These team restrictions do not prevent other club members from entering events independently, "just for fun" and does not require all members be present @ registration, but your TEAM needs to be designated in advance.
EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL BE REQUIRED TO FILL OUT A REGISTRATION AND TECH FORM FOR HIS OR HER CAR.
Your team captain is the ONLY person on your team allowed to speak for, or negotiate for your team. NWAA will not be responsible for keeping track of team members, either they are on your list or they are not team members. In the event of a situation preventing one of your team mates from finishing the event, AT THE DISCRETION of NWAA, you may request a stand-in from other competing club members All additional club members whether spectators or additional competitors, need to identify themselves @ sign in. Clubs, via the team captain, are responsible for the conduct of ALL club members at the site, and coming and going to the site. This needs to stay a safe fun and legal event, we need to make sure we conduct ourselves this way
3# Clubs should have cars marked as to the club they are running for, this could be a simple as printed sign in the window, or window stickers, but it would be helpful to have them large enough to be seen by the judges. We will also assign a race number, to be displayed on your car. The entry form will include a spot for requested number, but there will be no garentee that you will get that number.
Although we discourage it (see space limitations) clubs can field more than one complete team for the weekend, teams may not share drivers or cars. However, they may share participation bonus points. (The team itself DOES NOT COUNT towards participation points.) In the event of a 2 or more team club, race numbers will include a letter A, B, etcetera. Pro class cars will need to be designated as well. This is all to help out timing and scoring.
Team size: Teams can consist of no more than 9 driver car combos (plus the wild card), this means that at least 2 team competitors will HAVE to compete in more than one skill test. This has changed from last year. We will not have a contest where a club can roll only its best 4 drifters, drag racers and autocrossers. This change makes smaller clubs able to compete on a more even field, and limits the size of the event, somewhat.
Pro classes: Last year there was some confusion over PRO and amateur classes.
So some guidelines; number one if you competed in more than eight autocrosses in the 12 months leading up to smackdown 08, or more than 12 in the last 24 months, or if you have won a club, regional, divisional, state, or national championship, EVER, you should be a PRO.
PRO teams will cosist of 7 pre designated drivers, and one wildcard entry, the bonus points for female and club participation apply. So 4 of the PRO class drivers will have to pull double duty in two of the 3 events. You can cheat on this but it’s your rep at stake, next year (09) there will be only one big class so you have the chance to bulk up on practice this year.
Pro Class can run on race tires for drag and autocross, NO street tire correction, if your running PRO bring your R comps and your skills. A club may field a PRO and an Amateur class, but they must not share cars or drivers.
Highway laws will be STRICKTLY enforced. Local law enforcement will be appraised of our routes and schedules. Deliberated disregard for highway laws at ANY time during the weekend may be grounds for a teams disqualification, this applies to ALL club members, racing or not, no 130MPH blasts down the highway. This could result in the loss of the event site, and NO ONE wants that.
Saturday starts of with acceleration tests, unless it is wet in which case we will run drifting first, and hope it dries out.
Sunday standard SCCA type autocross see event flyer for schedule
Acceleration test (Drag) Drag will NOT be side by side, only one car at a time straight line. The course will be long enough to be interesting but short enough to stay within our insurance rules and safety considerations. Straight ET wins, no brackets or classes. Maximum participation of 70 cars in this portion of the contest, REGISTER EARLY!!! (distance will be approximately one city block, plus shutdown room)
Car restrictions: non PRO cars must be street legal, they can be trailered to the event, but must have fully functional road equipment (lights turn signals etc.) Cars will be awarded one point extra if they have current tags. Modifications and performance upgrades are un-restricted, but must pass safety inspection so nitrous is ok (FOR THE DRAG ONLY) but you will find the site is traction limited, so TOO MUCH horsepower may not help.
Non PRO (street) teams run on street tires, no slicks or DOT cheaters(drag radials) see treadwear rules for autocross below.
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All members who pay and enter are eligible to run the drag, but you must designate your 4 Challenge entries up front. Each member should get at least 3 Passes, more if time permits, only the fastest one counts. If time prevents all members from getting an equal number of runs, the last COMPLETE set of runs will be the last scored. This does not count DNF or DNS. (If most teams get 3 runs but a couple get 4 before we run out of time, only the first 3 will be scored.)
Points will be awarded as follows:
16 points for top ET
14 for second
12 third
10 fourth
8 fifth
6 sixth
4 seventh
2 eighth
Each car will be awarded 1 extra point for being street licensed, and TEAM will be awarded 1 extra point if at least one driver is a female.
Maximum point earned potential for any 1 car will be 18 (fastest ET, street licensed, female driver)
Drifting: Again street legal cars only, NITROUS MUST BE REMOVED Or CONFIRMED DISCONNECTED prior to competing. All cars must pass tech. Maximum participation of 70 cars.
Points will be scored in accordance with currently accepted judging policies, teams must designate one member each who is familiar with the drifting scene to sit on the judges panel, it is assumed that they will remain impartial and judge in the spirit of the event. One member of NWAA will join them. with multiple judges, in the event of a tie vote, the NWAA judge will be tie breaker (remember this is all in fun)
Points will be awarded as above, Again with one extra point to the team that INCLUDES A FEMALE DRIVER.
Autocross: ALL club members cars, NOT RUNNING IN THE PRO CLASS, will be expected to compete on STREET TIRES. SCCA street touring standards apply to all classes. Tires must have a tread wear rating of 140 or higher. Cars racing on Sunday will be assigned to their respective SCCA SOLO 2 classes. Points will be awarded based on the clubs relative finishing positioning against the published PAX index. What this means is your time will be indexed to its PAX time, then finish positions will be awarded based on that time. This should eliminate the disparity between R compound and street tires in club competition. (The tire rule does not apply to PRO classes)
ABSOLUTELY NO DUAL DRIVER CARS IN GRID. SHARED CARS WILL BE SPLIT INTO RUN GROUPS A OR B DRIVER ONE IN GROUP A, TWO IN GROUP B. The dual driver cars cause too much extra confusion in scoring. No more than 2 drivers per car PERIOD in any event.
Classing info can be found @ the national SCCA web site, PAX index for 2008 can be found @ the San Francisco region SCCA website. Competitors will be expected to know their cars appropriate class based on its modifications. Standard protest rules apply, but remember this event is just for fun.
Scoring: This is where it gets Really interesting. As I said earlier, the autocross would be at least 50% of you clubs score. Points will be double those of drift or drag So;
32 =1st
28 = 2nd
24 = 3rd
20 = 4th
16 = 5th
12 = 6th
8 = 7th
4 = 8th
To explain this, say car #1 finishes the event 3rd overall in the index, but he is FIRST among challenge entries, he gets first place points, car #2 is 12th overall, but second in challenge, etc.
However, here is where the fun begins; each team will be allowed to Pre-Select only 3 of their 4 autocross team members.
We want to encourage participation, so here is the deal. Each team will be awarded 1 additional point for each extra member who enters, up to 9 cars/drivers(not counting your 4 team members).
What’s this mean? Well if you show up and enter 10 extra cars, 9 points will be added to your score up front regardless of finish position. Additionally ½ of 1 point will be added for EACH FEMALE driver in your group. If your team shows with 6, you get 6 additional points.
Why the emphasis on the ladies? Well it’s like this, its more fun, and think about it, wouldn’t it be nice to NOT have to convince your significant other that a new turbo is more important than a new couch?
Now to the “Wild Card“ entry. One member of your autocross team will be drawn at random from all the club members who enter the autocross, so if your club enters 20 cars one of those 20 will be drawn from a hat at the drivers meeting, and added to your 4 man team as the fourth member. His or her score will be computed in your total. So it wont matter when your wild card enters, or whether they are part of your pre-designated team, IF they are an active club member and enter the event, they can STILL count in the end.
Some fun ? last year we expected 50 cars and got 70 with over 300 spectators, this year we expect many more applications, so don’t wait too long to get your team going. Registrations opens August 1st, No PRE PAID NON-TEAM entries will be accepted prior to September 1st, and THEN if it fills up ITS FULL, so dont wait to enter.
Entry FEES 15 dollars each for drift and drag, 25 for autocross. FOR PRE-REGISTERED ONLY!! IF there is still open slots on Friday Night or Saturday morning add 5 dollars to each event fee.
Saturday night Cookout will remain 5 dollars per head, but we MUST have a head count IN ADVANCE of ALL who plan to eat. you will be issued a meal ticket for Each person, no meal ticket no food
so not too many changes from last year, just some clarification of issues that came up.
