SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS - Continued

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SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS - Continued

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS - continued:

15. Codeboards: A sample codeboard will be on display at the start. Map references will be used to identify the location of all codeboards. The codeboards will be attached to generally man-made objects and HART MOTOR CLUB will be hidden from public view. All codeboards (except at specific search points) will be within 50m of the public road and no dummy codeboards will be used. All genuine locations will be well away (min 300m) from inhabited dwellings. presents 16. Marshalled Controls: There will be marshalled controls. Details of the MC locations will be issued at the start.

17. Final Instructions: Final Instructions carrying the same force as these SRs will be posted or THE KING OF HART emailed to navigators on Wednesday 17 March 2004. These will acknowledge acceptance of your entry and detail any amendments to the SRs. SCATTER. 18. Scoring: The allocation of points will be detailed in the Final Instructions. Ties will be resolved as follows: 20/21 March 2004. a) Least number in crew; b) Latest time of booking-in at the finish control prior to 01:29:59; A round of the Hart Challenge. c) Anything else the organisers can think of!

19. Insurance: Please check that your normal road insurance covers this type of event. If in doubt, we are able to offer third party cover for the duration of the event at a premium of £9.00 (premium to be confirmed in finals) subject to the presentation of an NES letter at the start. Welcome to the KING of HART now running for the eighth time having taken time off in 2002 and 2003. The scheme and layout of the event has been compiled by regular competitors in the former Five Maps series 20. Vehicles: Competing vehicles will be identified by their number plates. As this event is navigational in and broadly follows a similar format to each of the previous King of Hart Scatters. We hope you will come nature, you are strongly encouraged to take part in a standard car. Pre event scrutineering will check that all and have a go, either as novices keen to expand your experience and expertise, or as experts keen to lights, noise, tyres and road fund licence meet Road Traffic Act requirements. participate in a quality event with a difference!

The theme for the event is again based on a card game, this year using elements of a very simple game known as "52 Card Pick-Up". No specific prior knowledge of the game will be required to participate. Map references will be issued at the start giving the location for the majority of the roadside codeboard locations Declaration Entry Details and there will be two manned controls representing the Kings of Spades and Clubs. Identifying individual 1) I have read the Supplementary Make and Model of Car: codeboards - large playing cards - will attract points, but bonus points will be awarded for locating all Regulations issued for this event and agree to Colour of Car: codeboards representing any three of the four available suits. Visiting manned controls and the red King locations will attract additional points and those crews with the time and inclination to do so may tackle be bound by them and by the General Registration No. of Car: optional in-car tasks at the Kings of Spades and Clubs. Regulations of the Motor Sports Class Entered: Nov./Semi/Expert We will all want to retire to bed at a sensible hour, but competitors will have an opportunity to relax over Association Ltd NES No. if appropriate: reasonable food and drink at Reading Services while the organisers prepare to announce the results. Ins. Co. if not RDS: 2) I declare that the use of the vehicle Ins. Company Address: This year's event has been designed to be completely straightforward for absolute novices while retaining a strategic challenge for the more experienced scatter experts. All competitor comments from previous events hereby entered will be covered by insurance have been carefully analysed and taken account of wherever possible. as required by the law which is valid for such We hope that the above has wetted your appetite, so let's have those entries rolling in - before the closing part of this event as shall take place on roads date please! as defined by the law. Cheque enclosed (payable Driver's Signature:______to “Hart MC”) for : £______Please complete both sides of this form and return to the Entries Secretary SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS night on a date to be confirmed.

1. The Hart Motor Club will promote a Navigational Scatter event on 20/21 March 2004 that will be 10. Entries: held under the General Regulations of the Motor Sports Association (incorporating the provisions of the International Sporting Code of the FIA) and these Supplementary Regulations. The maximum entry is 60, the minimum is 20. Entries open on publication of these Supplementary Regulations and close on Tuesday 16 March 2004. Entries shall be accepted in order of receipt. If the 2. A Waiver of Permit has been applied for. minimum number of entries is not received by the closing date, the organisers reserve the right to cancel or postpone the event. In these circumstances, entry fees less an administration fee of £1.50 will be refunded. 3. The event is open to all fully elected members of Hart M.C. and the following invited clubs: - Cranleigh M.C. Hants & Berks M.C. Guildford M.C. Only entries submitted before the closing date on the enclosed entry form will be accepted when Middlesex County A.C Mid Thames C.C Nat West Bank M.C. accompanied by the entry fee of £10.00. Please make cheques payable to Hart Motor Club and send to the Southern C.C Windsor C.C. Wessex M.C. Entries Secretary. Entries may be accepted after the closing date at an increased fee of £15.00. The event is a round of the Hart Challenge. 11. Officials: 4. Start and Finish: The event will start from a lay-by on the A340 a few miles North of Basingstoke at MR 175/616 576. As no facilities will be available at this venue, please ensure that your car has Clerk of the Course: Gwyn Jones, 01252-879140 (H) and 01276-31914 (B) sufficient fuel etc. The timetable for the event will be as follows: - Meeting Sec & Entries Sec: Bill Mexson, 01252-871477 (H), 07961 817610 (M) Scrutineering will commence at 19:20 and close at 20:05. 2 Hardy Avenue, Yateley, Hampshire GU46 6XT Competitor briefing will take place at 20:15. Steward: TBC Navigation/paperwork will be issued to Novices at 20:20, Semis at 20:25 and Experts at 20:30. The finish control at Reading Services Eastbound, MR 175/674.25 701, will open at 01:00 on 21 March 12. Equipment: OS 1:50000 Landranger Sheets 174 edition D and 175 edition C1 will be required along and will close finally at 01:44:59. Penalties will apply to competitors handing in their route card after with normal navigation equipment such as a roamer, drawing and magnetic compasses, ruler, protractor, 01:29:59. Competitors who start but fail to hand in their route card by 01:44:59 will be deemed to have calculator and tracing paper. A bright torch along with suitable clothing and footwear may prove useful; a retired. sense of humour is essential!

5. Event Area: All search and marshalled locations will be on OS 1:50,000 series maps, sheets 175 C1 13. Results: Provisional results will be declared as soon as possible after the final control closes. Final and 174 D and will be confined to an area south of the M4, West of the A327/A30 and East of the A34. results will be posted to navigators within 7 days of the event. As this is a sporting event, protests are not encouraged but will be reluctantly accepted in accordance with section O5 of the General Regulations. 6. Target Score & Distance: As this event is a Navigational Scatter there is no set route. The organisers estimate however that to achieve a target maximum score using no more than 75% of potential 14. Timing: This will be by the organisers' and marshals' own watches that will be set to BBC time. A locations, the distance travelled should not exceed 140 miles. clock for reference will be on display at the start. Continued overleaf:

7. Crews: Each identified crew will consist of one driver and one navigator. Additional passengers may KING OF HART 2004 ENTRY FORM be carried, up to the stated capacity of the car, who must sign on along with the crew. Entrant Driver Navigator 8. Crew Classification: There will be 3 classes; Experts, Semi-Experts and Novices: Name: Club: Experts - a crew in which any member has finished in the top two positions overall in an event based on Ordnance Survey maps (other than closed to club events, and driving in Road Navigation and Stage Address: Rallies) in the last three years. Semi-Experts; - a crew classed as neither Expert nor Novice. Home Tel: Novices - a crew in which no member has won a novice class in any two events based on Ordnance Survey maps (other than closed to club events) where the class starting entry exceeds five. Work Tel: Signature: A crew may be reclassified at the organiser’s discretion. Age if < 18: 9. Awards. Adult signature. if < 18: 1st overall -Two Awards Best HMC crew -Two Awards 1st Expert -Two Awards 1st HMC Experts -Two Awards Next of Kin: Name: 1st Semi-Expert -Two Awards 1st HMC Novices -Two Awards Tel: 1st Novice -Two Awards Please complete both sides of this form and return to the Entries Secretary. No competitor may win more than one award. Subject to the number of entries received, the organisers may present additional or withhold particular awards. Presentation of the awards will be at a Hart MC. club

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