Hawkes Bay Model Racing Club Inc.

Below is the class roster. Each meet as many classes will be run as time permits. The following week classes will continue down the list from where they finished the previous meet. Members on the mailing list will receive an email after each week's racing, to confirm where we are up to, with classes for the following week.

If there are no cars/racers in any given class then the class will be skipped and the next on the list will be run.

ROSTER

1. Open Wheelers- any vintage (Initially at least)
2. LMP
3. V8 Supercars
4. Classic Sports Racing 1965-1980
5. GTP
6. JGTC (Japanese Grand Touring Cars)
7. Nascar
8. LMP
9. Saloon
10. Muscle Cars
11. Minis
12. GTP
13. Classic Sports Car pre 1965

RULES FOR CLASSES
Racing Format:

Normally two classes to be run each meet. More only if time permits. If there are very few racers they may run two cars per class and thus have two races per class. The more popular classes will be run more frequently with GT and LMP being the mainstays.

Each racer will qualify their car or cars (maximum of two per racer) they propose to run for that days racing for 30 seconds per car. If the car has been qualified previously and not modified since then that time may be used in lieu of qualifying to save time. Likewise a fastest time in a race will be used as a qualifying time in future.

Fastest four qualifiers will form the first semi, the next four fastest the second semi and so on.

In the case of one racer entering two separate cars in one race due to low numbers the two cars must qualify far enough apart to allow this. Should their two cars be too close in qualifying to allow this then they will have to drop one car and only enter one semi. Similarly a single car may be cross entered in two races with two separate drivers if their qualifying times are far enough apart.

Technical rules
1. Must be hard body
2. Wheels must fit within arches when looking from the side
3. Wheels must fit into arches when looking from above
4. Original wheels OR matching wheel inserts front and rear from the time period the car raced in. Photographic evidence may be requested!!
5. Sufficiently full interior so that no chassis or components can be seen through the windows, including a non transparent (3) dimensional driver , consisting of at least head/shoulders/arms and steering wheel, with at least (2) colours
6. All lights and windscreens must be fitted. Windscreens must remain clear if the car is supplied with clear screens.
7. Hard tyres. No foam tyres
8. Tyres may be cleaned with water, water with a few drops of detergent solution, fuelite or sticky tape only. This must be done by hand, not by doing "burnouts" on the track surface. No tyre goops allowed.
9. Bodies must be fully painted. White bodies with stickers and clear coat does not qualify as fully painted
10. Bodies must not allow the guide, chassis or any components to be seen when viewed from above, and chassis or any components from the side, front or rear.
11. Chassis must appear stock when viewed from the outside with the car upside down.
12. 0.5 mm ground clearance from chassis, gears or body at the start of the race. This will be very strictly enforced to avoid track damage. Cars not complying to this rule are not allowed onto the track under any circumstances!
13. NASCAR, BMW Minis and V8 Supercars must be box stock except for tyres which must be rubber or urethane. Addition of lead ballast on these three classes, (and the fitment of a 10 tooth pinion on SCX NASCAR's) are allowed. Minis must be the models that come with interiors fitted. All these classes may of course be "blueprinted" ( i.e. wheel/tyre truing, bodies loosened, axles and bushings aligned, wheel spacers fitted, motors and bushings glued in place.) New lead wires may be fitted and those silly capacitors taken out. (This is stuff all beginners should master before attempting more sophisticated mods anyway) Apart from these modifications if it didn't come with the car it ain't allowed!
14. JGTC cars-Ninco cars may have no better than NC-5 motor and standard interiors fitted. Scalextric cars may have light weight interiors.
15. Cars running magnets must have a large "M" written in black or red permanent marker on the back windshield or behind the cockpit in open cockpit cars. This may be written on a sticker if desired to ease removal.
16. Any car not complying with the technical rules can still race but will not be allowed to qualify and be automatically relegated to the slowest semi of that class.

Race rules:

1. Races to comprise 2 minute heats in each lane with 45 second lane change periods
2. Power will be cut after two minutes and drivers will move their controller to the drivers' position to their right and their car moved to the appropriate lane in the same relative track position as where their car stopped. Thus white will move to red, red to black, black to yellow, yellow to white. Don't forget to change lane stickers too!
3. The 45 sec countdown will not be stopped except for track or timing system failures. Cars may be maintained in the 45 second countdown period. Marshals may assist with lane changes.
4. Power resumes after the 45 second countdown.
5. "Track" calls can only be made for a car on the floor, car in an unmarshallable area or track/timing system faults. Power will be cut for legitimate track calls only. Continued false track calls will result in a deduction of laps by the racer involved. (Note a simple deslot is best called as watch out on "……. Lane" rather than calling track as we do now. Takes a little practice but it is how it is done at national level)
6. Segments to be recorded at the end of each semi in the case of two or more cars finishing on the same number of laps.
7. A racer who completes more laps from a slower semi shall be deemed to be ahead of the driver with fewer laps from the faster semi.
8. In the event two semis are very close in terms of laps done, a final of the top four drivers may be run if time permits and there is a desire to do so.


Track Rules:

1. No smoking
2. No abuse of marshals or other drivers. Minor offences may result in laps being deducted. Serious offences will result in expulsion!
3. No licking of tires (It grosses me out!)
4. No burnouts
5. No mobile calls or texts while marshalling.

Contact Mark on Tel. 844 8870, Mike at 878 7949 biz, 876 7406 (Hm)
or by email Mark at
admin@burmac.co.nz
and Chris at kennedyrd-home@xtra.co.nz