enough sign ups for this division.
Modified Tour Series is on hold. There is not enough sign ups for this division.
Trans Am Series is on hold. There is not enough sign ups for this division.
ARCA Series - is on hold. There is not enough sign ups for this division.
Drivers meetings will be at 9pm EST sharp –We will try to keep within 10 minutes of this time for late arrivals – but you must let someone know that is racing that you will be late
Qualifying will be 5 minutes after Drivers Meeting or at 9:15
5 minute happy hour after qualifying
Attempts are made to start race no later than 9:25
Since all series besides cup are good feeder series into the Cup series, we will allow new racers to join in the fun. It is the responsibility of both the new driver and the series veterans to keep the spirit of patience and learning.
New Drivers are strongly encouraged to start in the back of the field for your first couple races to get a feel for racing with EDD.
All new paint files must be available for download 2 days prior to race.
This will be a trophy season for all series. Each Champion from every series receives a trophy. The shipping must be payed for by the recipient.
We will also be honoring additional racers with virtual awards for the following voted by the racers:
- Rookie of the Year
- Hard Charger
- Hard Luck
- Most Improved Driver
- Good Sportsmanship
- Best Looking Car
There will be a season ending banquet to be held on Team Speak. Details at end of season.
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