6 Hour Charity Team Race - 9th Oct

[RobW]

Following the committee meeting last night we would like to announce that we will be running a team race on Sunday 9th Oct with £2 of each entry fee going to the chosen charity of the winning team.

This first attempt is intended to be a simple and fun club event with everyone using their own cars in teams of 6 to 8.

We will restrict to the first 10 teams to complete the entry form and pay the entry fees - £10 per person. We will issue the entry form in the next day or 2 once we have put one together with details of where to send – probably either give in to race control at a future race meeting to send to Mike. Closing date for entries will be 1 week before the event, so Sunday 2nd Oct.

Mike is looking at the best solution re transponders and we’ll let you know as soon as we know.

Simple rules including criteria for teams will be on the entry form but in summary:

1. Teams to be between 6 and 8 drivers.

2. Maximum 1 car per driver.

3. Mixed 2 and 4WD teams acceptable.

4. Race duration 6 hours – planned for 10.00am to 4.00pm – no breaks.

5. Each team will be responsible for covering one allocated marshalling spot throughout event.

6. No team to have a cumulative ability score higher than:

For 6 driver teams - 64.
For 7 driver teams – 75
For 8 driver teams – 85

Your individual ability score is the most qualifying laps you have achieved in the class (2/4WD) you will be running in the team race. For example, if your previous best qualifying time is 10 laps in 2WD and you intend running 2WD in the team race, then your ability score is 10. For example, a 6 driver teams could be made up of 4 drivers with personal best of 11 laps and 2 with personal bests of 10 laps. If you have not raced previously at TORCH, we’ll have to come up with an estimate. This is not meant to be a highly accurate way of grading drivers – it is a simple approach to encourage mixed ability teams.

We’ll post more info as we have it and try and answer your questions on this thread but please no suggestions involving making it more complicated.

Let’s start getting those teams together!!

Rob