Cirencester Car Club Ltd Corinium Stages 2017 Saturday 29th April Down Ampney Airfield

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by  Ian Vout

Cirencester Car Club Ltd

Corinium Stages 2017
Saturday 29th April
Down Ampney Airfield

2016 Corinium Stages Winners Photo - EDP
Gary Le Coadou & Carl Sorenson

A round of three major championships

CMSG Stage Rally Championship

In association with BP Motor Bodybuilders & Engineers

Subaru WRC Spares ASWMC Sealed Surface Stage Rally Championship

Hamilton Classic ACSMC Rally Championship

FMP Rally Challenge 2017, supporting Wales Air Ambulance
Previous Winners; Cirencester Park Stages, Arkell Rally,
March Hare, Flaming June and Corinium Stages

1973 Vic Preston Jnr Tony Mason Escort RS Park Stages
1974 Donald Higgie George Dean Escort RS Arkell Rally
1975 Randolph W-Williams R Hemmings Escort RS Arkell Rally
1976 David Stokes William Andrews Escort RS Arkell Rally
March 1984 Gordon Bachelor Geoff Maybank Escort RS Down Ampney
March 1985 Charles Eveson Geoff East Escort RS Down Ampney
March 1986 Ron Davies Peter Vallis Escort RS Down Ampney
March 1987 Ron Davies Neil Fuller Escort RS Down Ampney
March 1988 Paul Bennett Brent Bennett Metro 6R4 Down Ampney
March 1989 Rob Dennis Steve Rouse Metro 6R4 Down Ampney
June 1989 Tim Hackett Roger Duckworth Escort RS Down Ampney
March 1990 Brett Hawthorne Martin Sherwood Escort RS Down Ampney
June 1990 Mike Rimmer Graham Bennett BMW M3 Down Ampney
March 1991 Ron Aiken Alan Snell Escort G3 Down Ampney
June 1991 Gary Midwinter Mark Creswell Lancia Stratos Down Ampney
March 1992 Pat Naylor Andrew Lawrence Sapphire Cosworth Down Ampney
June 1995 Ian Godney Andrew Oglesbee Escort RS Kemble
March 1996 Eian Pritchard Paul Cook Escort Cosworth Kemble
June 2010 Jim Munden Andy Frost Escort Mk II Down Ampney
April 2011 Martyn England Ian England Mitsubishi EVO Down Ampney
May 2012 Damien Cole James Morgan Ford Focus WRC Down Ampney
May 2013 Tristan Bailey James How Mitsubishi EVO Down Ampney
May 2014 Gary Le Coadou Tony Bassett Toyota Corolla Down Ampney
May 2015 Gary Le Coadou Carl Sorenson Toyota Corolla Down Ampney
April 2016 Gary Le Coadou Carl Sorenson Toyota Corolla Down Ampney

Previous Winners of the Corinium Junior 1000 Stages
April 2011 Chris Ingram Michael Gilbey Citroen C1 Down Ampney

Tel. [phone] or 01386 585701
Cotswold Hill Quarry, Ford, Cheltenham, Glos, GL54 5RU
Cirencester Car Club Ltd
Corinium Stages
29th April 2017

Cirencester Car Club Ltd welcome the opportunity to invite you to compete in the
2017 Corinium Stages, multi-use stage rally, to be held at Down Ampney Airfield,
near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

We would like to thank Jeremy Wells and Wells Masonry for their generous and
continued support of our event for the benefit of you the competitor.

The event will be run over a maximum of 8 stages and approximately 50 stage
miles of mostly sealed concrete surface with an entry fee of just £215.

Entries are limited to 70 cars to ensure that competitors down times between
stages are kept to a minimum wherever possible.

CIRENCESTER CAR CLUB, RALLY HISTORY

Cirencester Car Club have a history of running quality events dating back to the
1970s when Lord Bathurst invited the Club to run stage rallies in Cirencester
Park. Firstly known as the Park stages, and thereafter as the Arkell Rally having
taking its name from the event sponsor, Arkell’s Brewery, and formed part of the
National Championship. These events were a great success with the top
national drivers competing. This was followed by the RAC asking the Club to
organise a major stage on the International RAC Rally.

In the Eighties the club ran two events a year at Down Ampney. The event was
moved to RAF Kemble until the airfield was sold into private ownership.

SPECTATORS

Unfortunately no spectators are allowed in the venue. However, marshals are
more than welcome.
Due to revised Motor Sports Association safety regulations all people that are not
officials of the event must remain within the confines of the service area. Failure
to do so may result in the possible cessation of the event or exclusion of
competitors.
SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
1 ANNOUNCEMENT
1.1 Cirencester Car Club Ltd will organise a National B permit multi-use Stage
Rally on Saturday 29th April 2017, at Down Ampney Airfield, Near
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5PL. Map reference 163/ 108 971.

2 JURISDICTION
2.1 Held under the General Regulations of the Motor Sports Association Ltd.
(Incorporating the provisions of the International Sporting Code of the FIA)
and these Supplementary Regulations.
2.2 The meeting will also be governed by:
(a) Final Instructions, having the same force as these Supplementary
Regulations will be available on line at: www.cirencestercarclub.com
(b) Any other written instructions that the organisers may issue for the
event.

3 AUTHORISATION
3.1 The MSA Permit Number is tba
CSMG Championship Permit No. 57/2017
ASWMC Championship Permit No. 17/2017
ACSMC Championship Permit No. 56/2017
FMP Championship Permit No. 59/2017

4 ELIGIBILITY
4.1 The event is open to:
(a) Fully elected members of the organising club
(b) All registered contenders in the championships named in Article 5
(c) All fully elected members of the member clubs of the CMSG
(d) Members of affiliated clubs of AWMMC, WAMC, ASWMC, ACSMC
4.2 All drivers and co-drivers must produce proof of eligibility at documentation
4.3 If you fail to provide satisfactory documentation, you will not be allowed to
start and this will not be accepted as a reason for refund of entry fees.

5 CHAMPIONSHIPS
5.1 The event is a round of:
The 2017 BP Motor Bodybuilders & Engineers CMSG Stage Rally
Championship.
The 2017 Subaru WRC Spares ASWMC Sealed Surface Stage Rally
Championship.
The 2017 Hamilton Classic ACSMC Rally Championship.
The FMP Rally Challenge 2017, supporting Wales Air Ambulance
5.2 For championship queries, please contact:
CMSG Championship: Nicola Davies [email protected]
ASWMC Championship: Alan Whitney 01548 559169
ACSMC Championship: Paul Brown [email protected]
FMP Rally Challenge: Terry Frayne [email protected]
6 EVENT TIMETABLE
Entries Open On publication of these regulations:
We Entries Close Saturday 22nd April 2017 23:59
Final instructions published Tuesday 25th April 2017
Evening Scrutineering Friday 28th April 2017 18:30- 20:30
(At the event venue) (Optional)

Event day Saturday 29th April 2017
Entrance Gates Open 06:00 – 08:15
Scrutineering 06:15 – 08:30
Documentation 06:15 – 08:30
Signing On 06:15 – 08:30
First Car Starts 09:00
Provisional Results Posted 17:00 approx.
Presentation of Awards 17:30 approx.

7 ROUTE/DOCUMENTATION
7.1 The event will consist of 8 stages giving approximately 50 stage miles.
7.2 Full details of the special stages will be issued to competitors at
Documentation/Signing-on in the form of stage diagrams.
7.3 Special stages will be timed to an accuracy of less than one minute by
marshals under the supervision of the Timekeeper.
7.4 Cars will start at 30-second intervals.
7.5 As the event will take place wholly on private property, the need for cars to
be taxed for the public highway is relaxed.

8 CLASSES
8.1 The event will consist of the following classes:
Class A - Cars up to 1400cc
Class B - Cars from 1401 to 1600cc
Class C - Cars from 1601 to 2000cc
Class D - Cars over 2000cc
Class E – All 4 wheel drive cars
Class F – Historic Category 1, 2 & 3
Class G – Road Rally Cars
8.2 Cars with engines having forced induction will have their engine capacity
multiplied by 1.7 to establish class.
8.3 Should any class have fewer than six entries, the organisers reserve the
right to amalgamate these cars with another class or reduce the awards list,
as they see fit.
8.4 The event is open to all vehicles complying with the 2016 MSA regulations
for Stage Rally Cars (including Historic).
8.5 Class E – 4 wheel drive cars will be included in the overall results.
8.6 Class F – Historic. All cars entered in this class must conform to 2016 MSA
regulations R49, Cat 1 (before 31.12.1967) or Cat 2 & Cat 3 (01.01.1975 -
31.12.1981) 2016 regulations as relevant. Infringement of these regulations
may result in exclusion.
8.7 Class G is open to road rally cars as per the Welsh Tarmacadam
championship regulations All tyres used in class G (Road Rally) must
comply with Section R18.4 MSA Blue Book. All cars must carry the
necessary safety equipment as required by stage rallies, i.e. fire
extinguishers, HANS devices, approved roll cage, fireproof overalls and
MSA log book etc. Scrutineers will check eligibility. Advertising and
Intercoms are allowed.
8.8 The use of FIA specification fuel (FIA Appendix J Article 252, Article 9) will
be permitted for use on this event other than Class F - Historics.
Competitors are reminded that where entered in a championship that has
not specified the use of FIA specification fuel; the use of such fuel might
affect their championship eligibility. If you are in doubt you should check
with the Championship Co-ordinator.

9 ENTRIES
9.1 The maximum number of entries for the meeting is 70 and the minimum is
40. Should the minimum figure not be reached, the organisers reserve the
right to cancel the meeting. Entries will be on a strictly first come first
served basis. A list of reserves will be kept.
9.2 The entry fee is £215.00. You entry will not be accepted until full payment
has been received.
9.3 The Entries Secretary to whom all enquires must be sent is:
Mr. Richard Cooper  [email protected]

9.4 All entries must be made on the electronic entries system and
accompanied by the appropriate fee. Please use the online entry system
at: http://www.cirencestercarclub.com/stagerally.html to enter AND to pay
via PayPal. Bank Transfers can be made to 30-91-99 32300460
(Cirencester Car Club Rally Account) please put the drivers name (from the
entry form) as your payment reference. If you wish to pay by another
method then please ring the entries secretary to get payment details.
9.5 We are happy for you to submit your entry form by email, if you so wish.
Confirmation of the entry will not be advised until we have received the
monies due.
9.6 Offline entry forms must be completed in every respect. If an entry is
received with incomplete or unreadable information, without a cheque for
the correct amount, or the cheque is dishonoured on presentation then the
entry will be placed in the reserves list until any and all issues are rectified.
If any information is omitted, it must be provided to the Entries Secretary
before entries close. The Entries secretary will NOT advise you of errors or
omissions.
9.7 Entrants must indicate on the entry form their eligibility for the various
awards and championships.
9.8 If your payment is dishonoured, your entry will be rejected and you lose
your place in the queue. Any new payment must include a bank handling
charge of £20; in addition breach of regulations C 1.1.13 applies.
9.10 Entries will be accepted up to Wednesday 26th April 2017 but late entries
may not benefit from seeding.
9.11 The acceptance or otherwise of your entry will be acknowledged to the
person shown on the entry form, a provisional (un-seeded) entry list will be
posted on our web site at www.cirencestercarclub.com
9.12 Entry fees will be refunded, less an administration charge of £20, if the
entry is withdrawn before Saturday 22nd April 2017.
9.13 For entries withdrawn on or after Saturday 22nd April 2017, refunds will be
at the organizer’s discretion; any refund will have the £20 administration fee
deducted. For entries that fail the noise test, scrutineering or
documentation, there will be no refund unless the place is taken by a
reserve. Reserves that do not get a run will have their entry fees refunded
in full. All refunds will be paid after the event.
9.14 The order of starting will be at the organiser’s discretion but, to assist
seeding, competitors should provide seeding information on the entry form.
If an entry is received without seeding information that entry will be treated
as such and placed at the back of the field. Once the seeded entry list has
been published, no communication will be entered into regarding it.

10 PRACTISING AND PACE NOTES
10.1 Pre-event practising, testing, cycling or walking over the special stages on
this event is forbidden R26.7. The organisers will provide suitable stage
maps.
10.2 The use of pace notes is forbidden and checks may be established R25.9.1

11 IDENTIFICATION
11.1 Competitors must be identified by competition numbers that comply with
J4.1. These will not be supplied by the organisers and must be in place
before scrutineering.
11.2 The Organisers may require additional advertising material to be affixed to
competing cars and competitors should leave the area above the numbers
free for the organisers use.

12 SOUND TEST AND SCRUTINEERING
12.1 The location of Scrutineering will be advised in the Final Instructions.
Friday evening scrutineering will be held at the venue.
12.2 Sound testing will take place after stage one. We are very fortunate to
have a special agreement in place with the MSA to allow us to conduct the sound
test after SS 1, unfortunately in previous years it appears that some competitors
have been less than accommodating when found to fail the Noise Test post SS1.
This agreement is solely for the benefit of you the competitor as it allows the
event to start at 9am; this is due to a local agreement with Down Ampney Village
Parish Council, which prohibits noise from the venue before 9am. If the sound
test was to be conducted after 9am before SS 1 it would lead to a loss of stage
time/mileage during the rest of the day, we hope you will be patient and
courteous to all officials at all times.
12.3 The permitted maximum sound level is 100 dB (a) at 4,500 rpm measured
at 0.5m by sound meter. Judges will be appointed to report on sound
levels. Excessive sound will include instantaneous occurrence of noise
such as that produced by backfiring caused by anti-lag systems. The
penalty for excessive sound will be exclusion. In all cases the decision of
the Clerk of the Course, in conjunction with the MSA Environmental
Scrutineer, shall be final R 8.1.7 & R 8.3.1.
12.4 At Scrutineering, cars will be examined for compliance with the current
MSA tyre, technical and safety regulations, as well as for class eligibility.
Each entrant will be assumed to have full knowledge of the car and its
eligibility for the class entered. All cars must comply with the 2016 MSA
regulations, R Technical Regulations for Stage Rally Cars (including
Historic R49).
12.5 Validated MSA Special Stage Vehicle logbooks must be produced at
Scrutineering. Failure to produce this document, or a valid receipt less
than 14 days old, will lead to a refused start.
12.6 A car need not display a current tax disc, but if it does not, a valid vehicle
registration document and, where appropriate, a valid MOT certificate
must be available for inspection.
12.7 Please note Helmets and Overalls must conform to 2016 MSA regulations
R25.3.

13 DOCUMENTATION
13.1 At Documentation, competitors must produce:
(a) A valid competition license of the appropriate grade. Note that the
minimum license grades are: Stage Rally National B for the driver &
non-race National B for the co-driver. Non-race National B is no
longer acceptable for the driver.
(b) A club membership card and championship registration card (see
Article 4).
(c) The appropriate Entrant's license if a trade entrant has been named
on the entry form. Failure to produce this will mean the crew may be
penalised.
13.2 Crew members who are not otherwise eligible to compete can join
Cirencester Car Club for £5 each, by completing a membership form,
available upon request.

14 SERVICING
14.1 Servicing will only be permitted in the service area.
14.2 Only one service vehicle, plus a trailer (which must be parked in the trailer
area), per competing car will be admitted. If your service vehicle is
abnormally large, then please advise the Entries Secretary in advance of
the event.
14.3 A tarpaulin or other waterproof membrane must be used under the
competing vehicles in the service area. Failure to do so will result in
eviction from the venue.
14.4 If you go off or break down in a stage, it may not be possible to recover
the car until the end of the event.
14.5 You will not be permitted to recover a disabled car except with the
permission of the Clerk of the Course or the Stage Commander.
14.6 There will not be a designated refueling area. Refueling will be your
personal responsibility. A minimum of one other person should be present
while refueling takes place, armed with a fire extinguisher. The cars’ hand
held extinguisher is not acceptable for this purpose.
14.7 Generators: In accordance with the latest Environmental Legislation:
Catch/drip trays of an equivalent capacity to the fuel/oil reservoirs must be
placed beneath generators. Generators must not be left unattended while
running. A suitable fire extinguisher must be placed alongside generators
at all times. This must be independent of any fire-fighting equipment
carried in competing cars.
14.8 Please gather together all your litter and take it home with you. If any
team member is caught dumping rubbish or harmful liquids in or around
the service area then the competing crew will be excluded and asked to
leave the venue.
14.9 Please be aware no fuel or water is available at the venue.
14.10 All competitors must ensure that all persons connected with their entry
have read and fully understood the following statement:
“Every person participating in this event, whether employed or voluntary,
shall take reasonable care for health and safety of themselves or other
people who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions during the
operation of the event.”

15 CONTROLS AND TIMING
15.1 All clocks will be set to BBC time. Controls and special stages will be
open 15 minutes before the due time of the first car and will close 5
minutes after the due time of the last car.
15.2 Stage starts will be via a Traffic Light system connected to an ECM Rally
timer. You will be allocated a provisional start time at the Arrival Control
and an actual start time at the Start Control – All stages will start at 30
second intervals, you should be ready to start the stage when you report
to the Start Control.
15.3 Traffic Light Sequence:
At 15 seconds to go RED LIGHT
At 10 seconds to go RED & AMBER LIGHTS
At 5 seconds to go AMBER LIGHT – 5 SEGMENTS
At 4 seconds to go AMBER LIGHT – 4 SEGMENTS
At 3 seconds to go AMBER LIGHT – 3 SEGMENTS
At 2 seconds to go AMBER LIGHT – 2 SEGMENTS
At 1 seconds to go AMBER LIGHT – 1 SEGMENT
Go – GREEN LIGHT (lit for 5 seconds)
15.4 As this event is target timed to R 31.1, competitors must visit all controls.
15.5 Should any recorded time not be legible, or not appear authentic, the
organizers may use any means at their disposal to establish a time.

16 MARKING AND PENALTIES
16.1 Marking and penalties will be as R31.1 (Target Timed events). R Chart
32.2 (c) is deemed to include deliberately hitting a chicane in order to seek
an advantage.

17 DAMAGE DECLARATION
17.1 Competitors must complete, sign and hand in a Damage Declaration
R15.1.2.
17.2 The Damage Declaration is a report declaring either that you have not
been involved in any incident resulting in damage to private property or
injury to persons or animals, or alternatively giving details of such incident
where damage or injury has occurred. Any information given will not incur
a penalty. Competitors who fail to comply will be excluded from the
results and may be reported to the MSA for further disciplinary action,
which may result in a fine of up to £100 R15.1.3.

18 RESULTS/PROTESTS
18.1 The Official Notice Board will be in Rally HQ; interim and provisional
results will be displayed here.
18.2 Ties will be resolved as per R 40.1.2 and any protest must be lodged in
accordance with C 5.
19 AWARDS
19.1 Awards will be presented as follows:
First Overall: Two awards
First, Second and Third in each class: two awards
Third place award being subject to a minimum of 8 in class.
No competitor may win more than one award. The order in which awards
are allocated will be at the organisers' discretion.
19.2 Rob Greenwood King of Down Ampney Memorial Trophy will be awarded
for the most successful CMSG crew of 2017 taking part in all the Down
Ampney events:
Cheltenham Motor Club, Get it Sideways Rally.
Cirencester Car Club Ltd, Corinium Stages.
EMCOS, Red Dragon I.T. Stages.

20 OFFICIALS
Clerk of the Course: Dave Boden
07922 125554 [email protected]
Deputy C of C: Kevin C Smith
01242 571679 [email protected]
Secretary of the Meeting: Ian Vout
01242 570645 [email protected]
Entries Secretary: Richard Cooper