This is not a competitive event and you should take extra precaution.įor Racing: To determine when you are allowed to resume passing, refer to your Club’s rule book as these regulations can be different and change.

Once past the flag station showing the yellow flag, you typically can not pass until after the next non-yellow flag station. Regardless, you need to be extra careful.įor HPDEs: Once you see the yellow flag even if before the station, you should not attempt passing a car. You will often notice a difference in how the flag is being waived depending upon the severity of the hazard. A single yellow flag being waived indicates that the hazard is on the racing surface. During a session when under a caution period, it means that the session is restarting.Ĭaution, there is a hazard that you need to be aware of and slow down for.Ī single stationary yellow flag means there is a hazard that is typically off the track. Of course this is the fun one! It is typically displayed by the starter to indicate the start of a session. In some circumstances, knowing how to further interpret their meaning can provide you a competitive advantage in a race. Don’t think this section is just for the first time track driver. When looking at them from a competitive wheel-to-wheel event perspective, you need to gain a better understanding of how to react to these messages.

For track day events such as high performance driving events (HPDEs), their meaning is pretty straight forward. There are eleven of these flags.Track flags represent a vital way for the track to communicate important messages to drivers.

Note: These flags will get their own pages despite not being in iRacing but will be for educational use.

Blue Flag (with yellow diagonal stripe).Note: These flags will get their own page since they are already in iRacing and also for educational use. Note: The listing of the flags are in alphabetical order. There are eight of these flags however not all of the real world racing flags are in iRacing. This showcases all of the iRacing flags currently present in the sim as of 2019.

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