Protests and verdicts

The form for protests.

1. The plaintiff (your name)
2. The defendant (offending driver)
3. Session and time
4. Incident description

Rules for protests:

- A protest is allowed until 21:00 GMT of the day which after race day.
- It is possible to challenge the stewards' verdicts within a 24 hour period from the moment of their incident verdict. Appeals are filed in this topic according to the specified format. After this period, the topic is closed until the next race.
- This channel is reserved for writing protest forms. Any other messages will be deleted.

Form for appeals.

1. The plaintiff. (your name)
2. The time of the incident (it is better to use the time at which the incident verdict was originally given).
3. Argument in your defense.

Rules for filing appeals:

- It is possible to challenge the stewards' verdicts within 24 hours from the moment they made a decision on the original incident. After this period, the topic on the forum is closed until the next race. Only one appeal can be filed per incident verdict. Appeals filed in any other forum topic are not accepted for consideration.
- The verdict after an appeal is final and not subject to re-appeal.
- Drivers must file their protests and appeals in accordance to the protest format outlined above. Any other messages will be deleted.

1. Uroš Kastelic
2. Samuele Capirola
3. Race LAP:1 (00:04:00)
4. I got damage. i am not sure if this was my fault or his

1. Uroš Kastelic
2. Tim Hauck
3. Race LAP:8 (00:16:25)
4. I got hit and got damage just when SC was deployed.


1. Uroš Kastelic
2. Uroš Kastelic
3. Race LAP:43 (01:05:37)
4. My tires was locked and i hit zenkov. Then i spin and hit the wall and bounce on the track and people start crashing in me.

1. Fabian Balle
2. Mateusz Zaleski
3. Race: 1:07:30
4. Mateusz spins and is stranded in the middle of the road on corner exit with more cars crashing on the outside. Instead of reversing to make himself more predictable for incoming traffic, he flicks his car around just when I come around the corner and we collide.

1. Filippo Caneo
2. Sergey Sapozhnikov
3. Race 0:54:30
4. Exiting the pitlane I was racing for position, Sergey tried to overtake me by braking very late, locking the tires and damaging my car. I left enough space to make the corner.

1. Filippo Caneo
2. Lars Hagemann
3. Race 1:28:59
4. Nothing to say: Lars was racing without a rear wing. He lost it and almost crashed into my teammate Vidimari (fighting for leadership) but crashed into me.

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Yaroslav Shelomanov
3. Race: 00:03:37
4. Right before the green flag, Yaroslav doesn't respect the double file rule, accelerates early and crashes into me causing big damages and debris on track

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Vladislav Zenkov
3. Race: 00:04:20
4. The caution is in effect, Vadislav overtakes me and fights. He gives me the position back later.

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Everett Dumont
3. Race: 00:28:54
4. Unsafe release from Everett, he forces me to slow down and also causes a contact

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Sergey Sapozhnikov
3. Race: 00:43:39
4. Sergey unlaps himself overtaking in the turns, as opposite as stated in the rules

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Lars Hagemann
3. Race: 01:28:37
4. Lars is without wings, he fights under blue flags and causes later a incident with Filippo Caneo

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Vladislav Zenkov
3. Race: 01:38:33
4. Vladislav doesn't respect the blue flags for more than a half lap, forcing me to pass him with P2P

1. Daniele Vidimari
2. Andrej Borotovsky
3. Race: 01:46:32
4. Andrej doesn't respect the blue flags and fights

Form for appeals.

1. Henk-Jan Steneker
2. Race: 00:50:27
3. I just wanted to follow the car ahead but suddenly he slowed down more in the middle of the corner. I did not expect it but I should have reacted better. The cars behind me are also mentioned as me being the one who crashed them, but in fact they are equally guilty as me for not reacting well to what happened in front of them.
I would like the stewards to reconsider blaming me for the actions of the cars behind me. I asked other drivers and they agree I should not be blamed for the behaviour of the cars behind me.

1. Jesus Chirinos
2. Miklos Toth
3. Race: 53:40 (55:58)
4. Spun at the Le Mans chicane, rejoins dangerously into my car and damaged the suspension

Louie Hartley
Antonis Paparinopoulos
Race lap 26, 48:30 session time
Antonis attempts to unlap himself around the outside into the bus stop so I back off a little on entry only for him to spin across the middle of the track and collect me

The form for protests.

1. Andres Valle
2. Carlos Enrique Perezg driver)
3. Race: Lap 56 > Time: 1:39:18
4. Arriving at the curve, I decide to take the inside line, giving as much space as possible so that Carlos Enrique Perez can move on the right. He attacks me when he enters the curve as if I were not there, he makes me lose my way and doesn't wait.

1. Henk-Jan Steneker
2. Norbert Prekker
3. 00:29:04 Race, lap 14 turn 1
4. Prekker hits my rear turning me around into the wall where I lose my wing and get suspension damage. He drives on like nothing happened

I'm lost here! From the start I placed myself outside the racing line of the cars behind me, without defending my position or making it difficult to be overtaken. I just wanted to finish the race without incident, as I had problems with a power outage during the qualifier. I was hit from behind in an apex where I left the outside to be overtaken, the driver hits me, I lost 135s for repairs, I lost 3 laps and saw my race ruined by a driver who was involved in many incidents. How can I be the cause of a crash like that. Review my 1st lap and review this driver's lap before hitting me. please. If they still consider me responsible for any accident involving other drivers, I will accept any penalty without questioning anything.

Jair Oliveira wrote:

I'm lost here! From the start I placed myself outside the racing line of the cars behind me, without defending my position or making it difficult to be overtaken. I just wanted to finish the race without incident, as I had problems with a power outage during the qualifier. I was hit from behind in an apex where I left the outside to be overtaken, the driver hits me, I lost 135s for repairs, I lost 3 laps and saw my race ruined by a driver who was involved in many incidents. How can I be the cause of a crash like that. Review my 1st lap and review this driver's lap before hitting me. please. If they still consider me responsible for any accident involving other drivers, I will accept any penalty without questioning anything.

Appeal rejected, not followed the form for appeals

1. Alexey Savelyev (PromixFlame and PromixFrost CEO)
2. Tim Hauck
3. Race: Laps from 16 to 28 (31:33, 31:59, 32:05, 33:24, 34:01, 34:30, 35:15), Laps from 44 to 48 (56:24, 56:47, 58:30, 58:37)
4. Indirect integration into a fight for the win of the race, being a lapped car and thus helping his teammate, conducting a team order. Tim Hauck being a sister car to Antonis Paparinopoulos working on his teammate in order to let him: During Lap 16-28 to get close to Fabian Balle, and During Lap 44-48 get away from the pair of Andres Valles and Fabian Balle. Which makes it both team orders incident and getting indirectly involved into a fight for the win. Since none of these terms are in the actual rulebook for the season, it makes this up to the stewards to direct this investigation. In Indycar racing you are not prohibited to stay infront of the car trying to lap you if you are actually faster, and if you are creating no issues trying to defend when they try to attack you, which I stated timestamps for when Tim Hauck fights respectfully Fabian Balle and Andres Valles on some occasions making it very dangerous.

Purpose of this protest is to raise awareness to this disrespectful misconduct and to regulate this properly. Lapped racers are to be either allowed to do whatever they want to during races, or they should yeild in a certain amount of time. Otherwise, like we saw today, just leaving it to "stay respectful to each other" aren't going to do much, and it will create future precedents.

1. Vladislav Zenkov
2. Carlos Enrique Perez
3. Race, 1:18:20
4. Backmarker blocking the lead lap car.

1. Yaroslav Shelomanov
2. Mathieu Leclerc
3. 1:27:35-40, Race
4. Backmarker blocking the lead lap car.

1. Vladislav Zenkov
2. Harvey Shepherd
3. Race, 1:46:38
4. Cutted the chicane, started to accelerate much earlier than normal racing line, gained a lot of extra speed and used it for overtaking Timon Soovik on next braking point.

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Mark Varadi
3. Race my lap 53 1h09.36
4. i am P15 black hard tires i am slower than red's, Mark P24 is faster than me in red soft tires
after turn8 i let him got through i start to brake to ease the pass but at entry of turn 10, he hit me at high speed (250 kmh), creating some suspension damages (dark blue) to my car but not repairable (it is N/A in pit menu)

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Mark Varadi
3. Race my lap 66 1h26.40
4. i get out of pitlane from my tire change (horrible vibrations with black tires and put new fresh red soft tires), then i got blue flag i let pass P4 Andres Valles at turn 8, Mark P24 dont hold the apex, hit me creating some suspension damages, one more time, (dark blue) to my car but not repairable (it is N/A in pit menu)

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Yaroslav Shelomanov
3. Race, lap 67 1:27:35
4. lap 66 i put new fresh red soft tires then lap 67 i got blue flag at turn 1 i stay on the outside of track, right side for turn 2 but Yarsolav went too long on brakes and goes in grass.
at turn 6 i brake a bit earlier to let pass one more time Yaroslav, my onboard view i don't go to apex to let him go through, i decided not to go to the apex but i think Yaroslv slips, understeer by touching the inside curb and touch me 1h27.39, and maybe i did not leave a large space also but i really wanted to let him by at this moment, at this turn.
at exit of turn 6 to turn 7 1h27.41 second contact i am out of track i can not see him in my blind corner try to avoid grass
i let him pass at trun 8.

MatLeclerc wrote:

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Mark Varadi
3. Race my lap 53 1h09.36
4. i am P15 black hard tires i am slower than red's, Mark P24 is faster than me in red soft tires
after turn8 i let him got through i start to brake to ease the pass but at entry of turn 10, he hit me at high speed (250 kmh), creating some suspension damages (dark blue) to my car but not repairable (it is N/A in pit menu)

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Mark Varadi
3. Race my lap 66 1h26.40
4. i get out of pitlane from my tire change (horrible vibrations with black tires and put new fresh red soft tires), then i got blue flag i let pass P4 Andres Valles at turn 8, Mark P24 dont hold the apex, hit me creating some suspension damages, one more time, (dark blue) to my car but not repairable (it is N/A in pit menu)

1. Mathieu Leclerc
2. Yaroslav Shelomanov
3. Race, lap 67 1:27:35
4. lap 66 i put new fresh red soft tires then lap 67 i got blue flag at turn 1 i stay on the outside of track, right side for turn 2 but Yarsolav went too long on brakes and goes in grass.
at turn 6 i brake a bit earlier to let pass one more time Yaroslav, my onboard view i don't go to apex to let him go through, i decided not to go to the apex but i think Yaroslv slips, understeer by touching the inside curb and touch me 1h27.39, and maybe i did not leave a large space also but i really wanted to let him by at this moment, at this turn.
at exit of turn 6 to turn 7 1h27.41 second contact i am out of track i can not see him in my blind corner try to avoid grass
i let him pass at trun 8.

Unfortunately protests are rejected, the deadline of sending past