> A race steward - someone that sits and watches the race without
> racing, and that awards a one-lap penalty to anyone that wrecks or
> spins on a restart (maybe even a lap for every car that is involved
> as well), and that black flags anyone for chatting beyond the auto-
> chat keys. The race steward's word will be final.
with, this is probably the best thing you can do to help keep people
straight. There used to be some public servers that I ran in N4 that
always had an admin or two watching over things, booting people who
caused problems, etc. It worked well. They rotated the admin every
race or so.
Enforced practice is another way, but takes more time obviously, and
someone who is willing to steward that as well... The idea is to
watch how someone does during the practice session and if they are not
up-to-snuff, then they are invited to leave before the race begins.
The trick is you never tell the person when they will be under the
scope. This ensures that the racers pretty much have to practice a
majority of the session in a serious way (more seat time is GOOD)...
if they go off to take a phone call, or decide that it would be fun to
blast down pit road at full speed when the admin decides it is their
turn to be scrutinized, well, too bad.
Good luck,
Gerald