Sporting Trials - Championship Regulations

750 Motor Club Sporting Trials Championship 2012

Sporting Trials Events Calender & Results Events Regulations Registration Forms Useful Information

(1) Only fully paid up members of the 750 Motor Club will qualify for this championship.

(2) All sporting car trials organized by the 750 Motor Club and listed on the 750 sporting trials calendar or published in the club bulletin will be point scoring Rounds of the championship.

(3) The Championship will consist of 13 rounds of which the best nine results will Count for the championship. The winner will be the driver with the most points scored from nine events.

(4) Points will be scored on the basis of 20 points for 1st, 17 points for 2nd, 15 points for 3rd, 14 points for 4th and decreasing by 1 for each subsequent position down to 3 points for 15th and 2 points to all the remaining starters for the event.

(5) All cars must comply with the national trials car formula as set out in the M.S.A. year book.

(6) All competitors will be graded into one of three classes based upon their event results of the previous season's Championship events.

Class A	Experts
Class B	Semi-Experts
Class C	Novice Drivers who have not entered at least ten events. If the Drivers tenth event is part way though a season, he/she will complete the season in Class C

Driver classification will be confirmed at the start of each season. Drivers in B.T.R.D.A. Red or Blue classes will be classed as Class A, while BTRDA Green class Drivers will be in the B class on all 750 Championship events. The Committee reserves the right to change the class of a driver at their discretion based on their knowledge of a driver’s experience.

(7) Any driver irrespective of class may become overall champion.

(8) Awards:-

Best overall	Championship Trophy
1st Class A	Everyman Shield
1st Class B	Bill Butler Shield
1st Class C	Novice Cup

No competitor may win more than one award. The driver who is second to the overall winner will take the class award. All the above awards to be returned to the trials committee by the December of each year .

The Overall winner will also receive Two Tyres which have been kindly Sponsored by the 750 Motor Club Sporting Trials Section.

(9) Registered contenders, who act as Clerk of Course or Secretary of Meeting will receive twenty points for the maximum of one trial only. His or her name must appear in the supplementary regulations for the event. However should they also compete in that event, they will only receive the points for his or her position in the results.

(10) In the event of a tie at the end of the season’s championship events, the winner shall be the contender with the greater number of wins. If there is still a tie then the greater number of 2nd places shall be counted and so on until a winner is confirmed.

(11) All cars competing in the Championship must display 750 Motor Club and sponsors stickers on both sides of the car.

(12) CLUB MEMBERSHIP CARDS will be checked at each event

(13) Any car not complying with the National Trials Formula or 750 Trials Formula may be excluded from the event and the Championship. The Board of the 750 Motor Club reserves the right to withhold eligibility of any car, which it considers an attempt to go against the 750 Motor Club regulations, and points gained by the driver of such a vehicle will be forfeit.

(14) The interpretation and arbitration of the rules of the Championship is the prerogative of the 750 Motor Club Board, its decision is final.

(15) There is a 3 second allowance for the competitor to regain forward motion, the Marshal to count, “and 1 and 2 and 3." However, should a competitor’s engine stall on a section these counts as a stop with no time allowance? The exception to this is should the engine stall whilst the car is going downhill, and the driver can continue forward motion and restart the engine there is no penalty.

(16) TYRES:- Any tyre on the Sporting Car Trials tyre list in the M.S.A. Blue Book is acceptable for this championship.