Here are the guidelines for each field in our Race pages.

Finish

This is the official finishing position attributed to a driver. Usually this is cut in dry - most American series list positions 1 through the end of the field in their proper order. In almost all cases, we will defer to the explicit finishing position provided by the series/track.

Some racing series - mostly road course racing series outside of the US - classify non-finishers below drivers who were running at the the finish of the race, even if the non-finisher completed more laps. In such cases, we do indeed list the non-finishing drivers below the finishing drivers, with the last driver to finish one position ahead of the driver who completed the most laps that did not finish, with the remaining non-finishers ordered by lap count.

Some racing series - most notably F1 - do not include a finishing position for non-finishers on their official pages. Their results sheets will often say something similar to "NC"/"Ret"/"DNF". We DO provide a finishing position - (i.e. we will list a driver as finishing 18th instead of RET) - as the finishing position is important for calculating proper average finishes.

Many road course series penalize drivers positions (or positions via time penalty) after a stewards review. Our site strives to find and properly reflect all post-race adjustments. Any finish position that does not reflect a penalty is incorrect and should be brought to our attention.

Disqualified (DQ) drivers are moved to the tail end of the field. In the instance of more than one disqualified driver, the driver with the highest unofficial finish will be listed first, second-highest in second, and so on.

DNS (Did Not Start) and DNQ (Did Not Qualify) drivers do not receive a finishing position in any circumstance. Some series do attribute a finishing position to a DNS driver - we do not recognize those. DNS/DNQs never are listed above DQs since DQ drivers competed in a race and they do not (MyRacePass is a scoring system that puts DQ drivers below DNS drivers; we instead follow the method listed above).

Start

Starting position should reflect the official starting positions provided by the series or track.

Starting position should not purely the time trial order as inverts, penalties, or other adjustments made prior to the start of a feature.

Some series may move drivers official starting position on their results sheets (F1 for a grid penalty for instance), while others may not (NASCAR's "to the back" rule). We list the positions provided by the series and do not attempt to hold a rigorous objective standard. In other words, in a NASCAR race even if the pole winner has to start 40th due to a post-qualifying issue, their starting position is still listed as 1st as that is what NASCAR lists.

DNS/DNQ drivers never receive any data for the field. While DNS drivers do not receive data in the field, the drivers who did start are not moved up to 'fill the spot', they maintain their official starting positions even though the DNS driver's position is left blank.

Number

This reflects the official number given by scoring for the event. Even in an event where there may be multiple of some numbers and the teams do not add a prefix physically to their door, if scoring adds a number we will include that. (Ex. If there are two 29s in a race and one is listed as 29A and 29B, we will include those as the official number even if the teams never add any indiciation of "A" or "B" to their machines).

Our site does accept non-numerical characters if that is what is displayed on the car/scoring.

Sponsor

Sponsors of the car should be listed here, split by backslashes ("/").

In order to be listed in the sponsor section, the logo must be clearly visible on a car and in a relative notable position. That is to say, on the hood, side panel, decklid, or large associate sponsor on a quarter panel. Contingency sponsors do not count. Use your best judgement about associate sponsors - we would advise to include sparingly.

We do not enforce a specific sponsor naming sequence, but in general we would advise to list: Hood sponsors, then Side Panel sponsors, then any major associates.

Make

The official make of a car entered into the race. With the wide variety of sanctioning bodies we cover, there are a large variety of makes presented in official results sheets. Some organizations keep it relatively vague - NASCAR usually just denotes "Ford" or "Toyota" , while others may get very specific "2020 Honda Accord X".

We would encourage to match the result sheets - there is not need to go add model year or model to NASCAR races for instance.

In many short track series, cars run without clear makes listed on their cars. In those cases, it is okay to leave this field blank unless the body type makes the make/model particuarly obvious. Similarly, many dirt series assign more significance to the chassis builder than the type of sheetmetal and/or decals used on the car. In these cases list the chassis manufacturer, when known, here

Laps

The amount of laps completed by the driver in the event.

Drivers who made an attempt to start the race but did not complete 1 lap will recieve a "0" in the laps completed field but still be listed with a finishing position.

In event of penalty, even if a driver is moved below another driver who completed less laps, the penalized driver will retain the number of laps they completed. Same is true for a disqualified driver - if they initially won a race with 200 laps completed for instance, they should retain "200" in the laps column even if moved to the final position in the order.

DNS/DNQ drivers never receive any data for the field.

Led

Number of laps officially credited as led. Led is the number of laps led at the stripe - even if a driver takes the lead during a portion of a lap, they will not be credited with leading a lap unless it is led at the stripe.

In event of DQs, some series retroactively strip any laps led from that driver and reassign them to a non-disqualified driver. Conversely, some series do not change the lap leader information. We respect whatever methodology the series determines. If it is unclear whether a series reassigns laps led, we retain the laps with the disqualified/penalized drivers.

DNS/DNQ drivers never receive any data for the field.

Status

This reflects the status of a vehicle as provided by a series. A DNF (Did not Finish) is generally assumed for any driver who does not receive "running" as part of their status. Some series merely list "DNF"/"out" as opposed to a reason for dropping out of the race - if a reputatble source provides a clearer reason, we can replace it.

Some series, particularly road courses outside of the US, may revert back to a lap due to time limit. In those circumstances, if a driver is listed as "DNF" even though they completed all the registered laps of the race, they are still marked as being out even if they techniclly completed every lap (Ex. a driver crashed on the 16th lap of a race, the race hit its time limit then - the crashed driver is still listed as out even though they have the same number of completed laps (16) as the race (16)).

DQ drivers who we know to have been running at the finish of a race will receive a status as "running/DQ".

DNS and DNQ drivers receive these as their status. This is what places drivers the "Did Not Start" and "Did Not Qualify" rows in the race results.

Pts

Official points received by a driver in the event. This should include any additional points for pre-feature preliminaries - fast qualifier bonuses, heats, etc.,. DNQ and DNS drivers may receive points depending on the series. If known, provide those.

Class Races

For any page that uses the "Class" race template, such as sports car races or short track series that award finishing positions in relative order to what series a driver is registered with, the following rules apply:

Class: The official class assigned to the vehicle. In sports car racing, this tends to be simple such as "GT3" or "GTLM". In combination races for series that do not normally assign classes, simply provide the acronym for the race series the driver is registered under (Ex. in the old NASCAR K&N Pro Series combination races, we assigned East drivers to the "East" class and West drivers to the "West" class).

Class finish: The relative finishing position for the class in question. Follows the same rules as the "normal" finish field.

Class start: The relative starting position for the class in question. Follows the same rules as the "normal" start field.