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The AGM opened and general details, club financies, etc were discussed about the past season. The chairman and committee stood down and nominations asked for to form a new committee.

Committee 2008 listed on contacts page :-
 
Ministox.

 No changes for season 2008. The grading of drivers will continue to be done a Scottish national basis, with GMP grading the drivers in Scotland. The top points scorer of the monthly grading period must carry a silver strip on his / her roof and start at the rear of their grade for that month.
This is not a new rule but has not been implemented over the last few years, but will be now.

Brisca F2

This formulae will be promoted by Bill Barrack on behalf of CSC Promotions Ltd and will run to full Brisca rules with all F2 meetings being national points scoring meetings.
All drivers must purchase a full Brisca licence and grading will now be done by Brisca.
No day licences are permitted and the Ladies race will now no longer be permitted on a regular basis.
For season 2008, Brisca F2’s will have 9 race meetings at Crimond raceway :-
April – 13th & 27th.
May – 4th.
June – 1st , (World qualifier)
July – 5th, (Saturday night),  & 27th
August – 17th
September – 21st
October 12th.                   See fixture list for all race dates

Saloonstox

A proposal for the full adoption of ORC Saloonstox rules for season 2009 was discussed, but the committee will speak to all Saloonstox drivers over the coming season to gauge their views and opinions.
A proposal for more prize money was also requested, the committee will discuss this in the new year as this will affect all formulae’s.

Hot Saloon’s

To assist both drivers and officials to reduce the unnecessary contact during the races, a white line will be painted on the track corners just over a car’s width from the inner Armco.
This will define a cars line when two cars are racing side by side going into the corner, the car entering the corner on the inside must not cross the line till out of the corner on the next straight and a car on the outside must not cross the line till out of the corner on the next straight.
This will stop driver’s drifting wide on the exit of the corners and putting cars into the tyre wall and also stop drivers cutting in front of cars going into the corner and putting car’s into the inner marker tyres / Armco.
The drivers rejected a proposal for monthly grading and for car radiators to be left in their original position.
Drivers did vote to have a maximum tyre price for each tyre. This led to general discussions on how to implement this along similar rules for the national Saloonstox, this led to a vote by the drivers and was rejected by one vote.
At the December committee meeting, the committee discussed the tyre situation in the Hot Saloon’s and have decided to leave the tyre rule as it is, with no change’s.

Hot rod’s
No changes to the Hot Rod’s.
The white line rule from the Hot Saloon’s will apply to this  formulae as well.
A proposal was made to do away with the handicap system that is in place at present. The drivers present voted to do away with the handicap system and have all cars line up in normal grade’s. The committee have upheld this desecion.
Discussions are ongoing about two cars from Scotland being graded into the World final at Ipswich in 2009. This would be done by Scottish cars competing in qualifying meetings over season 2008 / 2009 at Crimond and Cowdenbeath.

Dates for these qualifying meetings are, July 27th, (Crimond), August 23rd, (Cowdenbeath), September 6 & 7, (Crimond), September 21st, (Crimond), October 11 & 25th, (Cowdenbeath).  

Final details will be published when known.

Bangers

Proposals were discussed on an easier system for lining up cars at the start, the drivers voted to line up in points order, the top 10 cars only at the rear of the grid.
A proposal to allow engine swaps, (size for size), was rejected.
Drivers voted to allow the welding up of the driver’s door and to increase the maximum thickness of the driver’s door protection steel plate. The committee have decided to adopt the ORC rule on drivers door plate thickness and size.
The Banger team meeting will be using cars up to 1600cc maximum.

Ladies race’s

Ladies requested to open up the cars more at the start of the race and also to have more ladies Banger race’s.

Road going saloon’s

The white line rule from the Hot Saloon’s will apply in this formulae as well.

A proposal was made to stop driver’s stripping out their cars for this formulae, the vote on this ended up in a tie. The committee have decided to leave the stripping out of cars permitted as it is not a legal requirement to have more than one seat and interior for the MOT.
general

The club has purchased a breathalyzer machine for checking of drivers condition on race day’s. This will be used on a random basis over the 2008 season.
The machine we have purchased has three lights for reference when testing for alcohol, the green light is non present, the yellow light is a small amount is present and the red light means that the person is over the national legal limit for driving on the public road’s.
The committee have decided that if the yellow light is present on testing a driver, they will receive a warning, if the red light is present the driver will be loaded up immediately and a further punishment will follow.
This machine we have is as used by the Police force’s in the UK so is not to be messed with, you have been warned !!!!.
Driver’s were reminded about smoking in the pits when re-fueling cars etc and about the safety of using cutting equipment. Also they were reminded about using any lifting equipment in the pits, to make sure that items were safe for purpose and only qualified personnel to use them.

The dates for season 2008 were announced with the season starting on the 13th of April and finishing on the 12th of October.

Crimond raceway Licence cost’s for 2008 will not be increased and remain at,  Full licence - £35.00 , Ministox licence £25.00, Day licence entry fee plus £5.00, (no F2).
A new licence will be available for ladies only who want to compete in the ladies only race’s, this will cost £25.00 for the season.

Admission costs for 2008 have been increased to £7.00 for adult but children, (under 16), are to be admitted for free, but must be accompied by an adult.

All rules which specify the past year, i.e., “2006”, will be updated to “2007”.
Ministox  
No changes for season 2008.
The page with rules 9 to 14 to be re-entered, this was left out from 2007 rule book.
Formulae 2 Stock car specification & general rules.
All rules as per the Brisca driver’s rule book, obtained when a Brisca licence is purchased from :- Graham Bunter (secretary), Nylands, Charlton Horethorne, Sherbourne, Dorset, DT94NG.

No changes for 2008.
Hot saloons
Rule 4  Suspension   First sentence to be changed to ;- To remain as original concept, apart from permitted negative camber, positive camber is also permitted on N/S front wheel only.  (Remainder of rule as printed).
Outlaw Hot Rods
No changes for 2008.
Bangers
DOOR PLATE SIZE CORRECTED BELOW JAN 1ST  
Rule 7, last part of rule regarding door plate to be changed to :-

Securely fixed drivers door protection compulsory, this must consist of a steel plate 10” to 15”, (255mm to 381 mm), deep,  3/8” to ¾” ( 10mm to 19mm), thick and must be bolted over the drivers door. This must be fitted with a minimum of 3”, (75mm),  and a maximum of 6”, (153mm),  past the A & B pillars securely bolted with a minimum of 4 bolts, maximum of 8. There must be at least 1 bolt through the A pillar and 1 bolt through the B pillar or through the roll cage, minimum size of these two bolts is ½”, (12mm),  dia.
Only flat plate is allowed, no channel, angle or corrugated steel allowed.
5/16”, (8mm), bolts is the smallest size bolt allowed on all bolts except for the A & B pillar bolts.
For two door cars with no B pillar, door plate must be no more than half way along rear side panel, (where rear door would normally be), and must be bolted to roll cage.

Rule 11, Change this rule to:- Drivers door must be fixed shut. The complete welding up of the door is permitted.

New rule 15, Grading / line up of cars.
Only the top 10 points scorer’s will be lined up in track championship points order at the rear of the grid at the start of the race. This rule will not apply when a public draw in place for grid positions.

Addition at the end of rule 13 :- Exception is drivers door, see rule 11.
Demolition derby rules.

Change last rule to :- £5.00 will be paid to drivers of cars entering the Demolition derby.
Ladies races
No changes for 2008.
Road going saloons
No changes for 2008.

General rule to be added on at the end of rule 22 at start of rule book:-

Cars which compete in non contact formulae’s will have to abide by the white line rule when driving around the track corners.
If two cars enter the corner side by side, the car on the inside of the white line must not cross this line till out of the corner and onto the straight and the car on the outside of the line must not cross the line until it is out of the corner and onto the straight.
Drivers who deliberately break this rule will be punished accordingly.
Due to track conditions on the day, this may cause contact, but race officials will take into account track condition and or circumstances before any punishment is issued.

Addition to licence rule 25.

A Ladies race only licence will cost £25, (permits driver to compete in Ladies races only).

Also change the last sentence to:- A day licence or Demolition derby licence may be obtained and cost £5 plus entry fee.

Click on link below for demolition derby rules

I have one kart for hire so far as have been down in nigeria for the last 5 weeks there might be more,cost will be £100 for sat and £100.00 sunday.All they need is boiler suit and helmet and if required for block booking a discount maybe available.

Stock kart’s

Saturday night.

I Ministox  
2 Saloonstox
3 Hot Saloon  
4 Hot rod
5 Stockart
6 Banger
7 R.G.S.
8 Ministox
9 Saloonstox
10 Hot Saloon
11 Hot Rod
12 Stockart
13 Banger
14 R.G.S.

1 Ministox
2 Saloonstox
3 Hot saloon
4 Hot Rod
5 Stockart
6 Bangers
7 R.G.S.
8 Ministox
9 Saloonstox
10 Hot saloon
11 Hot Rod
12 Stockart
13 Banger
14 R.G.S.
15 Ladies Hot saloon Final
16 Ministox Final
17 Saloonstox Final
18 Stockart final
19 Hot rod final
20 Hot saloon final
21 Ladies Saloonstox final
22 Banger final
23 R.G.S. final

Any driver not racing on the Saturday that turns up on the Sunday will be allow ed in at the rear ofeach heat, but half lap down. If they score any points in the heats then they will be allocated their place on the grid in the final.
This does not apply to R.G.S, only cars racing on the Saturday night will be allowed to race on the Sunday as there might have to be split heats and new cars on the Sunday will completely upset the car split
As last year, all R.G.S. heats will be split into two in the race programme in case we have to have A,B,C etc.

The Hot saloons might have to be split also, but going by recent numbers, we should be ok.
As the Hot rods are on at Cowdie on the Saturday night as well !!!!, the best thing for them is to have their draw on track for grid positions. This will give us time to see what proportion of 16 valve and 8 valve cars we have so we can decide on how best to grid the 8 valve cars.

All other formulae’s will draw their grid position when signing in at the track office. This position will be reversed over the four heats to give us the highest points scorer’s at the front in the finals, with the champions being the first three over the line in the final, regardless of what happened in the heats.

All finals will be run their full distance of laps.

All finals will be as follows,
Ministox - 16 laps
Saloonstox, Hot saloons, Hot Rods, Stockarts – 20 laps
Bangers – 18 laps
Ladies races – 14 laps
R.G.S. – 12 laps