Hello @ASmallPotato , I wanted to try a run on a short season and I saw there is no rules about cutting the corners. In fact, I watched the WR run and we can see at 0:30 that he totally cut the first turn and he didn't receive a penalty or a warning so I guess he disabled the rules about that. I was wondering if it's possible to add a rule about putting the regulation and the flags on strict. It will be better for a competitive run.

You must finish each race with the checkered flag, DQ's or retirements will result in invalidation of your run. However, you are allowed to jump starts and cut corners provided you are not DQed. It states it in the rules?

Yeah I know you followed the rules in your run but I wanted to maybe change the rule about that point, it's better to be the faster on the track than taking shortcuts.. (on my opinion) If we all agree about that point, we can change that rule. In the other case, I will do the run with the actual rules. It was only a proposal =)

This has been discussed in our discord (link in resources) and we decided that start jumping and corner cutting would be allowed in the pursuit of maximum speed for full game runs. This allows for certain skips to be used as well while staying well within the rules. I'm not very keen on adding another subcategory as we already have ~65 (this is unfortunately kind of the norm for racing game speedruns) and doing so splits the playerbase of the game down the middle. If you want to chat about this more, I'm more active in the discord than on the sr.com forums.

Edit: this doesn't mean that everything is set in stone, and your voice on the matter is much appreciated

I mean the whole point of a speedrun is to do something as fast as possible. Allowing corners to be cut creates more strats to be created and separates the runs from general quick laps done by regular players. Also being the fastest on a run while staying inside the racing confines will never be an actual record; there are some extremely fast racers out there that do not post here. Cutting corners to go quicker sets our times above theirs. I think as a whole it makes it more accessible and entertaining. I don't see why cutting shouldn't be allowed.