[Graham]

 Morning all,

Most of the cars have either arrived or should hopefully arrive on or just after Monday's Scrutineering day. The event series starts on the 2nd October at the Harlequin Race  Circuit.

Below is the Format under which the cars will be competing.

Le Mans Race format-Championship Style (Series of timed trials)
Each of the hosts will run the entrants cars on either a club wooden routed track or a plastic based home track. We have 3 club tracks hosting this competition South Manchester Slot Racing club (SMSRC), North East Restoration Club Slots (NERCS) & Woodland Fort Slot club. And 3 home based hosts Graham (Carrera), Paul (Policar) and Kevin (Scalextric Sport) tracks.There will be 2 stages run by each host to simulate daylight and “dusk”light running conditions. There will be no shallow slot rail tracks used, but the home tracks are limited to accepting car slot guides of no deeper than 7mm.

At each venue the cars are run a period of laps and on any number of lanes as determined by the host or club and depending on each track length and number of cars entered. The host will determine the final order of the cars in terms of fastest to slowest using their own lap time measurement method. Where possible it is preferred that the Entrants are not running their own cars. The timings will be posted by the host at the end of the two rounds for both “Daylight & Nightime” runs. Thereafter the Event coordinator will then post the official positions and points allocated to each car in all four of the classes. And normally the next day will post the accrued number of points as the series progresses.

Overall Class winners – will be the cars which have accrued the most points over the Championship series.

Event Series winner – will be the Team who has the highest number of combined cars accrued points at the end of the Series.

Cars fitted with lights will be eligible for full Team points, whereas cars entered without lights will still be allowed full points for their run times during the daylight stages, but will only qualify for half points during the “dusk” light stages.