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2 – Format

2.1 – Practice Race

2.1.1 – Day prior to each race meeting

2.1.2 – Same starting conditions as the race session

2.1.3 – 120 minute practice

2.1.4 – 15 minute qualifying 

2.1.5 – 20 minute race

 

2.2 – Practice

2.2.1 – 120 minutes

2.2.2 – 30% track usage

 

2.3 – Qualifying

2.3.1 – 10 minutes

2.3.2 – Open qualifying (2 groups of up to 30 cars)

 

2.4 – Format A

2.4.0.1 – Drive through awarded at 16 incidents, and at every 6 incidents after that 

 

2.4.1 – Heat 1

2.4.1.1 – 10 minutes

2.4.1.2 – Only drivers who qualified in odd positions are eligible (1, 3, 5, 17, etc)

2.4.1.3 – Grid ordered by qualifying time

 

2.4.2 – Heat 2

2.4.2.1 – 10 minutes

2.4.2.2 – Only drivers who qualified in even positions are eligible (2, 4, 6, 18, etc)

2.4.2.3 – Grid ordered by qualifying time

 

2.4.3 – B Final

2.4.3.1 – 14 minutes

2.4.3.2 – Only drivers who finished below a certain position in their heat will be eligible (this position will be decided based on the expecting number of entries for each round)

2.4.3.3 – Grid ordered by the heat results

 

2.4.4 – Warm-Up

2.4.4.1 – 3 minutes in length

 

2.4.5 – A Final

2.4.5.1 – 18 minutes

2.4.5.2 – Drivers who finished better than a certain position in their heat and better than a certain number in the B Final are eligible (these positions will be decided based on the expected number of entries for each round)

2.4.5.3 – Grid ordered by the heat results and B final results

 

2.5 – Format B (this will be used if series organisers believe entries have fallen too low for format A to be effective)

2.5.0.1 – Drive through awarded at 20 incidents, and at every 10 incidents after that 

 

2.5.1 – Race 1

2.5.1.1 – 25 minutes

2.5.1.2 – Grid ordered by qualifying time

 

2.5.2 – Warm-Up

2.5.2.1 – 3 minutes

 

2.5.3 – Race 2

2.5.3.1 – 25 minutes

2.5.3.2 – Race grid is the race 1 results inverted by a number of positions (this position will be decided based on the expected number of entries for each round)

 

2.6 – General Meeting Rules 

2.6.1 – Open setup

2.6.2 – 1 fast repair per race

2.6.3 – Track usage is carried over from each session

2.6.4 – Static sky and weather, both based on the ARA data packs and official series details

2.6.5 – Stewards may change parts of any of the formats if they deem appropriate

 

2.7 – General Championship Rules 

2.7.1 – 9 meetings

2.7.2 – Each driver’s lowest scoring meeting is dropped

2.7.3 – Drop scores only affect a driver’s score not their team’s score