Each FASCAR team will be built from three components - the driver, the race car, and the pit crew. Each team will have one driver and one pit crew component but will be allowed to select up to three race car components.

The race car components will be identified as "Primary", "Secondary", or "Tertiary". Each NASCAR race car can only be owned by a single FASCAR team in each capacity. In other words, only one car could have a NASCAR race car as the "Primary" but a second FASCAR team could have that same race car as their "Secondary" and a third FASCAR team could have that car as their "Tertiary".

Each week a team owner can select which one of his three race car components he wants to run that week. Only the points earned by that race car will be used to calculate that FASCAR team's points for that race. Any penalty points assessed by NASCAR due to infractions for a given race will only be assessed to a FASCAR team if that team uses the offending component during a race in which the NASCAR team receives a penalty. If a FASCAR team makes no change to their starting race car component between races, then that team's starting race car component will remain the same as the previous race. Also, if a FASCAR team fails to designate a starting race car component prior to the first race of the season, then the "Primary" race car component will be used by default.

In FASCAR, points are accumulated based on a FASCAR team - not each component of that team. Therefore, if a team makes a component change during the season, the points earned for the team by that component do not change. In NASCAR this is not the case. If Tony Stewart has amassed 2,500 points for Joe Gibbs Racing and suddenly decides to switch to a Richard Childress Monte Carlo (barring legal consequences, of course), those points travel with Tony to his new team. A FASCAR team(s) would see no change in their season points should such a change occur.

Each team should create a name. A sample FASCAR team name might be something like “Tarheel Racing” or “P & S Racing”. The team name is up to the owner(s). Names in poor taste or with offensive wording may be rejected.

The driver for each team will be selected from among the available NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers. Also, each FASCAR team will select a car from the available NASCAR race cars in Nextel Cup competition. Finally, each team will select a pit crew from the available NASCAR teams.

A pre-season team meeting will be held in which all teams that will be competing in the coming season will meet to discuss rules and/or changes, and to hold the team auction. Details of the time and location of the pre-season meeting should be dispersed well in advance of the first race.

In order to allow each team owner the chance to select the components he or she wants for his/her race team, an auction will be held at the pre-season meeting. Each component (driver, primary car, secondary car, tertiary car, pit crew) will be brought up on the block by the auctioneer and may be purchased by one and only one FASCAR team. It is important to note, however, that each real NASCAR team is composed of three FASCAR components and, therefore, could in effect be bought by three seperate FASCAR teams. In the case of race cars, each NASCAR race car could be bought by up to three FASCAR teams, once in each category of car. The auction follows standard procedures regarding the bidding and purchase of items offered.

The auction will consist of two phases. The first phase will include the driver, the primary race car, and the pit crew. The second phase will be for the purchase of a team's secondary and tertiary cars.

In addition, the following rules apply to the first phase:

• Each team will receive a fictitious $1 million dollars for use in bidding.
• Each component offered for bid will begin at a cost of $5,000. No lower bids will be accepted and if no opening bids are offered, the component will be returned for later offering.
• If a component is brought up for bid with an opening bid from a team owner and no other team offers a counter, the first team owner has the right to withdraw his bid at any time prior to counter bids.
• If the price of any component is raised through bidding to the maximum allowed price ($990,000) and no impass can be reached between the bidding teams, that component is shelved by the auctioneer and will be brought back out at the end of the auction.
• Any team that has spent the allotted $1 million dollars without completing his/her team (i.e. - a driver, car, and pit crew) is removed from the auction at the time the money is used and must complete his/her team after all other bidding has been completed. In the event that more than one team ends up in this predicament, the teams will complete the selection of components in a round-robin fashion based on the decreasing order in which teams depleted their funds. In other words, the teams that most rapidly spend their cash will select last after the auction has been completed.

Once the first phase of the auction and any remaining selections have been completed, all FASCAR teams will consist of a driver, primary car, and pit crew from real NASCAR teams.

At that time the second phase will begin. This phase will be similar to phase one with the exceptions being that each team will have a combined total of $500,000 with which to purchase their secondary and tertiary race cars. Also, any money not spent in the first phase by a team may be carried over and used by that same team in the second phase.

During the second phase, both secondary and tertiary race cars will be auctioned at the same time and brought up at random, based on the previous season's finishing order in the same manner as the components of the first phase.

At any point during the season a FASCAR team can change any component. A driver can be fired and any available NASCAR driver can be hired; a team owner can drop his/her car and pick-up any available car; or, a pit crew can be replaced. The only restriction is that the selected driver, car, or pit crew must not already be part of another FASCAR team in the same capacity. Changes must be submitted to the FASCAR Director of Competition prior to scheduled NASCAR qualifying for the race in which the change is intended to take effect.

Team owners are also allowed to trade components as each team owner desires, provided the collusion rule is not violated. However, when trading race car components only like components can be traded in order to prevent a single NASCAR race car from being owned in the same capacity by two or more FASCAR teams. In other words, a team owner can only trade his primary car for another primary car, a secondary car for a secondary car, or a tertiary car for a tertiary car.

The only exceptions to this rule are in regard to NASCAR driver injuries after qualifying has been completed. See the section on Emergency Transactions for further details.

To modify his/her team, a team owner has to complete a Component Transaction. The procedures for a transaction are listed below.

• All transaction requests must be submitted to the FASCAR Director of Competition. If the Director of Competition has a team and wishes to complete a transaction, he must notify at least one other team owner.
• Transactions open at 8:00am on the day following a FASCAR event and close at the scheduled beginning of qualifying for the subsequent NASCAR event.
• When a transaction request is placed, it will be recorded by the Director of Competition. At the scheduled start of NASCAR qualifying for the next race, all transactions are finalized. At any point prior to this, a team owner can withdraw his transaction. In situations where two or more FASCAR team owners request the same component, a tie-breaker will take effect when transactions close. The first tie-breaker will be season points - the team with the lowest total wins the tie-breaker and receives his/her component. This is to balance the competition for teams that are suffering in the season points battle. In cases where the teams are tied in points, the tie-breaker goes to the team with least wins. In subsequent ties, the order of resolution is as follows: least number of top-5 finishes, least number of top-10 finishes, worst average finish, most DNFs, and finally, a coin toss.
• All transaction requests are confidential until finalized at qualifying.

As we have seen tragically illustrated in the past, a driver and team can be devestated by a post-qualifying incident. When these events occur, a FASCAR team can find itself missing a vital component. The following rules apply in these situations.

In the occurence of some incident which eliminates any component of a FASCAR team following official qualifying, the team owner of that component has the right to waive the affected unit and select a replacement from the available pool based on the following criteria:

• The team owner can contact any FASCAR official or appointed individual in the designated manner to accomplish the transaction. Should the team be owned by a FASCAR official, he/she must notify at least one other team owner of the intended action.
• The Director of Competition will attempt to contact the affected owner(s) based on listed telephone numbers (FASCAR records, the telephone book, etc.) The Director of Competition is under no requirements, however, as to the amount of effort applied to contact owners.
• If a team completes an emergency transaction, the points for the race will be scored based on the new component list. The transaction is considered final and complete and the team holds no further claims on the waived component.
• In the event that an affected owner cannot be contacted or is unable to notify a designated individual in the appropriate manner, his/her team will have the option of being scored with the replacement component from the NASCAR race where applicable. In this case, however, the transaction is considered final and complete and the team holds no further claims on the waived component.

Collusion is defined in FASCAR as any attempt between two or more team owners to combine their resources in order to produce an unfairly competitive team. For example, this may be the result of a trade which sends a strong component to one team in return for a less competitive component or some type of agreement between owners to build one "super team". Collusion is illegal and all transactions deemed collusionary will be voided.

The FASCAR season will be based on the NASCAR Nextel Cup season. Each FASCAR race will occur at the same track on the same weeks as NASCAR events. Any rainouts in the real sport will be duplicated in the fantasy sport. A small "per-race" entry fee may be charged to cover administrative expenses.

The FASCAR scoring system is based on the actual NASCAR Nextel Cup scoring system. FASCAR scoring will start at 180 points being awarded for a first place finish. A second place finish is awared 170 points and p oints then decrease 5 points per position through position six. Points then descrease 4 points per position through position eleven. From positions twelve through forty, the points differential decreases by 3 points per position. Finishing positions forty-one through forty-five are seperated by 2 points.

The scoring method for a FASCAR team will be the average for each component of the team. A FASCAR team will receive points for each component appropriate to that component’s official NASCAR finishing position. This total will then be divided by three to calculate an average. This average will be rounded to the nearest whole point. Next, a 5 point bonus is added to the team score if the team’s driver and/or car lead at least one official lap in the NASCAR race. In cases where a team’s car and driver each lead a lap, still - only 5 points are awarded to the FASCAR team. Finally, a FASCAR team receives an additional 5 bonus points when it’s driver leads the most NASCAR laps in a race. In the event that more than one driver ties with the most laps lead, each FASCAR team whose driver is involved in the tie will receive this additional 5-point bonus. In cases where the driver who lead the most laps in the NASCAR event is not a member of any FASCAR team, the FASCAR driver(s) who lead the second-most laps will receive the award.

In cases where one or more of a FASCAR team’s components do not qualify for a NASCAR race, those components will receive 0 points for that event.

In total, 10 bonus points can be earned during a race. Therefore, with the possible 180 points for a win, the maximum points total a FASCAR team can earn in a single race is 190. In reality, however, since the points earned is an average of three NASCAR teams, the FASCAR points totals will generally be substantially less.

In a NASCAR race, drivers can substitute for other drivers for a number of reasons (illness, injury, etc.) When this occurs, points are awarded to a component of a FASCAR team based on that component’s official NASCAR finishing position.

For example, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. starts the race in the #8 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. However, due to injuries from a previous race he is unable to continue and enters the pits on lap 50. Matt Kenseth has suffered a blown engine at lap 40 and is out of the race. Therefore, Matt climbs into the #8 Monte Carlo and continues on to win the race. In NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is awarded first place since he started the #8 Monte Carlo and Matt Kenseth is awarded, say for example, 35th finishing position even though he drove the car that won the race. A FASCAR team that had Dale Earnhardt, Jr. would be awarded first place points for that component(s) but the team with Matt Kenseth would be awarded 35th position points. The FASCAR team with the #8 Monte Carlo would receive points for a first-place finish while the team with the #17 Fusion would receive a 35th, regardless of who was driving. The same applies for pit crews.

An example should clarify the scoring system. FASCAR team Sound Barrier Sports has a team composed of Dale Jarrett, the #29 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and the #11 Pit Crew. The Nextel Cup teams race at Charlotte and the official finishing order finds Dale Jarrett the race winner. Kevin Harvick in the #29 Chevy finishes fifth and the #11 car of Denny Hamlin finishes 16th. For Sound Barrier Sports the points are as follows: driver-180 points; car-155 points; and pit crew-115 points. These points are then totalled to give 445 points - which averages out to 148.333, or 148 points. Next, it is determined that Kevin Harvick in the #29 Chevrolet led 14 laps so a five point bonus is added to Sound Barrier's total, bringing it up to 153. Finally, Sound Barrier's driver, Dale Jarrett led the most laps of the day with 50 so another five bonus points are added to the toal, leaving Sound Barrier Sports with a final race total of 158 points.

In addition to competing for a season championship, FASCAR teams compete on a weekly basis in individual races. Once the points for each team have been calculated for a race, the teams finishing order of the FASCAR race is determined by comparing those totals. The FASCAR team with the highest total is awarded the victory. The team with the second highest total is awarded second place and so on until all FASCAR teams have been placed in the final line-up. Any ties in total points will be decided by each teams’ driver. The team with the driver who has the highest official finishing position in the NASCAR race will be awarded the higher position in the FASCAR line-up. In this way, no ties will exist in the final run-down of the FASCAR race. The points total, however, for each team involved will not be adjusted in any way to reflect this. The driver tie-breaker is solely for the purposes of completing the FASCAR race line-up.

In cases where a NASCAR team is penalized for some action by the santioning body that results in the loss of championship points, the amount of the NASCAR penalty will be divided by three and rounded down to the next lowest integer value. Each team with a component of that NASCAR team will then be penalized by that amount of championship points. In cases where a FASCAR team has multiple components from the same NASCAR team, each component will be penalized.

In cases where NASCAR penalizes a team by subtracting points from their race results, no penalty will be assessed to the corresponding FASCAR components.

When a NASCAR team is penalized due to infractions related to a race in which that team's final, official finishing position is altered, that change will be reflected in the points calculations of any related FASCAR teams since those calculations are only performed on the official finishing order.

If a NASCAR team is penalized following a race event and a FASCAR team owns a race car component of that NASCAR team but does not run that component in the race in which the NASCAR team is penalized, then the FASCAR team is NOT assessed the penalty.

The Fantasy Challenge is a bonus race based on NASCAR’s All-Star race. Only FASCAR teams with drivers in All-Star race are eligible to compete. No points are awarded from this race toward the season championship. The FASCAR team whose driver finishes highest in the All-Star race is awarded the victory in The Fantasy Challenge.

At the end of the first 26 races, all teams will have their points altered for the final season championship chase. Depending on the number of teams competing, a select number will be including in the championship group, known as Tier 1.

The remaining teams will compete for the top finishing spot in the second group, known as Tier 2. See the following table for the breakdown. The number of teams used to calculate the breakdown between Tier 1 and Tier 2 will be rounded down.

The first tier will have their points reset to a base of 2,000, plus five points for each victory. The second tier will have their points reset to 0, plus five points for each victory.

The tier one teams will compete for the title and top three money positions.

The tier two teams will compete for the top finishing spot for this group. That team will earn their season winnings, plus any additional money up to the season entry fee. In effect, the second tier of teams will be competing to play for free for the season. Any additional money used to supplement that team's earnings will come from the championship fund prior to calculations or disbursement. In the event that this team earns back an amount equal to or in excess of the season entry fee, no adjustments will be made for this team and all monies will remain in the championship fund.

The season-long Fantasy Championship is based on each team’s season points total. The Championship is awarded at the completion of an entire season to the team accumulating the most points in all races. Each team’s finish in the final standings is based on their season points total. Ties in points totals are broken in the following order:

• Most wins
• Most top five finishes
• Most top ten finishes
• Best average finish
• Lowest DNFs
• Coin Toss

In circumstances where a FASCAR ruling is considered unacceptable to a team owner the following appeals process applies. Failure to follow this procedure could render an appeal void.

1. The team owner should notify the Director of Competition of the appeal.
2. The appealing owner should state his/her appeal and the reasons for the appeal in writing to the Director of Competition.
3. Each FASCAR owner will then be notified of the situation and the details of the appeal.
4. Each team owner not involved in the appeal or functioning as a FASCAR official will then enter a vote. The vote can be to Sustain the ruling by FASCAR or to Overturn it.
5. In the event of a tie vote among team owners, the Director of Competition will cast the deciding vote based on the impact the ruling has on all team owners and the current FASCAR season.

The Director of Competition reserves the right to settle all disputes concerning the rules and game play. The Director of Competition also reserves the right to correct any errors discovered in the rules or administration of the game and to assess penalties deemed necessary based on negative actions taken by FASCAR team owners.

A final note before the season begins - FASCAR is designed to be a fun and challenging game which encourages competitiveness and communication among the players. All team owners are asked to abide by the rules of good sportsmanship and fair play. Any team owner who disregards this notice may forfeit the current season and any earnings plus the right to compete in any future seasons.