Here are the sporting rules of the Nations World League.
Fairness
Fairness
- The on-track behaviour complies with the Rules of Clean Racing.
- Protests and appeals can be filed in the corresponding thread until Tuesday 19:00 UTC after the race.
- If a driver is found guilty, penalty points are imposed on his/her national team. The penalty points are deducted from the national team's score by a factor 12 (or 24 for actions in the final race). Further sanctions apply to a national team accumulating points as follows: 8 points - All cars start the next race from last grid position. 14 points - All cars start the next race from pit lane. 20 points - National team excluded from participation in the next event.
- The events start as it is stated in schedule. Times are given in coordinated universal time, UTC.
- Qualifying is an open 15 minute qualifying practice session. There are no restrictions.
- Tourist Trophy is an autocross session scheduled for a race distance, where all drivers drive the distance individually. The starting order is derived from championship standings and alphabetical order of the national teams. All driver of a national team will be sent on track one after another.
- Race is a race session started by a standing start. The starting order is given by the result of the previous session.
- During the races rejoining is allowed at any time. However it is under all circumstances penelised by the loss of one lap.
- The national team scoring the most points is the Nations World League champion. There are two ways to score points:
- A-Points: The second car of a national team, crossing the finish line, scores the points for the Nation in the order of nations fulfilling this:
1st - 40 points
2nd - 38
3rd - 36
4th - 34
5th - 32
6th - 30
7th - 28
8th - 26
9th - 24
10th - 22
11th - 20
12th - 18
13th - 16
14th - 14
15th - 12
16th - 10
17th - 8
18th - 6
19th - 4
20th - 2
- B-Points: Bonus points are awarded for the finishing position of every car of a national team according to the race result.
1st - 10 points
2nd - 9
3rd - 8
4th - 7
5th - 6
6th - 5
7th - 4
8th - 3
9th - 2
10th - 1
- To score A- and/or B-Points the driver must have completed 75% of the scheduled race distance.
- Should a nation with multiple national teams be represented by just one driver per team at a race event, the combined result of the drivers will be scored towards the team with more championship points.
- A-Points and B-Points are both multiplied by the multiplier stated in the schedule.
- In case of a tie, the better average position is the primary tie-breaker, the better position is the secondary.