CRGRT is built around a simple idea: sim racing should be competitive, welcoming and fun — without sacrificing driving standards or respect for other players.
We welcome drivers of different experience levels, from people taking their first steps into online racing to highly competitive A and A+ rated Gran Turismo drivers.
Being part of CRGRT isn’t about being perfect. Mistakes happen. Crashes happen. Bad races happen.
What matters is how you race, how you treat other drivers and how you represent the team.
1. CRGRT Membership
1.1 Open Division
The main CRGRT community is open to everybody.
There is no minimum Driver Rating required to become part of the normal CRGRT division.
You don’t need to be an esports-level driver. You don’t need hundreds of wins. You don’t need an incredible qualifying record.
We care far more about attitude, willingness to improve and driving standards.
1.2 Esports Division
The CRGRT Esports division represents the competitive side of the team.
Because esports drivers compete at a significantly higher level and publicly represent CRGRT, entry requirements are stricter.
Drivers must normally hold a Gran Turismo Driver Rating of A or A+ to join the CRGRT Esports division.
Rating alone, however, does not guarantee a place.
Driving standards, consistency, racecraft and behaviour are equally important.
2. Driving Standards
2.1 Race Hard — Race Fair
CRGRT drivers are encouraged to race competitively.
We’re not asking drivers to surrender positions or avoid close racing. Defending, attacking, applying pressure and calculated aggression are all part of motorsport.
But there is a difference between aggressive racing and reckless racing.
Drivers should leave appropriate racing room, respect cars alongside them and avoid deliberately forcing opponents into accidents.
2.2 Mistakes Are Allowed
Nobody drives perfectly.
Missing a braking point, spinning, making accidental contact or completely ruining your own race does not automatically make someone a dirty driver.
CRGRT looks at intent and behaviour.
Make the mistake. Learn from it. Go again.
2.3 Deliberate Wrecking
Intentional retaliation, brake-checking, deliberate ramming or intentionally ruining another player’s race is completely against CRGRT standards.
Competitive frustration is understandable.
Using your car as a weapon isn’t.
3. Sportsmanship
3.1 Respect Other Drivers
CRGRT members should treat teammates and competitors with basic respect.
You don’t have to agree with everyone.
You don’t even have to like everyone.
But personal harassment, targeted abuse, discrimination or sustained bullying has no place within the team.
3.2 Take Responsibility
If you make a mistake, own it.
A simple apology after accidentally taking someone out says far more about a driver than pretending nothing happened.
The best drivers aren’t necessarily the ones who never make mistakes.
They’re the ones who understand them.
3.3 Winning Isn’t Everything
We love winning.
We love podiums.
We love ridiculously fast qualifying laps.
But we’d rather have a clean P5 than a P1 achieved by wrecking everyone who tried to pass us.
Results matter.
Reputation matters more.
4. CRGRT Esports Driver Standards
CRGRT Esports drivers are expected to maintain a particularly high standard.
An esports driver represents more than their own account when racing under the CRGRT name.
We therefore expect esports members to demonstrate:
- A or A+ Driver Rating under normal circumstances
- Strong racecraft
- Consistent competitive pace
- Good situational awareness
- Respectful defensive driving
- Controlled aggression
- Clean overtaking
- Good sportsmanship
- Professional behaviour when representing CRGRT
Being fast is important.
Being fast, controlled and trustworthy around other cars is considerably more valuable.
5. Esports Coaching & Driver Development
CRGRT isn’t simply interested in identifying fast drivers.
We want to help our drivers become faster.
For drivers looking to improve and progress within the CRGRT Esports division, Samuel Feinberg (SimRacingPenguin) is our main driver coach.
Samuel is regarded within CRGRT as a world-class esports driver, known particularly for his outright pace, technical understanding and expertise behind the wheel of the Audi R8 LMS Evo in Gran Turismo.
His role within CRGRT is to help competitive drivers identify weaknesses, understand where lap time is being lost and develop the techniques necessary to perform consistently at a higher level.
5.1 Areas of Coaching
Driver development can include:
- Braking technique and brake-release control
- Trail braking
- Racing lines and corner approach
- Throttle application
- Traction management
- Car rotation
- Weight transfer
- Qualifying technique
- Race consistency
- Overtaking
- Defensive racecraft
- Driving with reduced assists
- Understanding different Gr.3 cars
- Adapting driving style to different circuits and conditions
5.2 Audi R8 LMS Evo Expertise
Samuel is particularly associated with the Audi R8 LMS Evo, a car that rewards precision, commitment and careful control when driven at the limit.
His experience with the R8 provides an opportunity for CRGRT drivers to learn how a highly responsive Gr.3 car can be exploited without allowing its more demanding characteristics to overwhelm the driver.
This includes understanding rotation, braking stability, throttle timing, corner entry commitment and controlling the car when operating close to its limit.
5.3 Learning From Pace
Raw speed alone doesn’t make a great coach.
CRGRT’s approach is about breaking that speed down into techniques another driver can actually understand and apply.
The objective isn’t to turn every CRGRT member into an identical driver.
Different drivers have different strengths.
Instead, coaching is designed to identify where an individual driver is losing time and help develop a driving style that is faster, cleaner and more consistent.
5.4 From A to A+
For drivers already competing at an A-rated level, finding additional performance becomes increasingly difficult.
At that level, the difference isn’t always seconds.
Sometimes it’s tenths.
Sometimes it’s hundredths.
Finding those final margins requires more than simply completing additional laps. It means understanding braking references, minimum corner speed, rotation, throttle timing, tyre behaviour and exactly where a driver’s individual technique can be refined.
That’s where CRGRT’s esports coaching programme comes in.
Learn. Practise. Improve. Get faster.
6. Team Racing
CRGRT drivers should generally be free to race each other.
If two CRGRT drivers are fighting for position, they’re allowed to fight for it — provided they do so fairly.
Being teammates does not automatically mean surrendering a position.
Race hard.
Leave space.
And don’t deliberately wreck your teammate.
That seems like a reasonably low bar.
7. Online Behaviour
Members representing CRGRT publicly should remember that their behaviour can become associated with the team.
Friendly rivalry, jokes and competitive banter are absolutely fine.
Targeted harassment, threats, discriminatory behaviour or sustained abuse are not.
CRGRT should be something members are happy to have beside their username.
8. Streaming & Content Creation
CRGRT members are welcome to stream races, upload videos and create content featuring their racing.
We encourage it.
Sim racing communities grow because people share races, battles, mistakes, victories and occasionally spectacular disasters.
Members remain responsible for their own channels and content, but anyone prominently representing CRGRT should follow the same basic behavioural standards expected while racing.
9. Incidents Between Members
Disagreements happen.
Two drivers can watch exactly the same incident and somehow both become completely convinced the other person caused it.
Where possible, incidents should be handled calmly.
Look at the replay.
Look at both cars.
Consider latency.
Consider whether the contact was actually avoidable.
Then move on.
One racing incident should not become a week-long argument.
10. Joining CRGRT
Anybody who shares our basic values can become part of the wider CRGRT community.
The normal division is designed to be accessible regardless of Driver Rating or outright pace.
For drivers wanting to represent CRGRT Esports, the standard is higher.
Applicants should normally be A or A+ rated and capable of demonstrating the pace, consistency, racecraft and behaviour expected from a competitive esports driver.
Once you’re in, development doesn’t stop.
Drivers who want to take their performance further can work on their technique and racecraft with the support of CRGRT’s esports coaching programme.
11. What CRGRT Stands For
CRGRT isn’t interested in creating a team where everyone is terrified of making a mistake.
We’re interested in creating a team where people want to become better drivers.
That means encouraging new racers.
It means respecting experienced racers.
It means giving people room to learn.
And at the highest level, it means representing CRGRT with genuine pace, consistency and professional driving standards.
Our community division gives drivers somewhere to race, learn and enjoy sim racing regardless of their current ability.
Our esports division gives our quickest drivers somewhere to compete, develop and push themselves further.
And our coaching structure gives ambitious drivers a pathway to improve.
You don’t have to win every race.
You don’t have to drive every lap perfectly.
You simply need to respect the people you’re racing against and keep trying to improve.
Fast. Fair. Competitive.
That’s CRGRT.
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