BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 OGS THIS ELECTRIC KART REGULATIONS BOOK IS AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE CONTENTS OF THIS KART REGULATIONs BOOK ARE THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING. NO PORTION OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER, ELECTRONICALLY TRANSMITTED, POSTED ON THE INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA, RECORDED BY ANY MEANS, OR STORED ON ANY MAGNETIC / ELECTROMAGNETIC STORAGE SYSTEM(S) WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING. THE KART REGULATIONS POSTED ON THE BFKCT OFFICIAL WEBSITE MAY BE PRINTED FOR PERSONAL REFERENCE AND USE. HEAD OFFICE Bharath Formula Karting CADD Technologies of School of Design No.33, Rajaji Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore 641 009. Official Website:www.bfkct.in 1 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 THIS KART REGULATIONS BOOK IS AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE CONTENTS OF THIS KART REGULATIONS BOOK ARE THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING. NO PORTION OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER, ELECTRONICALLY TRANSMITTED, POSTED ON THE INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA, RECORDED BY ANY MEANS, OR STORED ON ANY MAGNETIC / ELECTROMAGNETIC STORAGE SYSTEM(S) WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR OF THE BHARATH FORMULA KARTING. THE KART REGULATIONS POSTED ON THE BFKCT OFFICIAL WEBSITE MAY BE PRINTED FOR PERSONAL REFERENCE AND USE. HEAD OFFICE Bharath Formula Karting CADD Technologies of School of Design No.33, Rajaji Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore 641 009. Official Website:www.bfkct.in 2 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 GENERAL PREFACE Official Notice of Disclaimer BFKCT makes an effort to provide participants with a relatively safe environment for everyone involved. Despite strict rule enforcement and strict rule adherence, all participants must be aware that their mere presence at an event presents a chance of becoming critically or fatally injured, even by no fault of their own. These regulations do not guarantee or imply that injuries or death will not occur. All event participants agree to assume the risk of being injured or killed by the negligence and/or gross negligence of others. If there are any questions or problems with these rules and regulations, it is the participant’s responsibility to immediately contact the Bharath Formula KartingPowered byCADD Technologies of School of Design, No.33, Rajaji Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore 641 009, India. Safety Hazards It is the responsibility of event participants to inspect and analyze all aspects related to the facility, rules, regulations, and/or instructions pertaining to the event (whether written or verbally stated). The event participants are required to notify a BFKCT Official, without delay, of anything that appears to be a potential safety hazard. Failure to comply with this rule will be cause for disqualifying from the event. Additionally, everyone involved should consider that no activity, facility, or system is 100% perfectly safe, despite all best efforts. Therefore, each participant is hereby notified that grave and unforeseen danger may exist in any activity, at any event, automotive related or otherwise. 3 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Description Page No. A ABOUT “BHARATH FORMULA KARTING” 5 B ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION 6 C AERIAL PERSPECTIVE OF BFKCT SEASON1,2&3 7 D IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS 10 E KART DEFINITION 12 1.0 OFFICIALS AND THEIR DUTIE 13 2.0 BFKCT RULES AND REGULATIONS 15 3.0 TEAM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 20 4.0 DRIVER SAFETY REQUIREMENTS 24 5.0 ELECTRICAL KART TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS 27 6.0 DESIGN VALIDATION ROUND (VIRTUAL) 38 7.0 CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 41 8.0 ENDURANCE HEAT 47 9.0 SIGNIFICATION OF FLAGS 51 10.0 ON COURSE CONTACT 52 11.0 SCORING AND RACE RESULTS 53 12.0 POINTS TABLE 55 4 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 A. ABOUT “BHARATH FORMULA KARTING” Bharath Formula Karting is a student karting competition powered by CADD Technologies School of Design Private Limited (BFKCT) to explore the theoretical, technical and motorsports skill set of engineering and diploma students. The main motto of this competition is coined to the envision of doyen and legend of Indian Motor Sports “Sundaram Karivardhan” who started to build his own cars for motorsport racing as well he was an successful Formula Car Racer. BFKCT encourage the young budding engineers to design and build their dream kart with engineering terminology and technology from art to part as well BFKCT provide the platform for to take up the racing competition. This will create an interest and awareness to bring charming racer and mechanics in motorsports engineering field. The Karting competition takes place in two stages; firstly, design validation, Documentation and Fabrication of Kart. Secondly, Championship round which consists of Static & Dynamic events and final Endurance. The registering team has to build their kart based on the guide line given in BFKCT Kart Regulations book. BFKCT forum encourage the team members to undergo the literature survey and detailed study before design and manufacturing of kart Kart. Furthermore, it is advised to the team members to fabricate the kart with expert’s suggestion but not involved them physically to fabricating the kart. BFKCT recognize the team building activity and individual talent by providing nearly 80+ various awards in different categories. The reorganization is not only trophy&certificate, BFKCT announces INR 15,00,000 (Fifteen Lakhs) worth Prize. Similarly, BFKCT offers Internships, Implant training Industry Project and Placement opportunity in reputed industry to all the deserved participants to shape their carrier. 5 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 B. ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION M/s.CADD Technologies School of Design established in the year of 2000 with the aim and commitment of providing quality training. This is our 20th year in the CAD/CAM Training Industry and having a strong planning in expanding our legs across globe in near future. The company is established by the dynamic group of directors who are in to Academic and Research field for more than a decade with a vision of providing Industrial requirement based engineering solutions by which it will have their own presence in overall growth of the Manufacturing and Civil Industry to whom the company got tie-up. We, M/s .CADD Technologies School of Design Private Limited, is an Authorized Training cum Certification Centre of Autodesk, Bentley and Innovent Technologies (ANSYS). We are provide Training cum engineering solutions to the students as well as companies in the key areas like Design Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Digital Prototyping and Building Information Modeling. We have trained more than 50,000 students so far (Both In-house as well as On-site) and have successfully placed sizable number of candidates in various domestic and MNCs to whom we got tie-up. We have Technical Advisory committee, which consists of eminent personalities from the leading industries in Coimbatore as well as professors colleges who are guiding us to serve the student community in a better way. Visit www.caddtechnologies.com. 6 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 C. AERIAL PERSPECTIVE OF BFKCT SEASON 1 , 2 & 3 CADD Technologies started to initiate the “Bharath Formula Karting” a National Level Karting Championship Motorsports event in “Manchester of South India” Coimbatore with the motto of enlighten the envision of doyen and legend of Indian Motor Sports “Sundaram Karivardhan” who started to build his own cars for motorsport racing as well he was an successful Formula Car Racer. BFKCT Before get into this karting motorsport, we have collected the feedback from various stakeholders, faculty advisors and students who recently participated in karting event. According to the feedback analysis the BFKCT board of directors decided and derived the strategy as from registration to end of the event all the details to be displayed in official website to maintain the high level transparency. Secondly, to encourage motorsports aspirants, the event must be conduct only on Kari Motor Speedway International Formula 3 Racing Circuits, Chettipalayam. The success starts begins from this point. The BFKCT Season 1 launched in the month of January 2018 and the BFKCT team did various promotions. Resulting, the season 1 team registration reached 98. Out of which 59 teams with the student strength of 1750+ turned in Kari Motor Speedway to race their fabricated kart. The BFKCT season 1 held on 2nd to 4th August 2018 at Kari Motor Speedway. Mr.Dhanasekaran, Director, Faurecia, Bengaluru and Dr.Manivannan, Chairman ISTE has been the chief guest for the podium ceremony and distributed the Championship trophy and Cash Prize. On continuation of Season 1, the season 2 registrations got opened. During this season also BFKCT board of directors decided the event venue as Kari Motor Speedway. For uplift our technical and event level as well the current scenario of automobile Electric Kart Category was introduce in the Season 2. The registration for Internal Combustion Category and Electrical Kart 7 BFKCT Electric Kart Regulations Book (BFEKR) – E Kart V 1.0 Category goes upto 110 and 10 respectively. The BFKCT season 2 events conducted from Feb 28 to Mar2, 2019- 3 Days. On day event venue, IC engine Category 65 teams and Electric Kart Category 5 teams totally 1850+ students actively participated and exhibits their motorsports skillets. Chief guest is invited from Automobile Manufacturing industries Mr.Sri Radha Krishnan, Head – Engines & Axle, Ashok Leyland and Mr.Shanmugam, Secretary, Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturer’s Association (AIEMA) to distribute the champion trophy and Cash Prize. The season 2 event dates we have invited nearly 30+ Automobile and Mechanical Industries for placements and internship opportunities to the participants’ betterments.