ICS - That's Gentleman-Driving at it's finest!

ICS-Rule-Summary for Racing needed after "Green, Green, Green!"

This is just a summary of the general ICS-Rules and the general XNSRL-League-Rules needed during racing after "Green, Green, Green!".

It's primarily intented for drivers racing in different leagues to remember what's most important during racing at the ICS.

The ICS-Ruleset is covered by the following policy:

*) Each driver has to do his maximum to keep the number of yellows down to a minimum!
*) ICS - That's Gentleman-Driving!

*) Lucky-Dog-Rule (except for the last 10 laps)

Just like in real Nascar-Racing we use also the Lucky-Dog-Rule:

If a Yellow Flag comes out the first driver behind the leaders gets back 1 lap. Therefore he is called the "Lucky Dog".

The Admin uses the F2-Display "Absolute Standings" (here you can see how many laps some drivers are back) immediatelly after the outcome of the Yellow to find out the Lucky Dog. The driver most closest to the lead-lappers gets a lap back.

The detailed order of events:

Yellow Flag comes out.

Admin checks who is the Lucky Dog and sends out per example this chat: Lucky Dog #33     lap 123

The Lucky Dog has just to pit with the leaders. So he will get a End of Longest Line penalty (EOLL).
(if he couldn't come in with the leaders he has to do an intentional speeding in the pit-lane to get an EOLL-penalty; 
if he doesn't want to come in with the leaders nor do an intentional speeding in the pit-lane he can drive through the pit-lane (as often as needed) until he is at the end of the field (or at least very close to the end of the field)).

He chats to all others that he got an EOLL (it's recommended to do this 2 times so that the admin will not overlook it).

After this the Admin gives him back 1 lap (Keep in mind: Due to limitations in the sim the Admin can do this not before the restart!)

Special note 1: Due to the use of the Lucky-Dog-Rule it's not allowed for the leader to let someone pass on the way back to the line.

Special note 2: A Lucky-Dog cannot be carried over / passed to another driver.

*) Race Back to the Line (RBTL)

No Race Back to the line, except for the last 5 laps.

Just a note: If the racelength is 160 laps then the laps allowed for RBTL are: 160, 159, 158, 157 and 156. So no RBTL in lap 155 !

Some notes on how to behave immediately after the outcome of a yellow if some (damaged) cars are standing on / across the track:

All drivers have to reduce speed to prevent further damage / a further crash.

It's strictly forbidden to overtake other cars just from the time on when the yellow lights go on, but it's allowed to drive past other cars.

If some positions change at the scene of the accident (i.e. deceleration-phase respectively acceleration-phase) then you have to accept that. It's not allowed to drive back to your old position.

Note the difference between "overtaking" and "drive past":

"Overtaking": Both cars are on some speed (could be only 30 mph).

"Drive past": One car is standing across / on the track.

Driving cars have always priority against standing cars.

To make it short - it's always valid for the ICS: If you act as a gentleman then you will never get in contact with any APs and fines.

A note on cars driving on the pit-exit-road or apron when the yellow lights come on:

If a caution comes out, the field is frozen including the cars on the apron leaving the pitroad (=Key F2). The cars leaving the pitroad are allowed, if possible, to savely go around cars which overtook them after the yellow lights came on. This allowance to go back to the old spot is just a "gentleman-agreement" hence it cannot be claimed. "Racing" in such a situation is explicitly forbidden.

To reduce the risk of rear-end-collisions out on the track drivers have to ignore slower cars on the pit-exit-road / apron for the first seconds after the yellow lights come on.

*) End of Longest Line-Penalty (EOLL) / Lining up for a restart

During lining up for a restart: Drive on the inside line if you got an End of Longest Line-Penalty to allow other drivers to go ahead of you without the risc of getting themselves a penalty.

*) Pitting / Pit-Rules

We use Pit-In as N2003-Built-In so it's up to the driver where he wants to slow down and go down to the Apron! (but it's strongly recommended to do this already on the backstraight!).

Anyway: If you decided to go down to the apron AFTER the backstraight and a crash happened for that reason then you can expect a penalty.

Pit-Exit is on the Backstraight! No exceptions!

Autochats have to be used if they could be useful for the oncoming traffic!

During Bumper-to-Bumper-Driving in a pack with 3-Wides (if a pitter is ahead) it's first the duty of the drivers at the back to increase asap the gap to the car in front so that the 3-Wide can be asap reduced to a 2-Wide.

In the pit-lane you should always to use the most outside (right) lane.

If there are more lanes then the left ones should be used only for braking (-> pit-entry) and speeding up (pit-exit) - max. about 3 pit-stalls long.

"Driving" traffic has always priority against "standing" traffic.

If you are speeding up on the acceleration-lane and wanna go / merge to the outside lane but you can't because there is heavy traffic, then the front-bumper decides who comes first -> The guy who has the front-bumper behind has to slow down. If there comes already an another car on the outside lane then the driver on the outside lane has to reduce speed and has to give space / has to allow to merge.

If it's after a short ride side by side not clear who comes first (-> the bumpers are side by side) then the left-one guy has to slow down and merge behind the right-side driver.


Overtaking in the pitlane: The following differences in speed are used as a guideline:

3 mph ===> overtaking not permitted (no helping hand in case of a pit-accident)
4 mph ===> border-case
5 mph ===> overtaking permitted (helping hand in case of a pit-accident)


You can download a replay showing the proper pitting here: Pitting under Green (1 MB) / Pitting under Yellow (4 MB) [Thxs @ our friends from Virtual-Racing.org for the Yellow-Replay].

*) Training-Session ("Training-Cycle")

We have a training-session on the raceday at 11:00 AM EST = 5 PM CET = 17:00 CET.

If a minimum of 6 drivers shows up for the Training-Cycle then we will run a 10%-Race using the following time-table, else we will continue with Practice:

Practice: 11:00 AM EST = 5:00 PM CET = 17:00 CET
Quali:    12:00 PM EST = 6:00 PM CET = 18:00 CET
Race:     12:10 PM EST = 6:10 PM CET = 18:10 CET

The Practice for the 60%-Race will start immediately after the 10%-Race ("Race-Cycle"; Quali at 1:30 PM EST = 7:30 PM CET = 19:30 CET; Race at 2:00 PM EST = 8:00 PM CET = 20:00 CET).

*) Where to meet? (Race- and Communication-Servers)

Races are run via direct-IP. The needed IP-address comes via Grid-Mail on Friday evening before the race-day.

Details for using of our Communcation-Servers (TeamSpeak and Ventrilo) can be found in the ICS-Subforum.