6 Hour Fiesta Endurance Race Meeting Mondello Park Sports Club In co-operation with Carlow Car Club, Motor Enthusiasts Club, Co. Kildare MC, IMRC & Leinster Motor Club. To be held at Mondello Park on the National Circuit on February 18 th 2018 Supplementary Regulations Mondello Park Limited, Donore, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland Tel: 00353 (0)45 860200 Fax:00353 (0)45 860195 E-mail: info@mondellopark.ie 1. EVENT: This event will be held under the General Competition Rules of MI (incorporating the provisions of the International Sporting Code of the FIA), The MI Motor Sport Yearbook 2018, these supplementary Regulations, the Final Instructions issued to competitors by Mondello Park Sports Club prior to the event and any bulletins as may be posted on the Official Notice Board. 2. MI PERMIT NUMBER: TBC 3. STATUS of EVENT: National 4. OFFICIALS of the MEETING: TBC in final instructions 5. PROMOTERS: The meeting will be promoted by the Mondello Park Sports Club with assistance from the Motor Enthusiasts Club, Carlow Car Club, County Kildare Motor Club, Irish Motor Racing Club and Leinster Motor Club and run at Mondello Park on the National Track Configuration on February 18 th 2018. The event will have a single 6 hour endurance race for Fiesta Zetecs commencing at 12noon on the day with qualifying taking place at 9am. 6. ELIGIBLE CARS: Ford Fiesta cars which are eligible to compete in the Fiesta Zetec Championship at Mondello Park and which comply with technical regulations as published on the MI website Appendix 48 with the additional modifications for this event only as follows; a. Side number lamps: A light must be fitted above the number on each side of the car, so the car can be easily identified by the marshals when the day light is fading. b. Headlights should be un-taped and free of decals for this race. c. The rear window may be taped to reduce glare by applying strips of 50mm width, with gaps of 50mm, to the top two thirds of the rear windscreen. For Clarification: This may be applied at any time. 7. CIRCUIT: The race will be run on the National Circuit. 8. TEAM MANAGER: Each team is required to appoint a Team Manager who is responsible for the conduct and actions of the team s drivers, mechanics and any pit crew. a. The Team Manager is also responsible for informing the organisers as to who is driving the car after each pit stop. b. This is done by recording the details on the driver change forms provided by the organisers and submitting these to the Race Secretary within 5 minutes of the car leaving the pits after a pit stop. Failure to adhere to this rule shall result in a one lap penalty. c. At any point if the organisers bring a car into the pits and the driver of the vehicle is not the person last recorded with the Race Secretary by the Team Manager, within 5 minutes of the car leaving the pits after the previous pit stop, the C.O.C will hold the car as described in section 27 of these supplementary regulations for 3 laps. d. If within this time, the Team Manager hasn t submitted the correct information to the Race Secretary, the C.O.C will hold the car as described in section 27 of these supplementary regulations for a further 3 laps at least and until such time as the correct information is submitted. e. Should the driver in the car not be a registered team member and be a driver from another team, the team will be instructed to return the car to the pit garage where it will remain for the remainder of the race and the team will be excluded from the results. f. Should the driver in the car not be a registered/entered driver for any team, the team will be instructed to return the car to the pit garage where it will remain for the remainder of the race and the team will be excluded from the results. The matter will be referred to the stewards of the meeting and Motorsport Ireland and in any such case, the team s registered driver s will be deemed to be culpable. g. The organisers will communicate with the Team Manager as a first point of contact in respect of all disciplinary and logistical issues concerning the team, its drivers, mechanics and pit crew and any issues pertinent to the race. 9. ELIGIBLE DRIVERS: All drivers must hold a valid competition licence from either; Motorsport Ireland, RAC MSA, or holders of a Competition Licence issued by an ASN from a country which is a member of the European Union. Competitors who fail to produce valid competition licence at signing on may not be permitted to practice or race. Each car may have a maximum of four drivers and a minimum of three. A driver may only drive one car in the race. Any change of driver line-up for any car must be notified and authorised by the Clerk of the Course at least one half hour before the appointed time for a practice session to start.
10. ENTRIES: Entries open immediately and close on Sunday 31 st December. Entries will be accepted on the official entry form and on a first come first served basis. The first 48 full paid entries will be accepted. THE ENTRY FEE IS 600.00 per team. ALL PAYMENTS MADE PAYABLE TO MONDELLO PARK LIMITED. Entries can also be paid by Credit Card. Withdrawal of an entry for reasons of force majeure will be dealt with as sympathetically as possible by the organisers and as much as possible of the entry fee refunded depending on proximity of withdrawal to the event. 11. QUALIFYING: Qualifying will take place on Sunday February 18 th from 9am to 10am. ALL DRIVERS MUST TAKE PART FOR A MINIMUM OF 3 FLYING LAPS IN QUALIFYING. Once all team drivers have completed 3 laps the team can continue to allow drivers to improve their and the teams qualifying time for the remainder of the session. However, as per section 8 (b) above, it is essential that every driver change in qualifying is notified to the race secretary within 5 minutes of the change. As per section 8 above, failure to do this in qualifying will result in all qualifying times for the car being disallowed and the car will have to start from the pit lane, one lap down on the field. A cars starting position will be decided on the basis of the fastest single lap recorded by the car in qualifying and the driver who sets the fastest lap must start the race. All drivers and team managers must attend Drivers Briefing and will be required to sign an attendance sheet. Team Managers are responsible for all actions of their drivers/crew members and for informing the Race Secretary of driver changes during the event with the driver notification cards supplied. In the event that a team is unable to qualify all drivers, the team manager shall inform the Clerk of the course immediately. The Clerk of the course shall have absolute authority to decide whether to allow the team to start, and whether that team shall start from the pit lane or back of the grid. It is recommended that teams qualify all new/novice drivers first. 12. DRIVING STANDARDS: The race officials have the right in their absolute discretion to apply the following additional/supplementary penalties for dangerous, careless or reckless driving, depending on the severity of the offence(s); a. Stop & Go penalty where a car must enter the pits on the next tour and drive into the stop box at the control tower and report to the COC. b. The COC can apply a time penalty of 1, 2 or 3 Laps duration. Where such a lap penalty is applied, the car will be summoned to the pits via communication with the team manager and/or the black Flag, where upon the car must stop as described in section 27 of these supplementary regulations and remain there until the penalty is served and the car is released by the officials. c. The COC can instruct that a driver be removed from the car and his/her replacement by another team driver. He can further instruct that the reprimanded driver is not permitted back in the car for at least; 30, 60, 90, 120 or 150 minutes. d. The COC can instruct that a driver be removed from a car and not be permitted to drive again for the remainder of the event. e. The COC can call a car into the pits and instruct the Team Manager to return the car to the pit garage and not allow it compete again. In such a scenario, the team will be excluded from the results. f. The COC will apply a one lap penalty to any team reported by the Pit Lane Judge of Fact who exceed the 40 KPH speed limit. There is no appeal against this decision or the equipment in use to measure the speeds. g. The COC will apply a one lap penalty to any team that cross the solid white line separating the pit lane from the race track when exiting the pit lane. h. The COC will apply a one lap penalty to any team that cross the solid white line separating the pit lane from the race track while driving on the race track and passing the pit lane exit. 13. GO-PRO CAMERAS: a. All cars must be fitted with a Go-Pro or similar camera mounted on the roll cage and which has a forward facing view out the front windscreen and also showing the drivers hands and steering wheel. b. The Team Manager must ensure that each driver has a separate memory card which must be individually marked and exchanged in the camera at each driver change. c. At any point if the organisers are investigating an incident post driver change and the memory card requested and provided by the team, does not match the driver who the team has submitted as being in the car at that time, the C.O.C will apply an instant 3 lap penalty by means of calling the car into the pits and holding it as described in section 27 of these supplementary regulations. d. This penalty will be irrespective of any other penalty which may or may not be applied by the disciplinary COC in respect of the incident being investigated. e. The same penalty will be applied if the footage is not available because of a malfunction with the camera, either in terms of battery/recording, or if the footage is not usable because of misalignment of the camera for whatever reason. 14. TECHNICAL: In advance of post-race eligibility scrutiny, the Organisers reserve the right to select any car or cars for additional intensive eligibility scrutineering on the morning of the race. Failure by cars to comply with both the Fiesta Zetec Championship Technical Regulations and the Event Supplementary Regulations will result in that car not being allowed to start. During the hours of darkness all drivers must have the following lights in working order. 1. The two forward facing white headlamps with standard bulbs;
2. The two side-door competition number lights (white continuous light and facing downward on top of each number) or two side window competition number lights illuminating the number in the rear side window. 3. The two rear facing tail lights 4. Three working brake lights. 5. Standard front fog lights are permitted. 6. The standard breathers in the fuel tanks must remain in place 7. No additional supports are permitted to be added to the door mirrors 8. No additional forward facing lights are permitted. a. Any car failing to comply with the above will be ordered into its Pits and not allowed to continue until it does comply. b. The definition of Hours of Darkness when lights must be switched on will be solely at the discretion of the Clerk of the Course and will be signalled to cars by means of a communication board at the start finish line. c. A car which stops on the circuit can only be worked on by the Driver when it is safe to do so and only after receiving permission from the nearest or attending marshal/official. The competitor can only use whatever tools are carried in the car. d. Cars moved to a place of safety after an incident by the officials, may re-join the race if they can restart on the button. Under no circumstances can a CAR BE PUSHED ON THE CIRCUIT. e. Any car sustaining accident or mechanical damage and pitting for repairs, whether instructed or not by race officials, must be re-scrutineered before re-entering the competition. f. Once a car has been passed by scrutiny no weight can be added or removed from the car. 15. TYRES: The only tyres permitted are tyres which comply with the 2018 Fiesta Zetec Championship regulations. 16. TOW BACK : Notwithstanding section 14 (c) or 14 (d) above, cars may be towed back to the Pits by the organisers if requested by the driver or team manager, where they may be worked on as required by the team. Any such tow back will be subject to a 2-lap penalty, which will be advised by the C.O.C to the team and the timekeepers and will be subtracted from the teams total laps by the timekeepers as soon as is practicable. This Tow Back rule will apply only up to 30 minutes before the end of the race after which time the organisers will only tow to a place of safety as in section 14 (d) above. The organisers reserve the right to prioritise tow backs as they occur for the overall good of the event or refuse to give one if they consider the car concerned too damaged and/or too difficult to move. 17. PIT PROCEDURE: a. Due to past competitor perception that some pits favour entrants over others, the organisers will draw lots for pit allocation which will be notified to competitors and entrants in advance of the event. b. It is only permitted to use reverse gear in the pit lane when leaving the designated concrete apron area at the competitors designated pit garage. c. Refuelling must take place on the concrete apron in front of the pit garage. All work that constitutes a fire hazard (including welding, angle grinders etc) must take place in the paddock behind the fire lane behind the pit garages. All other work shall be performed in the pit garages themselves. d. During qualifying and racing, cars may enter and leave the paddock only by the top (tower end) or centre gate (beside garage 1&2) or through the garages. The gate beside garage 23/24 will not be in use at this event. e. Only one additional person to the team Manager may cross the pit lane to the barrier for signalling purposes. f. No umbrellas, chairs etc. may be used at the trackside barrier. g. When the LIGHTS ON sign is displayed at the start finish area, all competition cars MUST use their headlights. During LIGHTS ON cars must keep their headlights on until they stop at their Pit and turn their headlights on again when leaving their Pit. h. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES may any refuelling happen outside of the pit lane at any time. Engines must be switched OFF during refuelling and no other work may be carried out on the car See 26.l for additional information. No welding is permitted in the pits and officials may at any time ask that the car be taken into the paddock to be worked on if the work appears extensive or likely to disrupt the pits. Push starting of vehicles in the pits will only be allowed if it is under the direction of the pit marshals. i. As the pit lane will be very busy, The Pit Lane Speed limit for this event is 40KPH. The organisers will appoint a Pit Lane judge of fact who with the use of a radar gun will monitor car speeds in the Pit Lane. Where a car exceeds the 40KPH limit a penalty as per 12 (f) above will be applied. j. Pit Stops. An additional lane is being added in Pit Lane (Black Tarmac section) which will result in three distinct areas in the Pit Lane and these are; 1. The Through Lane (Tarmac and closest to Pit Wall). Cars in the Through Lane have right of way. 2. The Intermediate Lane (Tarmac and between the Through Lane and the Concrete Apron). This lane is used by cars crossing from the Through Lane to the Concrete Apron and vice versa. 3. The Concrete Apron. (The concrete area between the garages and the tarmac pit road). This lane is used for pit stops.
k. Pit Entry. When entering the pits stay in the left lane closest to the Pit Wall (Through Lane). You should proceed down this lane and cross to the lane on the right (Intermediate Lane) and on reaching your Pit Garage area on the concrete apron you should pull in nose first to the marked space. l. Pit Exit. Once a pit stop is complete the car is permitted to reverse at a snails pace ( snails pace = 5km/h or slower) from the Concrete Apron into the Intermediate Apron facing down pit lane. The competitor is then permitted to cross to the Through Lane when it is safe to do so. Remember, cars in the Through Lane have right of way, so you can only join this lane when it is safe to do so. The decision as to whether it was safe or not lies totally with the Pit Lane Judge and where they decide a teams re-joining was dangerous they will report this to the C.O.C. who will issue a Stop Go penalty to the team with the duration of the Stop dependent on the level of danger. m. Pit Lane Route for Penalties. Where the COC summons a car to the Stop/Go box adjacent to the Start Finish Line, the competitor should enter the pit lane and stay in the through Lane until reaching the Stop/Go box. It is not permitted to carry out any other work in the pits on the way to a Stop/Go Box. n. Any driver found removing or loosening seat belts or helmets before coming to a complete stop at their pit garage will be excluded from the event. 18. STARTERS/GRID FORMAT: A maximum of 48 cars will be permitted to start the event. A two-by-two rolling start will be used behind the safety car. Depending on track/weather conditions, the Safety Car may circulate for up to 3 laps at the start before pulling off into the pits. The starting grid formation and spacing must be maintained at all times. If the cars are correctly in formation, the safety car will peel off into the pit lane and the formation will continue around to the start-finish straight in formation and the race will start when the red lights go out. Overtaking is not permitted until the red lights go out. In the event that the formation is not maintained to a satisfactory degree, the safety car will lead the cars on another lap. A 3 lap penalty will be applied to cars failing to maintain formation. The race will start at 12 noon. Cars will form up on the grid in the order determined by their qualifying times. The pit lane will open at 11:30 to allow cars to make their way onto the grid. The pit lane will close at 11:50 following which no further cars will be allowed onto the grid. Any gaps on the grid shall NOT be closed. Any cars that do not manage to start from the grid will start from the pit lane. Pit lane opening and closing times shall be STRICTLY ENFORCED. 19. RADIOS: No use of any two-way communication between car/driver and pit/paddock is permitted during the event. Anyone using such communications within the circuit will be brought before the COC and the associated team may be penalised in accordance with the penalties listed in section 12. 20. COMPETITION NUMBERS: Competitors are responsible for ensuring their cars carries competition numbers on each front door or the rear side windows and on the OFFSIDE of the front bonnet facing the offside (towards the time keepers). If any number becomes obscure or difficult to read in the opinion of the organisers, they reserve the right to black flag the car concerned for rectification in the pits. All numbers must be in place during scrutineering. 21. SIGNALS: During the hours of darkness conventional signals will be replaced by illuminated signals as follows: a. Yellow Flag: illuminated yellow/orange flashing lights on turn1, turn 3 and the final corner. Elsewhere, Marshals will have hand held flashing orange lights at the various marshal s posts. b. Red Flag: Red light at turn 1, turn 3, the last corner and on the bridge. In the event of a red flag/signal, cars are to stop racing immediately and drive slowly to the grid and stop there, see Stopping the Race. No work is permitted to the cars at that time until authorised by the Clerk of the Course. 22. SAFETY CAR: As per section 16 of Appendix 40 of the 2017 MI Yearbook. Where the race is run in darkness, yellow flags will be replaced by flashing amber lights at the Marshal posts. 23. STOPPING THE RACE: In the event of a major accident or severe adverse weather conditions the race will be stopped by showing a red flag, or red light in the hours of darkness, at the start/finish line. Competitors should complete ONE SLOW LAP and stop on the grid, where parc ferme conditions will apply. NO TEAM PERSONNEL ARE ALLOWED ONTO THE GRID until authorised by the clerk of the course. Any car in the pits at the time of the red flag should remain where it is. From the moment the race is stopped no work may be carried out on the cars unless specifically authorised by the Clerk of the Course. This includes cars already in the pits at the time the race is stopped. When the race is restarted it will be run to the timetable, unless conditions or force majeure dictate otherwise. Such conditions shall be decided by the Stewards in conjunction with the Clerk of the Course. The same driver who was racing at the time the race was stopped will continue at the restart, the period for which the race was stopped will count towards continuous driving times for the drivers in question. In the event of a prolonged stop the Clerk of the Course will provide specific instructions about driver change procedures. The grid for the restart will be in the order of general classification, one lap prior to the lap on which the red flag was displayed. 24. PARC FERME: At the end of the race all classified finishers will enter Parc Ferme as designated by the organisers. They will remain there for 30 minutes or at the discretion of the Clerk of the Course. 25. DRIVING TIME: No driver may drive longer than 50 minutes continuously and must rest for a period of 30 minutes between stints at the wheel. No driver may drive for longer than 3 hours in total. These driving stints will include any time spent in the pits when a driver takes a car in and then re-joins the race.
26. REFUELLING: a. Competitors should have their own fuel and this must be stored and distributed from standard 20ltr metal jerry cans. The fuel may only be transferred to the car using a spout on the jerry can, each team must supply their own spout. The fuel may be transferred to the car using a standard metal jerry can only. Funnels may not be used. Only one person can pour fuel at any time. Only one jerry can can be used to transfer fuel to the car via spout at any time. b. It is not permitted to have any mechanism to increase the fuel flow over the rate engendered by gravity and nonassisted airflow. c. The organisers reserve the right to instruct teams to modify their refuelling procedures on pain of exclusion from the event without assigning a reason. d. The team member who refuels the car during the pit stop must wear fireproof overalls, gloves and balaclava. e. A second team member, who can be a driver, must oversee the refuelling. This person must also be equipped with fire proof overalls, gloves and a balaclava and must have a dry powder fire extinguisher at the ready. f. The engine must be turned off during refuelling. Push starting will only be permitted if it is under the control of the pit marshals/officials. g. No refuelling is permitted in the actual pit garages and all refuelling must take place on the concrete apron outside the garage. h. Competitors should note that smoking will be prohibited in the Pits at all times and any member who violates this rule will cause his team to be summarily excluded. i. Any team member found using alcohol in the Pits, will cause his team to be excluded from the event. In these circumstances, MPSC officials and marshals will be deemed judges of fact and there will be no appeal against their decision. j. No work whatsoever can be carried out on the car while re-fuelling is in progress. Only the driver is allowed inside the car while re-fuelling is in progress, the driver must be wearing their full race gear. All doors must be closed. Boot and Bonnet must be closed. Only when the preceding points are in effect may refuelling start. No team personnel, other than the one refuelling and the one observing (with fire extinguisher) may be within 1m of the car while refuelling is taking place. k. Refuelling in progress is defined as the period of time from when the outer fuel flap is first opened to when it is fully closed after all fuel has been transferred. l. When refuelling all cars shall park nose first into the concrete area of the pit apron in front of their garage at an angle of 45 90 degrees. 27. PENALTIES a. Penalties for Pit indiscretions which can include some of the issues mentioned above, as well as dangerous, careless, or reckless entry or exit from a pit, insubordination of team members towards an official, marshal, or an individual or driver connected to another team, will be penalised on a lap penalty basis or in more serious cases by exclusion. b. Where a lap penalty is used the duration will be 1, 2 or 3 laps and the car will be summoned to the pits via communication with the team manager and/or the black Flag, where the car must stop in the designated Stop/Go Pit Box, which is adjacent to Race Control or on the concrete apron in front of the pit garage, as instructed, and shall be overseen by the pit lane judge, and remain there until the penalty is served and the car is released by the officials. c. Breach of rule 26j is a three lap penalty. d. All Lap penalties imposed shall be served by holding the car in the stop-go penalty box or on the concrete apron in front of the pit garage, and shall be overseen by the pit lane judge. e. The duration of the lap for penalties will be set after qualifying and will be defined as the fastest lap of the tenth placed car rounded to the nearest second. f. A penalty cannot be taken on a lap when the competitor is stopping in the pits for any other reason. 28. CLASSIFICATION: To be classified a finisher the competing car must cross the finish line within 5 minutes of the chequered flag being held out at the end of the race and have completed at least 50% of the distance covered by the winner. It is forbidden to use any portion of the short circuit or rally cross circuit for any reason unless directed by the Clerk of the Course. Penalties for transgressing this rule may include exclusion from the event. 29. TIMING: All cars must have a transponder fitted. Monitors on the pit wall will operate on a continuous basis and printouts will be available every 30 minutes, with one set per team. Teams will also have the facility to plug into monitor sockets in the garages. 30. AWARDS: Awards will be given for positions from 1 st to 6 th place. 31. DECALS: The Organisers reserve the right to place three decals from the race sponsors on each car. QUERIES TO THE ORGANISERS CAN BE MADE BY CONTACTING: TEL: 00 353 (0) 45 860200 FAX: 00 353 (0) 45 860195 EMAIL: info@mondellopark.ie