Event Schedule
8:00 PM Drivers Meeting, Tuesday, July 27th , 2010
Liguanea Club, Kingston
9:00AM Entry, Registration and Technical Inspection
9:00-10:00 AM Official Practice All cars
10:00-11:00AM Official Practice Motorcycles
11:00-12:00 Noon Official Practice All Cars
12:00-12:30 PM LIME Thundersport Qualifying
12:30-01:00 PM Improved Production Qualifying (IP27,33,37)
01:00-01:30 PM TOTAL Improved Production 45 Qualifying
01:30-02:00 PM Modified Production Class Qualifying
02:00-02:30 PM Motorcycle Qualifying
02:30-04:30 PM Open Practice
04:30 PM Track Officially Closed
08:00-08:15 AM Warm up All Cars
08:20-08:35 AM Warm up All Motorcycles
08:40-09:00 AM Drivers Meeting
09:15-09:35 AM Opening Ceremony (All Competitors) and Parade Lap (IP27/37)
09:40-09:55 AM Improved Production (IP27,37) RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
10:05-10:20 AM Motorcycles Race 1 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
10:30-10:45 AM Modified Production Class 1 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
10:55-11:10 AM Modified Production Class 2 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
11:20-11:35 AM Modified Production Class 3 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
11:45-12:00 AM Improved Production IP33 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
12:10-12:25 AM TOTAL Improved Production 45 RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
12:40-12:55 PM LIME Thundersport RACE 1 (5 LAPS)
01:05-01:25 PM Improved Production (IP27,37) RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
01:35-01:50 PM Motorcycles Race 2 RACE 2 (5 LAPS)
02:00-02:20 PM Modified Production Class 1 RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
02:30-02:50 PM Modified Production Class 2 RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
03:00-03:20 PM Modified Production Class 3 RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
03:30-03:45PM Motorcycles Race 3 RACE 3 (5 LAPS)
03:55-04:05PM Improved Production IP33 RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
04:15-04:30 PM TOTAL Improved Production 45 RACE 2 (5 LAPS)
04:40-05:00 PM LIME Thundersport RACE 2 (7 LAPS)
This event is Sanctioned by the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club and held under the present code and under the present Motor Sports Rules and Regulations. Technical Classifications are held under the Jamaica Race Drivers Club Rules.
Time & Place Sunday, August 1st – Qualifying, Technical Inspection
Monday, August 2nd – Racing
Dover Raceway, St. Ann Bay
The Course The course is a 1.6-mile Closed circuit run in an anti clockwise direction.
Organizer(s) JAMAICA RACE DRIVERS CLUB
153 ½ Constant Spring Road
KINGSTON 10
TEL: 931-9423
Officials Chief Steward:
Stewards: Micheal Fennel Jr., Colin Chambers
Clerk of the Course: Lawrence Henriques
Secretary: Monique Gibbs
Scrutineers: Wayne Wallace
Starter: Paul Clayton
Chief Timekeeper: Toni Lyew
Finish line Judge: Verdayne Wallace
Chief Marshall: Donald Fuller
Event Organiser: Lisa Williams
Medical Doctors: Dr. P. Charles, Dr. Liburne
Ambulance(s): St. Johns Ambulance & Red Cross Ambulance
Insurance Thwaites Finson Sharpe/Jamaica General Insurance Co.
Entries: Open to any JMMC Competition License Holder. All entrants wishing to score Championship Points, Prize Money and Trophies must be JRDC Members. Membership forms are available on the clubs’ website www.jrdc.org. and will be made available on qualifying and race day. The annual membership fee is J$2500.
Entries Open: July 27th, 2010
Entries close: August 1st, 2010 (4:30 pm)
Entry Fee: $2,500.00
Each Motor car entrant shall receive nine: (7) paddock passes ;(2) general passes and 1 service vehicle pass. All other passes must be purchased at the regular price. Drivers must collect their packages when they collect their transponder. By 3pm on Qualifying day all vehicles and personnel are required to have on the necessary credentials to be in the paddock area.
Entries will be accepted at:
Bell Communication
153 ½ Constant Spring Rd
Kingston 10
Tel: 931-9423
Entry forms are available from above location and will be posted on www. Jrdc.org web site.
Licenses
A Valid JMMC issued Competition or provisional Drivers licenses is mandatory, or competition license issued by the ASN of the competitors country. Rookie drivers shall place a black triangle (no less than 1/2 “ thick lines) on the rear of their cars, in a prominent position. Drivers who have never completed 3 races in one calender year shall be considered rookies.
Registration & Briefing Registration & Briefing of drivers and marshals:
Kingston: Tuesday, July 27th , 2010. – 8:00 p.m. Liguanea Club
At registration checking of licenses and signing of the insurance waiver will be mandatory. All credential (passes etc) will be issued then. Drivers and marshals who are unable to attend shall make prior arrangements with the organizers to do so at the track. The onus is on the driver or marshal to make the necessary arrangements.
Mandatory drivers briefing at the track:
Monday, August 2nd , 2010 – 08:40 am, in front of the timekeepers box in pit lane.
Failure to attend the mandatory drivers meeting, and sign the attendance sheet shall result in the deduction of one (1) Championship Point.
At registration, checking of competition licenses and signing of the insurance waiver will be mandatory. A technical inspection form will be handed out. The schedule for registration is listed on the attached event program agenda.
Technical Inspection
At the preliminary technical inspection the scrutineer shall be checking mandatory safety equipment, vehicle safety, mechanical compliance to classifications (where possible), and required sponsors decals and logos. Weighing of vehicles shall be a part of the preliminary technical inspection.
Post race / qualifying technical inspection shall take place immediately after each session. The first, second and third placed cars in ALL CLASSES shall proceed DIRECTLY to the scrutineering / scale area to be weighed , and checked for the necessary decals and logos. IP Classes will be checked for compliance with the Technical Regulations. Failure to do so may result in disqualification, at the discretion of the Clerk of the Course. The onus is on the competitor to present his car promptly for weighing. A random weighing and inspection of other Modified Production and Thundersport cars competing may be ordered by the scrutineer after any track session. A crewmember from each team shall remain with the car while it is in the scrutineering / scale area.
The first, second and third finishing, Modified Production and Thundersport competitors shall have their engine displacement measured after race completion, at least once each day of competition. This requirement will not apply to rotary engine cars.
All IP Class Cars shall display on both front doors, the class entered as set out in the example below:
IP 27
All IP45 Forced Induction Cars shall display on both front doors, the class entered as set out in the example below:
IP45T
All IP45 Naturally Aspirated Cars shall display on both front doors, the class entered as set out in the example below:
IP45N
All MP Class Cars shall display on both front doors, the class entered as set out in the example below:
MP1
All Thundersport Class Cars shall display on both front doors, the following:
TS
All competitors must affix the supplied LIME Number plates, on prominently displayed on each front door. With the exception of series/class sponsors, competitors may provide their own decals to meet the above requirements. If they are unable to do so they will be supplied at a nominal cost.
All competitors are REQUIRED to have the competitors number labeled on the car’s fire extinguisher. All competitors are REQUIRED to provide an additional fire extinguisher to be stationed in their bay/parking space. This will be checked at scrutineering and noted in the vehicle logbook.
Official Scales
The Official Scales shall be available to all competitors during the event except for when post race technical inspection is being conducted. The onus is on the competitors to have their cars at the proper weight. Weighing of cars shall be done during preliminary technical inspection.
Official Notice Board In the paddock area at the track
Timing & Scoring
Timing will be done using electronic timing equipment backed up manually by stopwatches.
Qualifying
A competitor is allowed 30 minutes to post a qualifying time. At the commencement of each qualifying session the track announcer will indicate the time remaining in 5 minute increments. The fastest lap time will be that competitor’s official qualifying time. In the event of back up timing being used (stop watches) Each competitor is allowed Three (3) full laps to post their fastest qualifying time. The fastest of the three will be that competitor’s official qualifying time. A competitor must qualify for each class entered or start after the previous last qualifying competitor in that race.
Starting Grids and Starting
Starting grids for the races shall be based on both qualifying times and finishing order in a previous race. Starts shall be rolling starts. Starting Grids shall be limited to 40 cars. The first 40 cars shall qualify for the race in question.
Cars are only elegable to enter races which they are compliant for, as per the Technical Regulations.
Technical Regulations.
Cars entering Modified and Improved Production Classes MUST run in their respective classes. I.E. A MP3 car may not enter an MP1/2 Race, and vice versa.
Awards & Championships
Trophies and Prize money shall be awarded in the following manner:
Championship points will be awarded for 1st through 6th place, for finishers in each class,
for each race in accordance with the JMMC schedule. Trophies and Prize money shall be
awarded for 1st,2nd and 3rd place, for finishers in each class. To be considered a finisher a
car must complete 75% of the race distance.
Races will normally follow the two-race format for the awarding of points. If for
Unforeseen circumstance one (1) race is held the single race format will be observed.
Championship Points Schedule
Single Race Format Two-Race Format
Race 1 Race 2
1st 10 1st 4.0 1st 6.0
2nd 6 2nd 2.4 2nd 3.6
3rd 4 3rd 1.6 3rd 2.4
4th 3 4th 1.2 4th 1.8
5th 2 5th 0.8 5th 1.2
6th 1 6th 0.4 6th 0.6
1 (One) Championship point to be awarded to each driver qualifying on pole position in his class.
Drivers finishing in positions 1st through 3rd shall be paid as follows:
IP(All classes) J$3,000 per championship point.
MP(All classes) J$4,000 per championship point.
TS J$5,000 per championship point.
Motorcycles J$3,000 per championship point.
There shall be no prize money or trophy awarded for qualifying on pole position.
Garages
Competitors who have made arrangements and are not using these facilities on race day will have to sub-let to other competitors on race weekend.
Miscellaneous
1. Please note that drivers are encouraged to produce their log books and have them signed by the
event Stewards, this will be important for future upgrading of competition licenses.
2. The starter will display a WHITE FLAG the at the commencement of the penultimate lap, to signal to drivers that there is one lap remaining.
3. NO FIREARMS will be allowed in the paddock or in cars on track. Competitors and/or their crew
members who are found to be in violation of this rule may be BANNED from competing in the future.
4. Competitors are strongly encouraged not to enter the garages or tents of other competitors unless specifically invited to do so.
5. Competitors are reminded that they are responsible for the actions of themselves and their crew members, and any breach of conduct will result in strong disciplinary action, up to and including being banned from participation in future JRDC events.
6. Proper Safety Garments must be worn by competitors during all Official Practice, Qualifying and Race Sessions.
7. All competitors who use the JRDC’s transponders are REQUIRED to return them to the Time Keeping area by the end of Race Day 2. Failure to do so, will result in a charge of J$5,000 along with the returned transponder, payable to the JRDC. Competitors will not receive new transponders until this fee is paid and the outstanding transponder is returned. Parking for Service Vehicles
Service vehicles are to be parked along the fence on the outside of the Paddock area. All drivers trailers and wreckers are to park in the designated parking space, on the dirt bike track. Special consideration will be given to competitors who do not have access to a garage. Tents will be provided, and erected along the inside of the paddock fence primarily for IP45 Comptetitors.
Improved Production 27, 33, 37- Penalties For Breaking The Group/Class Time Bracket
By 0.001 - 0.499 secs. –
Penalized 4 positions in current race or qualifying result.
Next Race lose 4 positions on grid.
Lose 2 points if it is the last race of the season.
By 0.500 - 0.999 secs. –
Lose 8 positions in current race or qualifying results.
Next Race lose 8 positions on grid.
Over 1.000 secs. –
Penalized to back of grid for current race or qualifying
Start next race at the back of the grid.
Lose all points scored for that race.
Over 2.000 seconds-
Disqualified from current race or qualifying results.
Start next race from pit lane.
Over 3.000 seconds- Disqualified from current race or qualifying results.
Disqualified from next race entry.
Automatically move up a Group when broken three times in a season.
All competitors may participate in the qualifying session to be held before the first race of the day. All the rules surrounding IP45 are in effect for all on-track sessions, including qualifying, and must be adhered to.
Grid positions for Race #1 will be determined by the fastest qualifier being awarded P1, with the seconds, will have their 2nd fastest time WITHIN the time limit counting toward their fastest qualifying time. This is to detract (by penalty) from the temptation for a competitor to push their car deliberately out of the time bracket during this session.
Anyone who broke out of class and was deemed to have a DNF by means of disqualification from Race 1 will start BEHIND the finishers of race #1 on the grid.
The IP 45 Races will be run as two concurrent races. All the cars will race together, but there will be scored as: Forced Induction 1st; 2nd and 3rd; Naturally Aspirated 1st; 2nd and 3rd.
Motorcycles
Three concurrent motorcycle races will be held. There will be two classes, designated CLASS A, and CLASS B, with the slower class B gridded in front of class A .Both classes will be gridded in the reverse order of qualifying in the first race and finishing order for the next two.
There will be two waves of the start flag. The Class B will start 30 seconds ahead of Class A.
