Well done by iRacing.
This kind of behaviours must be banned from motorsport simracing.
We dont want this to be a GT5 Academy cheating revival.

Right or wrong, the powers that be made a decision. It is final. Move on.

What were those two going to do if someone was coming up to speed off of pit road?

They need to think about the fact that they race in an official Nascar Series at other times of the year, think about the fact that that can earn them quite a bit of money for winning the Championship and conduct themselves in a professional manner in accordance with that.

How about “fixing the drivers”? The theory that since Race Control didn’t explicitly state that DRIVING DOWN THE PIT LANE ENTRANCE was against the rules, it was therefore legal… that sounds like a four-year-old’s logic. Seriously.

Someone said that there might be fallout from this decision – to me as an iRacer there’d be a HUGE amount of fallout if they DIDN’T penalize for this. IT’S CHEATING, fellas. If that doesn’t matter to you, then that says more than anything I or anyone else could about your character.

Picture doing that cut in reallife, marschalls had been yelling “what the f… are u guys doing!! ,and the crowd wouldnt have belived their eyes ( I didnt when i watched),I was thinking ” Is this the pinnacle of world racing simulation??”

I am sure it was embarrasing to them who showed someone new what simracing is!

I

Fix??? I think it’s not the track that need to be fixed…

This is a outstanding point. I always said the rules are not the rules when comes to sporting code but… its the rules according to Nim or Shannon. The fact these guys are getting race suspensions for a rule not written into the rule book is a farce.

Also get some non bias judges, if you want this to really be like a real race league like nascar you can’t have the Bill France, Mike Helton types racing and announcing races and judging there peers.

They should give a warning then put the rules into the sporting code stating the correct track method. I have been watching every race on iracing tv and i enjoy it as much as the real indy series. As a fan of this series this disappoints me. I disagree with both the drivers approach but when you put money and prizes on the line you will get I need to win this at all costs… just like real sports.

bad job on this but that does not surprise me. I do give them credit for not censoring the article and comments though that is worth mentioning.

-jp

Is not this against the SC?

Now, with that punition, people will not try to win at any cost…
“he just deserve a grip punition…” that pole give him the win didnt?

I have zero sympathy with either driver. Good decision iRacing.

Without commenting on the specifics, I think this is a good thing. Motor racing is often all about “If its not in black and white, then its legal”, which often leads to people taking the piss. This ruling sends a clear message that this attitude/behaviour wont be accepted.”

I dont think either driver has tainted their reputation, they exploited a grey area in order to maximise their potential, and they got brought back in line by the governing body. Makes me think of the double diffuser debate, the flexi wing debate F1 debates.

Real racers push the limits as far as they can, in order to extract every possible advantage, while being within the rules. Sometimes it happens that you overstep the mark. They overstepped, got punished, and so we move on.

The race steward apparently had PC problems, why was there only one official for an event like this.?

Why wasn’t immediately announced that there would be an investigation?

and many more questions…

At this level as in F1, NASCAR, INDY, ALMS etc etc ‘common sense’, ‘everyone knows’ don’t cut it. That”s why they have rule books that are inches thick.

Maybe it’s time for me to protest about it.

Definitely a harsh penalty, however if the stewards remain consistent with that penalty, then so be it.

Others, justifiably, may want to condem Towler & Wood for their unsportsmanship.

Personally, I want to give a tip of the cap to all of the *other* drivers that race who refrained from trying to take “any advantage” when they saw or heard what these two were doing.

I really respect those race drivers who chose to be the better men.

Well done other pro’s.

The drivers are accustomed to the following with reguards to course cutting – black flags and 1x. Neither were in play at that corner so heaping this penalty on these 2 drivers without warning seems unfair.

But, the 2 of them flirted with danger so…………………………. I gues the moral to the story is if you take advantagfe of loopholes then look out. Hard to argue with that really.

To me they have to be completely bonkers to think the fall out of this isn’t going to make them look even worse as a company. I don’t understand why the so called penalty’s in the past were private information and they publicly post the penalty’s in this situation.

I think a grid penalty for Richard and a possible points penalty for Derek would have made more sense and would go more inline with what would happen in real racing.

The community called for there heads and iracing listened. shocking really. I’ll accept the decision but I’m blown away by how it all went down and how it was handled.

I just hope by some weird way I don’t finished ahead of Richard in the points, because I don’t deserve it that way.

Shawn

In my opinion, There was no need for Shannon to respond in the first place, though it would have been nice. The racing surface is clearly shown on the official track map. The question never should have been raised, because the Track map already answers it. Case closed. There is no defense for what they did what so ever.

Either way, hopefully this will be a good deterrent for other people who shamelessly find exploits and use them.

Too bad one of the exploiters obviously didn’t learn a thing and still defends cheating to gain an advantage.

We were also not informed this was not allowed either before qualifying or the race, and no one but Derek was informed during the race it was against the rules. Several times during the regular season iRacing have told us that these lines are acceptable, including driving the Lotus around Daytona on the apron. We’ve also requested prior to these events about other lines around other race tracks that go outside the ‘defined white lines of the racing surface’ and no action has been taken to prevent these lines from been used up to now.

I’m rather upset that iRacing have let the community perform what they have on the forum considering it seemed iRacing always prided themself on members not suffering the kind of abuse that has been happening and contines to happen there, but its also sad to me that iRacing felt the need to actually do it themself via there own news website.

Thats all I can really say, I’m sorry this has caused such the fuss it has but at the time it was within the guidelines which iRacing had set the past 2 seasons with the rullings that had been made and the lack of action to fix such problems in the tracks.

Poor adminning of a prestigious event and poor planning is how I see it and the result is two drivers take the stick for that!

I was flabbergasted that someone even has the idea to do s th like that. But I lost all my respect, when I read that both drivers did not have the slightest bit of guiltiness.

I totally support iRacing’s decision.

An inquiry was made to the stewards on the pace lap and no response was given. Once informed to stop Wood did just that, but it could have been avoided entirely had a ruling been made prior to the green flag.

That being said Shannon had about 2 mintues to make a decision so it is a difficult position for the in race steward to be in, but still an issue that should have been addressed at that time before it became an issue during the race.

With regards to having used it in qualifying having them start from the back of the grid in the next race would be more appropriate IMO. Make the punishment fit the crime. Cheating in qualifying results in a grid penalty not disqualification from 2 races. Perhaps their post race response to their actions weighed in on the deicision perhaps not.

Don’t misunderstand though… a penalty was appropriate just not a 2 race ban IMO.