All rules and regulations laid out in this document will be in place for all Output Racing League (ORL) series and will be enforced by league administration.

1. Disclaimer: If, at any time, rules laid out in this document require updating, ORL admins reserve the right to do so in order to address shortfalls or issues that are directly affecting the quality of competition in a negative way.

Admin Team: Jaren Sanchez, Kyle Crouse, Corey Steinhauser, Travis Massier, Bryan Pizzichemi, Jonas Marquez

Drivers Council: Brandon Bennett, Matt Burgess, Travis Massier, Thomas Harmon, Jonas Marquez, Corey Steinhauser, Kyle Crouse, Bryan Pizzichemi

Black flags will not be cleared unless deemed absolutely unnecessary (e.g., passing on inside to avoid wreck on restarts).

1. If a driver feels they received an unwarranted black flag, the driver may ask to have it cleared. Cleared black flags will be reviewed by admins/drivers council post race and if it is decided that the black flag was deserved, the driver will receive a -2 lap penalty.

All members of ORL will be held to the following guidelines for conducting themselves before, during, and after races. ORL admins reserve the right to interpret these at any time and issue any penalties based on behaviors of ANY individuals.

1. If there is an issue that arises that involves an admin/drivers council member, contact any of the other members listed in Section 1.2 or 1.3.

2. All issues raised may also be submitted via the protest system outlined in Section 6.

There will be no bad mouthing the league on any social media platform.

If pulled for an interview on the broadcast, everyone must be respectful.

If you have an issue, address it with the league admins.

Drivers must be respectful to one another at all times.

No bumping on pace laps or wrecking post-race to show aggression.

No verbally attacking and disrespecting one another.

1. These kinds of behaviors will result in disciplinary actions.

2. 1st Offense: Warning.
   2nd Offense: Removed and/or suspended for the next race.
   3rd Offense: Suspended for remainder of season or removed from league.

If you have a problem with an incident or another driver, please check replay from both perspectives before placing blame.

If you caused the incident, apologize and own it. 

Keep tempers under control.

If you can’t keep your cool, then frankly we do not want you here.

We are all friends here. Keep in mind an apology can go a long way.

Eligibility

1. All drivers who wish to participate in Outputs Series races must have and maintain a minimum C 2.0 license with an iRating (iR) greater than 1000; Night Owl Series is open to all license levels.

New members

1. All new members will be placed on a 3 race probationary period. 

2. Causing wrecks, excessive incidents, disqualifications, overly aggressive driving, toxic behavior and being absent from all 3 races may result in failure of probationary period and removal from the league

Attendance

1. Any driver that misses over 5 races in a row may be removed from the league. 

2. We clean out inactive drivers to keep everything clean and make room for new drivers. If you wish to return, simply reapply.

3. If you know you will miss X amount of races and do not want to be removed,  give the admins a heads up.

4. Secondary seasons/series (such as the winter series) are considered as off-season. Although attendance is encouraged, it's not required and does not count towards the 5 races.

Car Numbers

1. New drivers must go HERE to see what numbers are still available.

2. Drivers may choose any available number from 1–99.

3. If a driver does not request a number they will be assigned a number above 100. 

Start Time

1. Race: Tuesday @ 9pm PT
   Practice: 7:55pm PT (1 hour)
   Lone Qualify: 8:55pm PT (2 laps/5 minutes)
   Grid: 9pm PT / Midnight ET (2 minutes)

   1. Practice sessions may be advanced early to stay on schedule, in the event of session configuration issues.

Race Conditions/Settings

1. Distance: ~40% length race

2. Setup: iRacing Fixed

3. Fuel Level: 100%

4. Tire Sets: 4 (starting + 3 changes)

5. Weather: Dynamic weather/sky

6. Track State: Practice 25% / Qualify carry over / Race carry over

7. Incident Limit: 17x (penalty), every 8x after (penalty)

8. Fast Repairs: 0

9. G/W/C: 2 attempts

Race Start/Restarts

1. Initial Start will be on green.

2. Restarts will be on leader.

   1. Leader has choice of lane, which must be established before 1 to go.

   2. If the track has a restart zone, iRacing will enforce pace speed and start/restart. 

   3. No black flags cleared for restart violations.

3. No jumping, brake-checking or other tactics that lead to unsafe conditions for other drivers.

4. No crossing the white line on tracks with front-stretch doglegs.

Cautions

1. All cautions will be controlled by iRacing.

2. When the caution comes out, drivers are expected to quickly and safely catch up to the pack and maintain pace speed.

3. Cars that are wrecked and driving back to pit lane may request an End-of-Line (EOL) penalty in order to prevent others from getting penalized.

4. First car one lap down gets the lucky dog controlled by iRacing.

5. If there are two or more cars that wreck and iRacing does not issue a caution, admins will issue one.

6. The accident must be called out within the same lap, otherwise the race will continue as-is.

7. Competition Cautions

   1. If at the beginning of a race it is determined that the scheduled distance will result in significant fuel-mileage management that will impair the quality of racing, a competition caution will be manually thrown approximately halfway through the first fuel run.

   2. The scheduled caution lap will be announced before or shortly after race start.

   3. Pit road will be "closed" from race start until the competition caution and any drivers pitting during this window are expected to self-report for an EOL after the competition caution, or be subject to a 1-lap post-race penalty.

   4. If a caution naturally occurs before the competition caution, the latter will be canceled and pit road will be open as reported by iRacing race control.

Pit Lane

1. ORL reserves the right to not clear any black flags for passing under caution on pit road entry.

2. Drivers are encouraged to travel on the right side of pit lane until arriving at their pit box.

3. On pit entry/exit, drivers may not drive through more than 3 stalls.

4. When leaving pit road, drivers shall not slow down in order to manipulate the order of the field to get preferred lane choice on restarts.

5. Penalties for this include but are not limited to: EOL if called out in race, or -1 lap if discovered after race during post race review.

Playoffs

1. Top 10 drivers with 4 races remaining will have a point reset for a 3-race playoff round. The top 4 will reset again for the championship round with the highest finisher winning the Output Racing League championship trophy.

2. If any playoff driver determines that their attendance will be limited during the playoffs, they may request to be removed.

3. Upon removal of a playoff driver, the next place in points (11th, 12th, or so on) may take their place.

Start Time

1. Race: Thursday @ 9pm PT
   Practice: 8:00pm PT (1 hour)
   Lone Qualify: 9:00pm PT (2 laps/10 minutes)
   Grid: 9:10pm PT / 12:10 ET (2 minutes)

   1. Practice sessions may be advanced early to stay on schedule, in the event of session configuration issues.

Race Conditions/Settings

1. Distance: 40 minutes

2. Setup: iRacing Fixed

3. Weather: Dynamic weather/sky

4. Track State: Practice 25% / Qualify carry over / Race carry over

5. Incident Limit: 25x (penalty) then every 8x (penalty)

6. Damage: off

7. AI: 12 drivers 45-62%

Race Start

1. Race Start will be on leader

Cautions

1. There will be no cautions for Night Owl Series at this time (subject to change based on scheduled cars/tracks).

Pit Lane

1. Regarding Pit Lane rules, please refer to Section 4.1.5, noting that at some tracks, the travel lane may be the left side of pit road.

If there is an incident that warrants a protest it must be submitted by the protest form at outputracing.com/protest. Link can also be found at the bottom of the website. 

Protests must be submitted within 48 hours of the race where the incident happened.

All protests must include names, lap number(s) and a description of what happened. A replay clip is not required to be submitted with the protest.

Protests are reviewed by all admins and drivers council if necessary.

1. As written in Section 2.1, if an admin or drivers council member is involved, the member will not have any authority over the final decision.

A decision will be made within 48 hours and posted in the #penalty discord chat with the following format:

1. [<Track> <Date>] <Explanation of incident and penalty>

2. Penalties will be issued based on severity of incident, which include but not limited to: -1 lap penalties, point deduction, EOL for start of next race, suspension for X amount of races, removal from league.

If the protest form is not working correctly on the website, PM any league admin with the details outlined in Section 6.3.