2018 TDC Championship

Driver classifications for the 2018 TDC Club Championship.

Beginners:
Drivers who competed in their first ever autotest after 1st January 2016 and have not previously won the Overall Beginners Championship

Novices:
Graduates from the Beginner class
People with very limited competition experience as decided by the committee
Maximum of 3 years permitted as a Novice
Winning the Overall Novice Championship automatically promotes you to the Intermediate Class, the following year.

Intermediates:
Graduates from the Novice class
People who have appeared in the Novice class of the TDC Club championship table in 3 or more of the last 5 years
No limit to the length of time you might compete in this class
1st & 2nd finishers in the Overall 2018 Intermetiate Championship will be automatically promoted to the Expert Class in 2019.

Experts:
Competitors who have appeared in the Semi-expert / Expert class of the TDC Club championship table in previous years
Competitors who are, or have been classed as Experts or Semi-Experts in the Hewison or Northern Ireland Autotest Championships
Previous winners of the Overall Intermediate Championship

Points for each event will be awarded, for each of the drivers’ categories based on the positions in the overall results, as follows:
20 Points for the Winner, 19 Points for 2nd, 18 Points for 3rd, 17 Points for 4th, etc down to 1 Point for 20th place.

Production Car Trials;
Cars with Limited Slip Diffentials will be penalised by 1.5 marks per section, on top of their actual score, to a maximum of 10 per section. Drivers of these cars can score for the Club Championship in these rounds.

2018 Club Championship qualifying rounds (provisional);
28th January TDC Multi Venue Autotest
11th March TDC Club Autotest*
8th April TDC Multi Venue Autotest
13th May TDC Production Car Trial
20th May Birr Autotest*
6th June TDC Club Autotest*
24th June TDC Multi Venue Autotest
25th July TDC Production Car Trial
12th August TDC Club Autotest*
26th August TDC Multi Venue Autotest
14th October TDC Club Autotest*
11th November TDC Howard Wilde Autotest*
27th December TDC Christmas Autosolo

Best 9 results to count out of 12 or more events held
Best 8 results to count out of 10 or 11 events held
Best 7 results to count out of 8 or 9 events held
Best 6 results to count out of 7 or less events held
*Autotest Championship
Best 4 results in Autotest Championship to count

It is not permissible to win the Premier Award in the Beginners’ Autotest Championship more than once.

Many thanks to Stephen Briggs for putting this together.

Last edited by Piers14 on Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:51 pm; edited 5 times in total

Total Beginner 98
Novice 127
Intermediate 51
Expert 71
All 347

U = Unclassified