Forza's telemetry describes exactly one car: yours. It carries nothing about anyone else on track — no other cars, no contact, no fault, no blame.
So when we confirm a time, we are saying one narrow thing: we re-ran your recording and worked out the same time.
Which is why we never call it a "clean race". On a track that already means something — no contact, no penalties, a race you'd be proud of — and that is exactly the thing we cannot see.
So this part isn't enforced by software. It's enforced by us, by the people running clubs and leagues, and mostly by you.
On track
Seven rules. The first two are the whole thing; the rest are detail.
1. Rubbing is racing
Door-to-door contact happens. Nobody is getting reported over paint.
2. Ramming is not
Using the car as a weapon — punting someone off, brake-checking, diving into a corner you were never going to make, wrecking to win. The test isn't whether contact happened. It's whether you were racing or just hitting someone.
3. Give the place back
Gained a position by contact or by cutting? Hand it back. Now, not "later in the lap".
4. Rejoin like someone's coming
Off the track? Look, wait, then rejoin. Crossing the racing line at half speed is worse than the mistake that put you there.
5. One move
Defend your line once. Weaving down a straight isn't defending, it's gambling with someone else's race.
6. Let the leaders through
Being lapped isn't a demotion and it isn't a reason to park. Hold your line, lift, wave them by.
7. The last lap is the same as the first
"It was the last corner" isn't a defence. It's the aggravating factor.
Off track
Same code, different place.
8. Be a person
No harassment, slurs, threats or pile-ons — not in club chat, not in comments, not smuggled into a driver name.
9. Losing well is a skill
Post the time, take the loss, come back faster.
10. Don't fake anything
Edited recordings, an old recording sent as a new race, someone else driving your account. This is the one that costs you the account rather than a warning — a leaderboard is worth exactly as much as its honesty, and we'd rather have a small honest one.
When it goes wrong
- Say it on the spot. Most contact is a mistake, and most drivers will put their hand up if you give them the chance.
- If it's a pattern, report it — with the race, the lap and what happened.
- We read reports and we act. A word, a result removed, removal from a club or league, and in the worst case the account.
- We are not a court. We won't produce a forensic verdict on who hit whom, because the data to do that does not exist. We'll make a judgement, tell you what it was, and hear you out if you think we got it wrong. A one-person project can afford to read the reply.
Nobody is checking
GhostGauge runs on honour. Our checks catch a time the recording doesn't back; nothing catches an unsporting one. The standard is yours to keep.
The code we admire is bushido, as it's commonly understood — integrity, courage, compassion, respect, honesty, honour, loyalty. A code you keep when nobody is checking is the only kind that works on a leaderboard. Drive like how you got there matters more than where you finished.
Clubs and leagues
This code applies to every race organised through GhostGauge.