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Supplementary Regulations Old Malts, new ideas. by John Brown 2003 is a year of change for The Malts. Our five years of sponsorship by a single company, UDVGuinness (part of Diageo) has come to its conclusion. It has been one of the most successful partnerships in historic motor sport, one which has amply fulfilled both sides' expectations and met their targets. As a result, The Malts has established itself as Britain's premier summer historic regularity rally, one matched only by our own winter LE JOG in length and number of participants. We remain close friends with UDVGuinness, and some of their distilleries still feature in our 2003 itinerary. We thank them for their tremendous support, which was instrumental in putting the event on the international map. We go forward with their good wishes, and a small change of name. The Malts' reputation, and its place on Scotland's tourist and sporting calendar, have meant that we have been able to secure the support of a range of new commercial partners within and outside the Scotch whisky industry, as reflected in the distilleries now added to our list of places visited: Glenturret (home of Famous Grouse) and Tomatin, Glenmorangie and Old Pulteney, Glenfarclas and The Macallan. New sights to see, new tastes to savour. A novelty this year is the Malts Rack. Each member of your crew will receive at the start a wooden rack, which snugly accepts a miniature from each of the distilleries visited. As you go round, you fill the rack up, so that at the finish you have a superb souvenir - it's up to you whether or not you drink the contents! This year, too, we are introducing the parallel Scottish Malts Classic Car Tour, which has its own Regulations and programme, designed for the owner of more precious or slower cars who want an easier route with more time to pause for sightseeing. Just 40 owners will be invited to take part in this. In other ways, The Scottish Malts Reliability Trial is a chip off the old block: the usual carefully crafted mix of lovely quiet driving roads, splendid special tests, enjoyable regularity sections, ultra-simple navigation and timekeeping, and stunning scenery. In short, a delightful and not too demanding competition, suitable for cars of all ages and types. Come and join us!
THE SIXTH SCOTTISH MALTS RELIABILITY TRIAL 12th - 16th May 2003Supplementary Regulations as at 3rd October 2002 1. Announcement. The Sixth Scottish Malts Reliability Trial will be held on 12th to 16th May 2003. It is promoted by HERO - the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation – under a Clubman’s permit issued by the Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association Limited (the MSA), as a Historic Road Rally open only to members of the promoting club. The event will be run in accordance with the International Sporting Code of the FIA, the General Competition Regulations of the MSA, these Supplementary Regulations, and later additions and amendments thereto. IMPORTANT NOTE: all motor sport is potentially dangerous. The onus is on competitors to drive carefully and safely at all times. The Organisers accept no responsibility whatsoever for any accident or injury befalling competitors, and do not undertake to provide rescue or assistance of any kind. All competitors will be required to sign the indemnity printed on the entry form. 2. Provisional Programme. This is shown on a separate sheet, and is subject to alteration. 3. Officials.
4. Eligible Competitors. The event is open to invited crews of two, three or four people, subject to the seating capacity of the car. The same crew members must remain with the car throughout the event. At least two members of the crew must be aged 17 or over, and licensed and insured to drive the car entered. Competitors may be of any nationality. All crew members must be members of HERO; the membership fee of £5 per person will be transferred to HERO from the entry fee. 5. Eligible Cars and Compulsory Equipment. Cars must have been made before 31st December 1974, and must not have been materially modified to a specification later than this date. They must be in a legal condition, and registered for use on the public highway; trade plates are not permitted. All cars must respect HERO’s Eligibility Guidelines and comply with the relevant MSA Vehicle Regulations, as shown in the document accompanying these Regulations. The owners of all vehicles entered must have completed HERO’s Declaration of Vehicle Eligibility, and return a copy of this with their entry form. A Declaration found to be false or incorrect may result in a penalty up to and including exclusion, at the sole discretion of the Clerk of the Course. There will be a noise test at the Start and at least one other point en route. At these tests the noise meter will be positioned 0.5 metres from the middle of the car, diagonally behind it (i.e. on a line at 45° to the car’s centre line), to the side on which the exhaust tailpipe emerges. Engines must be run to 4,500 r.p.m. (or two-thirds of maximum r.p.m. in the case of pre-war cars). The maximum permitted noise level under these conditions will be 97dB(A). Cars in Age Categories D, E and F must be fitted with effective induction silencing (e.g. air filters). The following safety features are compulsory:
The SOS/OK board must be of approximately A4 size with the large letters OK on one side and SOS on the other. If you stop involuntarily at the roadside, you must place the board on your car so that it can be seen by oncoming competitors. If there are no injuries or other medical emergency, the OK side should be displayed; the SOS must not be used merely to get mechanical help. 6. Age Categories and Classes. These will provisionally be as follows:
Age Category B: Post Vintage (model first made between 1.1.31 & 31.12.40)
Age Category C: Wartime/Post-war (model first made between 1.1.41 & 31.12.52)
Age Category D: Fifties (model first made between 1.1.53 & 31.12.59)
Age Category E: Sixties (model first made between 1.1.60 & 31.12.67)
Age Category F: Post-Historic (model first made between 1.1.68 & 31.12.74)
The Organisers reserve the right to amend or merge classes, to create new classes and to place cars in other classes if they deem it fairer to do so. Classes with fewer than three entrants will normally be merged. Some models may be placed in an Age Category later than the year of first manufacture: e.g. all Jaguar XK120 and XK140 models, and all Triumph TR2, TR3 and TR3A, models, will run in Age Category D; all Austin Healey 3000s will run in Age Category E; all Porsche 911s will run in Age Category F; etc. 7. Body Damage. All cars will be inspected for body damage at scrutineering. No marks will be lost for body damage, but all competitors must complete the damage declaration form on finishing or retiring from the rally, under pain of exclusion. 8. Prohibited Equipment. Two-way radios, and satellite or radio positioning or navigation devices, are prohibited. Mobile telephones (cellular or satellite) may be carried, for emergency use only; any competitor found using a mobile phone, or any other means of communication, to receive or transmit information relating to the event (such as navigation instructions or the location of secret controls) will be excluded. Any form of supplementary tripmeter is permitted. However, certain categories are subject to additional penalties as shown below: (i) Mechanical or semi-mechanical trips (e.g. Halda Speedpilot, Tripmaster and Twinmaster; A1FAB Gemini; Belmogtwin; Autostorica Retrotrip), or electronic displays with a single digital display registering distance only (e.g. Brantz 1; Terratrip 1) - no penalty. (ii) Dual display electronic tripmeters registering distance only (e.g. Brantz 2; Terratrip 2) - penalised 1 mark (equivalent to 1 second) per Timing Point. A vehicle fitted with two supplementary tripmeters complying with Category (i) above, or any tripmeter capable of running with two independent calibrations?(e.g. Oldtimer Retrotrip) will be subject to the same penalty. (iii) Electronic tripmeters registering more than just distance, or average speed computers - penalised 5 marks (equivalent to 5 seconds) per Timing Point. Any clock which performs an average speed function (e.g. by bleeping when a particular distance is due) will be subject to the same penalty. Competitors will be required to declare on their Entry Form what supplementary trips or average speed computing devices are to be carried in their vehicle. This declaration will be checked at Scrutineering and at other points throughout the rally. The above penalties will be applied to the whole event even if the device concerned is only installed for part of the event. Use of any such device which has not been declared will result in exclusion. Laptop computers, electronic organisers and similar devices are PROHIBITED, except if carried inside closed luggage in the car's baggage compartment. They may not be used at any time between the start and finish controls of each day's run. No form of advertising display or sticker may be carried on any competing car, other than those provided by the Organisers. 9. Identification. Semi-rigid rally number plates approximately 40cm x 18cm, and adhesive side panels approximately 30cm x 30cm, will be provided by the Organisers. The plates must be fastened to the front and rear of the vehicle, not obscuring lights or licence plates, and the side panels must be fixed to the front doors or adjacent bodywork. Crew members will be provided with ID badges, which must be worn at all times during the running of the event and at official functions. All official identification must be visible at all times; the penalty for removing or deliberately obscuring numbers during the event is 1,000 marks. 10. Entries and Accommodation. Entry is by invitation, from among those applying to take part. The entry fee for a car and two people will be £2,950 until 31st January 2003, and £3,150 after that date. A discount of £100 will be made to all competitors in pre-war cars. The entry list is provisionally limited to 120 cars, but the Organisers reserve the right to raise this. The entry fee for a crew of two is £2,950 until 31 January 2003, and £3,150 after that date. This includes rally participation; six nights' bed and breakfast, sharing a twin room; dinners or social events most evenings, including welcome dinner, and farewell evening function; prizegiving champagne breakfast; the Malts Rack, and miniature of whisky at each distillery visited to go in it, for each crew member; other souvenirs and apparel; two rally plates and side number panels; detailed road book; etc. Supplements are payable for additional crew members and for single rooms, as follows:
At some overnight halts, more than one hotel will be used. Although the Organisers have done their best to find establishments of the highest available quality, there will inevitably be differences. The Organisers will endeavour to provide a fair balance for all competitors, taking account of date of entry. Competitors are encouraged to join with others into marque, national and club/ecurie teams of three or four cars. No competitor may be a member of more than one team of each kind. No three cars may be in more than one team. Team prizes are awarded to the best placed three finishers in a team. The team entry fee is £60 per team. The main award of the event is the Marque Team Trophy. For this, all cars must be of the same make, and should if possible be of the same or similar model and in the same Age Category, although the Organisers reserve the right to relax these latter requirements for rarer makes. National teams must consist of crews, whose first drivers are all of that nationality or a permanent resident of the country concerned. Any three or four competitors may form a club or ecurie team. In addition, any three or four competitors in pre-war cars (Age Categories A and B) may form a pre-war team. The formal entry list opens with the publication of these Regulations, and closes for individual competitors on 14th April 2003. The Organisers reserve the right to accept later entries. Team entries may be made up to and including signing on. Applications for entry must be made on the official Entry Form, and accompanied by the full Entry Fee, which is refundable if the application is refused. Participants withdrawing before 31st March 2003 will receive a full refund; those doing so after then but before 14th April will receive a 50% refund. After 14th April, the Organisers reserve the right to retain the full entry fee; no refund will normally be made to non-starters. Once the Class structure has been established and rally numbers have been allocated, changes of car will normally only be accepted if they do not involve a change of Class; especially in the case where the change would leave the original Class with three competitors or fewer, and possibly require it to be merged with another Class. In those exceptional cases where a change of Class is permitted, the Organisers reserve the right to charge a supplementary fee of £100 to cover the costs involved (new time cards, new numbers/rally plates, changes to paperwork, possible new Class trophies, etc). You are reminded that car and/or Crew changes may affect the Crew’s eligibility for team and other awards, and also the eligibility for team awards of other members of a team affected by a change of car. No refund of individual or team entry fees will be made if a Crew or a team becomes ineligible for certain awards because of a late change of car or Crew. The Organisers reserve the right to cancel the event if fewer than 60 entries are received by the closing date. If the event is abandoned for this or any other reason, at any time, the Organisers reserve the right to retain a proportion of the entry fee to cover administrative costs incurred to that point. 11. Route and Navigation. The full route will be of about 1,100 miles (1,800 km), almost all on public asphalt roads. There will be no timed sections or tests on gravel roads; these will be used only for access to test venues. However, some of the most scenic Scottish minor roads are of bumpy asphalt, and very low slung cars are not recommended unless driven with care. Competitors in Age Categories A and B may in some cases be set lower average speeds or a route more suited to their cars (e.g. avoiding long steep downhill sections or very tight corners, etc). All route instructions will be in the form of a fully detailed, easy to use Road Book. Official distances will be in miles, but the equivalent in kilometres will be given in all route documents. 12. Maps. A list of the maps required will be supplied a few weeks before the event. This will incorporate an order form, which will enable competitors to benefit from a discount from our official supplier, Rallymaps, The Gate Lodge, 107 Sydenham Avenue, Belfast, BT4 2DP, email [email protected]; telephone (+44/0) 2890-808808, fax (+44/0) 2890-808809. Rallymaps will also be preparing their own Rallymaps Map Book for the event showing the whole route (apart from secret Regularity Sections) in full colour A3 format. Details of this will be available later. 13. Fuel and Assistance. Arrangements are being made for filling stations to be open at intervals of approximately 50 to 80 miles, but the Organisers cannot be held responsible for unforeseen difficulties, and you are advised to ensure that you can carry sufficient fuel for at least 120 miles. Prearranged servicing of any kind is strictly prohibited, and outside the spirit of the event. You may only use fuel, oil, tyres, wheels, tools and components which are carried in your competing car; or which are supplied to you by other competitors, by official assistance cars or by members of the public with whom you have no connection; or which are purchased from commercial suppliers' premises en route. The only people who may work on a competing car are its own crew; other competitors; officials of the rally (including the crews of official recovery vehicles); members of the public with whom the competitor has no connection; employees of garages working on their own premises; or employees of garages or recognised motoring organisations providing emergency service in their normal course of business. Assistance will be available from sweeper or recovery teams, who will follow the route. However, the onus is on competitors to extricate themselves from any difficulties in which they find themselves. It cannot be guaranteed that the recovery cars will keep to schedule or visit all parts of the route, as this will depend on local conditions and the calls on their services. The Organisers will provide a limited courtesy baggage service between overnight halts carrying one normal suitcase or grip per crew. 14. Average Speeds. The time schedule for main road sections of the route will generally be based on an average speed of about (and no more than) 30 m.p.h. (48 km/h). On motorways, the average speed set will normally be higher but will not exceed 50 m.p.h. (80 km/h). On the secondary roads, average speed set will vary according to the difficulty of the road and the class of the car. For Age Categories E and F, it will in general be 30 m.p.h. (48 km/h) throughout, on good quality ordinary roads, varying down to 20 m.p.h. (32 km/h) or less for the oldest cars. Any competitor covering a distance of 20 miles (32 km) or more of ordinary (non-motorway) roads between successive controls or checks at an average speed in excess of 40 m.p.h. (64 km/h) may be penalised by 100 marks, as per Article 21(f). One or more Secret Checks will be established to police this. There may be gaps in the running order from restart controls to allow for the different set speeds, but there will nevertheless inevitably be occasions when cars will be running simultaneously at different average speeds. It is OBLIGATORY for any car that is caught by another to let it overtake, particularly on Regularity Sections, by pulling in and stopping if necessary. The penalty for avoidable baulking will be 300 marks for a first offence and exclusion for a second offence. 15. Controls. Controls may be located at the roadside, or within the precincts of a venue such as a hotel, pub or filling station. These will be indicated by official Control boards. There will be the following types of control during the event: Major Controls (MC): these will be located at periodic intervals, often indoors; at these there will be no lateness penalty up to a permitted tolerance. At the Edinburgh Start control and at each day’s Restart control, this tolerance (Maximum Permitted Lateness) will be 15 minutes; at other Major Controls, it will be 1 hour for Age Categories A and B, 45 minutes for Age Category C, and 30 minutes for Age Categories D, E and F. A penalty of 300 marks will be incurred if you visit Major Controls later than this, but you will still be eligible for a Blue Riband if you visit it at any time during its opening period. If you fail to visit a Major Control during its opening period, you will be penalised 1,000 marks. To remain eligible for a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal, you must not lose marks at any Major Control. Route Checks (RC): these will be located along the route at previously disclosed locations, to provide proof of adherence to the correct route. They may be manned or unmanned. At manned checks, the marshal will sign your time card, but no time will be recorded for any purpose other than noting the order of competitors’ arrival. At unmanned Route Checks, you must record information such as a name on a sign, or a code word placed by the Organisers. You must write this immediately in the correct space on the time card; marshals at subsequent controls may cancel blank spaces. The maximum penalty at any one Route Check will be 300 marks. To remain eligible for a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal, you must correctly visit, and comply with the requirements for proof of passage at, every Route Check required for your class. Secret Checks: these will be set up at undisclosed points to check competitors’ driving behaviour and adherence to route instructions. To remain eligible for a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal, you must not incur any Secret Check penalties. Regularity Start Controls and Regularity Timing Points: see Article 17. Roadside controls will be preceded by a yellow control board, which will mark the start of the Control Area; your car should wait outside this area until one minute before you wish to book in, so long as it does not baulk other competitors or road users. If it is are likely to cause an obstruction, the control marshal may at his discretion allow you to bring it into the Control Area without booking in. A control board will be at the correct entrance in the case of controls inside buildings. At off-road controls you are welcome to enter the venue as soon as you arrive, park your car, and make use of its facilities before or after booking in. In the case of roadside controls, except where specifically permitted, you may not pass through the Control Area more than once; may not turn round in a Control; and must approach and depart from each Control in the directions specified or implied by the route instructions. The penalty is equivalent to missing that Control. There will be no arrival time controls prior to Test and Regularity Start Controls. You may report to these points, and start the Test or Section, at any time during the period they are open. You should be ready to start the test or section IMMEDIATELY on arrival; you may be instructed to start the test, and timed accordingly, even if they are not ready to move off. Please arrive at test and regularity starts as early as possible, without driving too fast; this will assist the running of the event, and give you a greater lateness cushion. 16. Timing System. The event will be run to Scheduled Time, not Target Time. Timing at Major Controls will be by marshals’ clocks, read to the previous full minute (e.g. 14:23 and 55 seconds will be read as 14:23). At Major Controls (but not on Tests or Regularity Sections), the time recorded will be that at which you present his Time Card to the marshal. You may check the clock before doing so if you wish. Your Time Card will show your own Scheduled Time and Latest Permitted Time at each Major Control, together with the intermediate time allowance for each section. It will also show your theoretical Scheduled Time at other locations, to enable you to keep check of your progress. If you book in at a Major Control before your Scheduled Time, you will be penalised at the rate of 20 marks per minute. Note that earliness penalties are cumulative, e.g. if you are one minute early at one control and the same amount early at the next, you are penalised for early arrival each time. The exception to this is that you will normally be permitted to book in early at the Major Control at the end of each day’s run, as detailed on your time card. If you are late at one Major Control, you may reduce this lateness at the following one provided that in doing so you do not take less than three-quarters of the intermediate time allowed. If you miss one or more Controls of any kind, you may reduce all your lateness and book in without further penalty at your Scheduled Time at the next Major Control you visit. You may alternatively carry forward all or part of your lateness. The marshals' clocks will normally be Liege Timers. In addition to the written record on your time card and the marshal's checksheet, these record the time of booking on a computer chip carried by each competitor. The onus is on you (a) to ensure that marshals have correctly recorded your time and signed your time card; (b) to record correctly the required information at unmanned route checks; (c) to write this immediately in the correct space; and (d) to hand in your time cards at the correct place and time. 17. Regularity Sections. There will be about 15 Regularity Sections on the event, on which you are required to maintain a constant speed of 30 m.p.h. (48 km/h) or less. The set speed and the route may vary from class to class. You must be ready to start each Regularity Section immediately on arrival at the Start. You will be allocated a start time on the next practicable full minute (e.g. 15:25:00) or (if two or more cars arrive close to each other) half-minute (e.g. 15:25:30). If you are not ready, you may be deemed to have started at the correct time and have to make up any time lost. Timing Points on ordinary Regularity Sections will be established only at junctions or other landmarks indicated in the route instructions, to which the exact mileage and the time allowed from the preceding landmark will be given (the "Jogularity" system); Organisers' mileages will be deemed correct. Timing lines at TPs may be up to 0.005 mile (26ft/8m) either side of the actual landmark referred to in the Jogularity schedule. British law and MSA rules require controls at which cars must stop to be at least two miles (3.2 km) apart if they and the route between them are wholly on the public highway. Some Regularity Sections may be wholly or partly on private land; on these, Timing Points may be less than 2 miles apart, but will be at least 0.25 mile (0.4 km) apart. Timing Points will have no advance board, but will be indicated by a STOP or CONTROL board, at which you will be timed as you stop astride the line, or immediately behind any car(s) already on the line. The marshal will then enter this time on your time card and computer chip. You will be penalised 1 mark per second early or late at each Timing Point, up to a maximum of 300 marks at any one (equivalent to 5 minutes' earliness or lateness). The maximum penalty on each Regularity Section will be 500 marks. There will normally be more than one Timing Point on a Regularity Section; at each, your due time will be based on your time at the immediately preceding control, whether this was the Start Control or a previous Timing Point – i.e. earliness or lateness at one Timing Point must be carried forward to the next one. On Regularity Sections, you may not stop or slow down unduly within sight of a Timing Point; if you are deemed by the marshal to have done so, you will be given the time at which this occurred as your arrival time. If you stop altogether, you will in addition be penalised 60 marks as described below. You must not stop on Regularity Sections, except at a Timing Point or if obliged to do so by a Stop, Halt or Give Way sign, or by other circumstances beyond your control (such as road safety and courtesy: see Article 20). The penalty for stopping except under such circumstances will be 60 additional marks, if observed by a marshal or Judge of Fact. The Organisers' official distance will be measured using a trip mileage recorder which will have been set to give a reading as close as possible to actual distances. Prior to the event, you will be given the opportunity to calculate discrepancies with your own odometer, on a test section of road. To retain a Gold Medal, you must visit every Regularity Start Control required for your class during the time it is open, and achieve the Gold Standard of 20 marks or less (20 seconds early or late) at every Regularity Timing Point required for your class. The Gold Standard may be adjusted retrospectively if the time allowed should prove unattainable for cars of that class, e.g. through bad weather. To remain eligible for a Silver or Bronze medal, you must visit every Regularity Start Control and Timing Point required for their class while they are open (in addition to achieving Gold Standard at the requisite number of these – see below). 18. Tests. There will be between 15 and 20 Tests. These may either be Timed Tests (manoeuvrability against the clock; acceleration and braking test with Le Mans start; etc); or Observed Tests (e.g. driving judgement). Some Tests may be run wholly or partly with the engine off. Timing on Tests may either be by means of separate Start and Finish clocks, or by a single stopwatch. All crew members, tools, equipment, etc, must be carried in their normal places during each Test, except where otherwise specified. You must be ready to start each Test immediately on arrival; if you are not ready, you may be given the start signal anyway, and your Test time taken from then. You may not walk forward beyond the Start line of a Test prior to attempting it. A Bogey Time for Timed Tests will be published, based on an average speed not exceeding 30 m.p.h. Your deemed time for each Test will be calculated as follows:
A class improvement formula will then be applied. On each Test, the number of seconds (including time penalties as above) taken by the best competitor in each class will be deemed the Target Time for that class, and that competitor will receive zero penalty marks; other competitors will lose marks at the rate of 1 mark per second in excess of this. The following penalties are, however, absolute: False start or taking wrong route 30 marks Not attempting to step astride a line as required by the instructions 30 marks Maximum penalty on any Test attempted 30 marks Not attempting a Test 300 marks There may be a time limit within which to complete part or all of an Observed Test, with penalties for taking longer. Some tests may be different and/or omitted altogether for some older classes. For each test, a Gold Standard will be established; this may be absolute or may be relative to the best performance in that class. To win a Gold Medal, you must attain the Gold Standard on every Test required for your class. The Organisers reserve the right to amend the Gold Standard retrospectively for any class, in the light of actual performances achieved and conditions on the day. Detailed penalties and Gold Standard will be given in the instructions for each individual test. To remain eligible for a Silver or Bronze Medal, you must attempt every Test required for your class (in addition to achieving Gold Standard at the requisite number of these - see below). 19. Delay Allowances. If there is a delay of more than three minutes at the start of a Test or Regularity Section, you should claim a delay allowance, by asking the marshal in charge to record your arrival time and your start time on your Time Card. The onus is on the competitor to do this. The arrival time recorded will be that at which you present your Time Card to the marshal; no allowance will be made for delays incurred prior to this. 20. Road Safety and Courtesy. You must at all times drive in a safe manner, with due consideration for other road users. In particular: (i) You must obey road traffic signs and speed limits, road safety instructions in the road book and in particular the requirement to stop at certain junctions, as set out in MSA Regulation K14.2.1. The penalty for failing to follow these instructions will be at the discretion of the Clerk of the Course, to a maximum of: first offence, 600 marks; 2nd offence, exclusion (iii) Much road rage, and many serious accidents, occur on Scotland’s single track roads. The following rules for driving on these MUST be followed: (a) Use passing places when meeting oncoming traffic. These are usually marked by signs; a white diamond, white square or black and white pole. (b) Remember that any oncoming vehicle will probably already have had to stop for a number of rally cars, and the driver's patience may be wearing thin (c) When you meet an oncoming vehicle, use the passing places as follows:
(d) In our experience, a rally car usually loses less time by giving way to, or reversing for, other road users, especially if these are tourists (e) At every blind bend or crest, be ready to meet an oncoming vehicle. Where there is a wider space or passing place at a bend or crest, keep well in to the left (f) Remember that the road will probably narrow again to single track immediately after a wider bend or crest (g) Do not hold up following ‘civilian’ vehicles, especially on regularity sections when your speed may be lower than that of other traffic; pull into a passing place and let them overtake (h) Do not allow a procession of rally cars to build up behind you, as this is almost impossible for following vehicles to overtake - one of them may be a competitor who has been delayed and is catching up time. It also creates an instant queue (and therefore delays) at the next test or regularity start. Again, pull in to let following cars overtake (i) If you are from a country where you normally drive on the right, be on your guard against pulling in to the wrong side at passing places or crests, or driving on the right after a single-track stretch of road, Continental visitors are seriously injured or killed each year in Scotland because they instinctively go the wrong side. Driving Standards Observers (DSOs) will be appointed to ensure enforcement of these Regulations and of good driving behaviour. 21. Penalties and Finishers' Qualification.
21. Penalties. Penalties will be expressed in terms of marks lost, as follows:
To qualify as finishers, competitors must visit the following controls while they are open: (i) the Start Control at Edinburgh, Saturday morning; (ii) each day's Restart Control; (iii) the Finish Control. Ties will be decided by reference, in order, to marks lost on (i) Concours; (ii) Road Sections; (iii) Regularity Sections; (iv) Tests. 22. Results and Protests. An Official Notice Board will be established at the Rally HQ Hotel at each overnight halt. Interim Provisional Results for each day's run will be posted on the Official Notice Board prior to the restart the following morning. Queries or protests concerning these Results must be made in writing, preferably on the form provided, within 12 hours of their being posted, so long as it is practicable for the competitor concerned to do so. Replies will be posted on the Official Notice Board as soon as possible. Full provisional results will be posted on the Official Notice Board at the Finish at 8.00 p.m. on Friday 16th May. Any queries or protests in respect of these must be made within 30 minutes of their being posted. Making a query does not invalidate the right of a competitor to protest subsequently in writing to the Stewards. Any formal protest must be made within the period quoted above unless the matter has been the subject of an enquiry to the Clerk of the Course; in this case, it must be made within 30 minutes of the Clerk of the Course's reply being posted. Any protest must be accompanied by a fee of £150 which may be returned if the protest is upheld. 23. Awards. There are no overall awards, nor will a General Classification be published. Medals and Ribands. Medals will be awarded to Crews who (i) incur no penalties at any Major Control, Route Check or Secret Check, and visit every Timing Point and attempt every Test required for their Age Category while they are open (ii) incur no penalties under Article 21 (e), (f), (h), (p), (q), (r), (s), (t), (u), (v), (w) or (x) (iii) fulfil the criteria below. Gold Medals will be awarded in each Age Category, as defined in the final Entry List (merged categories counting as one), to Crews who comply with (i) and (ii) above, and achieve the Gold Standard at every Timing Point and Test. If no competitor in an Age Category achieves this, Gold Medals will be awarded to the Competitor(s) in that Age Category achieving the greatest number of Gold Standards. Silver Medals will be presented to Crews who comply with (i) and (ii) above, and who fail the Gold Standard at Tests or Timing Points on no more than two occasions, over and above the number of failures achieved by Gold Medal winners in their Age Category. Bronze Medals will be presented to Crews who comply with (i) and (ii) above, and who fail the Gold Standard at Tests or Timing Points on no more than three occasions, over and above the number of failures achieved by Gold Medal winners in their Age Category. Blue Ribands: two medallions with blue ribands will be awarded to non-medal winners achieving (i) and (ii) above. Red Ribands: two medallions with red ribands will be awarded to Crews have won neither a Medal nor a Blue Riband, but who have visited every Main Control while it is open. Trophies. The most important trophy will be The Marque Team Trophy, plus six replicas, for the best placed marque team of three cars. The Pre-War Team Trophy: six awards will be presented to the best team of any three pre-war cars. The National Team Trophy: six awards will be presented to the best national team of three crews, whose first drivers are of that nationality or a permanent resident of the country concerned. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands will be treated as separate nations. The Ecurie Team Trophy: six awards will be presented to the best placed club or ecurie team. The Ladies' Prize: for the best performance by an all-lady crew, if no all-lady crew finishes, this will be awarded to the best crew whose bona fide first driver is a lady. The Charity Shield: for the crew raising the biggest sum for one or more registered charities. All money raised must go to the charity concerned; you may not use your association with the charity to raise funds to defray any of the costs of your entry. The Veteran’s Trophy: for the oldest car qualifying as a Finisher. The Test Pilot's Trophy: to the first named driver of the car performing best on all Tests required for his Age Category, on scratch penalties. The Timekeeping Trophy: to the nominated second driver of the car losing the least marks on Regularity Sections. Class winners and place awards: based on an award of two trophies for every three crews in the class (1-3 cars, 1st only; 4-6 cars, 1st & 2nd places; etc). Best Beginners' Trophy: two trophies to the best crew of which every member is competing on his or her first rally or classic trial of any kind. Concours Awards: to the entrant of the best car overall, and in each Age Category. Nationality Awards: to the best first driver resident in each overseas country, of each nationality. In all cases except the Concours, Test Pilot’s Trophy and Timekeeping Trophy two medals or trophies per car will be given. Competitors may win more than one award. Finisher's Awards will be awarded to all members of Crews qualifying as Finishers. 24. Concours de Confort et d’Equipement. This will be a separate event, and not part of the main competition. Cars will be judged at the Start, during the event and at the Finish for originality, level and appropriateness of equipment, crew apparel, attention to period detail, and stylishness. Awards will be made for the best overall and to the best two or three in each Age Category, to finishers only. Marks will not be lost for being travel stained. 25. Insurance. The Organisers have applied to Alexander Forbes Risk Services for a Blanket Certificate of Insurance under the Alexander Forbes's Motor Sports Club Scheme to provide competitors who wish to use the scheme with third party cover to meet Road Traffic Act requirements on the road sections of the event. The basic rate per entry for the event (before any loadings) will be £17.00 (inclusive of Insurance Premium Tax). All competitors who will be driving on the event will be asked to sign an insurance declaration that they have cover for Road Traffic Act Requirements. This must be a minimum of two persons per entry and will confirm that both driver and co-driver, either (a) are covered by an extension to private motor insurance to include cover whilst participating in the event; or (b) hold valid NES Letters of Acceptance (to be produced at Signing On) without a loading; or (c) are able to comply with the following Alexander Forbes Declaration. NES letters issued under a previous scheme (Bowring etc) are acceptable if they are still within the validity period and do not have a loading. ALEXANDER FORBES DECLARATION NB Failure to disclose facts that are likely to influence the acceptance or assessment of your risk may lead the insurer declaring the resultant cover to be null and void.
Competitors who have a NES Letter of Acceptance with a loading or doubt that they comply with the above Bradstock Declaration should complete the Declaration Form For Competitor’s Third Party Risks available from Alexander Forbes Risk Services, Hanover House, 30/32 Charlotte Street, Manchester, M1 4FD, tel 0161 228 0721, fax 0161 236 0995. This should be returned by 25th April 2003 to the insurers at the above address. The insurers will then forward processed Letters of Acceptance to the home addresses of drivers, and unpaid premiums will be collected at Signing On. Competitors extending their own insurance to provide cover whilst participating in the event will not be required to pay the £17.00 fee. |
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HERO - the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation The Town House - Leigh - Worcester - WR6 5LA - UK
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