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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!

*) 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

*) Pit-In:

We use Pit-In as iRacing-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.

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.


*) Pit-Exit:

We also use Pit-Exit as iRacing-Built-In so it's up to the driver where he wants to merge (but it's strongly recommended to do this not before the backstraight!).

Anyway: If you decided to do a "early pit-exit" BEFORE the backstraight and a crash happened for that reason then you can expect a penalty.


Autochats have to be used for pit-in and pit-exit if they could be useful for the oncoming traffic!

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 short N2003 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].

(*1) The Race Length is based on N2003 60% races.

*) Jump-Start

Moving out of the line on the inside before the S/F-line is considered as a Jump-Start.

*) Where to meet? (Race-Server)

The race server can be found via this link in your web-browser:  http://members.iracing.com   Then click "HOSTED" -> "Join a Race"

You can also use this link alternatively: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/HostedSessions.do

*) When to meet? / Server open time/p>

Server open time is always based on CET ... Central European Time 18:50 (=6:50 PM).

Central European Time is used per example in these cities: Berlin, Paris, Rom.

As it is a little bit tricky with the different changes to summertime / wintertime around the world it's a good idea to have always right in time a look on this worldmap to compare your local time against Berlin, Paris, Rom:

www.zeitzonen.com + click onto the map.