The AASA announces new competition judicial system

With the Australian Auto-Sport Alliance’s continued push to make racing more affordable, more convenient and more rewarding, the AASA is pleased to announce its new judicial system.

The new system takes inspiration from other professional sports, the AASA will introduce a yellow and red card judicial system to administer and enforce competition rules and driving standards across all circuit racing categories.

The new system is designed to simplify, improve efficiency and on balance provide a fairer system of enforcement at AASA sanctioned circuit racing events.

Yellow cards are warnings for minor indiscretions, not penalties. Red cards are a penalty handed due to either collecting three yellows cards in an event or an automatic red for a serious breach of rules.

The AASA was keen to make aware that the driving standards in competition rules will not change, but the way they are enforced will.

The yellow card and red card system mirrors other professional sports such as soccer, basketball and rugby, in which yellow cards represent warnings and red cards mean something more significant.

Professional drivers and industry experts will be on hand to aid in making the judicial decisions.

Yellow and red cards manage behavioural and procedural conduct including, but not limited to race event requirements, driver conduct, driving standards, sportsmanship, team conduct and any other matters relating to the event.

Cards, whether yellow or red may be shown during the race via the starters box or via the AASA timing system. Post race cards will be delivered via category representatives.

The full AASA regulations can be found here.

Marcos Ambrose – AASA Competition and Commercial Director

“At AASA we continue to look at how we go racing and look at ways to be more efficient, make things more convenient and allow racing to be more rewarding and enjoyable for competitors,” Ambrose said.

“Circuit racing has strict rules in place for a good reason, and the new AASA Card system will make no difference to driving standards and competition rules – just the way we adjudicate and enforce them.

“The yellow card and red card system has been introduced to simplify the judicial process, speed up decision making and on balance make more sensible decisions to create a fairer system for our competitors.

“We won’t get it right all the time and we have a query process in place via category representatives to provide a circuit breaker mechanism for the competitor.

“AASA are engaging professional drivers and industry experts both current and former operate and support the new series and will be working closely with each category to determine the appropriate sporting regulations for each series.”