1996 BTCC - Rules

HSO Supertourers mod

For this championship we will be using the HSO Supertourers 1.0 mod for rFactor 1.

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You will also need the BTCC 96 v1.06 patch and the rFm update

There is now also a BMW Fix which you must download


Car selection is free for the manufacturers.

Car selection is not free for the "Independents Total Cup".
To be eligible for this mini championship you must have entered over 50 races and have won less than 5 times. Admins can deviate from this rule should a driver miss out marginally on the criteria to be eligible or we deem to be too quick for the category. Admins ruling is final.
Feel free to PM me to see if you can compete in the category.

Each driver must keep the same car for the duration of the championship. Changing of car will be tolerated under exceptional circumstances only.

If a driver misses 1 meeting (2 Races) without mentioning your absence you will lose your car if there is a waiting list.
If a driver misses 2 meetings (4 Races) even if you do state your absence you will lose you car if there is a waiting list.

Championship rules

The championship will be run over 13 meeting (26 races), held on Wednesday night, with each race being around 35 minutes long. Both championships will run together.

Points will be awarded to the top 10 finishers in both championships on the following scale:

1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Pole
15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	1

There will be a total of 4 championships, these include

Drivers Championship (All drivers including Independants, top 10 score)
Independents Total Cup (Only the Independents score points, top 7 Score)
Manufacturers Championship (Only the Manufacturers can score, only the highest placed car can score)
Teams Championship (All teams, only the top two highest finishers from each team score points)

All championships use the same points system.

Qualifying

The starting grid for the 2 races will be determined by the times recorded during the 15-mins qualifying session held just before the race. 

The grid for the second race will be determined by the results of the 2nd qualifying session (Held after race 1)


Event Schedule

All meetings will be held on Wednesday nights (all times given as CET)

20:00 - Free Practice
20:35 - Qualifying 1
20:50 - Warmup
21:00 - Race 1 Start
21:35 - Qualifying 2
21:50 - Race 2 Start

Starts will be given standing on the grid, after one formation lap.



Behaviour on track

- as for all HSO races, it is required you use your real name both in-game and on the forum. Thank you.

- Chatting is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN in race session. It is allowed in qualifying sessions for technical issues only.

- Drive Through : If a driver has to do a drive through, even if there is no pit lane speed limit, he has to drive through the pitlane at 100km/h max (60mph). If he doesn't respect this, he will get a 30s penalty at the end of the race.

- Shortcuts : If a driver gains a position after shortcutting a turn, he is required to give it back as soon as possible. In the case where a driver would not do it rapidly, a 30-second penalty will be added to his total race time. In the event of abusive and intentional shortcutting, severe sanctions will be applied (up to definitive a ban from the league). To make sure you never shortcut a turn, try to always keep two wheels on the track.

- Respect the red light at the end of the pitlane.

Application and Interpretation of the Regulations

The admins alone are qualified to solve any problems raised by the application and the interpretation of the present regulations.

If we applied to the Independent Total Cup, we don't choose our car correct? It will be assigned to us.
Also when do we know the final choice of car for Independent?

If you qualify to drive in the total cup, you just pick a car, again these are first come first serve.

Independents Total Cup (Only the Independents score points, top 7 Score

Does that mean that all car in this class get points? Because there are only 7 cars in that class

Matthias Weber wrote:

Independents Total Cup (Only the Independents score points, top 7 Score

Does that mean that all car in this class get points? Because there are only 7 cars in that class

Yes but they have to finish the race to score points.

where is the link to donington?

New ruling regarding losing your car due to absence.

If a driver misses 1 meeting (2 Races) without mentioning your absence you will lose your car if there is a waiting list.
If a driver misses 2 meetings (4 Races) even if you do state your absence you will lose you car if there is a waiting list.

There is a rFm update in the Brands race thread (on page 2) which should be added to the first post in this thread.
I had a mis-match error last night when joining the server and finding the rFm update was almost impossible.

David Sabre wrote:

There is a rFm update in the Brands race thread (on page 2) which should be added to the first post in this thread.
I had a mis-match error last night when joining the server and finding the rFm update was almost impossible.

Done