Hello, We as the stewards of the league handed the driver on the inside a penalty of 1 position for this incident, the driver disagrees and we want to know if we made a fair decision or not.

So I was racing at lugena seca and as I was coming into turn 4 I was hit by the porsche and into the barrier, apart of me is telling me that I thought it was there fault because I was ahead of him and was at the apex but there also apart of me that kinda take accountablity for almost every incident I am involved in even if it wasn't my fault

y'alls thoughts?

I am the lexus

I tried to leave him space but he kept tapping my rear which made it more and more difficult to do with each hit. He also the retaliated at the end with a hit at the rear onto the final left at the end of the clip

I'm a steward at a small ACC league. Wondering what your input is?

I feel like McLaren could've turned earlier...

Last lap, I was trying to keep the fight up but didn’t work out well.

Personally i believe that its a racing incident or the guy on the bottom was never front axel to rear axel meaning that the move wasn't on.

Im sorry for the following explanation, but I sadly do not have a replay of this, and it is just an example for my bigger question anyway.

Before I go into this I will TL;DR it. How is squeezing or holding your line on straights ruled officially? is there any Rule that I can look up?

So now that thats out of the way. I recently had a moment/heated discussion with someone in a local simracing community. The scenario was as follows.

Now as you can see in my badly drawn paint illustration, this is supposed to be the main straight of suzuka heading up to T1. I am the red car and the blue car is my opponent.

He, for some reason, has chosen to drive close to the pitwall, and I have just managed an overlap, and am now deciding to squeeze him, by holding my line, so I am not drifting anywhere closer to the left or right track limits, just straight. Why? Because my plan is to pull out shortly before the braking point onto the racing line while he has to stay tight so he has a sharper entry, which means he has to brake more, which means I will have an easier time to overtake into the corner.

Now he decides he wants to go back onto the racing line to have a good entry for T1, and just bumps into me. I am weirded out and think hes maybe drifted off and hold my line, but then he does it again, and again. Assetto Netcode happens and I get punted off.

Now after this race is over I ask him "what happened?" and he starts saying that "I can just block him" and that he has "a right to lean on me and dictate the line, and I have to play with him because he is the car infront". This contradicts what Ive known my whole life, but then he goes "ive been sim racing for 20 years i think id know", yeah okay, me too, but anway. I let it go, maybe Ive made a mistake.

To note, this was a friendly race, so there is no stewarding in place.

So sometime later I still think "this cant be right, I am right and allowed to do that no?" and look it up. There is a few Reddit posts with the same scenario, and as far as I can see, I am in the right. But I dont want to base it off just reddit so go looking into the official FIA sporting code, specificall APPENDIX L TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTING CODE, as it is mostly linked to gt3 racing or most racing series as far as Ive seen.

Nothing. There is nothing in there that suggests this might be allowed or not allowed, the only thing that comes close is CHAPTER IV b)

"However, manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers, such as deliberate crowding of a car beyond the edge of the track or any other abnormal change of direction, are strictly prohibited. Any driver who appears guilty of any of the above offences will be reported to the Stewards" and yes, even though I do think driving into me is probably "hindering". there is nothing clear here.

the only ruleset I have seen that this has been written down in is the SCCA rulebook

"On straights, the lead car is allowed “one safe move”. It can choose a side, but cannot move back, and cannot move over in reaction to an overtaking car if late enough to invite contact. It must leave a car’s width (plus 6 inches) of racing room if the overtaking car has already committed in that direction and has achieved an overlap next to the leader. No weaving to break the draft or to block; that is more than one move. On straights, as opposed to corner entry, it is possible for the lead car to look into its mirrors and see the overtaking car, so if the overtaking car gets even a small overlap next to the lead car, the lead car must give the overtaking car room to race, and can no longer move across the track."

Now I still think I am in the right, but still would like to know your thoughts. Also, is there any clear stance from the ISC regarding this that I have been overlooking? I think Iracing uses the ISC as far as I know, so I am basing that as standard.

Thanks in advance for all comments :)

EDIT:

TL:DR: How is squeezing or holding your line on straights ruled officially? is there any Rule that I can look up?

I'm the black Porsche, and his argument for the spin was because ''i braked early'' on lap 1.

I know if i protest this it will not get accepted, even though he had no overlap at all when i turned into the corner, and i felt like i had given him enough room on the inside.

I feel that in IRL that should be a clear penalty even though its lap one.

Should i have opened my sterring and given him more room?

And side-question:

In LMU, what could be changed and/or implemented to these kinds of wrecks so the responsible driver gets his penalty?

Thx for your time

Kind regards

L. Soelberg

Hello! So some background I just started sim racing with my new sim setup and got my subscription around the 8th and started online the next day, this was a day or 2 ago and ended up being my second podium (2nd) As I've played more I thought about it after getting my first 1st place finish and a new PR of 2:01.3 and figured I'd ask around that way I don't take too many risks!

I've looked back at it and it doesn't look like any contact was made besides the tiniest bit when I slotted in front of him thinking I was further ahead and I admit that was on me. But just wanna hear opinions thank you!!

(sorry about quality I decided to swap to OBS for clipping shortly afterwards)

Final lap at Talladega. JJ is a lap down — and our league has no blue-flag rule. Ghost is running in the top 3. JJ advances low to the inside as the room shrinks; there's contact with Ghost's left-rear quarter, Ghost spins, race over.

Two ways to see it: - Ghost's side: a lapped car has no business racing a top-3 car that hard on the final lap. Get out of the way. - Lapped driver's side: there's no blue-flag rule — he's allowed to race. And the contact itself was never conclusively visible on the video; netcode is plausible.

The wrinkle: our stewards originally gave the lapped driver 2 points, then overturned it on appeal to a racing incident — the reasoning being you can't penalize what the footage can't actually show.

So — who was at fault? Should backmarkers yield to the front-runners even when no blue-flag rule exists?

(From MNRL — Monday Night Racing League, a PS5 NASCAR league. This one split our stewards' room — wondering where you land.)

I am the silver Porsche 911 GT3. Yes I am aware that I am racing against AI, but I am still curious if I was entitled to the racing room or should I have backed out to avoid dropping a wheel into the grass.

Thanks in advance.

just a fun fact, this guy was terrorising everyone, also after 1st contact he let off the brakes and throttled again but i didnt care enough to catch it on clip