AGM will be on Thursday 18th February at the Ex-Servicemens Club Carnforth 8pm.
Registration Night will be on Thursday 3rd March at the Ex-Servicemens Club Carnforth 8pm.
The new Junior Rookie rules have a number of changes some more important than others. Ill highlight the main ones here and will also upload the Junior Rookie Rules in PDF format on here.
WHO CAN RACE (THIS RULE ALSO APPLIES TO JUNIOR MINI STOX)
Drivers must be between the ages of 11 and 15 – the earliest date upon which someone can race is on their 11th birthday (Unless previously licenced in the formula). The latest date is the day before their 16th birthday. All licence applications will be reviewed by the Promoter and it must be understood that applications may be refused at the Promoter’s discretion. Falsifying documents or providing misleading information about age in order to get round the rules carries a lengthy ban from all formulas.
Day licences are not permissible in any junior formulas. All drivers must apply for a full race licence.
(THIS RULE APPLIES FOR JUNIOR MINISTOX ASWEL)
A NECK BRACE is compulsory for Junior Bangers. A spine support is optional. The neck brace must be complete and the wrap around style and not the U shape style or a forward head restraint can be used but must be to either FIA or SF1 standard. It remains the driver’s responsibility to ensure that their device is the correct size and fitting and used with a compatible helmet. It is also a requirement that a driver must be able to quickly exit from their car wearing the head restraint and helmet without the intervention of a third party.
SAFETY HARNESS
The lap belt/straps and crotch straps should not pass over the sides of the seat, but through it, in order to wrap and hold the pelvic region over the greatest possible surface. A minimum of a four point buckle fixing must be used with a minimum of 3 floor fixings. A secure part of the floor or cage (including the seat bar), are recommended anchor points. All seatbelt connection points must be visible and no belts pass through any firewall.
Following research made by leading safety harness manufacturers, information has been made available with regard to the best way to fit your safety harness; this will further ensure your safety. Please study the diagrams to ensure your safety harness is fitted correctly.
The lap belt crossing should be below the anterior-superior iliac spines (bony part of the hip). Under no circumstances should it be worn over the region of the abdomen.
Lap belt/straps must terminate vertically downwards, and not forwards or rearwards of the hip joint.
Lap straps should terminate symmetrically about the wearer on either side of the seat, about 20" (500mm) apart. The distance between the seating surface and the anchorage point should be kept to a minimum to prevent submarining. The location of the crotch strap mounting should be to the rear of the driver.
Fig.1 shows the location for the tail straps, which should be horizontal to 200 below horizontal, and as close to the shoulder as is practical for optimum restraint.
All belts must connect to the quick release buckle. The abdominal strap fixing point must be on the chassis, roll cage, or floor (for vehicles with no chassis), either side of the driver.
The shoulder straps must be supported at shoulder height. NASCAR type buckles must be fitted with lever on the right side of the driver. It is advisable to fit a secondary means of detent to prevent overall sleeves accidentally unhooking the buckle during racing. A small section of tube grip elasti-cated bandage, slid over the hooked buckle, serves the purpose.
Special attention must be paid to the condition of seat belt fixings once fitted. Information is available, from your Promotion, on the correct procedure to follow when fitting seat belts. Remember – your life depends on them, and belts, once involved in a severe accident, should be discarded and replaced.
BODYWORK
Doors
1. The Drivers door is only part on the car that can be welded and a piece of box or tube can be
welded to the lower window aperture. No other welding is permitted anywhere else on the car
apart from the sun roof plate.
2. All the other doors must be fastened, you can use strips of metal, the strips must be no longer
than 400mm or 15¾” in length, by 60mm or 2½” in width. Max four bolts can be used to attach
each strip and the minimum size of the bolts/studding is 8mm in diameter & the maximum is
12mm diameter. Seat belt webbing can be used instead of Metal strips or the doors can be fixed
with 12mm bolts directly through the Panels.
3. The tops of the door frames may also be tied with seat belt webbing, but you can still fit the door
strips. Do not weld these other doors.
4. A driver’s door plate must be fitted & overlap the door pillars by a minimum of 3”.
NB. No trench plates are permitted.
5. The plate must be a minimum of 10mm or 3/8”, to a maximum of 19mm or 3/4” in thickness.
6. Its depth must be no less then 254mm or 10” & no more than 305mm or 12”.
7. The plate must be fixed by either four 19mm fixings or six 12mm fixings, through the door pillars with large washers on the inside.
8. The door plate holes must not be slotted.
9. An additional piece of angle iron or box section, not exceeding 76mm or 3” in its width and of any gauge, may be welded horizontally along the length of the door plate. The ends of this horizontal section must have the ends tapered or cut at an angle so as to prevent getting tangled up in rubbing situations. Any bolt fixings must not protrude this section of metal, they must be flush.
10. A steel plate must be fitted to the driver’s floor-pan. It must be no thicker than 6mm, and must be bolted and/or welded in. This may be modified to rise to the maximum height of the sill of the door side only.
Bonnet Fixings
1. Bonnet bolts cannot be used. Bonnets must be secured by seatbelt only with a maximum of 4 ties.
Triangular corner plates or straps may be used to secure the rear of the bonnet by bolting or welding (1/8”thick). Plates or straps must be placed no further than 12” across or down from the back edge and side of the bonnet. In this case you may only use two seatbelt fixings at the front.
Suspension. All suspension must remain standard to the car which is being raced. No re-valving or oil on shock absorbers and no changing or lowering of the springs is permitted. Camber is not permitted on any wheel on a fresh car. Camber on race damaged cars will be down to scrutineers’ discretion as to whether or not they feel this will provide an unfair advantage.
Sorry for been a massive post but these are the important changes and wanted to get them out to drivers in plenty of time instead of last season when we changed them a couple of times through the season. This way there is no arguments and we run exactly the same as every other Junior Banger/Rookie formula.