NORTHERN CCV TRIALS LEAGUE 2010

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS Issue 3, 5 April 2010

Pennine Land Rover Club (PLRC), Cumbrian Rover Owners Club (CROC), Lancashire and Cheshire Land Rover Owners Club (L&C), North Wales Land Rover Club (NW), Shropshire Off Road Club (SORC) and Staffordshire and Shropshire Land Rover Club (S&S) will organise a league of Cross Country Vehicle trials in 2010. Each club will host a round of the league which will be covered by a Cross Country National B Trials permit issued by the MSA to the host club.

Competitors in the league will be members of the above clubs and need a minimum of a Non-race Clubmans competition licence.

The dates and venues for the competitions are:

The above dates shall be maintained for 2010. Organisers shall have contingencies in place to ensure that suitable sites are available. Any re-siting of an event shall be notified to the coordinator no less than 21 days before the due date.

The Course, Officials, Vehicles and Entrants shall be compliant with the General Regulations and Section P of the MSA Competitors Yearbook 2010 and the following Supplementary Regulations:

All entrants shall be members of invited competitive motor sport clubs.

All vehicles and competitors shall be compliant with the regulations described within the current MSA Competitors yearbook. Vehicles shall be fitted with roll over protection compliant with the requirements of the current MSA Competitors yearbook.

Entries will be taken on the day of competition.

The competitions will open at 08.00 hrs on the dates above, the second of the dates for each event being the date of competition.

Scrutineering will open from 16.00 hrs to 18.00 hrs on the day before each competition and from 08.00 to 09.00 on the day of competition.

The course will normally consist of 12 trials sections of 12 gates each.

The competitions shall close at 18.00. This may take place earlier if all entrants have completed attempts at all sections.

Penalty points shall be awarded to each entrant dependant on how far each section is completed.

Each entrant shall attempt each section once (unless the vehicle is unable to attempt the section due to damage) and in an order of rotation decided by the Clerk of Course. Entrants must present themselves at the start of sections in their nominated order as soon as the previous entrant starts the section.

Repairs to vehicles are allowed for as long as the rest of the entrants in the allocated group take to complete the next section. Repairs taking longer than this will be awarded twelve penalty points for each section not attempted in time. Entrants must return to the designated running order as soon as the organisers can accommodate them.

If an event has to be cancelled after it has started, for whatever reason, the results shall be decided at a point where all entrants have completed the same number of attempts at the course.

If a competitor is stopped on a section by an official for safety or other reasons, they will be given the opportunity to attempt the section again. This may only take place at the discretion of the Clerk of Course. If they opt to attempt the section again the score on this attempt shall be the one counted for the results irrespective of where the competitor is stopped.

There shall be a minimum allowed vehicle wheelbase of 76”.

Vehicle Construction and Use and Lighting regulations shall not apply.

Classes: There shall be five classes of vehicles; Classes 1,2,3 and 4 shall be based on vehicles available from a manufacturer’s production line, with modifications and/or replacement permitted to bodywork, engine, chassis and drive train. Class 5 shall be free from restrictions in Classes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Class 1 will consist of four wheel drive vehicles which have leaf sprung suspension and a wheelbase up to 87”. Class 2 will consist of four wheel drive vehicles which have leaf sprung suspension and a wheelbase over 87”. Class 3 will consist of four wheel drive vehicles which have coil sprung suspension and a wheelbase up to 87”. Class 4 will consist of four wheel drive vehicles which have coil sprung suspension and a wheelbase over 87”. Mixed leaf and coil suspension shall be classed as coil suspension. Class 5 will consist of four wheel drive vehicles in which modifications to bodywork, engine, chassis and drive train are free subject to compliance with 13, 14, 16, 17 and the current MSA Competitors yearbook.

Locking, torque biasing or limited slip axle differentials and side to side fiddle brakes are prohibited.

Tyres: V-tread tractor or implement style, open block or excessively aggressive tread pattern tyres such as “Maxi-cross”, “Canonica” and “Babcross” are prohibited. All tyres must have a speed index of at least “J”. Tyre tread may be “resharpened” by use of a tyre cutter but this shall not be used to make the tread any more aggressive than originally manufactured. Studded tyres or chains are prohibited.

Vehicles over 95” wheelbase with standard production bodywork will be allowed one shunt per section.

Where there are less than 3 entrants in a class, the classes shall be amalgamated according to suspension type then wheelbase.

At events the organisers shall arrange the competitors into groups of around 12 entrants, dependant on numbers of entrants. The organisers shall direct the groups to the order they shall attempt the sections.

League scoring:

21.1

Points for the purposes of the league shall be awarded as follows:

Class win 10 points

Class second 9 points

Class third 8 points

Class fourth 7 points

Class fifth 6 points

Class sixth 5 points

Class seventh 4 points

Class eighth 3 points

Class ninth 2 points

Class tenth 1 point

Bonus points shall be awarded for overall position as follows:

Overall win 10 points

Overall second 9 points

Overall third 8 points

Overall fourth 7 points

Overall fifth 6 points

Overall sixth 5 points

Overall seventh 4 points

Overall eighth 3 points

Overall ninth 2 points

Overall tenth 1 point

21.2

The league will consist of six rounds. Each competitor’s best five results in the rounds will be counted for the overall final results. In the event of any rounds being cancelled the remaining number of rounds minus one will be counted for the final results.

Where a competitor acts as clerk of course at their clubs host round, they shall be allowed to take this round as a “bye” and shall be awarded points equivalent to an average of their four best results in other rounds, this shall count for both the class results and the overall bonus.

League Coordinator

The coordinator for the league will be;

Mark Barnes

129 Barden Lane

Burnley

Lancs

BB10 1JD

Tel 07866 506521.