[Graham]

 Good afternoon,

Well I had a great day out yesterday at the Wye Valley Club Autumn Rally Event, had quite a reasonable run with my cars, enjoyed the company of other fellow Slotters and there was 3 of us in person from the Proxy Club (Paul C, Chris K & myself). And 4 other Club Members entering Proxy cars (Andy P, Brumos, BARacer and Scott Sports)

So I would say we were all fairly well represented at this Rally 

It also made me realise a couple of issues that needed attention:
 1) The Event 3 car list was not long enough to enable a few Legendary cars to run, ie the Subaru's and Earlier Mitsubishi's - so I have extended this eligibility period up until 1996. The Event 4 WRC car period starting therefore from 1997

2) Penalties - my 10% for non compliant cars based on timings were going to be extremely disabling for the entrants, in relation to just how much the performance advantage was going to really effect the cars overall advantage. So having explored the effect on a Rally run based on the results on a live Slot Rally, I decided to revise this so that such cars remain in contention but just enough of a penalty in order to hurt their placings at the end of the series by a few places rather than being too severe.
So it is now a 2% time penalty for a major performance related advantage infringement, and a 1% time penalty for non performance related infringement. Both will only applied at the end of the series and not at each Round.

3) DNF penalty- as this is going to be accumulated time proxy, if cars cannot run due to some physical issue on any particular Stage (guide etc), or if the car has a mechanical issue and cannot be repaired in time to run the stage, there needs to be a time penalty added. The hosts only need to record a "DNF" to the results records for their stage, so it will be up to the Road Race Administrator (me) to actually apply the time penalty, when or if it occurs.

4) Finally I been encouraged to reduce the minimum rear wheel diameter for Event 1 cars to 19mm in line with the other Events, as there maybe some early sixty's cars which may struggle to meet this.

Theses changes have been edited onto the Rules Sheet on the Header page