RACING RULES

If you want to enjoy clean and fair racing, it is essential that you and your competitors play by the same rules.
Don´t be afraid there are only five articles, if you act by these 5 basic rules you will wreck less and race more.

1: Responsibility

It is the responsibility of the driver that is trying to overtake, to make sure that the pass is made without contact.

While driving behind a car, you are 100% responsible for avoiding contact.

2: Overtaking

To obtain right of road position, the overtaker's car must have significant overlap of the car that is being overtaken, before they reach the corner's turn-in point.

Bumper next to bumper is where overlap starts.
Door next to door is 100% overlap.



The App "Helicorsa" is capable of visualizing the amount of overlap:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=605282473

2.1 If there is NO OVERLAP before turn-in point

Ahead drivers have the right to take any line through a corner.

Ahead drivers have the right to choose any line down a straight, but only one move to defend their position.See also 4. Defending.

2.2 If there is OVERLAP before turn-in point

The car on the outside has the right to outside room all the way through the corner, while the car on the inside has the right to inside room all the way through the corner.

(During an overtaking manoeuvre both cars can´t use the optimal line, so both need to slow down in order to stay on their side of the track.)

3: Blue flag

If a blue flag is displayed on your screen, it tells you that a driver (who completed more laps than you) is going to overtake you and you are not allowed to defend.

Rule No.1 is still in place, so keep on driving on your normal racing line. This is again important to be predictable.

4. Defending

While you are not blue flagged, you may try to avoid being overtaken with only one (1) direction change per straight.

Movement in reaction is blocking and leads to penalty.
(If you make your move, after the car behind you made his move, that is blocking.)
Making your car wide by not using the optimal line is defending.

5. Pit exit

While leaving the pit, you are not allowed to cross the pit exit line.
If you are on the track and a driver is leaving the pit you are not allowed to cross the pit exit line.

[Major Lee Ree]

Bro I can't even have one online race without getting rammed off of the track from behind on the first corner, I don't think anyone cares.

[BoneYard]

@bad @ games.... i use a controller since lockdown. You'll see me stood on the podium in most public lobbies accept the GT3 ones. GT class with a controller I will admit isnt great, ACC has shown me where to improve though. Miss my wheel.....

[MidNight]

good guide but I think aggressive drivers wont disappear after this :(

[Huntyer]

Got AC on sale and heard it was a good sim racer. Glad to see that there are some people out there that follow good racing etiquette.
I'm new to sim racing myself, been playing mostly FH5. But I've found myself trying to treat it more sim like and started on the hunt for a new game. So here I am, and if you see me on the track; know I'm safe to pass cuz I too am here to enjoy a nice, clean race.

[Mike L. 2L-403]

I do real life car racing and our pit exit rule is you stay on the side of the track until you complete the turn after pit lane. So if pit lane exits on the right side of the track you stay to the right of the track until you have made your way out of pit lane and through that corner after pit lane exit.

[RustytheFoxCoon]

Seriously, anyone complaining about game cultures doesn't get different games, different feels, different fits, for different peoples. This is a realistic sim, so yes most people here use a steering wheel. That doesn't mean you can't have fun with a controller though. I think the biggest reason people hate controller competition entries is due to the gap in difficulty between an automatic more condensed control layout vs the sprawled out, but easier to finely control when learned steering wheel. So can you play controller? Yeah sure. Have fun. But please understand, you should know HOW to use a stick and sim wheel! Why not both? Controllers are a lot better traveling along on long road trips, wheels more fun and easier to feel what's going on due to FFB.
Btw no I don't care about comp myself, I just drift around and crash a lot. I don't have any expectations on my driving, I just do it because - woo hoo Japanese illegal mountain drift sim.

[Aethelia]

I've also found that people don't like it when you drive backwards and smash into them at full speed.

[BLitz]

Should link the F1 racing rules here too for extra detail

[Baron Samedi]

lol it's a video game bro

[r0ze]

"If you use a controller, don't play multiplayer." buy me a fucking wheel then <3