This is a wrap-up of all incidents we've handled so far, with notes on why we settles on these certain penalties and why certain others were reduced. As stewards we're treating every incident reported to us on a case-by-case basis considering from every angle. Certain incidents can always be handled between drivers so if you had an accident and simply talk it over PM or what have you, then there's no reason for penalizing to be involved. But if there's an incident and at least one of you thinks it was serious enough or one's upset, then by all means report it and we will sort it out. We're relying on all drivers to report what they feel needs reporting race-to-race. We can't go around snooping through every race looking for things and we won't.
That brings up the idea of how we penalize track cutting, we have to treat it the same way. If cutting is reported we will need people that see it to let us know where at and we will then watch the driver reported at different points in the race and penalize accordingly. 20 IP's per lap where at least one major cut was taken without letting off the throttle will be the standard (major cuts will be judged the same way as in qualifying, i.e. going wide to gain time without lifting) and multiple small offs of more than two beyond doubt will receive the same penalty. The IP's will stack according to however many bad laps are found up to a total of 5 whereafter the driver in question will be disqualified from the race.
Thanks.
Using GTP names in reference to all incidents.
Round 2 Laguna Seca
Division 1 -
Offender: Denilson
Victim: Josh_F
Incident: Josh_F was attempting an overtake on the outside on lap 1 Denilson made contact exiting the corner, which made him go out in the gravel.
Denilson let off the throttle until he was back on track and in control.
Penalty: None. Served on track by letting off the throttle. No damage, and at most, 2-3 seconds lost.
Total: 0
Division 2 -
Offender: snowgt
Victim: Dr Dre
Incident: snowgt attempts a risky move. Fails, causes damage and keeps on racing. The contact and damage was minimal and not at all malicious, just heated racing.
Penalty: 60 IP's for causing avoidable damage reduced to 35 for aggressive driving due to the seemingly insignificant nature of the contact and evident lack of intent.
Total: 35
Offender: Petros
Victim: Highlandor
Incident: Highlandor had good intentions. He wanted to let Petros pass, but Petros ran in to Highlandor causing damage under hesitation going into the first turn. Petros wasn't close enough to even think of a pass, and all of a sudden, Highlandor almost parked it in the middle of the braking zone. Both are at fault in different ways.
Penalty: A warning of 5 IP's for both drivers. Both could've avoided the incident from happening. Padded_Cell needs to be more predictable being passed.
Total: 5 to each.
Offender: twistedfirework
Victim: Dr Dre
Incident: Twisted brakes too late, causing avoidable damage on lap 16
Penalty: 60 IP's for causing avoidable damage reduced to 5 IP's for a warning since he served his own penalty on track by parking it for ~25 seconds until Jess-N-Dre was back on track, in the race, and also lost 5 positions doing so.
Total: 5
Round 3 La Sarthe
Division 1 -
Supersic: 5 IP's for multiple small cuts during racing or drafting early in the race.
Sail IC: 20 IP's for cutting the track, going wide full-throttle.
Litchi: nothing/verbal
Michouw: 20 IP's for multiple small cuts through out the entire race.
Then a general verbal warning against draft tailcoating outside the track boundaries.
Division 2 -
Offender: snowgt:
Victims: Hancock and Dr_Watson
Incident: Causing avoidable damage to Hancock on lap 1 and Dr_Watson on lap 1. This is his second race causing avoidable damage. snowgt will be put on probation for 2 rounds which means that if he causes another avoidable contact incident he will be DQ'ed for a race.
Penalty: 120 IP's for two penalties for causing avoidable damage and probation for 2 rounds (75% completion).
Total: 120
Offender: basse101
Victim: FakeGangstaDIE
Incident: Ran FakeGangstaDIE off track just prior to the Porsche curves on lap 1. This was unintentional due to basse101 losing control by slightly going off track into the grass sending him spinning into FGD during a very tight passing attempt going into the entry for Porsche curves. It is determined to be a racing incident.
Penalty: 60 IP's for causing avoidable damage reduced to 35 for aggressive driving and being caught off guard in the draft, silly nature of the contact, reduced to 0 for it being totally out of basse's hands and partly due to FGD's ill-advised passing/almost divebombish run on his inside, racing incident.
Total: 0
Offender: MÜLE_9242
Victim: Nissman
Incident: Causing avoidable damage to Nissman missing his braking point at Mulsanne corner on lap 1. He lost control due to damage but kept going then spun out in front of Hanock causing avoidable damage to him.
Penalties: 60 IP's x2 for causing avoidable damage and rejoining track without regards to oncoming traffic reduced to 35 for punting Nissman and 60 for causing avoidable damage to Hancock carnage + 20 more for cutting Dunlop chicane and not giving the spot back to ealirendur for a total of 115 IP's.
Total: 115
Offender: HenryT
Victims: SkengD and Dr_Watson
Incident: Ran in to the back of SkengD in the Dunlop S/chicane on lap 1 causing avoidable damage to him.
And another case of causing avoidable damage to Dr_Watson on lap 9.
Penalty: 120 IP's for two cases of causing avoidable damage. First incident has been concluded as a racing incident so the penalty for causing damage is reduced to nothing. Second contact is reduced to 35 IP's for aggressive driving after an investigation (bad passing set up).
Total: 35
Offender: Dr Dre
Victim: Ealirendur
Incident: Causing avoidable damage "pitting" Ealirendur leading to damage on lap 16 after Mulsanne corner. Looks evident of an aggressive revenge maneuver, although it was determined to be not. If someone makes contact with you, please get revenge the proper way, through us settling these matters with penalties, not on track.
Penalty: 60 IP's for causing avoidable damage reduced to 35 for aggressive driving.
Total: 35
Round 4 Monza
Division 1 -
Offender: Paginas1
Victim: Sail IC
Incident: Causing avoidable damage on lap 34, turn 1. Braked too late slamming into the back of Sail IC causing both cars to hit the concrete barriers. Paginas1 immediately got back on track and carried on with his race leaving Sail IC behind.
Penalty: 60 IP's for causing avoidable damage and not waiting as per the IPO.
Total: 60.
(not kidding, the stig is awesome)
