1. Treat your fellow competitors the same way you would like to be treated. 

2.  We will not tolerate racism or prejudiced comments towards another competitor, owner, or admin. This will result in an automatic ban.

3. Keep language as clean as possible. We all swear, but keep it to a minimum and have a level of maturity. 

4. Tempers flare, it’s part of racing. However, don’t let those tempers flare to the extent of you becoming kicked from the league. 

5. Intentional wrecking will not be tolerated! This is covered more in depth in the penalties section 10.0.

6. There will be a skill gap between the drivers on track, please remember that we all started in this service as a beginner/ novice at some point. If you notice a driver exhibiting beginner driving tendencies, feel free to offer advice, not criticism. This is a league, the more we bring eachother up, the better the racing will be.

7.  Lastly, driver recruitment for other leagues will not be tolerated! If you want to advertise for your league, there are tons of forums to do so. 

To sum up our code of conduct, everyone should be here to help one another. Please ask yourself if you can do that, if the answer is yes, WELCOME!

League administration is what keeps this league healthy and fluent. Without administrators, we wouldn’t have a league!

2.1 League Owner

• Eric Thaler

• Justin Thaler

2.2 Road Series Admins (this is the ONLY living section of the Rule Book and may change at any point).

• Points - Steve Hansell

• Recruitment and Roster - Justin Thaler

• League Content - Eric Thaler

• Scheduling & Participation - Joshua Watt

• Rules - Justin Gloeckner

• Social Media - Dustyn Reinstetle

Admins are to assist the league owner in driving league rules. They are here to help run the series.

Do NOT be afraid to challenge an admin on track. Admins are just like you, a “DRIVER”, if they do something wrong, you should submit an incident. 

If you have any questions regarding specific league information, please DM the appropriate admin. 

2.3 Stewards

Stewards are a group of league or non-league members who the admins deemed to be “unbiased” when making decisions on racing penalties. These Stewards are to act as no-one knows who they are. Only Stewards and admins will be in communication. Once an issue has come to an agreement from a Steward, a member of the admin team will discuss the penalty or further action with the parties involved. 

New members are ALWAYS welcome! No matter what point they enter during a season. Everyone is encouraged to compete with us.

Please note our participation rule in section 11.1. 

3.1 Equipment

We require that you have a working headset and mic so we can communicate with you during races should something arise. We also do not allow users utilizing gamepads, keyboards, mouses, touchscreens, etc. to race as these are unpredictable and hard for competitors to race around.  

Drivers are responsible for completing all stages of their registration to its entirety. Registration is mandatory, and acceptance into the league relies solely on a completed registration.  Midwest-Motorsports has a simple three-step registration processes outlined below:

1. Fill out the sign-up located on our website for the Road Series - Midwest Motorsports Website

   1. Please only submit ONE sign-up submission. Check to make sure car choice and number are what you want before submitting.

2. Join our Discord server - Discord Link

3. Join our league within the iRacing UI - iRacing League Link

Again, all three steps above MUST be completed in order to be accepted into Midwest Motorsports.

4.1 Discord

This platform is used for communication/information purposes. This is where ALL communication with you and the other members will take place. Please familiarize yourself with this platform and ask an Admin for help if you don’t understand. We do our best within Discord to make it as user friendly as possible. 

Discord Link 

5.1 Car Number Selection

Your car number selection cannot be changed once your sign-up is submitted. This car number must be run for the entirety of the season. Only available numbers will be shown on the sign-up. The number “1” is reserved for the current champion to run at their choice.

5.2 Car Manufacturer Selection

Your car manufacturer selection cannot be changed once your sign-up is submitted. This car manufacturer must be run for the entirety of the season.

Midwest Motorsport’s Road Series will feature a PRO/ AM class split designation. 

Current Midwest Motorsports drivers will be placed within the classes utilizing the following procedure from the previous Road Series season:

• PRO Class Placement:

  • All top-10 finishers from the previous season will be placed within the PRO class division

  • Any driver with a win during the previous season will be within the Pro class division

• AM Class Placement:

  • Any returning driver who finishes the previous season with an IPL (Incidents Per Lap) rating of 0.3 or higher will be placed within the AM class division

New members will be placed within a class utilizing the following procedure:

• A week before the first race of the season, the median iRating across all Road Series drivers will be calculated.

  • Any driver above the league iRating will be placed within the PRO class division

  • Any driver below the league iRating will be placed within the AM class division

Road Series Average iRating = 1,558

Every race will be posted in #race-sign-in. You must react in order to obtain all points. Please react using the below Emoji’s:

Joining the race =  🏎

Not Joining and Not using Provisional = ❌

If we do not see a reaction, we are just going to assume you are NOT making the race.

If you are not racing that week, there is no need to contact an admin, just react appropriately. 

6.1 Race Sign in and Attendance Policy

Race sign in closes five minutes prior to the race server opening. This allows our admin team to collect the list of drivers in a timely manner, and conduct an internal roll call.

** See penalties section for regarding attendance policy **

If required a quick drivers meeting will be held with all drivers. This will start with approximately 5 minutes left in the practice session of the server.

It is your responsibility as a driver to attend these drivers meetings. During these meetings, conduct for pit road entry and exit, along with other important track notes are discussed.

8.1 Setup

• Racing’s fixed setups will be used. Setups for each track will be posted on the schedule for each week. 

8.2 Weather

• Weather will be “Generated Weather” with “Dynamic” skies.

8.3 Practice

• Practice will be open to all competitors before qualifying. Rules are enforced during practice and monitored by @RaceControl.

• Practice will be 10 minutes in length for non-sprint weeks. Sprint week practice will be 5 minutes.

8.4 Qualifying

• Qualifying will start at 7:10pm Eastern Time. 

• Qualifying will have iRacing strict scrutiny rules.

• All qualifying is open and you will have 10 min to qualify. Race will proceed immediately following the qualifying segment. 

• Qualifying will be a lone session with two flying laps to complete a clean lap.

  • iRacing strict scrutiny will be implemented for qualifying sessions.

8.5 Race Length - Standard Weeks 

• Race will be 1 hour in length.

8.5.1 Race Length - Sprint Weeks

Select weeks on the schedule will feature sprint races. These are to add more excitement and points opportunity. Qualifying will set the grid for the sprint race, and the feature race will be a reverse grid based upon the finishing results of the sprint race (ex. if you finish the sprint race in P1, you will start P10 for the feature. If you finish P2, you will start P9, etc..).

Sprint weeks will be set for the following format:

• Practice - Qualifying (for sprint) - Sprint race - Feature race (reverse grid from results of sprint race)

• Practice length: 5 minutes.

• Qualifying length: 10 minutes

• Sprint race length: 20 minutes

• Feature race length: 1 hour

8.6 Fuel Load & Tire Sets 

• Fuel load will be 60% for all manufacturers.

• Tires will be unlimited.

• The race will require pit stops due to reduced fuel load.

Faster drivers may burn through the allotted fuel at a faster rate than the slower drivers. This makes it so drivers will need to strategize, and attempt to be more efficient if they do not wish to pit at some tracks.

8.7 Repairs

• There will be one fast repair available per race.

8.8 Start

• Rolling starts.

  • Leader to choose start after the pace car enters pit lane.

    1. @RaceControl will announce pace car entry.

    2. Leader must maintain pace until he/ she deems the race to start.

  • If necessary, a “start zone” will be designated within the drivers meeting per track by @RaceControl.

  • No overtaking until passing the start/finish line.

    1. Drivers must stay in line until crossing the start/ finish.

  • Drivers must maintain a safe relative distance to the car in line ahead.

8.9 Cautions

• Local cautions only.

8.10 Blue Flags

• It is the responsibility of the faster car to pass blue flagged cars cleanly. However, lapped cars (backmarkers) are ENCOURAGED to allow the lead lap cars to overtake as soon as possible. Backmarkers are to pay attention to the relative and mirrors to know when a lead lap car is close behind. It is ENCOURAGED to use audio or iRacing text to communicate your intentions to allow a lead lap car passed (ex. “Driver ABC - I’m going to lift and pull left, pass me on the right”). 

Backmarkers are NOT to impede, or hold up cars on the lead lap. As a backmarker you are NOT racing cars on the lead lap for position. Allow them to pass or a penalty will be given of -10 points per incident. Admins will issue a warning post race for any incidents noted per race for the first offense. Every offense after will result in a -10 point penalty.

8.11 Pitting

Announcing your pits will be a courtesy, if someone is near you and feel they may need a warning, please announce.

When exiting pit road, you must follow the pit line until you pass the blue cone. If you do not follow this, iRacing will issue you a black flag for an unsafe pit exit. Once you are past the blue cone, you may enter safely.

Upon entering the track with cars present, you must yield to their line. 

8.12 Incidents

• Incidents to incur a black flag - 15.

• Incidents to incur a DQ - 25.

• Incidents will be incurred per iRacing rules.

Remember, we are promoting clean racing here. 

8.13 Black Flags

• Black Flags will NOT be cleared, If you ask for a black flag to be cleared and an Admin reviews the footage after the race, and does not find a viable reason, you will be docked 10 points. 

During racing conditions, please keep race chatter quiet. Set up a private chat for your team if needed, to avoid distracting other teams and drivers (@all teams and @drivers). Use of foul language, calling out other drivers, or excessive race chatter may lead to penalties or removal from the league. There is a race chatter channel in the series Discord, but it's not actively monitored by admins. 

If there is an incident during a league race that you were involved in that seems more than a race incident or accidental, it is the drivers responsibility to submit an incident submission for the stewards to review. If it is worth your time to complain about, it is worth a submission (both parties could incur penalties).

Incidents can be reported using the google form in Discord Channel #Incident-Submission.

Some incidents during the race may be tagged to be reviewed immediately following the conclusion of the race. This will be carried out at Race Controls discretion.

Incident reports may be submitted up to 24 hours following a race. After 24 hours have passed we will no longer accept incident requests from that race.

Once incidents are received, they will be fed to our Stewards. Once a report has come to an agreement from Stewards, an admin will discuss the penalty or further action with the parties involved. If no penalty is to be issued, we will notify you of this. If a penalty is being assigned, we will notify both parties. 

Penalties work as a point deduction within the current series your violation occurred. 

At any point drivers are found to be conducting themselves in a manner that goes against the code of conduct or a rule infraction within a session, @RaceControl will notify/ issue a penalty as they see fit.

The following are league rules that will impact scoring/ starting procedures:

1. Race Opening Lap (Standard race weeks, Sprint and Feature weeks)

• To ensure cautious driving on the opening lap:

  • The full opening lap will be reviewed by the Admin team immediately after the race. No further reviews will be conducted by the Admin team. Drivers causing incidents (an incident is defined as a 4x resulting in a single car - or - multiple cars either losing control or track position) with others will receive a mandatory pit-lane start in the next race they participate in.

    • Race Control will call out the driver/ drivers required to start from the pit-lane the following race.

    • Drivers starting from the pit-lane are NOT allowed to complete qualifying laps.

    • If you receive a mandatory pit lane start and you FAIL to start from the pit-lane, you will be issued a drive-thru penalty.

    • Drivers penalized with a pit-lane start are not eligible to earn bonus points for “most positions gained”.

2. Attendance Policy

• After three consecutive weeks of not RACING, an admin will be sending you a message to check in.

• If an admin does not hear from you by week 4, you will be removed from the league.

• If you sign up for a race, and you do not take part in that race, you will receive a 5 point penalty.

• If you do not sign up for a race, and you do take part in that race, you will receive a 5 point penalty.

3. Intentional Wrecking

• 35 point deduction and a time penalty for the current and following race.

• If a competitor is found to have committed multiple offenses during a race, they will be removed from the session and placed on probation until informed otherwise by the admin team.

4. Strike Policy

• We will abide by a 3 strike penalty policy. 

• Strikes can be accumulated through reported incidents, or penalties issued by admins for broken rules.

• Once 3 strikes are obtained, you will receive a 2 race ban. Any penalty after 3 strikes will result in a league ban.

5. Backmarker Penalty

   • If you impede, hold up lead lap traffic, a 10 point penalty will be given.

6. Track Etiquette

   • Driving backwards on track during ANY session is strictly prohibited.

     • Doing so may result in a penalty, DQ from session, or removal from the league.