Note:
Safety calculations are currently being revised. Only Automobilista 2 is active at the moment for safety score. The information below relates to the revised system of calculating safety score.
Anyone who wants to know how the Safety Rating works and how to improve their rating.
The Safety Rating is an indicator of how safe you are on track. In it's simplest form you can think of it as a ratio of impacts (contacts with cars, track objects, walls, etc) to laps turned. The more laps you turn and the fewer impacts you have the better your safety rating.
We measure it as a percentage with a score of 50% being average. For simplicity and easy of comparison / seeing at a glance if a driver has a good or poor safety rating we assign grades based on the % score as follows:
The main aim of the safety rating is to encourage good clean racing. By publishing drivers safety score we hope drivers will work towards improving it and which makes for better racing and drivers being able to trust their opponents in overtakes etc.
The Safety Rating can also be used to prevent racers from being able to register for events. Server administrators can select a minimum safety rating that racers must have to be able to register and therefore race. All server administrators are encouraged to run some events that have no safety restriction so that everyone has the opportunity to improve their safety even if they can not register for other events that are restricted.
Many factors are taken into account when calculating safety rating. Each game has it's own rating (Automobilista, RaceRoom, etc) and they are balanced although not identical to each other. Each game reports different information in the log files which affects what we can use in the calculation.
Here are some of the factors we take into account (where available in log files) when calculating your safety score:
We calculate four different safety ratings:
The 500 lap average is the one that is used to control access to events (if a event admin wishes to limit access based on safety rating).
The lower the lap average the more volatile the safety rating is. The 500 lap average seemse to be the sweet spot of being volatile enough to see noticable improvements in a clean race without being so volatile that a single bad race ruins your safety rating.
The obvious answer is to race cleanly and avoid contacts on track. If you have a low safety rating then you need to ask yourself if you really are a clean driver or if there is room for improvement. Yes contacts caused by other people do affect your safety rating as there is no way to assign blame for each incident. But given you are being rated against fellow drivers there will be a reason why you are getting more contacts in race sessions than the average driver.