The restart / qualify / exit votes will occur if a non-minority (50% or more) of connections with a player in the race votes for the event. The counting takes place all the time, so when someone spectates this can result in a restart. Simple to reproduce on a local server with two guests. Host and guests join race, one guest votes to restart, nothing happens, other guest spectates, race restarts.
The imminent restart is reported in a SMALL_VTA. Your InSim program has 3 seconds to cancel the vote action if required.
FIX : A rare but easy to reproduce crash affecting the new console versions
FIX : Case insensitivity now works on high value Latin characters in usernames
FIX : The hostXXXXX.txt file is now updated after using the /maxguests command
I can confirm this is now working
and I would suggest if you are running demo server with insim to update your host, because it was impossible to ban some users with some insims
It's LFS resetting the codepage from a non-latin codepage back to Latin before displaying the rest of the message. Any ^<character> combination is a message to LFS to change how it's displaying text in some way. Either color, codepage, or other symbol.