Infractions & Penalties

12.1.1 AUTHORITY

1. The Executive Directors, Race Director, and Chief Technical Inspector have the authority to penalize, disqualify, or suspend any entrant for violations of the technical rules.
2. Penalties Under Green – The following procedure shall be utilized if penalties are applied by a Race Director under green flag conditions.
   1. The Race Director or appointee will make every reasonable effort to provide driver and/or team with description of infraction and exact penalty being applied.
   2. Driver Team can:
      • Accept penalties and continue racing.
      • Accept penalties and retire from event.
      • Continue racing and challenge penalty at the finish with a Red Card.
   3. The Race Director has the overarching and FINAL authority to disqualify/black flag any competitor at any time for safety infractions.

12.1.2 INFRACTIONS

The following list of infractions is a guideline used by Ultra4 in assessing penalties. These guidelines are not meant to infer that these are the only possible infractions, nor the only penalties that may be assessed against any entrant participating in an Ultra4 event.

1. Unauthorized Competitive Advantage
   1. Minor infraction – usually unintentional, non-strategic, accidental in nature resulting in a minor competitive advantage. Generally, yields up to a 15 second advantage.
      • Minor infraction penalty: five (5) times the received benefit.
      • Received advantage will be determined by the Race Director.
   2. Major infraction – intentional, strategic, and blatant disregard for the rules resulting in a major competitive advantage. Generally, yields more than a 15 second advantage.
      • Major infraction penalty: ten (10) times the received benefit.
      • Received advantage will be determined by the Race Director.
   3. Course/Trail Bypassing
      • Skipping or bypassing a marked trail in its entirety will result in a DNF at the mark where the course was deviated. i.e., skipping 3rd lap only trails at King of the Hammers.
   4. Time penalties will be added to the actual finish time of the competitor and will not be used to determine if the competitor has finished outside of the allowed time limit for the race. If it is found by the Race Director that the competitor has short coursed in order to make the finish under the time limit the finish time will include the penalty minutes resulting in a DNF.
2. Conduct detrimental to FOCUS, ULTRA4 or the Event. Any action deemed detrimental to FOCUS, ULTRA4 or the specific event will result in automatic disqualification for the season up to permanent ban subject to CRB review.
3. Any entrant disqualified from any event for any reason whatsoever forfeits any and all prize money, points, and contingencies won in that event. Entrant will not be entitled to a refund of any portion of entry fee.
4. When video replay is available it will be used to resolve a timing issue, scoring issue, or red card situation.