Annual
Rally Championship Regulations for Drivers & Navigators
WOOLBRIDGE
NAVIGATIONAL CHALLENGE 2008/2009
12 CAR RALLIES PROMOTED BY WOOLBRIDGE MOTOR CLUB LTD
1. OS Maps 1:50,000 Landranger Series will be
used, and the event organiser will inform competitors which version the route
has been planed on. Generally the current version will be used. Generally only maps 183, 193 and 194 are to
be used, and any variation from this requires the approval of the 12 Car
Championship Co-ordinator.
2. Details of each event will be notified in
the Club Magazine and entries will be accepted by telephone by each organiser
in order of receipt. Competitors must sign on at the start venue within fifteen
minutes of the start time of car zero, which will normally be 7 p.m. unless
specified otherwise.
3. The entry fee for each event will normally
be £20 to include Lockton insurance.
Those with their own rally insurance will pay £10. Competitors must be able to comply with the 5
points set out in the attached document from Lockton if that insurance is required. If you are unable to comply
a declaration form needs to be completed before the event for cover to be
considered.
4. The
events are open to all fully elected
members of Woolbridge Motor Club Ltd and invited
clubs, membership cards may be inspected at signing on.
5. Crews may comprise more than two members and
points will be awarded to the driver and nominated navigator. Crewmembers must be
members of Woolbridge Motor Club Ltd to
score points and all must sign on at the start of the event.
6. Events should be approximately 50 miles in
length - 2½ hours duration and finish at a public house venue notified by the
organiser.
7. Route instructions using varied navigation
techniques will be issued at the start and organisers may issue more difficult
instructions to Expert class navigators. Novice instructions will include
regular simple cut-in points to ensure that the basic route can be followed.
Beginners will, for the first three events, receive instructions which do not
require any previous experience of navigation. Beginners have little or no
experience of this type of event and both Driver and Navigator must be
Beginners to enter this class. They do not qualify for the Championship.
8 A standard Timecard will be used throughout
the Championship to ensure consistency of timing/results etc.
9. CRO means Coloured Roads Only, unless a
section specifies All Roads when all through whites are included in the
instructions and smooth whites may be included in the route.
10. No road or junction will be used more than
once during an event. Take the shortest route consistent with the
instructions.1All timing will normally be to the preceding whole minute BBC
time, but some organisers might include timing to the second.
11. Secret Time Controls may be established to
check compliance with the specified average speed which will not exceed 30 mph.
Timing at a control will be when the car stops
next to the marshal, not when passing the control board . Timing on sight if a crew stops within sight of a control.
13. Passage Controls may be manned but more often
will be code boards (white 12 inches square with black letters/numbers).
16 The meeting will be governed by the general
regulations of the Motor Sports Association Ltd (incorporating the provisions
of the International Sporting Code of the FISA), these general supplementary
regulations and any written instructions that may be
issued for the event by Woolbridge Motor Club Ltd.
10
marks -
missing Passage Control
10
marks -
wrong direction approach/depart
20
marks -
opening a panic envelope
1
Fail -
missing a Time Control
1
Fail -
Exceeding max lateness
1
Fail -
Give Way infringement
1
Fail -
Quiet Zone infringement
Exclusion -
Entering a blackspot
I have read the
supplementary regulations issued for this event and agree to be bound by them
and by the general regulations of the Motor Sports Association Ltd.
I declare that the
use of the vehicle hereby entered will be covered by insurance as required by
the law, which is valid for such part of this event as shall take place on
roads as defined by the law.
20. All entrants will be
classed as NOVICES or BEGINNERS except for the following seeded competitors,
based on their previous performance, such as individual round winners and
previous champions :
22. Championship points will be scored on each
event with the best performance in each class of the championship gaining a
score equal to the number of starters in that class plus one. Second in class
will score one point less, third two points less, etc.
23 Any
competitor signing on and starting an event, but failing to finish that event,
will score 0ne point each, for both Driver and Navigator.
24. Mixed Expert/Novice crews will score points
with respect to the crewmember's own individual class position. An expert
driver may compete as a novice navigator and vice-versa and novices will remain
in that class throughout the series.
25. Organising Teams will receive 4 points on
their events and competitors who marshal will receive 3 points.
26. The overall Challenge Champion Driver and
Navigator will be the competitor, with the highest scores from all the events,
after discarding their lowest individual score, i.e. the highest scores from 5
out of 6 events will count towards the Championship. Competitors competing on only 5 events, or
less, will keep their scores for all events contested. Ties will be resolved by the most highest
places.
27. Awards will be presented to the best driver
and navigator in each class at the Club Championship prize giving.
Guidance Notes for Organisers
1.
Each
event should normally be no more than 2 hours duration or 50 miles length
commencing at 7.00 p.m. normally on Wednesday evenings and finishing in a
hostelry where food will be available. Code Boards and stakes will not identify
Woolbridge MC.
2.
Events
should be designed for Novice navigators and include additional straightforward
information to enable the basic route to be followed. Novices and Beginners
should receive the full route at the start ten minutes before their start time.
Beginners will have straightforward instructions requiring no previous
navigational experience. Please bear in mind that we need to keep the few
Novices/Beginners that we have by not having instructions which are over
complicated and likely to cause them to miss large parts of the route.
3.
Time Controls should be sited on sections that are
easily plotted, so that crews almost fall over them. Separate Intermediate
timing points should be included in the route (on non critical sections)
showing the time due for car one. These will be unmanned but will enable
competitors to check if they are within maximum lateness.
4.
The first navigational section of each event should
not have complex instructions which require the crew to sit at the start to
plot the early route. The aim should be to get crews underway within a minute
or two. Complexity can be introduced thereafter with crews able to plot on the
move if they can.
5.
The Novice card should have a cut-in grid reference
after each navigation style so that crews can miss out an entire section if
necessary without losing the basic route.
7.
The Expert card may use the same instructions with
some features made just a little more difficult, i.e. reverse the herringbone,
leave off the ball or arrow of some of the tulips, string together the
references or spotheights and gridlines.
