SPQRacing - Season

Protests & Penalties

This championship uses a structured protest and safety rating system.

Protest Submission

Any driver may submit a protest including a video link and a written description.

Protests open 30 minutes after the event ends and close 12 hours after the event ends.

Protest Categories and Baseline Penalties

When submitting a protest, the driver must select a protest category.

Each category defines a baseline time penalty (in seconds) and a baseline Safety Rating (SR) penalty.

Protested Driver Response

After the protest window closes, protested drivers have 12 additional hours to respond.

For each protest, the protested driver may accept the protest and the penalty or send the protest to the stewards for review.

Outcomes

If a protest is accepted, the penalty is immediately applied to the event results.

If a protest is sent to the stewards, stewards review the incident.

If the protest is upheld, the baseline penalty is increased.

The final penalty is then applied to the results.

Automatic Acceptance

At 24 hours after the event ends, the event is considered closed.

Any unanswered protest is automatically accepted.

Corresponding penalties are applied automatically.

Safety Rating Modifiers

Drivers with very high Safety Rating receive a reduction in penalty seconds.

Drivers with very low Safety Rating receive an additional penalty malus.

SR adjustments apply after the baseline or steward-adjusted penalty is calculated.

What is a Season?

A Season is a championship made up of multiple events (rounds) that all contribute to a single overall standing.

Global Season Entry

When you sign up for a Season, you create a global championship entry.

This entry defines your car and race number (if applicable) and your eligibility to participate in all events of the Season.

Creating a Season entry does not automatically register you for races. You must confirm participation for each individual event.

Event Signups

For every round, you must explicitly sign up to the single race. Only confirmed entries are included in that event and can score points.

Splits

Splits are created per event, not per Season.

They are used to divide drivers into multiple servers based on capacity per category.

Each server can host 10 GT drivers and 10 Hypercar drivers.

If entries exceed these limits, multiple splits are created.

Splits are generated using SimGrid rating, aiming to group drivers of similar pace into the same grid.

Points and Multipliers

Points are assigned using the Season’s points scheme.

Each split applies a multiplier based on the average SimGrid rating of the grid.

Stronger grids receive a higher multiplier.

Final points = base points × grid multiplier

Drop Rounds

The 2 worst results (including missed rounds) are automatically excluded from the final standings.