RULES
for the 2012 Spring Fling
March 20th 2012
Spring Fling 2012 @ Lucas Oil Speedway 2012 v2
Qualifying will be ran from 5:00-7:00 CT and will be run with live updates on the VLR web site
All Races start at 8:30 pm Eastern Time / 7:30 Central Time
Ventrilo IP: 72.51.60.185 :3784 Doit Vent...
All drivers required to have ventrilo. with working microphone.
We will be using Ventrilo chat for lineups.
If driver is not in ventrilo by the time Qualification are finished they will tag the last position in a heat race.
Drivers that do not compete in a heat race can not tag the back of any feature.
Heats will be posted by 7:25 CT and racing will start at 7:30 CT
Qualifications to Race Spring Fling 2012 Races
You must use and have in your game all Gen 5 chassis and Lucas oil Speedway 2012 v2, you must be in a league to compete
OR EQUAL or Voted in by majority vote of the participants.
You agree by starting the race to deliver to Spring Fling 2012 Officials your full replay within 5 minutes of the finish of the race.
Spring Fling 2012 Officials will then post the replay at
www.teamvlr.com for the community to view.
Failure to comply will result in a full disqualification.
Who can not compete in Spring Fling 2012 Races
1. Anyone on a ban list from any team.
2. Anyone who has been disqualified or thrown out of a racing series for any reason.
3. Anyone with a ping over 150
4. Anyone that does not have the appropriate Cars or track.
5. Anyone who does not have a stable cable connection. (Warping, Glitching or Spiking pings)
6. Anyone who has a slow CPU and their car is dog walking (sideways) or lagging during a race.
7. Anyone who enters a Spring Fling 2012 Races un-recognized.
Any un-recognized individuals must identify them self to who they are.
un-recognized individuals shall not compete without under going a vote to whether he may participate in Spring Fling 2012 Races.
J-mac Rule in effect: No one shall at any time drive backwards during a race except to call a restart.
Skins: Skins are required to be submitted before you can race the Spring Fling 2012 Races,
some exceptions will be allowed.
a skin pack is available and will be released the day before the race.
Race format: Gen 5 Chassis
Heats will be 15 laps and we will decide at the time of the race how many will transfer (depending on the number of heats)
Last Chance Race (E) is for 10th place finishers in heat races they will race an 8 lap race to see who goes to the back of the D main
1-12 lap D-Main @ Rank top 4 to C-main with simulation damage on
1-15 lap C-Main @ Rank top 4 to B-main with simulation damage on
1-20 lap B-Main @ Rank top 4 from B-main to the Back Of A-Main
1-100 lap A-Main @ Rank top 6 or 8 from heats and 4 or 2 from B-Main with simulation damage on
the number of transfer spots may be changed if needed due to the number of drivers.
Gen 5: All drivers will use the same Gen 5 selective chassis,
You must have all chassis associated with the Gen 5 Chassis installed in your game:
Barry Wright · Bloomquist, Capital, GRT, Lazer, Longhorn, Masterbilt,
MB Custom (Mars-Birky), Rayburn, Rocket, Victory Circle, Warrior,
ABSOLUTELY NO Talking in vent after the room host starts a race event, EXCEPT to ask for a restart or a caution.
There will be 2 position penalty for vent violation rules.
Everyone should have their setups ready and their race face on.
There will be only two sets of Hot Laps of 3 laps each before each race.
All drivers will run Shortened tags 6 characters or less,
example: (Ice) or (Bill) No Team Tags
Heat gridmode will be set to Rank with top 4 inverted from the VLR qualifying server .
Drivers will race their way into the feature races by way of qualifying heat race finishes.
The top 3 or 2 finishers (depending on car count) in each heat will advance to the A-Main and will line up by there qualifying times.
A-Main lineup is determined by the fastest qualifiers of the top 3 or 2 (depending on car count) positions of each heat.
Gridmode will be rank. with simulation damage on
E, D, C, B-Mains race will line up by the heat finishing order,
Gridmode will be rank. with simulation damage on, no caution rule for these features.
Substitute Drivers:
None for this race.
Caution Rule in affect: for A-Main ONLY
This race will be run like a real race with cautions.
A caution and a restart are not the same.
A driver is allowed to call one caution during the race, the driver that calls the caution shall go to the back of the field regardless of why he called the caution.
If the caution involves more than one car, the car causing the caution and the caller of the caution shall go to the back.
Excluding any cars that got caught up in the caution that was moved by the incident itself. but did not call a caution.
If it is determined that a driver causes a caution only to improve their chances of advancing their position they will be,
black flagged from the race and will finish last.
All cars that did not call for the caution will be given their position back.
A driver can call a caution for a froze car, a dead car, or server crash with out being penalized to the rear.
Spring Fling officials will make a quick decision and shall not be questioned to the out come of any restart.
If you are the reason for the caution please let us know so we can quickly get the race moving again.
Restart rule: 2 restarts except after a caution where there is none.
1st lap only, a restart will be automatic if all 10 drivers did not cross the starting line due a connection problem. If a driver hits his Esc key he will be considered out of the race with a blown engine and can not re-join a race after a restart.
You must tell us in Ventrilo that you need a restart and drive backwards.
Frozen Car rule: A Main ONLY
If a car freezes on the track, at that very moment the entire field is froze and a restart will take place with the line up being heads up to the position each car was running, the remainder of laps will be reset, the froze car will start last , the race will be scored at one lap before the car froze. With the exception of 5 laps to go the the race will be called and the final finishing order will be determined by the replay running order one lap before the car froze. The froze car will receive last place points.
A froze car and a server issue will be treated the same.
There will not be any green white checkered finishes in this race.
During the E,D,C, or B mains If a car freezes with 3 laps to go, the race will be called at the very moment the car froze.
If a driver has connection problem, a racer will have 5 minutes to get back into server or the race will start.
Glitching:
If a car glitches and causes an accident, it will be charged to the car that glitched.
a lagging car or sideways car or a car in a bubble is considered to be glitching.
Therefore any car that glitches or has a bad connection making contact with other cars will be subject to penalties.
Disputes:
Any driver wishing to have a race, heat or feature reviewed due to a driving incident, has to tell one of the Spring Fling 2012
officials to review the race. That's all that needs to be said. The Spring Fling 2012 officials will review the replays and apply
for heat races and transferring feature positions only, position swapping will be used if deemed necessary,
Rough Driving: Finishing positions will be taken away in heats and features.
The penalties will be charged as follows:
Racing Contact By accident will be reviewed. position swapping will be used to correct any minor disputes.
Rough Driving penalty positions:
1 car position penalty for a minor incident: Bumping a car out of his spot, contact by accident.
2 car position penalty for a major incident: Bumping a car out of more than 1 position, contact by accident.
3 car position penalty for a major incident: Bumping more than 1 car out of 1 or more positions. or spinning, by accident.
Bumping a driver up or side bashing and you pass him you will be penalized, if you back off and give him back his spot with-in 1 lap no major penalty will be charged.
If determined to be just a racing situation no position swapping will be enforced by Spring Fling 2012 officials.
No position swapping will be enforced in non-transferring positions in feature races, SAVE YOUR FULL REPLAY.
No Full replay no penalty.
Hard Contact Rule: A driver shall not make hard contact deliberately with any car to advance their position in the race on any lap.
After the Main Event, the Spring Fling 2012 Officials will review replays and determine if the hard contact rule shall be invoked on a driver that made contact with another car and advanced there position. If the driver is in violation of the hard contact rule the driver will be be penalized 4 car positions to where he finished in the event.
If you are found to be Illegal: for any reason Car files, Tracks, Sets, Hypershifting, Neutral drop shifting or any unknown method where as all the other competitors did not have the same thing, you will be found to be running Illegal and you shall forfeit all records of this race and shall be banned from future races.
NOTE: By Entering, Qualifying and/or Racing in the Spring Fling 2012 Event you are accepting these Rules and Regulations, being those under which you are prepared to race.
Spring Fling officials have full authority over said sanctioned racing event.
In the event of any dispute the Race Directors decision will be final.
Spring Fling officials reserve the right to alter or amend these rules and/or regulations in the interest of fair competition.
Spring Fling 2012 Officials & Directors
Director of Series Events---- BLS_Ice---VLR_Shock----WFO_Rain
Rules written by Karl and Ice and adopted by 2012 Spring Fling
Guys make sure you have the V2 version!!! 
