12th May 2019: TDC Production Car Trial

START: Rathbawn House, Kilteel, Co Kildare (by kind permission of Joe Reynolds). Start 11.30 SHARP (Check-in from 10.30 am, Driver�s briefing 11.15 am)

ENTRIES: These should be sent to: Philip O�Reilly, 23 Stepaside Park, Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, Dublin 18. Tel: 087-2686333. E-Mail: philiporeilly@live.com . Closing date Thursday 4th May.

ONE EVENT LICENCES (�25 each) WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE START FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT HOLDERS OF A FULL ANNUAL COMPETITION LICENCE. One passenger, or bouncer (minimum age 16 years) may be carried once they have signed on.
The organising club reserves the right to refuse an entry without assigning a reason for such refusal.

1) Classes: Class 1 Front Engine, Front Wheel Drive & Rear Engine, Rear Wheel Drive
Class 2 Front Engine, Rear Wheel Drive
Class 3 Cars first registered after 1st January 2007
2) Sections will be set to minimise risk of damage to normal road-going cars
3) Tyres must not be �Grip�, �Town & Country� or �Knobbly� patterns. The following tyres are specifically excluded: Sterling (ATS) All Season Remould, Michelin XRN, Pirelli P7, Uniband Rally Steel, Goodyear All Weather Steel Radial, Goodyear Vector. Minimum Tyre Pressure will be 18 PSI
4) Kit Cars, Specials, Commercial Vehicles are not eligible for awards
5) Cars with any form of Limited Slip Differential are penalised by 2 marks per section on top of the actual score, to a maximum of 10 marks on any one section.
6) 4 Wheel Drive or All Wheel Drive is not permitted
7) Double Drivers are permitted
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There will be no practising of the sections
9) There will be 11 �Gates� on each section, numbered 10 > 0
Standing starts with front wheels on the Start line are required
Zero marks will be awarded for a clean passage though a section
If a car stops, rolls backwards or touches a marker, the competitor will be awarded the mark on the previous marker. A stop is defined as when a car makes no further forward motion in a 5 second period. A car will be judged to have passed a marker when the centre of both front wheels have crossed an imaginary line between the 2 stakes
10) Unless specified by officials, you may not cross your own tracks during a section and must follow the �intended� line
11) Passengers must stay within the confines of the passenger compartment with their feet on the floor
12) Ties will be decided in favour of the competitor with the most 0s, then 1s, 2s etc.
13) Competitors must complete all the sections in one lap before they start another lap. If double driving, one driver must complete all the sections before the second driver commences their lap.

Regulations

Online Entry Form

Entry form (word format)

Last edited by Piers14 on Fri Apr 26, 2019 8:12 pm; edited 2 times in total

It has been decided to adjust the 10 year restriction for Class 3 cars to 15 years. This will be a rolling restriction so this year 2004 onwards cars will qualify, next year 2005 onwards and so on. We hope this encourages some more standard, daily driver road going machinery out.

Regulations, Entry Form and Online Entry Form will be available in the coming days.

Fresh air, exercise, stunning scenery, a friendly bunch and a cheap, accessible, family friendly day's motorsport all rolled in to one!

Followed by great photographic memories of your day by PeeSpeed Photography.....these are from the same event last year

Unfortunately no photographic memories from me this year, other commitments on the 12th

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That'll ensure we appreciate the next batch all the more!

Are the "Endurance Tyres" ok to use on this event:

Starmaxx Ice Gripper Tyre W810
Sunny Winter Grip SN 3860

Thanks

/Brian

Regulations, Entry Form and Online Entry Form now available in the first post.

Looking forward to seeing as many as possible out for this fun event that is sure to kick off the summer calendar nicely.

@bduggan, apologies for the late reply......

The tyres you've queried are permitted.

Hope to see you there.

Stephen

Entries Received as of 08/05/19

Philip O'Reilly
Philip Hughes
Morgan Evans
Richard Meeke
Mike Keane
Susan Briggs
Ger Keane
Sam Briggs
Eoghan Kavanagh
Rory O'Connor
Liam Cashman
Anthony Freeney
Stephen Briggs
Alex Lyons
Frank Lenehan
Patricia Wojnar

Last edited by Philip on Fri May 10, 2019 9:01 am; edited 3 times in total

For those with an eye on climbing the championship table, this will be round 5.

With 20 points for a class win, 19 for second, 18 for third etc, and four classes, there will be a total of 840 points on offer next Sunday.

Still accepting any late entries - weather looking great!

Just wanted to say a huge thanks to Stephen for running a top class event yesterday, and to all the observers who stood out so we could have our fun. It's great that every year the sections are so different and varied even though we're in the same 3 fields! Well done to Donal for taking the overall win especially with such experienced competition around.

Hope to see you all at the next one in July.

Would love to see the photos. There was a lad there taking photos but I haven't seen any online. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Was a great day out. Very enjoyable.

Photos fro the PCT are available here:
http://www.jamesmansfield.net/2019/05/tdc-production-car-trial-4/

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Brilliant photos James. Looked like a fantastic day out. I may be asking to borrow some of those photos for the next PCT advert...