Session of Incident: Race 3
Lap AND timecode of incident: 14, 17:35
Cars involved: 39, 33
Brief description of the incident: 33 attempts to pass 39 for the lead. 33 gets full overlap before T4. But 39 attempts to dive on the inside, touch 33 and send him to the gravel. Even if this was a very slight contact only, 33 loses 5 positions, and all hopes for a podium or even a possible win.
Now if you look to those last few laps overall, you'll just see that 39 and 9 were just playing with the leading group, and slowing it down at chosen moments. This, in order to allow teammate 18 to win and take the championship. Obviously this is a controversial thing to do, some will agree, some won't. But if you do it at least do it clean. Taking out innocent cars is out of the limit.
Session of Incident: Race 3
Lap AND timecode of incident: Lap 1, 0:58
Cars involved: 9, 11, 22, 18
Brief description of the incident: NDR Rule XI.1.b states that overtakes made by leaving the racing surface are illegal and should be yielded or face a minimum of a DT penalty. On Lap 1 of Race 3 Phil Diaz made such an illegal overtake on the grass. Bumpdrafting the car ahead was an option, but instead he opted to make illegal passes off of the racing surface and is eligible for a DT or equivalent post-race penalty.
Session of Incident: Race 3
Lap AND timecode of incident: Lap 12, 14:57
Cars involved: 42, 11
Brief description of the incident: NDR Rule XII.2 states that to prevent an overtake, a car may move once only between two corners before returning to it's racing line. This was breached by Oscar Hardwick on lap 12 where he made 4 moves before returning to a normal line, resulting in repetitive intentional contacts to destroy the draft.
Session of Incident: Race 3
Lap AND timecode of incident: Lap 17, 21:06
Cars involved: 40, 11
Brief description of the incident: Rule XII.2 also breached on lap 17 by Sampsa Jurvansuu, who made 3 moves. The first move resulted in intentional contact/blocking.
Race 3
Car 9 receives a DT penalty (+11s) for not yielding position(s) gained after leaving the racing surface per sporting code XI 1 b).
Car 42 is disqualified from race 3, and given a 90 day NDR-wide ban from the date of race 3 - for the unsporting behaviour before and after the restart, and in light of the 3 previous exclusions in iTCC 2010.
1. see above
2. see above
3. No penalty, however Car 40 is given a warning about his future conduct in NDR events.
Racing incident, no penalty. Car 39 gets well alongside before the turn-in for the corner and 33 tries to take the corner as if he isn't there.
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Team orders are not prohibited in NDR, iTCC or BTCC (see what Alan Gow says about them). Everyone has the right to make it as easy or as hard as they wish for others to pass them in a race within the rules, and everyone has the right to enter as many cars as they wish or form an alliance with whoever they wish, be it on gender, nationality, team or favourite colour.