HERO - the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation: HERO Irish Trial and Tour
19-24 April 2004
HERO Irish Trial 2004: Additional Supplementary Regulations
as at 1 September 2003
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Provisional Programme
The above times are scheduled times of first car. This programme may be amended. See also the route information and hotel details given on the Provisional Itinerary, published separately. Article 1.1: Definition and Status These Additional Supplementary Regulations (ASRs) must be read in conjunction with the HERO Standard Regulations for Historic Reliability Trials and Regularity Rallies (HSRs). The Article numbers below are those of the HSRs. Competitors must study the HSRs as well as these ASRs. The HERO Irish Trial will be run under a permit issued by MSA UK as a Historic Road Rally open only to members of the promoting Club, in compliance with the FIA International Sporting Code; the Regulations of the MSA UK; the HERO Standard Regulations for Historic Reliability Trials and Regularity Rallies (HSRs); these Additional Supplementary Regulations (ASRs); and further Bulletins for the event, which may amend these ASRs and the HSRs. IMPORTANT NOTE: all motor sport is potentially dangerous. The onus is on Competitors to drive carefully and safely at all times. The Organisers accept no responsibility whatsoever for any accident or injury befalling Competitors, and do not undertake to provide rescue or assistance of any kind. All Competitors will be required to sign the indemnity printed on the Entry Form. Article 1.2: Officials
The names of other officials will be published later. Article 1.4: Official Notice Boards Official Notice Boards will be posted at Rally HQ at the Start, each Overnight Halt and the Finish, and any other locations to be announced. Article 3.4: Categories and Classes The Categories and Classes will be as in HSRs, Age Categories A to F. Article 6.2: Maximum and Minimum Number of Entries The maximum number of Crews allowed to take part will be 100, although this may be extended. Article 6.3: Changes of Crew Crew members may be changed as per this Article in HSRs. Article 7.1: Entry Fees The entry fee for a crew of two is GBP 2,950 until 30 September 2003; GBP 3,100 from 1 October to 31 December 2003; and GBP 3,350 from 1 January 2004. This includes
Supplements are payable for additional crew members and for single rooms, as follows:
Article 7.2: Refund of Entry Fees Participants withdrawing by 31 January 2004 will receive a full refund; those doing so after then but by 26 March will receive a 50% refund. After 26 March, the Organisers reserve the right to retain the full entry fee; no refund will normally be made to non-starters. Article 11.1: Route Description The distance of each day’s Leg is given in Section I above. The total distance of the event is 2,254 km (1,401 mi). These distances are provisional and are likely to be amended. The event takes place wholly on tarred roads, but many minor Irish asphalt roads are undulating or bumpy. The Organisers have cut out the worst sections, but Competitors are advised to ensure that their car’s suspension is strong, its ground clearance adequate and its underside protected. On each Leg, there will be two or three Regularity sections, of between 25 km and 60 km (16 and 37 miles) in length; and up to six or seven SpecialTests. There will be a Lap Consistency Test on Leg 1, at Mondello Park Race Circuit. The event will include a number of Observed Regularity Sections (ORS) - see HSRs Article 17.6. A fuller description of the route is given in the Provisional Itinerary, published separately. Article 11.2: Road Book and Other Instructions A full Road Book for the entire route will be provided to Competitors. This will describe the route by means of Tulip diagrams, supplemented by other instructions, town plans, etc. All distances will be in both miles and kilometres, to the nearest hundredth. Article 13.1: Fuel Competitors’ cars should have a fuel range of 160 km (100 mi). Article 16.1: Types of Control Time Controls (TC) and Time Controls Neutralised (TCN) will not be encountered. Ignore Article 16.9 and all other references to these. Article 17.4: Timing Points (TP) The Gold Standard at each TP will be 10 marks (10 seconds). Article 17.6: Observed Regularity Sections (ORS) The Gold Standard on each ORS will be 10 marks (10 seconds). Article 22.1: Classification System A General Classification will be established, based on the number of marks lost. Article 25.1: Awards for General Classification Awards (two trophies per car) will be made for the first three places overall. Article 27: Insurance The Organisers have applied to Alexander Forbes Risk Services for a Blanket Certificate of Insurance under the Alexander Forbes’s Motor Sports Club Scheme to provide competitors who wish to use the scheme with third party cover to meet Road Traffic Act requirements on the road sections of the event. The premium is not available at the time these ASRs go to press and will be advised in a later Bulletin. All competitors who will be driving on the event will be asked to sign an insurance declaration that they have cover for Road Traffic Act requirements. This must be a minimum of two persons per entry and will confirm that both driver and co-driver, either (a) are covered by an extension to private motor insurance to include cover whilst participating in the event; or (b) hold valid NES Letters of Acceptance (to be produced at Signing On) without a loading; or (c) are able to comply with the following Alexander Forbes Declaration. NES letters issued under a previous scheme (Bowring etc) are acceptable if they are still within the validity period and do not have a loading. ALEXANDER FORBES DECLARATION 1. I am over 17 years of age and have held a full licence for at least six months 2. I have had no more than one fault accident in the last 3 years. 3. I have no convictions other than a maximum of 6 speeding points 4. I have no physical or mental disabilities 5. I have no other material facts to disclose. NB Failure to disclose facts that are likely to influence the acceptance or assessment of your risk may lead the insurer declaring the resultant cover to be null and void. Competitors who have a NES Letter of Acceptance with a loading or doubt that they comply with the above Alexander Forbes Declaration should complete the Declaration Form For Competitor’s Third Party Risks available from Alexander Forbes Risk Services, Hanover House, 30/32 Charlotte Street, Manchester, M1 4FD, tel 0161 228 0721, fax 0161 236 0995. This should be returned by 2 April 2004 to the insurers at the above address. The insurers will then forward processed Letters of Acceptance to the home addresses of drivers, and unpaid premiums will be collected at Signing On. Competitors providing their own cover whilst participating in the event will not be required to pay Forbes premium. HERO Irish Tour 2004: Regulations as at 1 September 2003 1. Announcement. The first HERO Irish Tour will be held on 19 to 24 April 2004. It is not a motor sporting competition. It is promoted by HERO - the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation. Its use of the public highway in the United Kingdom is authorised under the statutory Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) Regulations 1976 as “an event in which, as respects such part of the event as is held on a public highway, merit attaches to a competitor’s performance only in relation to good road behaviour and compliance with the Highway Code”. 2. Provisional Programme. This is the same as that for the HERO Irish Trial, set out on the preceding page, except that the start time each day will be later. 3. Officials. Clerk of the Course, John Brown; Event Secretary, Joanna Brown. Other officials may be nominated. 4. Eligible Participants. Invited crews of two or more, in cars made before 31st December 1979; later cars of particular interest may be accepted at the Clerk of the Course’s discretion. No competition licence is necessary. All crew members must be members of HERO - subscription included in entry fee for new members. At least two crew members must be licensed and insured to drive the vehicle entered. 5. Entries. The entry fees, and what these cover, are as for the HERO Irish Trial, published on the preceding page. The closing dates for entries at the different rates are as published in the Provisional Programme on the preceding page. Refund will be paid in accordance with Article 7.2 of the Additional Supplementary Regulations of the HERO Irish Trial, published above. If the event is abandoned or postponed for any reason (including too few entries on the event or on the associated Irish Trial), at any time, the Organisers reserve the right to retain a proportion of the entry fee to cover administrative costs incurred to that point. 6. Route, Navigation and Driving Behaviour. The full route will be about 1,800 km (1,119 miles), on good quality roads. Detailed route instructions, requiring minimal navigation skills, will be published in a Tulip Road Book. However, it is not compulsory to follow this route. Touring notes will also be provided, drawing attention to places of interest along the way and to historic and other attractions close to the route. You are free to visit as many of these as you wish, within the constraints of the general time schedule. No one crew member may drive for more than 200 miles without rest or relief. Participants must at all times comply with the requirements of the highway and traffic laws in force, and drive in a responsible and considerate manner. Failure to do so may result in an official warning or in exclusion from the event. 7. Checkpoints. There will be Checkpoints at the start and end of each day’s run, and at the officially designated lunch halt. Participants will be issued with Control Cards, which will be stamped at these places. 8. Awards. As this is not a competition, there are no prizes as such, but a Class One souvenir award will be given to each crew visiting every Checkpoint while it is open; and a Class Two award to each car starting every day’s run and arriving at the finish. Other awards will be given to the oldest car to complete the route; and the most meritorious participant. Participants are eligible for the HERO Irish Charity Shield, given to the crew on either the Trial or the Tour raising the most for charity. 9. Concours d’Elegance. Cars will be judged at the start, during the event and at the finish for originality, level and appropriateness of equipment, crew apparel, attention to period detail and stylishness. Awards will be made to the best cars in different age categories. Marks will not be lost for being travel stained. Only finishers are eligible. 10. Insurance. Participants are responsible for ensuring that they are fully covered by insurance during the event as required by the Road Traffic Acts, and will be required to sign a declaration to this effect. They will also be required to sign a declaration on their Entry Form and Signing On sheet indemnifying the organisers from liability. JB/s 1.9.2003 |