[ERC] Royal Rally of Scandinavia 2026

[WRCStan]

Steve please can you explain what is required from the competitor to acknowledge the document/findings? It's said that the team were verbally informed but they 'failed to acknowledge within reasonable time'. How is 'acknowledgement' noteworthy if not necessary?

[Steve Boyd]

Steve please can you explain what is required from the competitor to acknowledge the document/findings? It's said that the team were verbally informed but they 'failed to acknowledge within reasonable time'. How is 'acknowledgement' noteworthy if not necessary?

I can’t see any requirement in the FIA International Sporting Code (https://www.fia.com/system/files/doc...16.12.2025.pdf) for competitors to sign reports of the Stewards findings and they aren’t signed at F1 meetings. There is, I believe, a dedicated communications platform in F1 for teams, event officials and the Stewards that includes the virtual noticeboard. If this platform requires users to log in then it would be technically quite simple to have a system to log who has viewed what and when. The WRC & ERC use Sportity which does not require viewers to use a personal log-in. I suspect the signature box at the bottom of WRC & ERC Stewards reports is a result of the lack of any viewer logging in the Sportity system and I assume the box is there so that, in the case of a fine for example, there’s no excuse that the competitor didn’t see the notice because there was no phone signal, or the battery was flat etc. I’ve looked back at a few similar Stewards decisions on ERC & WRC events on Sportity and all except this one have been signed by the competitor or a team representative. The fact that this one isn’t signed might tell us something about the attitude of this competitor.

[WRCStan]

There is signed by from the hand of, just like the stewards do; and there is 'digitally signed by' to substitute. Without further evidence or digital footprint, the boxes on the decision reports are just the author of the document filling in a field, if it is a signature, it needs to be clear 'signed by'. So I don't think we can see signatures/acknowledgements.

I don't know if their system is robust or not behind closed doors but it doesn't look good viewing from the public perspective.

[PLuto]

It is interesting to follow this discussion. As private messages are not working here, can you (Steve, WRCStan and wyler) write me email to pluto@rallysport.cz?