I'm new to Race2Play

We follow standards of competition taken from the National Auto Sport Association's rule set and adapted by our years of experience organizing online auto racing, but to get you going "quick start" fashion we've compiled The 10 Cardinal Rules of racing at Race2Play ... Learn 'em, know 'em, live 'em, and you'll do fine.

Make sure to set the time zone in your account profile so you'll see all times automatically adjusted to your clock. Check that the "Current time is ... " in red matches the clock on your wall, and you are good to go.

Signups are on an event-by-event basis. Enter whatever events you like in whatever series you like.

1. Find event. There are myriad ways. Browse by individual sim software titles. Browse by the different racing disciplines. There's the online auto racing calendar. Also check out the currently active series, or the master list of upcoming events.

2. Join event. Click the "[Join this event]" link at the top of the event page. Entries open 28 days prior to an event for Premium members, 14 days prior for Standard members and seven days prior for Basic members. Standard and Premium members continue to take precedence in signups up till 24 hours before an event, at which point the order is locked. (Consider signing up as a Standard or Premium member to receive the preferential signups.)

3. Run event. The events you've signed up for and their server passwords will be listed on your My R2P page under the "Event minders" tab. If you're unable to make an event, please use the "[Unregister]" link so that someone from the waiting list may move up to the grid.

Our forums are organized as "Groups": Group = Forum, with some added functionality. If you join a Group's membership you'll receive notices of all new activity in that Group's forum threads. Standard and Premium members even may create new Groups, adding forums for areas of special interest not already met. Groups may be made private as well: A prime example of this would be a Team keeping its official Team forum open to the public, but creating a private Group for its own inner discussions.

Teams and Independent Chapters have their own forums, and Blogs are essentially personal forums. Only you may start a topic in your own blog, and decide whether or not to allow coments from others.

The Community portal page presents a handy roundup of all the various forum activity across Race2Play in the last 24 hours.

Those aforementioned notices of new forum activity of personal interest? You'll find them on your My R2P page organized under individual tabs. You'll receive notices of all new forum activity for Groups, Teams and Independent Chapters you've joined, Blogs, as well as prerace and postrace activity of personal interest to you.

Under the My R2P section you also will find links to all the pages that make your career at Race2Play a personalized experience.

Have fun!