[Russell Sobie]

True, as I suggested in other topic, the daily races (this season it is Abarth 500, Tatuus and Ginetta) should be only to gain rating and incident average, and they shouldn´t be championships. They would be open for everyone and you could test your skills there, get some experience when driving against others, respect others, practice attacking and defending, braking early etc., you don´t need to fight for the championship in these series.

Then as Russell said, all the series maybe shouldn´t be opened for everyone, for rookies etc., and it should be from some rating. The rookies could gain the rating in those series I mentioned above and then when they are experienced, they can join the other series. Maybe, besides the minimum rating required for the series, a maximum incident average amount could be applied, too. For example maximum incident average allowed to race in some series would be 3. A person who has bigger average wouldn´t be allowed to join the series before he gets his incident average down. Not a bad idea, or?

As someone with a current incident average of 3.45, I think this is a horrible idea.

Seriously though, I get into scrapes mostly due to other drivers (the ones that Neil is talking about in the first place). If I suddenly couldn't compete in "non-rookie" races because I had one T1 clusterfuck too many I would be very disappointed. I'd also probably just avoid racing in any of the open races for fear of raising my incident average. Seems like it would be a downward spiral. I think going off of driver rating alone should be fine. It doesn't take long to get above 400 if you have a little patience and actually practice car/track combos before races on the regular.