BRCA Large scale off-road section rules 2012
Race fees and Procedures
Race Fees will be £15.00 per Adult entry £5 per Junior Entry. A second car is £10.00 for adults and £2.50 for juniors.
Booking in
Booking in, 08:00-09:00, followed by a Driver’s Briefing, with racing commencing as soon after as possible.
Marshalling
The Scrutineer will not carry out any Marshalling duties. No one under 16 years of age to Marshal. Marshals must wear High Visibility Reflective Vests or jackets. Marshals to be advised to wear Stout Shoes or Boots and wear Heavy duty Gloves and safety glasses. If a car’s engine has stopped, the car must be taken off the track, the marshal is allowed 3 pulls in attempting to restart the engine and that is all, if the car does not start, he must return to marshalling immediately, no other fixes or repairs are allowed to be performed. Whilst marshalling drivers are reminded that there should be no smoking, drinking, use of mobile phones or cameras trackside.
Repairs
No vehicle should be worked on track side after the attempted three pulls trying to restart them. If the vehicle does not restart, it is the drivers responsibility to recover their vehicle and in doing so they must not take their radio transmitter onto the track, it must be left within the parc ferme/rostrum area whilst recovering there vehicle and brought back to the pit table for repair. If your vehicle has been taken out of the track area for repair during your heat then it should be returned to your designated parc ferme slot to ensure no unfair advantage is gained from additional pit time during your designated marshalling period. Any vehicle returning to the track should do so from the pit lane and exiting such device in the track direction of the meeting. Any one not adhering to this rule will be penalised by the race director.
Parc-ferme & Marshalling
Upon finishing each heat, each driver is to place there vehicle in the dedicated parc-ferme vehicle slot (car 1 in slot 1 …… car 10 in slot 10) after returning any handout transponder to the rack and the previous vehicle has left the slot. If your vehicle has been taken out of the track area for repair during your heat then it should be returned to your designated parc ferme slot to ensure no unfair advantage is gained from additional pit time whilst you are marshalling. Upon placing the vehicle in the slot the driver or nominee should go out to Marshal straight away and marshal their respective heat (vehicle remains in parc-ferme even with a nominee marshalling). Upon receiving notice from the race director that the heat is over the marshal should collect their vehicle from parc-ferme and leave the track area. Any driver who does not adhere to this procedure will be penalised with the loss of there FTD as during the heat the BRCA LSOR race director will review the vehicles in the parc-ferme area.
After the running of the Semi B final if double sided files are used the top five vehicles are to be placed in parc-ferme for the duration of the Semi A final (those taken tot he pits for work prior tot he end of the semi are to be returned to the parc-ferme area) to ensure all main finalists have the same amount of time to prepare for the main final. Any driver caught working on their car will incur a 30 second penalty in the main final.
The Marshal at Point 1 will be responsible for removing the transponders from the cars and returning them to Race Control.
Scrutineering
Will be on a random basis, with a Size box, being provided to allow drivers to check their vehicle dimensions (2 wheel drive class only). Any driver or Marshal can ask for a particular car to be checked, if there are grounds for suspecting its conformity to the rules.
Heats & Finals
The Repair Time between each round of Heats will be at the Race Director’s discretion, taking into account such factors as heat numbers, time of year, numbers of drivers, etc.
Rolling Starts will be employed for the Heats. Staggered Start positions will be employed for the Finals, with a nominal 6 meter gap between cars. The finals will be either double sided with 5 drivers from each semi qualifying or single sided format at the race directors discretion, drivers will be notified of race format at the drivers briefing. If double sided semi’s are run then the main final will be gridded as follows:-
| Semi-Final Finishing Position | A-Final Position |
|---|---|
| Fastest 1st Place | 1st Place |
| Fastest 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
| Fastest 3rd Place | 5th Place |
| Fastest 4th Place | 7th Place |
| Fastest 5th Place | 9th Place |
Refuelling
No refuelling is permitted during qualification heats or finals including warm-up time.
Anyone refuelling on the track will be disqualified. Drivers are advised to have a small dry powder fire extinguisher to hand in their pits.
Delays
The cut-off point for calling a delay will be under Starter’s Orders? Delays will not be allowed for Heats and Minor Finals. In unforeseen circumstances, a Driver may call a 10 minute delay. This Driver will start from the pit lane after the last car on the track passes the pit lane exit (if an incident occurs that delays the last car passing the pit lane then the car(s) in the pit lane will be released at the Race Directors discretion ensuring no advantaged is gained from starting the race from the pit lane). Only one delay per final will be allowed, no
refuelling or tyre changing will be permitted. Anyone can work on their car after someone calls a delay, but cars that have been worked on must start from the pit lane. Any vehicle starting from the pit lane will result in an associated gap appearing on the grid. Any delay granted will be at the Race Director’s discretion.
Driving Standards & Penalties
Penalties for driving infringements will be awarded by the race director as follows
First Warning: No penalty
Second Warning: Stop and go penalty
Third Warning: Ten second stop and go
(All penalties to be taken in the heat/race when offences occur and all stop and go penalties to
be taken in an area designated by the race director.)
Jump Start in final: Car to start from the back of the grid if race is restarted.
Failure to line up properly or stay stationary on the grid will incur a 10 second penalty.
Drivers with this penalty must not complete the lap but must drive into the pit lane (or designated area) and wait for the allotted time until released by an official. If a driver puts in an extra lap after being called to the line he/she will be made to start from the back of the grid. Excessive use of bad language on the rostrum or in race control will incur a warning. If this warning is not heeded a one lap penalty will be awarded. Driving or otherwise behaving in a manner likely to cause injury to other drivers or spectators may result in disqualification from meeting. If a driver is being lapped he/she must not intentionally block the overtaking car, neither must the overtaking driver use heavy tactics to enable him/her to pass the slower driver. Drivers missing parts of the track out during the warm-up in order to spread themselves out for a good qualifying run will receive a 10 second penalty if they hit a car that is circulating normally around the track being used for that meeting.
Failure to Marshal, or appoint a deputy to marshal for you, will incur loss of FTD.
Point awards
Points will be awarded as follows:- the winning driver will receive 101 points, second place 99, third 98 and so on. The driver who qualifies with FTD will also receive an additional point independent of their finishing position.
Drivers failing to complete a lap in their Final will be awarded last place in that Final. If this applies to more than one driver then qualifying positions will be used to determine the order, i.e. the higher qualifier will be placed before the lower.
General
There will be a 4-minute break between heats, so Drivers will need to be in the start area, with transponders fitted before the previous Heat finishes. A 15-minute break will occur before the Main Final. Heats, finals and durations will be at the race directors discretion, please make sure you are at the drivers briefing. In the event of a Rain off situation, there will be a Driver’s vote to decide on one of the following courses of action: Cancellation of the meeting, Re-running of the meeting, or to close the meeting and award the points as per the latest heat positions. The Driver with the FTD has the choice of grid position.
National Venues
Clubs are reminded that the ideal track specification is a 4M width with an ideal gap of 1M between the safety fence and outer track edge where possible. Vulnerable marshal points are to have 3 sided protection (infield positions) for added safety. Due to the inclement weather all national venues must have provision for a temporary covered rostrum for their meeting. Could clubs please provide toilets, a wired PA speaker system (the section will bring its own amp and mic), if possible, provision for a water proof parc-ferme and scrutinising area, and where evening entertainment has been provided for the driver’s enjoyment it is anticipated that by midnight it will have died out. Clubs must not hold club days on National race dates including the AGM date.
Protests at a race meeting
All protests must be made in writing to the race director, together with a £10.00 deposit. If the protest is upheld, this money will be reimbursed. The protest period of fifteen minutes shall commence when the results are published on the results board. Protests regarding the legality of cars must be made in writing, together with the fee, to the race director.
Post Meeting Protests
All protests must be made in writing and received by the section chairman within 48 hours of the effected national sanctioned meeting, together with a £20.00 deposit. Within 30 calendar days of the effected national sanctioned meeting any protest will be investigated and closed out by the section committee. If the protest is upheld, this money will be reimbursed.
Notwithstanding the above Regulations, the Committee reserves the right that, at a Race Meeting, should a situation arise, requiring a decision, which is not met by the existing rulebook, the committee members, present at the meeting, shall be able to make a decision or interpret on existing rules to make a decision and that such decision shall stand.
AGM Proposals
All AGM proposals (rule changes, committee member nominations and track submissions) are to be submitted to the Large Scale Off-Road section secretary at lsorsec@brca.org by the penultimate national meeting. These proposals will then be available to the Large Scale
Off-Road members by the time of the last national meeting. Any proposals not received by this time can only be discussed at the AGM under “Any Other Business” and may then be subject to a time limit rule at the chairman’s discretion. At the AGM, no proposals can be accepted with the proviso that the person who proposed them is kept anonymous at the meeting.
