To keep the competition on the F1 2021 Speedrunning Leaderboard fair, a loadless time is used. This process allows us to keep different consoles and their revisions and the differences in PC loading speeds on an equal playing field.

• Do not block your bottom right corner and do not block the Delta box and if you have to for your on-screen timer, decrease the opacity enough, so you can easily see through it.

• Loading times differ a lot depending on what console (revision) you are using and also on your used storage medium. The difference is especially big on the PC with a traditional HDD vs. a SSD.

• For category specific aspects, check out the corresponding segment.

#Braking Point:

##Why are the Braking Point rules like this? What should I know?

• Loading into an interview and its first question is inconsistent. Sometimes you will smoothly walk to the interviewer and sometimes you are immediately in front of the interviewer.

What this means for your run:

• You can take your time to choose your first interview question, because the time starts after selecting the anwser.
• Your final interview question does not matter since the timing ends immediately upon selecting it.
• The celebration after the race in your car, of your pitcrew and on the podium is not counted towards your final time.
• Use of setups counts to your time. Think wisely if a setup is worth the extra time spend on it. Braking point due to his story mode nature has a lot of inconsistencies that lead to the following retiming rules. The explanation for those decisions are mentioned below.

Timing starts from the first black frame after starting the Braking Point Storymode. If the video shows a partially black frame due how the video is recorded, this frame will be your starting frame.

After each race, the time stops when you finish the race. The first frame of you crossing the finish line is the last counted frame. This is indicated by your Delta box (usually in the top right) turning the 3rd sector purple/green/red. There also appears a small coloured stripe to the left of your lap time.

Cutscenes count from the first frame they are visible. If the skipping menu is visible before the cutscene appears, the first frame of the skipping menu is used. The first black frame after the cutscene disappears is the last counted frame.

In menu segments, where you select "go to track"/"go to next chapter", the time starts when you either on the first black frame after a loading screen. If there is a cutscene right before the menu segment, the beginning of the cutscene is your start frame. Time ends when the big box with "go to track"/"go to next chapter" shows the first frame of its fading-out animation. This frame is the last frame counted.

Race: If the story mode immediately puts you into the race after loading into it, the time starts from the first black frame after the loading screen.

Race: If the race has an introduction with the commentator and the track overview, then the time starts from the first frame where the grey bar in your bottom right appears when you load into the grid.

Interviews: Timing starts on the first frame where you have selected the your first answer. The other answers start fading out on this frame and depending on how the video has been recorded, your button indication in the bottom right disappears too if it was visible before. The timing ends on the last first frame when you have selected your last interview answer.

Mexico 2020: When you have caught up to Akkerman, the screen fades to black and after a loading sequence, the following cutscene appears. In this specific case, the timing ends on the frame where your HUD is entirely invisible.

Abu Dhabi 2021: Timing starts on the frame where the first parts of the "F1 Logo Animation" can be seen. This animation plays immediately after the flag of the VAE is shown.

##Why are the Braking Point rules like this? What should I know?

Loading into an interview and its first question is inconsistent. Sometimes you will smoothly walk to the interviewer and sometimes you are immediately in front of the interviewer.

What this means for your run:

• You can take your time to choose your first interview question, because the time starts after selecting the answer.

• Your final interview question does not matter since the timing ends immediately upon selecting it.

• The celebration after the race in your car, of your pitcrew and on the podium is not counted towards your final time.

• Use of setups counts to your time. Think wisely if a setup is worth the extra time spend on it.