1. Performance adjustments may be made until the start of the warm-up session ahead of each event.

1. The rules, limitations and deadlines for such a mid-season car model change will be outlined by the series administration.

Pre-Qualifying: Pre-Qualifying at Interlagos (Autodromo José Carlos Pace - Grand Prix)

Round 1: Monza 1000 (Autodromo Nazionale Monza - Grand Prix)

Round 2: Nürburgring 1000 (Nürburgring Grand-Prix-Strecke - BES/WEC)

Round 3: Barcelona 1000 (Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya - Historic)

Round 4: Fuji 1000 (Fuji International Speedway - Grand Prix)

Round 5: Magny-Cours 1000 (Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours - Grand Prix)

Round 6: Spa Franchorchamps 1000 (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Endurance Pits)

Round 7: Sebring 1000 (Sebring International Raceway - International)

Back-Up: Motegi 1000 (Twin Ring Motegi - Grand Prix)

1. After their initial classification, driver ratings may be updated should a competitor’s Road iRating have changed significantly enough to change his driver rating by January 1st, 2023 at 00:00 UTC or if the series administration determines that a driver is significantly outperforming or is being significantly outperformed by the vast majority of the other drivers with their driver rating.
2. Should the series administration suspect that a driver has artificially lowered their Road iRating ahead of being added to an entry’s line-up for the first time or ahead of the mid-season driver rating update in order to be classified with a lower rating, the driver in question may have their driver rating upgraded to a higher rating immediately.

1. Professional (or PRO) for drivers with a Road iRating of 5000 or more.
2. Professional-Amateur (or PRO-AM) for drivers with a Road iRating of at least 4000 but no more than 4999.
3. Amateur (or AM) for drivers with a Road iRating of at least 3000 but no more than 3999.
4. Drivers who do not fulfil the minimum standard to be classified as an AM-rated driver may apply to the series administration for permission to compete in that category. Whether permission will be granted to the team making the request will be decided by the series administration on a case-by-case basis.

1. The team manager registered on file will be the sole official point of contact for the series administration.

1. The Team manager must also list their address or their team’s address which will be used as the billing address should the entry qualify or be called up to fill a spot on the grid.
2. Regardless of whether the Grand Touring Professional (GTP) or Grand Touring Amateur (GTA) class is chosen when filing an entry, every GTP and GTA entry will also automatically be entered into the combined Grand Touring (GT) class.

1. Each entry entered into the Prototype (P) class must pick a still available number raging between 2 and 99.
2. Each entry entered into the Grand Touring Professional (GTP) class must pick a still available number ranging between 102 and 199.
3. Each entry entered into the Grand Touring Amateur (GTA) class must pick a still available number ranging between 202 and 299.
4. The previous season’s Prototype (P) teams’ champions may request to use car number 1 should they return to the series in the P class.
5. The previous season’s Grand Touring (GT) teams’ champions may request to use car number 101 should they return to the series in the GTP class or car number 201 should they return to the series in the GTA class.

1. Team managers must list every driver’s first and last name, nationality as well as iRacing user ID. Team managers may also list their drivers’ email addresses to enable them to file protests for their entry.

1. The driver line-up of any entry competing in the P category may only list drivers with a PRO or PRO-AM rating. Drivers with an AM rating are not eligible for the P category.
2. The driver line-up of any entry competing in the GTP category may only list drivers with a PRO or PRO-AM rating. Drivers with an AM rating are not eligible for the GTP category.
3. The driver line-up of any entry competing in the GTA category may only list drivers with a PRO-AM or AM rating. Drivers with a PRO rating are eligible, but may only be listed if at least one PRO-AM and one AM driver or two AM drivers are also part of the driver line-up. Should a team entering the GTA category enter using an automatic entry (see Section 6), only a single AM driver must be listed.

1. Decisions like these will be made based on a team's, team manager's or driver's conduct in other leagues as well as official iRacing series in the weeks and months leading up to the entry request, though other reasons may also factor into the decision.
2. The decision to reject the entry of a team, team manager or driver will be made on a case-by-case basis for each season, meaning that teams, team managers and drivers who are prevented from entering may attempt to enter the series again in future.
3. The series administration's decision to reject the entry of any team, team manager or driver into the current season is final and cannot be appealed.

1. The series administration also reserves itself the right to transfer automatic entries to teams other than those who earned them, provided that the new team is deemed to be a continuation of the team that would otherwise have received the automatic entry in question.

1. Multiple entrants with automatic entries may swap them between each other, for example to switch which car category an automatic entry is valid for.
2. All involved parties must also contact the series administration to prove that each of them is in agreement regarding the swap.
3. Entrants may also file a request with the series administration in order to change which class their automatic entry or entries are valid for. Permission for the change will be granted by the series administration on a case-by-case basis.

1. No team will be permitted to file more than 3 entries per category.
2. Exceptions to Article 7.1.1 may be granted by the series administration on a case-by-case basis upon request.

1. Team managers of entries competing in the GTP or GTA category must declare their final car model choice no later than Sunday, October 16th, 2022 at 23:59 UTC. Following this point in-time, every team will be locked into the car model they currently have listed as part of their entry on the series’ website. The only circumstances under which teams may change their car model without penalty after this deadline is outlined in Articles 2.3 and 2.3.1.
2. Any changes to an entry’s driver line-up must be made no later than 24 hours before the start of each event’s warm-up session. For pre-qualifying, the deadline will be 12 hours before the start of the pre-qualifying period.
3. Driver line-up changes made after the deadline listed in Article 7.3.2 will result in a 45 second time penalty for the affected team should a driver that was added to a team’s line-up too late compete in the race. For pre-qualifying, all driver line-up changes made after the deadline will be invalid with those drivers not being permitted to participate in pre-qualifying.
4. Following pre-qualifying, each entry’s 2 fastest drivers from the pre-qualifying period will be locked into their team’s line-up until Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 23:59 UTC. These drivers may not be moved to another entry’s line-up until this deadline has passed.

1. The exact split of P, GTP and GTA entries among all cars admitted will be determined by the number of entries wishing to compete in each category, but no category will be allowed to have fewer than 14 or more than 20 participants in any case. For the GTP and GTA categories, should the demand in one category significantly outweigh that of the other, both classes may also be merged.
2. The number of entries permitted to compete in each category will be announced no later than the entry deadline ahead of pre-qualifying (see Article 7.3).
3. Should no more or fewer than 50 entries wish to participate in the series, pre-qualifying will be cancelled and all teams will automatically be admitted to enter the season.
4. Should no more or fewer than 45 entries wish to participate in the series, the series will be cancelled.

1. Pre-qualified teams will be contacted regarding payment. All payment details will be provided.
2. Any qualified teams that fail to pay the entry fee by this point in time will lose their spot in the series to the next best team in their respective car class from the pre-qualifying results, who will then be given 48 hours to pay the entry fee and claim the vacant spot.
3. Any qualified entries that fail to pay the entry fee by the deadline listed in Article 7.5 will be refused entry into any event until they have provided confirmation that their payment has been submitted.
4. Should an entry in question not be able to provide confirmation that they have submitted their payment, the series administration may call up the highest-placed waiting list team in that entry’s category to fill their spot on the grid instead with a new payment deadline and details being provided to that team in due course.

1. Every new entry will automatically be given the ‘Pending’ status.
2. Once a filed entry has been reviewed by the series administration, a team’s status will be set to ‘Reviewed’.
3. All teams who have entered the series using an automatic entry as well as all teams who have advanced through pre-qualifying to the main series will have their status set to ‘Qualified’ while the status of all reserve list teams will be set to ‘Reserve’.
4. Once a team with the ‘Qualified’ status has paid the entry fee in full (see Article 7.5), the team status will be changed to ‘Confirmed’.

1. Teams who replace previously confirmed teams before the 3rd event of the season must also pay the full entry fee of 150.00 € (Euro) (not including VAT, processing fees or transaction charges) before they’re allowed to compete.
2. Teams who replace previously confirmed teams after the 3rd event of the season but before the 5th event of the season must pay a reduced entry fee of 112.50 € (Euro) (not including VAT, processing fees or transaction charges) before they’re allowed to compete.
   
   Teams who replace previously confirmed teams after the 5th event of the season but before the 7th event of the season must pay a reduced entry fee of 75.00 € (Euro) (not including VAT, processing fees or transaction charges) before they’re allowed to compete.
3. Teams who replace previously confirmed teams after the 6th event of the season must pay a reduced entry fee of 37.50 € (Euro) (not including VAT or transaction charges) before they’re allowed to compete.
4. The series administration can decide whether they wish to fill vacant spots on the grid by calling up waiting list teams on a case-by-case basis.

1. Any team that doesn’t submit a car paint, as well as any team that has their car paint rejected by the series administration, will be assigned a generic livery by the series administration.

1. Teams must be able to provide written permission from the companies involved, to be allowed to run sponsors' logos on their car.
2. Logos of products that compete with iRacing (such as the Gran Turismo and Forza franchises for example) will not be permitted. The same is the case for logos of automotive brands that compete with the brand of car that they're displayed on.
3. It will be strictly forbidden for paint schemes to directly or indirectly promote tobacco or any products that are restricted to minors by law (e.g.: alcohol, knives, etc.). They must not include any kind of political message.
4. No team liveries will be allowed to run 'parodies' of logos or other intellectual property.

1. These mandatory elements will be available on the series website here.
2. The mandatory elements must not be edited and must be placed in the exact pixel position they’re in on the website.

car_num_team_XXXXXX.tga	(XXXXXX should be your team's ID)

car_spec_team_XXXXXX.tga	(XXXXXX should be your team’s ID)

1. Teams, who wish to make use of custom spec maps, must ensure that none of the paint elements mandated by the series administration are made overly reflective or have their appearance changed in other ways.

1. It is up to the series administration to judge sufficient distinction.

1. Team’s car number, team name and car class must be included in the email’s subject line when sending paint files. An example for an acceptable subject line format can be seen below:
   

   Subject Line: SCOES Paints (#0 / Example Esports)

2. It’s also possible to send multiple paint files in a single email, but it must be clear which files belong to which entry in the mail itself.

1. If there are issues with a submitted paint file, the series administration will contact the team in question to explain what must be changed for the paint to be in compliance with all rules.

1. All eligible drivers will be sent an invite to said iRating league in-time for pre-qualifying.

1. The precise number of available slots in the P, GTP and GTA categories that teams may qualify for will be determined once the series administration has determined the exact split of P, GTP and GTA spots on the series’ grid (see Article 7.4 to 7.4.2).
2. Once this exact split has been determined, the number of automatic entries in each of those categories will be deducted from the total number of spots in that class to arrive at the amount of open slots in the category for pre-qualifying.

1. Any entry, for which only one driver has completed a valid 10 lap run, will be disqualified. The same applies to any entry using a driver who was not eligible to compete in pre-qualifying, was not part of a team’s line-up before the entry deadline or was not part of the driver line-up at all during pre-qualifying.

1. Should a driver’s replay be requested by the series administration, this replay must be made available to the series administration no later than Monday, September 26th, 2022 at 23:59 UTC.

1. No penalty will be given to teams who had their car number taken away by a team that registered before them.

1. During the first 15 minute long segment, running from the start of the qualifying session until the 15 minute mark, only Grand Touring Amateur (GTA) class teams may go on-track and qualify.
2. During the second 15 minute long segment, running from the 20 minute mark until the 35 minute mark, only Grand Touring Professional (GTP) class teams may go on-track and qualify.
3. During the third 15 minute long segment, running from the 40 minute mark until the end of the qualifying session, only Prototype (P) class teams may go on-track and qualify.
4. During the first 5 minute long break between the first and second qualifying segment, GTP class cars may queue up at the exit of the pit lane (ahead of the green cones demarcating the end of the speed limited area) while waiting for the start of their class’ qualifying segment.
5. During the second 5 minute long break between the second and third qualifying segment, P class cars may queue up at the exit of the pit lane (ahead of the green cones demarcating the end of the speed limited area) while waiting for the start of their class’ qualifying segment.

1. For GTA entries, only drivers with a PRO-AM or an AM rating may pilot the car during qualifying.

1. ‘Left the pit lane’ is defined as having passed the green cones that demarcate the end of the speed-limited area.
2. Teams who are found to have left the pit lane again after the driver has exited the car or towed back to the pit lane as described above, will have 45 seconds added to their race time in the event the violation occurred.
3. Teams who have lost connection to the server will also not be permitted to rejoin the track again.

1. For this purpose, a full lap is defined as a lap that does not start or end in the pit lane.

1. All cars must remain in grid formation while also keeping to the circuit’s pace car speed until the start of the race. Frequent accelerating and braking as well as deviating too far from the pace car speed may be penalised.
2. The first GTP or GTA class car must leave a gap of 3 to 5 seconds to the last P car ahead of them at all times. For the race start, both GTP and GTA will start as a single group of GT cars.
3. All drivers must ignore the green flag signal as displayed by iRacing. Drivers who fail to ignore the green flag may be penalised, especially if they cause an incident through their violation of this rule.
4. The race start for each start group, P and the combined GTP and GTA group, will be initiated by the pole sitting car beginning to accelerate in a designated start zone. The exact location of this start zone will be communicated via the event briefing ahead of each round of the series.
5. Once the class pole sitter has begun accelerating, all cars will be free to race.
6. Should the pole sitter have accelerated too early, too late or slowed down again after increasing their speed, they may be penalised.
7. Teams that start from the pit lane must line up at pit exit in a queue. They will not be allowed to leave the lane until the series administration declares the pit exit open.
8. Any team that is given a black flag by iRacing despite complying with Articles 13.3.1 to 13.3.7 may request to have that black flag cleared by the series administration.

1. In the P category, any single PRO or PRO-AM ranked driver may not complete more than 70 % of an entry’s total number of laps.
2. In the GTP category, any single PRO or PRO-AM-ranked driver may not complete more than 70 % of an entry’s total number of laps.
3. In the GTA category, all PRO-ranked and PRO-AM-ranked drivers together may not complete more than 50% of an entry’s total number of laps. Any single AM-ranked driver may not complete more than 70% of an entry’s total number of laps.
4. For all lap share limits, fractional amounts of laps will always be rounded to the closest full number. An example of how lap share limits are calculated can be seen below.
   

   A GTP team has completed 157 laps with Driver 1 having completed 110 laps and Driver 2 having completed 47 laps.
   => 70 % of 157 laps is 109.9 laps => 109.9 is rounded up to 110
   => The team in question and Driver 1 is within the lap share limit

5. Any completed laps beyond the lap share limit of a driver or a group of drivers, as described in Articles 13.4.1 and 13.4.3, will be deducted from the team’s total number of completed laps.

1. Any team that reaches the incident limit described in Article 13.5 will be given a 15 second time penalty.
2. Following the first penalty, teams will be given a further 15 second time penalty for every 15th incident point beyond the number of incident points they were given their first penalty for.
3. Any time penalties relating to breaches of the incident limit that cannot be served during the race will be added to the affected entry’s race time after the race.

1. If a race has run for at least 75% of its advertised distance, the series administration may award full championship points based on the results of that race.
2. If a race has run for at least 50% of its advertised distance, the series administration may award half championship points based on the results of that race.
3. If less than 50% of the advertised distance has passed before the race was stopped via the red flag, the result will not count towards any championships.
4. In any case, the result of any abandoned race will always be based on the running order on the penultimate lap that was completed by the overall race leader before the issues that led to the race stoppage started occurring.

1. Teams may not protest the qualifying results as they are final and cannot be modified by the series administration.
2. The series administration may protest any incident they’ve observed themselves at any point during or after the protest deadline listed in Article 17.1.1.
3. For all protests filed, the series administration will attempt to reach a verdict as quickly as possible, to ensure that as many of the protests as possible will result in the guilty parties being penalised during the race if applicable.
4. All verdicts made and potential penalties given after the conclusion of the race will be published as soon as possible following the protest deadline (see Article 17.1).
5. Once the outcomes of all investigations have been published, the race results will be declared official.

• Warning
• Time Penalty (minimum of 5 seconds)
• Drive-Through Penalty
• Stop & Go Penalty
• Stop & Hold Penalty (minimum of 10 seconds)
• Qualifying Ban
• Points Deduction
• Disqualification

• Qualifying Infringement (e.g.: impeding another car, contacts, collisions)
  Penalty: 10 second time penalty
• Start Procedure Violation (e.g.: reacting to iRacing green, jump start)
  Penalty: 15 second time penalty
• Driving Conduct Violation (e.g.: failing to leave racing room, improper pass)
  Penalty: 5 second time penalty
• Incident Responsibility (e.g.: spinning another car)
  Penalty: 15 second time penalty
• Blocking (reacting to moves of the following car)
  Penalty: 10 second time penalty
• Dangerous Track Re-entry (e.g.: forcing others to react when rejoining)
  Penalty: 30 second time penalty
• Reckless Driving (e.g.: intentionally causing a collision)
  Penalty: Disqualification

1. The penalties listed above are guidelines for penalties that may be assigned for such offences. Repeat offenders may receive harsher penalties, especially if they’ve been penalised for the same or a similar type of offence before, while less severe penalties may be assigned if deemed applicable.

1. Any team serving a penalty in the penalty box must come to a complete stop for the duration of the penalty, before driving away again and resuming their race.
2. After a penalty in the penalty box has been served, the team in question must inform the series administration of this in the appropriate channel on the series’ Discord server. When doing so, teams must state their car number and the lap and time code when they served their penalty. Failing to notify the series administration about this will result in said penalty being considered as not served.
3. Time penalties must be served within 90 minutes of being issued. Should there be fewer than 90 minutes to go in the race, teams may elect to not serve the penalty and to instead have the penalty time added to their race time after the race.
4. Should a team have incurred multiple time penalties, they will be allowed to serve the combined penalty time during a single stop, as long as all penalties were served within 90 minutes of being issued, were served in the correct location and the car was completely stopped for the combined duration of all penalties.
5. Should a time penalty not have been served as outlined in Article 18.3.1, due to the stationary time being too short, the penalty being served in the wrong location or the penalty being served too late, the team in question will have a further penalty with double the penalty time awarded to them for violating the previously mentioned regulations.
6. The penalty outlined in Article 18.3.5 also applies in cases where multiple penalties were served incorrectly, resulting in a further time penalty with double the combined penalty time being awarded to the team for the violation.

• Qualifying Infringement (e.g.: impeding another car, contacts, collisions)
  Penalty: 1 driver licence point
• Start Procedure Violation (e.g.: reacting to iRacing green, jump start)
  Penalty: 2 driver licence points
• Driving Conduct Violation (e.g.: failing to leave racing room, improper pass)
  Penalty: 1 driver licence point
• Incident Responsibility (e.g.: spinning another car)
  Penalty: 2 driver licence points
• Blocking (reacting to moves of the following car)
  Penalty: 1 driver licence point
• Dangerous Track Re-entry (e.g.: forcing others to react when rejoining)
  Penalty: 3 driver licence points
• Reckless Driving (e.g.: intentionally causing a collision)
  Penalty: 12 driver licence points

1. Automated penalties given out by iRacing will also not result in a driver receiving any more driver licence points.

1. The SCO Endurance Series Prototype teams' championship title will be awarded to the P category team which scores the most points throughout the whole season.
2. The SCO Endurance Series Grand Touring teams' championship title will be awarded to the combined GTP and GTA category team which scores the most points throughout the whole season.
3. The SCO Endurance Series Grand Touring Professional teams' championship title will be awarded to the GTP category team which scores the most points throughout the whole season.
4. The SCO Endurance Series Grand Touring Amateur teams' championship title will be awarded to the GTA category team which scores the most points throughout the whole season.

1. If neither team has a win or the same number of wins as the other tied team, the position will go to the team with the most second place finishes.
2. If the same applies there, this procedure is continued until the tie can be broken.

1. To be eligible to receive an automatic entry to future seasons, they must have participated in at least 5 events and must not fulfil any of the requirements that would lead to them being removed from the series due to inactivity.
2. The top 8 entries from the Prototype teams’ championship will receive automatic entries.
3. The top 12 entries from the Grand Touring teams’ championship will receive automatic entries.

1. Ahead of pre-qualifying, all eligible drivers will be sent an invite to this league.
2. Drivers must accept the league invites before they’re able to participate in any session.

1. The password needed to register and join these sessions will be included in the event briefing.
2. Team managers and drivers alike must not share any session passwords with any persons or groups who are not authorised to participate in the sessions held as part of the series.
3. Teams managers, drivers and other team affiliates who are caught or admit to having shared this information with unauthorised persons or groups may be penalised by the series administration with punishments such as removal from the series as well as exclusions from future Sports Car Open series and events.

1. All sessions will be hosted on the DE-Frankfurt server farm.
2. Dynamic sky will be used in all sessions unless otherwise specified.
3. Generated weather will be used in all sessions unless otherwise specified.
4. The starting track state will be set to ‘automatically generated’ unless otherwise specified.
5. The track state will be carried over from session to session unless otherwise specified.
6. Dust and marbles will be removed at the start of each session unless otherwise specified.
7. Full course cautions will be disabled.
8. No fast repairs will be available unless otherwise specified.
9. All driving aids with the exceptions of clutch assists will be disallowed.
10. The Sun Acceleration Multiplier will be set to '1x' at all times.
11. The Qualifying Conduct Scrutiny will be set to "Off" unless otherwise specified.
12. All cars will run without tyre limits unless otherwise specified.
13. All cars will be gridded together.

1. Once they’ve joined the Discord server, team managers, drivers and other team affiliates must request the appropriate user roles in order to gain access to the series’ channels.
2. The series administration advises all team managers and other team members who are in contact with drivers on-track to be online on the series Discord during events.

1. Should teams wish to communicate with each other or with others, they may do so by using channels like the series’ Discord or private messages outside the iRacing client.

1. All cars left out on-track must slowly return to the pit lane and park in their pit stalls. Overtaking is not permitted during this in-lap. Teams will be allowed to service their cars once they reach their pit stall.
2. Teams will be given a few minutes of time to make sure their drivers can reconnect to the server and to complete any pit work they may wish to do. After this period, the restart procedure begins.
3. The series administration will instruct the overall leader to leave the pit lane, to complete a lap and stop just shy of the timing line to not start a new lap.
4. One by one, all cars will be called out in order of their race position. They must also go around the track and park their car behind the car in front of them in the queue that’s been started by the race leader.
5. Cars that have lost laps due to their driver disconnecting from the session will be instructed to do an extra lap or multiple extra laps before parking up at the end of the queue.
6. The procedure described in Articles 23.1.4 and 23.1.5 will happen with all classes: First Prototype (P) and then the combined Grand Touring (GT) made up of the GTP and GTA categories.
7. Once all cars are back out on-track and have formed up in the queue, drivers will be instructed to slowly drive away from their parked positions and must stick to the pace car speed as closely as possible. When driving away, all cars must remain in single file formation and in line with the cars ahead of them with the combined GT grid made up of GTP and GTA cars leaving a 3-5 second gap to the last car ahead of them.
8. Once all queued up cars are back rolling, the series administration will give a ‘overall leader may accelerate’ signal via the in-game text chat.
9. Once the overall race leader has begun accelerating, all cars will be free to race once more.

1. The series administration will put up a new session made up of a 15 minute practice, a 5 minute qualifying and the race time the race originally had, minus the already elapsed time, the time it took to set up the new session and a further 30 minutes to account for the restart procedure.
2. All teams will be instructed to join the new session once it’s available. Teams must not set a time in the new sessions’ qualifying session.
3. Once the new session has switched over to the race, only the overall leader of the race will be allowed to grid their car.
4. Once the race starts, the series administration will instruct the overall leader to complete the first lap and stop just shy of the timing line to not start a new lap.
5. One by one, all cars will be called out from the pit lane in order of their race position. They must also go around the track and park their car behind the car in front of them in the queue that’s been started by the race leader.
6. The procedure described in Articles 23.2.4 and 23.2.5 will happen with all classes: First Prototype (P) and then the combined Grand Touring (GT) made up of the GTP and GTA categories.
7. Once all cars are back out on-track and have formed up in the queue, drivers will be instructed to slowly drive away from their parked positions and must stick to the pace car speed as closely as possible. When driving away, all cars must remain in single file formation and in line with the cars ahead of them with the combined GT grid made up of GTP and GTA cars leaving a 3-5 second gap to the last car ahead of them.
8. Once all queued up cars are back rolling, the series administration will give a ‘overall leader may accelerate’ signal via the in-game text chat.
9. Once the overall race leader has begun accelerating, all cars will be free to race once more.