Give every incident a consistent evidence, response, verdict and appeal process.
Recording your qualifying and race (via clips or full live stream, not theatre mode) is compulsory so that the stewards can get your onboard if requested. Failure to provide such footage will be penalised and will hurt your chances of having your POV considered.
Reporting opens at the start of each race of the weekend and is open for 26 hours from the scheduled start time of that division. If you are reported, you will be tagged for footage. Responding to being reported will be available for 24 hours after you are first pinged by FIA to submit your POV. If you cannot provide a response to being reported in this timeframe, request a time extension in the relevant incident ticket. You cannot get an extension to make reports. You must create a ticket and ask the FIA for an extension to provide your POV for it to be considered. Any tickets that don’t have an onboard POV for 12 hours from the reporting driver without any communication will be deleted.
Only drivers who are directly involved are allowed to report an incident. Under exceptional circumstances, TPs are allowed to raise the incident for them. Surrounding drivers, unless affected by the incident through damage or time loss, cannot report an incident. This does not apply for rules infringements where there is no affected party such as reset to track, retiring on track, crossing the pit exit/entry line, etc. Anyone but the reporting driver and their TPs are not allowed to comment in the ticket.
Drivers involved in the ticket can mutually agree to close the ticket if they come to a consensus, both drivers must write their intentions in the ticket, and this must be done before the verdict is released.
Drivers have the right to appeal the decisions made by the FIA, within 24 hours of the verdict. However, they must either present new evidence that wasn’t previously available to the stewards when making their initial decision, or present evidence that the stewards have not correctly followed the wording or guidelines outlined by the rulebook, or previous precedents, and provide specific evidence from the rulebook or previous verdicts as to why the decision should be overturned. Any appeals which do not meet the above criteria may be dismissed.
Over a season, drivers have 2 appeals. If an appeal is successful, your appeal is given back. If your appeal does not change an outcome, you lose the appeal. If you run out of appeals, you cannot appeal for the rest of the season. Drivers cannot appeal an incident that they were not involved in. (e.g. for a teammate)
Using an incorrect reporting, response or appeal format will result in the report, response or appeal being deleted. Poor quality footage can also result in a report, response or appeal being deleted. You can send in footage by recording a second screen with your phone, but it must be jitter-free and high resolution. Direct clips from console/stream are preferred.
Arguing about the incident anywhere within the server (apart from the Trash Talk channel) may result in the report, response or appeal being deleted. This includes a “No POV” penalty added if your arguing causes a response deletion.
FIA stewards are prohibited from voting on or drafting verdicts for incidents involving themselves or their teammates. They should not make any comment in their teammate’s ticket. No involved party, including Team Principals, should comment in the FIA chat about an ongoing incident they or their team are part of. Stewards are also advised to avoid involvement in incidents where there may be an indirect conflict of interest, such as those involving a championship rival in their division. All relevant input must be shared transparently in the ticket to maintain fairness and consistency and allow the other driver a right to reply.
Continuous and repetitive arguments in incidents tickets will lead to the drivers being removed from the ticket altogether, drivers and team principals are expected to maintain decorum and have respectful conversations with each other. It is suggested that drivers take a breather before reporting incidents, to avoid getting into heated arguments out of frustration. Talking rudely to a member of the FIA will result in a penalty.
All reported footage should ideally be a minimum of 15 seconds long and be an onboard showing telemetry from the reporting driver unless they were not involved. The FIA have the right to dismiss the footage and incident, due to quality of footage being too poor to make an informed decision.
Reporting format - Go to the division # • incidents page and create a ticket by filling out the form with the relevant details, after the ticket is created, post your POV with any extra details you would like to share.
Parties that are mentioned in an incident will be added to the incident ticket by FIA members and must upload their POV of the incident within 24 hours of being added and may state their side of the story within the ticket.
Appeal format – Please appeal the incident by making a new ticket and filling in the form.
Reminder: The appeal must contain new evidence on the incident or clear description of an incorrectly applied rule with reference to this rulebook. Simply repeating your argument will result in the appeal getting denied.
Penalties are given based on the severity of the incident. Damage, time loss, culpability and a range of other factors are considered when determining the appropriate penalty for an incident. In cases where a driver does not finish (DNF) or is lapped, post-race time penalties (excluding those issued in-game) may be converted into penalty points at a rate of approximately 1pp per 10 seconds.
