When the fixtures were planned almost a year ago, the standard ten formula line up at an I Factor Sunday event was repeated for both the Birmingham and Northampton venues but the extended time involved between races at a shale venue wasn't really taken into account at the time.

We consider that it is feasible to run up to seven formulas on Sunday and having monitored carefully the bookings taken for the event and consultation with drivers we have decided to remove three of the ten formulas scheduled to race this Sunday at I Factor Round 8 at the Northampton Shaleway.

MASCARS had already declined to take part on the shale and as above, based on bookings we are also removing Slick Cars and Incarods

We apologise to the drivers that this affects, but I am sure that you will be understanding of the situation in terms of the number of races that we can genuinely cope with on the day.

The first race is scheduled for midday (there is no practice available) with the pit gate opening at 9am.

Competitors that wish to travel overnight, may stay in the outer car park on Saturday evening. The road gate will be closed, but not locked, but please ensure to close it behind you.

Good luck to the competitors that are taking part and we look forward to an excellent meeting on Sunday.

Having spent a considerable amount of time obtaining all of the necessary information and various conversations with drivers, I am now in a position to declare the 2018 Classic Hot Rods points and gradings up to date for England and Scotland. I am still currently gathering information to complete the Irish section.

There was some confusion as to what points count for what as the rules are not totally conclusive in the way they are written, so., some decisions, again with consultation have been taken as to how it will all work for the remainder of 2018 and they are as follows :

Grading and Averages
All meetings that you are eligible to score points at will be included in this calculation of a drivers average. The actual grades will be based on averages such that like averages have the same grade. This may at times give more say Blues than Reds, but it will be a fairer way to administer the grading.
The grader will always be the final decision maker

International Points
Points scored at the six Major Championships will count to this chart. This is not the same as 2017, because last year ALL points for ALL meetings counted.

National Points
Each driver will be part of one National Points chart and this will be determined as where he or she is registered. There will be three National Points Charts – England, Scotland and an Irish one which will cover races in both the North and the South.

All meetings in your area, irrespective of whether they are Major Championships or not will count for your National Points, mainly because it is an event in your area. Any points scored at a Major Championship that is NOT in your area will NOT count to your chart. I don’t personally agree with this as I believe that a driver should be rewarded for representation at a Championship irrespective of location, but this question was specifically asked about an English driver attending the Scottish Open and at the time, Rob Hughes confirmed that points would NOT count. I will propose that we amend this for 2019 where the major Championship meetings do count irrespective of area as this is the same with lots of other formulas.

Many thanks for the comments from drivers along the way and many thanks to Jason Larner, Kirsty McFarlane and Andy Hankin for their assistance.

Apologies for the time it has taken to sort it all out, but now that we are up to date, the charts will be updated after each meeting.

Paul Gerrard
RACE DIRECTOR

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The 2018 Stock Rod British Championship takes place with DMC Promotions over the weekend of the 18th & 19th August.

We are asking for any Spedeworth or Incarace registered drivers who are interested in going to the British Championship to please call 01252 322920 to request a booking.

If we receive more bookings than DMC can allocate to us then drivers will be seeded into the British Championship via the relevant points charts.

At the 2018 Spedeweekend several tyres from both the 2.0 Hot Rod and Superstox formulas were sent away to a laboratory for testing.

Spedeworth / Incarace are pleased to announce that all tyres that were analysed have been cleared by the laboratory as conforming to the rules.

Thank you.

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