Final Instructions
Legends of Brands Hatch – Race Meeting – Friday 09th & Sunday 11th July 2021 Event Timing – Live
• Scan this QR Code with your smart • Or click the ‘Live Timing’ link on the phone for live event timing. HSCC website: hscc.org.uk These Final Instructions carry the same force as the ASR’s for this meeting. Thank you very much for your entry. Your competition number is shown on the attached entry list so please read it carefully. The Meeting is held on the Brands Hatch Circuit DA3 8NG. On Friday 9th July it will be held on the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit 1.208 Miles (1.944km) on Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th July it will be held on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit 2.433 miles (3.916km) MSUK Permit No: 120176 Inter club (Indy) Chief Scrutineer: Matthew Lamkin-Smith MSUK Permit No: 120177 Inter club (GP) Chief Timekeeper: Nick Palmer MSUK Steward: David Walton Deputy Chief Scrutineer: Nigel Edwards Club Stewards: Fergus Whatling and Senior Clerk of the Course: John Hopkinson Henry Woodgate Clerks of the Course: Andy Dee Crowne, COVID 19 Officer: Myra Whatling Nick Fielding and Ian Danaher Race Director: Andy Dee-Crowne Assistant Clerks of the Course Secretary of the Meeting: Lindsey Warren Annie Goodyear and Fiona Dee Crowne Assistants to the Secretary: Startline Judge: Sally Weeks. Donna Skipworth-Michell, Myra Whatling
REMINDER PRE-EVENT: • Transponders: If you need to hire a • Electronic declaration. This must be transponder you will need to order and returned prior to the event using the pay for the hire in advance from Timing link supplied in the e-mail sent to you. Solutions Ltd (TSL). www.tsl-timing.com, No documentation, no racing. Phone: +44 (0)1827 285666. They will be available for collection on the day in race admin. There is no physical access to timekeepers during the event. See also Para 23.
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• For Competitors and team members 4. Gates will close at 23.00 Hrs on you must provide your own PPE Thursday to Saturday to open at (Personal Protection Equipment) for the 7.00am each morning. duration of the event. All vehicles must leave the paddock by • If you or members of your team are 21.00 Hr on the last day of the event. feeling unwell or displaying symptoms 5. Signing-on, documentation and of COVID 19 do not attempt to travel scrutineering: You must have completed or come to the event. Do notify the your MSUK self-declaration which office of your withdrawal. If you or one includes your pre-event scrutineering. of your team are taken ill during the You should bring copies of your event. You must contact the club either documentation with you including your by e-mail, or phone immediately and vehicle identity documents. External leave the venue. checks will be made with the driver in the car. Internal checks will be with 1. Admission to the Circuit: Friday 9th July all admission to the circuit will be driver out and clear of the car. There via the Main Entrance. will be no physical signing on or licence checks. There is a test day taking place on Thursday 8th July access to the Garages 6. Non-UK competitors: Competitors on Thursday evening will be after 18.00 intending to race with a competition once the test day has finished. licence which is NOT issued by Motorsport UK should provide details of On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July their licence (preferably a photocopy) admission to the Circuit will be via plus a letter from their FIA approved Scratchers Lane Entrance. ASN confirming their licence status and 2. Tickets and paddock access: You will giving permission to race in the UK at a be sent four tickets, six if you are in a National Event with NCAFP approval (Art double driver race, which will admit you 2.3 of the FIA ISC) and your vehicle to the circuit. Whilst 7. Drivers’ briefings: Will be sent we are sending you the maximum ticket electronically. allocation, we strongly encourage you to only bring with you the number of 8. If you are a novice and require a people you actually need to run your ‘new to circuit’ briefing you should car. Children of 12 years and over must contact the office to book a call with a be in possession of a valid ticket to Clerk prior to the event. You will not be attend a race meeting. allowed to race if you have not had a briefing. 3. By entering this meeting you accept that no claim shall be brought against 9. Engines and silencing: All competitors the Club, MSV or its agents in the event should ensure that their car complies of damage being caused to a vehicle as with their championship regulations or part of an incident recovery process. local restrictions.
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• MSUK silencing regulations (C(b)23 announcements and also check your 24) which will be either 105db GT, and mobile phones or portable devices as Touring Cars or 108db for all other you may be notified by either SMS Text classes, e.g Single Seater, and Sports or e-mail of any changes. Racing Cars. 14. After the chequered flag, drivers must • The following series will run unsilenced, slow down and leave the circuit as Aurora Trophy with Geoff Lees Trophy, directed by the marshals. Thundersports, HGPCA. 15. Qualification: All drivers entered for • Please note that racing engines cannot a race must complete three laps in be run before 08.45 or after 18.30 on official practice to qualify. Drivers must either day. Anyone in breach of this practice in the relevant session for requirement maybe excluded from the every race entered. Drivers wishing to meeting. practice out of session must obtain 10. Garage and paddock allocation: written permission from the Clerk of The Garage Plan displays the groups the Course and will start the relevant specifically allocated Garages. There race from the back of the grid. Grid are a number unallocated which are positions are determined by the series available on a first come, first served regulations or as directed by the Clerk basis when you arrive. Do remember for of the Course. those of you with Large vehicles the 16. Reserves: Subject to qualification, only access is by crossing the circuit. reserves will be admitted to the races Crossing is restricted and there will be in the order published in the entry list if no vehicle exit until the close of the spaces are available. meeting on each day. 17. Grid Formation: Will be as per the 11. Roadways within the paddock area series regulations or as directed by the must be kept clear of all vehicles at all Clerk of the Course. times. 18. Race Start Procedures: Race start 12. Pits, pit wall and grid safety: No procedures and countdowns will take persons under the age of 16 will be place in the Assembly Area, with admitted in the pit lane or pit wall. A the exception of Aurora Trophy and maximum of two personnel per competing Thundersports which will assemble for car may be on the pit wall. The pit wall both Qualifying and Race in the Pit Lane must be clear of all personnel for all • All drivers must proceed to the race race starts. No personnel are allowed Assembly Area 15 minutes before the on grid. scheduled start time of their race or 13. Practice sessions and races: Sessions when called. Pre-gridding and the 1 may begin before the published time minute and 30 second countdowns will so please be ready, listen for paddock take place in the Assembly Area.
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19. Classic Formula Ford and Historic • There will be no acceleration or Formula 3: Will have a split standing increase in speed before the red light start. The Classic Formula Fords will is extinguished. There shall be no start with the extinguishing of the overtaking or changing of direction Red lights. There will be a 20 Second prior to crossing the start line. (n.b. delay. If the track is clear the Historic should a competitor suffer a mechanical Formula 3 cars will be started by the problem they should indicate this to lowering of the Union Flag from the other competitors by raising their arm Start gantry. and safely pulling off the circuit into the pit lane or adjacent to a marshal post). 20. The Following Grids will have a Rolling • It is strictly forbidden for cars to Start: Aurora Trophy with Geoff Lees deliberately back up or hold other Trophy, Thundersports, Guards Trophy, competitors during the green flag 70s Roadsports & Historic Road Sports laps in attempt to gain a competitive • Cars will be pre-gridded behind the pace advantage. It is also strictly forbidden car in either a 2x2 or 1x1 grid formation. to excessively brake, weave and When instructed by the Clerk of the accelerate in an attempt to warm tyres. Course the pace car, with yellow roof • Any car which in the opinion of the lights illuminated, will move off and Clerks of the Course fails to maintain complete one green flag lap. its position and speed set by the pace (n.b. should the weather have changed car prior to crossing the start line since qualifying or for other reasons or is guilty of any of the preceding of safety the Clerk of the Course may instructions will be penalised as follows; increase this). The pace car will dictate • In addition to any offences outlined in the speed of the green flag laps. the MSUK Yearbook any infringements of this race start procedure may result • Competing cars should follow at a safe in a time penalty of up to 60 seconds distance from the pace car maintaining or disqualification from the race. their grid positions. The lead cars must have the pace car in full sight for the 21. The following Grids will have a duration of the green flag laps, should Standing Start: Classic Formula 3, the need arise to delay or abort the start. Champion of Brands Formula Ford, Classic Clubmans, Historic Formula Ford • The pace car will indicate an impending 2000, Historic Formula Ford, Classic race start by extinguishing its yellow Formula Ford with Historic Formula 3, roof lights and entering the pit lane. Historic Touring Cars, Historic Formula Competing cars must then hold their Junior, HGPCA. position and speed, as set by the pace • Pre-gridding and the 1 minute and 30 car, and as the front row of the grid second countdown will take place in the approaches the start line the red lights Assembly Area following which drivers on the starting gantry will be extinguished will be released onto the circuit, by the denoting the start of the race. display of the green flag.
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• They will complete one lap and then laps completed. Any non starters from proceed to the Grid. This will constitute Race 1 will complete the back of the grid. the ‘green flag lap’. • Historic Formula 3 the grid for Race 2 • Drivers indulging in practice starts or will be formed from the fastest lap set excessive weaving during the warm up/ by the competitor in Race 1. green flag lap will render themselves liable to exclusion. 24. Historic Formula Ford 2000: Due to a high response to entries the Brands • Please make sure you know which line Indy Races have been split into two on the grid to stop at. Upon arrival at heats and a Final. the Grid, drivers should take up their positions as quickly as possible and, as • The Top 15 from each Heat will graduate soon as the last car is in position, the into the Final, with the winner of the 5-second board will be displayed before quickest heat taking pole position and the red lights are shown, followed the winner of the other heat will line between 3 and 5 seconds later by the up alongside them on the Grid with the red lights being extinguished denoting remaining grid positions alternating the start of the race. between the two heats. 22. Race Stops: Should any race be red- 25. Use of video equipment: It is only flagged, notwithstanding the provisions permissible for competitors to use of MSUK Q5.4, it may be restarted vehicle mounted video recording at the discretion of the Clerk of the equipment with the prior approval of Course and if time permits, for the the circuit and any such equipment remaining scheduled distance. must be securely mounted, and in place, prior to vehicle scrutineering taking • Should a red flag be displayed during place. The broadcasting of material a safety car period the race will be captured by any on board system is suspended, cars should stop in single covered by MSUK guidelines and policies file on the startline prior to the race and particularly its use on social media. being resumed with a safety car restart if time permits. 26. Decals: Competitors are reminded • The procedure for race restarts will be that HSCC decals must be displayed detailed in the Briefing Notes which will (one on each side of the car) and, if follow closer to the event date. supplied, race sponsor’s decals must be prominently displayed on competing 23. For the following double header races vehicles. Failure to display decals may at this event: Aurora Trophy, Historic result in exclusion. Formula Ford, Classic Formula Ford. The grid for Race 2 will be formed 27. Fuel: Vital Equipment with Carless from the finishing order of Race 1 with Fuels (01981 241169) will be in retirements being positioned in order of attendance providing fuel and other
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services. Sunoco (Anglo American Oil SPECIAL NOTES Company Ltd on 01929 551557) will also 31. Transponders: Please ensure you have be in attendance and will be situated in fitted a fully charged and working the paddock. Please remember to check transponder on your car as per the your championship regulations before MSUK Yearbook 2021 Q12.8.1. Any car purchasing fuel. At this meeting only without a working transponder will during MSUK pump fuel or FIA 2013/2014 fuels qualifying receive a warning failure to are allowed to be used. correct this will result in a time penalty of 30 seconds being added to your time 28. Animals: Animals are not permitted at for the race. The timekeepers at this the venue. meeting will have transponders available for hire for anyone who does not have 29. Withdrawal from the race meeting: a working transponder. These must be We would remind you of paragraph 7 pre-ordered from TSL prior to the event. of the HSCC Supplementary Regulations A very limited stock will be available for 2021, published on the Events page of those experiencing problems on the day the HSCC website, www.hscc.org.uk but you must not rely on their being Withdrawals must be notified in writing availability. to the HSCC Office by close of business on the Wednesday immediately prior to 32. Track limits: May incur time penalties. the race meeting in order to be entitled Judges of Fact may also be appointed. to any refund, the refund will be the 33. Speeding in pit lane: The maximum entry fee less £25 administration fee. speed in the pit lane will be 60kph Any withdrawal made prior to the (37.2mph). closing date will not be charged. 34. Safety Car: Maybe used in qualifying and races. There will be no live snatch, 30. Cancellation: We would remind you of any recovery will be conducted under a the HSCC Supplementary Regulations safety car situation according to MSUK 2021.’The Organisers reserve the right rules. Safety car procedures will be to postpone, abandon or cancel the detailed in the briefing notes. meeting or any part thereof. In the event of postponement, abandonment 35. Pit garages: The garage doors onto the or cancellation, the organisers and Pit Lane must remain open at all times. promoters will not be liable for any loss The rear doors must also remain open or expense incurred by entrants when the garage is use but can be or drivers.’ closed while occupants are on track. 36. Testing: There will be a general test day held on Thursday 24th June. Bookings please direct to circuit. 37. Race control contact: Donna on 07376 323099.
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Guards Trophy & Thundersport Race
38. Guards Trophy and Thundersports will 43. The maximum speed in the Pit Lane both be 40 minute races: There will be will be 60kph (37.2mph). No refuelling a mandatory pit stop at which a driver will be allowed. Car doors, seat belts/ change may occur. harnesses must not be undone until the car is stationary. 39. The Pit Lane will only be open for driver changes between the 15th and 44. Race Penalties: If the car does not 25th minute and all cars, even those remain stationary for the full 90 not changing drivers, must come to rest seconds there will be a penalty of at their pit garage and make a minimum either an extra 90 seconds added to its 90 secs stop in this window. race time or the car could be called in 40. The pit stop is monitored by the for a Drive Through Penalty. time keeping system which records It is the team’s responsibility to time the entry and exit from the pit lane. the stop but it will be monitored and A median target time of 105 seconds checked by race officials. allowing for 90 seconds stationary time 45. If a car does not stop within the is used to report any infringements to allocated time window there will be a the Clerk of the Course. 30 second penalty. 41. For the pit stop the driver does not 46. Speeding: Any infringement of this have to get out of the car or stop the speed limit will incur a time penalty of engine if there is no driver change. A up to 2 Minutes, which will be added to “Pit Lane Open” board will be shown for any other time penalties incurred. 2 laps after the pit is opened and a “Pit Lane Closed” board will be shown at the 47. Failure to take the mandatory pit stop end of the “Pit Window”. will result in exclusion from the results. 42. All drivers must practice and the starting driver must be notified to Race Administration at least one hour prior to the start of the race.
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Covid 19 Related Notices
A. There will be no physical access to F. If a competitor can safely exit the Clerks of the Course, Timekeepers, or vehicle, they should do so, then stand Stewards at the meeting. If you need in a suitable safe location with respect to speak to any of these officials their to social distancing. contact details will be posted in the foyer of Race Control G. Competitors are responsible for getting their vehicle to the assembly B. Competitors upgrading their licenses. area as usual and from there you will Upgrade cards cannot be submitted for be directed onto the circuit. Prior to signature. In accordance with current races drivers should know their grid regulations MSUK will accept Official position in order that they can find Results in place of signatures. Download their allocated space in the assembly the results from The TSL Website. area and on the grid as there will be a limited number of officials to assist. C. This event will be paperless in line with health directives. All timing sheets, H. The use of golf buggies or other such Grids, Results and Bulletins will be vehicles to move equipment to and issued by e-mail. Please ensure we from the pit lane is permitted but they have the latest e-mail address for you. may only carry equipment and have one Please keep your phone close by so we person as the driver with no passengers can notify you of any changes and call you up to assembly. We also have the I. For races with driver changes the ability to text you or a team member, time period for the pit-stop will be please ensure we have the correct increased to allow for the sanitisation details for you. of the contact areas within the vehicle. D. Due to the restrictions in place as a This will apply to Guards Trophy and GT result of COVID 19 we are limited to the & Sports Car Cup please read the race number of Marshal volunteers we can specific instructions for the duration of deploy. the stop.
E. Any driver involved in an incident will J. Shared use of an internal breather be approached by a Marshal and must and hydration system is prohibited. indicate that they are OK by signalling with a ‘thumbs up’ to the approaching marshal. Failure to do will result in the race being Red Flagged and medical car scrambled.
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