Presidents Cup 17th January 2024
Avalon Raceway presents the 2024 Presidents Cup to be conducted on Wednesday the 17th of January 2023
Attached are the terms and conditions of entry, format, prize money and nomination form.
Entries close Friday the 5TH of January 2024
50 NOMINATIONS ONLY ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT
This Event IS Open Only to SCCA 410 Powered Sprintcars
The First 50 nominations received on the official nomination form with cleared payments will be accepted.
Conditions of Entry
All competitors must have a current Sprintcar Control Council of Australia Competition licence all Sprintcars are to be SCCA registered, racing is conducted as per the current SCCA Racing Rules, Regulations and Specifications. Competitors will also be required to have a current and valid Speedway Australia Licence card.
SPECIAL NOTE: All entrants must have completed three (3) Sprintcar Control Council of Australia (SCCA) approved Sprintcar racing events in the current season
prior to the 2023 Avalon Raceway Presidents Cup. International competitors will need to have completed three (3) Sprintcar meetings during 2022 or have completed in three (3) SCCA Sprintcar events in the current Australian season prior to the 2023 Avalon Raceway Presidents Cup.
A completed event is defined by qualifying for a feature event (A, B or C Main Event)
Noise Level 95 dba. Effective type mufflers must be used.
All Speedway Australia OH&S Pit rules and safety conditions apply at all times
FORMAT – Based on a 50 sprintcar field.
Time Trials 2 cars, 2 laps via transponders.
(Drivers draw for their Qualifying /Heat Race)
HEATS – Five heats Races -The heats will be determined by a (top 4 inversion) with the fastest qualifier to Position 4 of heat 1, second highest qualifier to position 3 etc.
The format is based on your qualifying times. (No points)
- Scrutineering Starts: 2.00pm
- Scrutineering Ends: 4.00pm
- Driver Sign In: 3.30pm
- Drivers Briefing: 5pm
Avalon Raceway Reserves the right to alter or amend the format if required.
Driver Briefing: All drivers must attend the compulsory drivers meeting.
Any Driver not attending the driver briefing will have one lap at the end of their time trials group with a best possible time of one position less than 50%)
Sign in Time: Drivers must sign in by 3.30pm local time so can can draw into your respective time trial groups. Driver only can nominate.
Any Driver that has not signed in on time (3.30pm) or cannot take their drawn position in Time Trial events may have one lap at the end of their time trials group
with a best possible time of one position less than 50%) The car must be able to complete this qualifying under its own power.
Format to be as follows:
- Drivers to sign in by 3.30pm local time and do their draw for their time trial group.
- Drivers will randomly draw for their Time Trial group / heat race.
- Drivers drawn for positions one and two in each Time Trial/Heat group will then be paired together for two car, two laps qualify as will the drivers drawn as positions three and four and so on.
Example below, 50 cars nominated but 39 turned up. This would be three Time Trial group of 10 and one of 9 cars.
Example: The first 10 cars go to Group 1 in pairs, the next 10 to Group 2 and so on.
Time Trial Group Qualify
FORMAT:
Time Trial Qualifying and One Heat Format.
- Drivers randomly draw into your Qualifying time trial / heats, 2 laps by two cars at a time.
- (Maximum 13 cars per qualifying session) You Time Trail against drivers in your heat.
- The format will use – an inversion of (4) based on Qualifying times.
Heat Races will be run over 10 Laps
The first three drivers from each heat race will go directly to the A Main Griding up as below.
- Drivers finishing in 1st place in their heat race will start from positions 1 thru to 5 based on their qualifying time.
- Drivers finishing in 2nd place in their heat race will start from positions 6 thru to 10 based on their qualifying time.
- Drivers finishing in 3rd place in their heat race will start from positions 11 thru to 15 based on their qualifying time.
MAIN GRIDS
C Main – 20 cars (15 Laps) – Grid order – Drivers finishing 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th form their heats, order will be determined by time trial times for each finishing
positions, eg best time from drivers finishing in 7th position will fill 1st, 2nd, 3rd ,4th and 5th grid positions, 8th position will fill 9th thru to 10th grid position and so on for
drivers placed in 9th and 10th place.
Top 5 to back of B Main in fishing order.
B Main – 20 cars (20 Laps) – Grid Order – Drivers finishing 4th, 5th, and 6th form their heats, order will be determined by time trial times for each finishing positions,
eg best time from drivers finishing in 4th position will fill 1st, 2nd, 3rd ,4th and 5th grid positions, 5th position will fill 6th thru to 10th grid position and so on for drivers placed
in 9th and 10th place.
Top 5 to back of A Main in fishing order.
A Main – 20 Cars (30 Laps) – Grid Order – Drivers that finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their heat race will fill positions 1 thru to 15 (As per table above A Main grid) plus
the top 5 (Five) drivers from the B Main fill position 16 thru to 20 in order of their placing from the B Main.
TOW ALLOCATION:
All Interstate competitors that nominate on time will receive $250.00
PRIZE MONEY TABLE – TOTAL PRIZE POOL $35,900
C Main | B Main | A Main | |
1st | To B Main | To A Final | $10,000 |
2nd | To B Main | To A Final | $3,500 |
3rd | To B Main | To A Final | $2,500 |
4th | To B Main | To A Final | $2,000 |
5th | $125 | To A Final | $1,500 |
6th | $125 | $400 | $1,000 |
7th | $125 | $350 | $900 |
8th | $125 | $300 | $875 |
9th | $125 | $250 | $850 |
10th | $125 | $225 | $825 |
11th | $125 | $175 | $800 |
12th | $125 | $150 | $775 |
13th | $125 | $150 | $750 |
14th | $125 | $150 | $725 |
15th | $125 | $150 | $700 |
16th | $125 | $150 | $675 |
17th | $125 | $150 | $650 |
18th | $125 | $150 | $625 |
19th | $125 | $150 | $600 |
20th | $125 | $150 | $600 |
Total: $2,000 | Total: $3,050 | Total: $30,850 |
TRANSPONDER RACING
All Sprintcars competing at this venue will be required to be fitted with an AMB Transponder for the purpose of lap scoring and timing in all events. Hire transponders are available at a cost of $30 Inc GST per night.
Transponders not purchased through the System Operator at our venue will incur a service fee of $15 (incl. GST) per night.