MSRL Rules

When joining The Men's Senior Racing League. The league makes a commitment to you in providing you with a high quality server. A full up to date league web site and a professionally run league. Your commitment to us is, we expect you to make a high percentage of the races in the series that you signed up for. Anything less from you is not acceptable
This league exhibits drivers' pictures to help personalize our racing. Screen names must be a form of your real name. We don't allow alias or fictitious names. Example would be B_Smith. Upon acceptance into the league you are required to email a fairly recent jpeg format picture of yourself to Ron@TheMSRL.com. We ask this to be done within 2-3 weeks.

1.a.Current sim is NR2005: We will be running a open setup Cup series with the COT mod and a fixed Truck series with the CTS07 mod . We run a split season in both divisions. There will be a 1st and 2nd half champion crowned. The overall Championship for both series will be any driver who accumulates the most combined points in both the 1st and 2nd half.
b. All races are scored as per the current Nascar point system.
c. Races are monitored by in race board members.
d. All racing series will run with moderate damage until further notice.
e. Provisional Points: If you can't make a race or races. You must notify the league Admin via email anytime before and no later than 9:00 pm (time stamp that appears on your email) eastern time on race night. Provisional points are a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 130 points, dependant upon driver count..

2. New Member Applications:
Each new application will judged differently depending on the amount of online experience you have. Every new applicant will be on a three (3) race probation period. It is mandatory you take a provisional start in your first three (3) race's. Coming from the back and having a good finish will do nothing more than put the spotlight on yourself and prove to us that you belong in this league.

3. On track rules during a race:
a. Start of a Race: There is absolutely no passing the car directly in front of you for any reason until you pass the S/F line. All other restarts, there will be no passing until the backstretch with the only exceptions being a car or cars spinning or permission from the driver in front of you.
b. It is every drivers responsibility to keep up with the driver directly in front of him on all starts and restarts. This is extremely crucial on the start of each race. If you are slow to accelerate, the other line of cars do not have to slow down and wait for you. This is your bad.
c. On all starts, falling or lagging back from the car/s in front of you and then accelerating before anyone else, can only be viewed as cheating. This is not only dangerous to the cars in front of you, but your also gaining an unfair advantage on the rest of the field. This will not be tolerated. Stay within .05 to .75 seconds back, 2 car lengths would be the max! Continued abuse of this rule will get you a suspension and probation.
d. Pole sitter or lead car must stay within one second of the pace car and will not accelerate until the spotter say's the green flag is out. These starts will be monitored closely.
e. There will be NO Racing back to the yellow flag for position !!! The only exception will be with 10 or less laps to go. When your spotter tells you the yellow is out. Lift off the gas and slow down gradually. DO NOT cause a second wreck. We are using the Lucky Dog Pass for cars a lap down. "Explanation of lucky dog" When the yellow comes out, the first car a lap down will receive a lap back on the restart. He must pit with the other lap cars and he must make sure he is the last lap car to leave the pits. Then he must fall in behind the lead lap cars on the outside line. If you are anywhere else on the track, you will not receive your lap back. You are not to be on the inside line with the other lap cars. To make this simple, you should be at End of the longest line and no where else. Failure to follow this procedure will get you ejected from the race.
f. Entering and exiting the pits is patrolled by the game and your spotter will tell you when to merge on to the track. If your exiting under the green, you must be extremely careful coming back up on the track. Just because your spotter says you can merge is not a free pass to shoot up into the racing groove. Causing an accident like this will get you a penalty.
g. When pitting and exiting during green flag , you must always use you F-Keys. Certain tracks have special rules about pitting that are posted in pre-race chat. Failure to follow those rules will result in a BF or a hefty point deduction determined by the committee.
h. Slower cars or cars that are lap/s down or damaged cars, MUST be courteous to drivers on the lead lap. This means yielding the lower line at all times unless you are racing for position. You should have your F2 Key on and then hit the space bar. This will show who's behind you, who's in front of you and the real time intervals between the cars.
i. If a car or cars are quickly closing in on you, do the right thing and get out of the way because it's called respect..
j. On restarts with 10 or less laps to go, all lap cars must pit and fall in at the back of the field.
k. Protecting your position will only be allowed when 5 or less laps are left. It must be done in a safe manor.
l. Intentional blocking will not be tolerated and offenders will be penalized. We have heard all the excuses why someone doesn't move over and frankly none of them play here. If you can't be a gentlemen and move over within a few laps after someone has caught you from 2,3, 4 seconds back. Then maybe you should look for another league. If you refuse to move after a few laps and you get physically moved, don't bother sending a complaint. If you can't be a gentlemen, you don't belong on this league. Watch your F2 key and your mirror. Playing dumb is no excuse.
m. Bump drafting at any track is prohibited. Passing on the apron is also prohibited at any track.
n. Repeated over aggressive driving is strongly frowned upon and will be dealt with.
o. If you are being told by several drivers that you are warping, get out of the racing line for a few laps and see if it clears up. If the warping complaints continue, pull your car into the pits and park it. Causing accidents after repeatedly being told that you show considerable warp will get you penalized.
p. To keep the fun factor alive, we will throw competition yellows when the field of cars happens to get to strung out. This is agreed upon during the race by everyone before the flag is thrown. We would rather do this, than have a driver leave the race because he was hopelessly to far behind.
q. If an incident occurs and several car spins and game doesn't throw the yellow. The admin will throw a yellow.
r. A driver who self spins or hits the wall by himself and doesn't involve others and no yellow comes out, will not be afforded an admin induced yellow.
s. The driver who causes a yellow flag, must restart at the end of the longest line. This is a gentlemen's league and for the most part you know if you caused the yellow or in other words, man up.
t. We will clear black flags if a driver informs us it was bogus. This is done on an honor system as we all trust and respect each other to not abuse this privilege. This is a league for respectful gentlemen, nothing more needs to be said.

4. In Race Chat:
a. There is to be absolutely no chatting during green flag racing!! Use only your F-Keys
b. There is to be absolutely no chatting during qualifying!!
c. Anyone posting a derogatory message questioning the integrity of another driver will be EJECTED
immediately from the race with out warning, no questions asked, poof your gone. You will receive ZERO points for
the race, a 3 race probation and you will be forced to take a provisional start in the next race!!
d. If someone flames you in private chat. Report it to an admin ASAP. In order to prove this type of
flaming, you'll need to take a screen shot of your chat log before the server disconnects. Open your
chat in the replay screen and scroll to where the flaming took place. Hit your Print Screen button.
The screen shot has now been saved to your main N2002 folder with a file name something like
Nr000001.tga. Send this file to Complaint@TheMSRL.com .

5. Racing at Talladega and Daytona:
Racing etiquette at these tracks is as follows: Don't make last second dive's into the corners when attempting a pass. Passing on the apron is strictly prohibited. The mandatory line going down the backstretch is up against the wall unless you are passing the car in front of you. Running in the middle of the backstretch or lower when not passing is considered blocking and offender/s will be penalized 5 points per incident or each lap. If you are being passed in the corner. Do not pinch the other car down in the lower lane. Your going to be passed anyway and if either cars spins because you didn't give the proper room, it's your fault. Protecting your position with 5 or less laps to go will be allowed if done safely. No Racing back to the yellow until 10 or less laps are left.
Update -10/25/08. Until further notice, we run both these tracks with damage off in both CTS and Cup.

6. Restarting a points race will only happen under the following exceptions:
a. If a caution occurs within the first 3 laps and car/s get heavily damaged. One restart will be granted.
b. If excessive warping jeopardizes (who is batman's side kick) the outcome of the race.
c. These exceptions will be the call of the league director or a board member.
d. If the race is RED FLAGGED, someone on the board will advise everyone on what to do. Please park your car and wait until a decision is made.

7. Complaint structure for official complaints:
a. We encourage drivers to handle on track disputes in courteous and constructive email between themselves before filing a complaint.
b. Official complaints can be emailed to: Complaint@TheMSRL.com .
c. Official race complaints will be a detailed explanation accompanied with a replay clip showing the incident. DO NOT send one without the other. All official complaints, must be turned in within 48 hours after the race. Official complaints will be reviewed by the league board of directors. Involved board members will not take part in the review process.

8. League wide derogatory emails will not be tolerated and will be dealt with harshly. The board will decide on a penalty to coincide with the severity of the infraction. There is zero tolerance on this subject.