1. Performance adjustments may be made until the start of the first warm-up session ahead of each event.

1. Should an additional car model be added after the final car selection deadline in rule 5.6, then all entries will be permitted to switch from their locked-in car choice to this new car by a point in time which will be determined by the series administration.
2. Should a previously eligible car model be removed or replaced by a new car after the final car selection deadline in rule 5.6, then all entries running this car will be permitted to switch from their locked-in car choice to a different eligible car by a point in time determined by the series administration.

#0) Pre-Qualifying at Spa (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Endurance Pits)

Rounds 1 & 2: Hockenheim Twin 60 (Hockenheimring - Grand Prix)

Rounds 3 & 4: Barcelona Twin 60 (Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya - Historic)

Rounds 5 & 6: Zolder Twin 60 (Circuit Zolder - Grand Prix)

Rounds 7 & 8: Monza Twin 60 (Autodromo Nazionale Monza - Grand Prix)

Rounds 9 & 10: Red Bull Ring Twin 60 (Red Bull Ring - Grand Prix)

Rounds 11 & 12: Nürburgring Twin 60 (Nürburgring Grand-Prix-Strecke - Sprintstrecke)

1. The team manager registered on file will be the sole official point of contact for the series organisation.

1. Each entry’s car choice is determined by the pre-qualifying results.
2. Each entry that advances through pre-qualifying, will be able to pick their preferred car number, ranging from 2 to 99.
3. Car numbers will be assigned in order of sign-ups (time and date of sign-up). Should the preferred number be taken, the team will be assigned the next available car number.

1. All drivers listed must have a minimum Road iRacing of 3000 at the point of entry.
2. No driver, who qualified for the 2021 VRS SCO Sprint Masters, will not be allowed to participate in the series, unless they’re only registered as a reserve driver.

1. Decisions like these will be made based on a team's, team manager's or driver's conduct in other leagues as well as official iRacing series in the weeks and months leading up to the entry request, though other reasons may also factor into the decision.
2. The decision to reject the entry of a team, team manager or driver will be made on a case-by-case basis for each season, meaning that teams, team managers and drivers who are prevented from entering may attempt to enter the series again in future.
3. The series administration's decision to reject the entry of any team, team manager or driver into the current season is final and cannot be appealed.

1. Reserve drivers can be registered when an entry is initially filed or at a later point during the season. To be allowed to compete in an official session, the registration of a reserve driver must be completed no later than 24 hours before the start of the first free practice session for the event they’re meant to compete in.
2. After their first participation in an event, reserve drivers will be locked into their respective team and cannot compete for another entry during the season.

1. Beyond the deadline listed above, the only change that can be made to an entry is the registration of a reserve driver, if one has not been registered up to this point.

1. Every new entry will automatically be given the ‘Pending’ status.
2. Once a filed entry has been reviewed by the series administration, a team’s status will be set to ‘Reviewed’.
3. Following pre-qualifying, the status of all teams that have advanced through to the main series will be set to ‘Confirmed’ while the status of all reserve list teams will be set to ‘Reserve’.

1. The series administration reserves itself the right to not call up substitute teams if there’s only one more round to go before the end of the season.

1. The drivers listed on that entry’s driver line-up will also not be allowed to compete in the 2022 season of the series.

1. Any team that doesn’t submit a car paint, as well as any team that has their car paint rejected by the series administration, will be assigned a generic livery by the series administration.

1. Teams must provide written permission from the companies involved, to be allowed to run sponsors' logos on their car.
2. Logos of products that compete with iRacing (such as the Gran Turismo and Forza franchises for example) will not be permitted. The same is the case for logos of automotive brands that compete with the brand of car that they're displayed on.
3. It will be strictly forbidden for paint schemes to directly or indirectly promote tobacco or any products that are restricted to minors by law (e.g.: alcohol, knives, etc.). They must not include any kind of political message.
4. No team liveries will be allowed to run 'parodies' of logos or other intellectual property.
5. Any logo already available in the iRacing Paint Shop may be used.

1. These mandatory elements will be available on the series website (challenge.sportscaropen.com/downloads).
2. They must also not be edited and must be placed in the exact pixel position they’re in on the website.

1. Teams, who also wish to make use of custom spec maps, must ensure that none of the paint elements mandated by the series administration are made overly reflective or have their appearance changed in other ways.

1. It is up to the series administration to judge sufficient distinction.

1. All submitted car paint should be named as shown below:

   car_num_team_XXXXXX.tga (XXXXXX should be your team's ID)

2. Please make sure to include your team’s car number and team name in the email’s subject line when sending paint files. An example for an acceptable subject line format can be seen below:

   Subject Line: SCOSC Paints (#00 / Exampleton Esports / McLaren)

1. If there are issues with a submitted paint file, the series administration will contact the team in question to explain what must be changed for the paint to be in compliance with all rules.

1. Any entry, for which only one driver has set a time, will be disqualified. The same applies to any entry using a reserve driver or unlisted drivers during pre-qualifying.

1. Should a driver’s replay be requested by the series administration, this replay must be made available to the series administration no later than Saturday, June 26th, 2021 at 23:59 UTC.

1. Should a team reach the same ranking position with more than one car model, they’ll be locked into using the car model they set the fastest pre-qualifying time with.
2. Should the times be identical, the fastest individual driver time will decide the car model.
3. Should this also be identical, the second fastest individual driver time will be used.
4. Should all times be identical, the series administration reserves itself the right to select the car model for the team in question.

1. No penalty will be given to teams who had their car number taken away by a team that registered before them.

1. Either driver from each team will be allowed to qualify the car in Qualifying 1.
2. For Qualifying 2, whichever driver didn’t qualify a team’s car in Qualifying 1 must qualify.
3. Any team, which is found to have the same driver qualify the car in both qualifying sessions, as well as any team, which is found to have both drivers setting a qualifying time in the same qualifying session, will be disqualified from the event.

1. ‘Left the pit lane’ is defined as having passed the green cones that demarcate the end of the speed-limited area.
2. Teams who are found to have left the pit lane again after the driver has exited the car or towed back to the pit lane as described above, will be disqualified from the race the violation occurred in.
3. Drivers who have lost connection to the server will also not be permitted to rejoin the track again.

1. In the pit lane, drivers must maintain the track-specific pit lane speed limit at all times. Dropping below the pit lane speed limit is allowed only for the immediate approach of a team’s assigned pit stall. Once a driver leaves their pit stall, they must accelerate up to the pit lane speed limit as quickly as possible.

1. The general driving conduct rules, especially Articles 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.5 and 11.6 are in full effect. Infringing these rules may lead to penalties in accordance with Articles 9.8 as well as Section 15 of this document.

1. Should the same driver start both races, even if a team has not been able or allowed to set a time in one or both of an event’s qualifying sessions, the team in question will be disqualified from the event.

1. All cars must remain in grid formation while also keeping to the circuit’s pace car speed until the end of the pace lap. Frequent accelerating and braking as well as deviating too far from the pace car speed may be penalised.
2. At the end of the pace lap, all cars must slow down to 60 km/h. The point on the track at which this needs to occur will be communicated via the event briefing. All cars must remain at that speed and continue to remain grid formation until the start of the race.
3. The signal for the start of the race will be the green flag as displayed by iRacing. Once this signal has been given, all cars will be free to race.
4. An event briefing detailing the location described in Article 10.2.2 as well as other items will be published before the first free practice session.
5. Teams that start from the pit lane must line up at pit exit in a queue. They will not be allowed to leave the lane until the series administration declares the pit exit open. Leaving the pit lane early may result in a drive-through penalty.
6. Any team that is given a black flag by iRacing despite complying with Articles 10.2.1 to 10.2.3 may request to have that black flag cleared by the series administration.

1. A team’s pit stop and driver change will only count towards the mandatory requirement if the car did not cross the pit entry line, marked by a set of yellow cones, before the pit window has been declared open at the 25 minute mark or after the pit window has been declared closed at the 35 minute mark.
2. The pit window’s opening and closing points will be communicated via the in-game text chat.
3. Any stop completed outside the pit stop window will not count towards the mandatory requirements.

1. Any team scoring a 21st incident point will have 5 seconds added to the race time of the race the incident limit was breached in.
2. Any team scoring a 26th incident point will have 10 seconds added to the race time of the race the incident limit was breached in.
3. The time penalty added to the race time of the race the incident limit was breached in will double at every 5 incident milestone after that, meaning that a team will have 20 seconds added to their race time once they’ve scored a 31st incident point, 40 seconds once they’ve scored a 36th incident point and so on.

1. Lapping cars must be aware of the fact that they are the ones who have to make the passes since they're the faster cars. They can't expect to always have the racing line when doing so and will have to be more cautious on occasion to make sure they don't jeopardise their own or another team’s race.
2. All lapped drivers must make sure to always behave in a predictable manner. They should stick to the racing line where needed, though that doesn’t mean that they can't cooperate should they find themselves in a situation where they are able to help a lapping car get by more quickly.

1. Should a team / driver stream their respective race from a point of view perspective, they must give clear information about the series and race in question and feature the official series / race title, series partners and sponsors, as well as a clearly visible link to the official series broadcast.
2. Any kind of professional broadcasts by anyone but the series’ broadcast partner must be explicitly allowed in written form by the series administration and otherwise are not permitted. This includes but is not limited to the use of external cameras, professional audio tracks, professional directing or producing and / or external commentary.

1. Drivers and team managers must ensure availability for the request of interviews by the official broadcast crew, commentators, directors or other series personnel.
2. At least the top 3 finishers from each qualifying or race session may be contacted immediately after the session has concluded for statements.

1. If a race has run for at least 75% of its advertised duration, the series administration can choose to award full championship points based on the results of that race.
2. If less than 75% of the advertised duration has passed before the race was stopped via the red flag, the result will not count towards any championships.

1. Should both races scheduled for an event be affected by issues, resulting in neither race yielding a usable result, the series administration will attempt to reschedule the event at a later date, if possible.

1. Stewards may also automatically investigate any incident they’ve observed themselves
2. All protested and observed incidents will be judged by at least two stewards.
3. All verdicts and potential penalties will be published as soon as possible following the protest deadline (see 14.1).
4. Once the outcomes of all investigations have been published, the race results will be declared official.

• Warning
• Post-Race Time Penalty (ranging from 5 to 60 seconds in 5 second increments)
• Qualifying Ban for future round(s) - Usually given to a team which repeatedly has been warned about their driving conduct in qualifying sessions
• Points Deductions - Points may be deducted if a team has not served a penalty before the end of the season
• Disqualifications - Teams may be disqualified if they repeatedly incur severe penalties or for intentionally causing an incident
• Exclusions from the series - Any team or driver may find themselves excluded from one or multiple events should they continuously display poor driving conduct or if they show a lack of respect for series administration members or their competitors.

1. Additionally, 1 point will be awarded to the fastest team in each qualifying session.

1. If neither team has a win or the same number of wins as the other tied team, the position will go to the team with the most second place finishes.
2. If the same applies there, this procedure is continued until the tie can be broken.

1. Following the completion of pre-qualifying, all drivers and reserve drivers will be sent an invite to this iRacing league.
2. Drivers must accept the league invites before they’re able to participate in any session.
3. Drivers of teams who have been removed from the series will be removed from the series’ league.

1. All sessions will be hosted on the DE-Frankfurt server farm.
2. Dynamic sky and generated weather will be used in all sessions unless otherwise specified.
3. The track state will always be set to “automatically” generated unless otherwise specified. Dust and marbles will be removed at the start of each session.
4. Full course cautions as well as fast repairs will be disabled.
5. All driving aids with the exceptions of clutch assists will be disallowed.
6. The Sun Acceleration Multiplier will be set to '1x' at all times.
7. The Qualifying Conduct Scrutiny will be set to "Off" unless otherwise specified.
8. All cars will run without tyre limits.
9. An additional car will be added to the session to ensure the new damage model isn't used.

Contact Email Address: mail@sportscaropen.com

Discord Invite Link: https://discord.gg/KtEJcsdUnK

1. The series administration advises all team managers or other team members who are in contact with drivers on-track to be online on the series Discord during events.