ROCKER COVER RACE GUIDELINES

The Racers

1.  The racers shall have no power source. All motive force is provided by
      gravity.
Racers shall be based on a rocker cover from any MG or a rocker cover of the same silhouette.

The racer shall be no more than 40mm longer than the rocker cover.

Wheel track shall be no more than 200mm.

Racers shall have four wheels, no more than 155 mm diameter.

The maximum racer weight to be no more than 3 kg.                       

The Course

1.                  The course shall consist of a launch incline of 1.5m long, followed by a

        level run of 6m.

The launch incline shall be divided into two lanes, each 450mm wide & shall be 600mm high at the rearmost part & level with the course at the front edge. The front edge shall be bevelled to provide a smooth transition from incline to run-out area.

The official starting line shall be 600mm from the rear edge of the ramp. A mechanised starting gate may be employed.

The run-out section of the course shall consist of two clearly marked 900mm wide lanes.

The finish line shall be marked 6m from the front edge of the launch incline.

The Races

1.   The competition will be conducted in heats of two racers at a time.

The racers are to be launched with their front wheels on the starting line. The first racer to have its front wheels cross the finish line is the winner. If neither racer makes it to the finish line, the racer going the furthest in its lane wins.

If the wheels of the racer should touch or cross over the lane markers the racer shall be disqualified. The remaining racer automatically becomes the winner.

Winning racers will advance to the next round until all are eliminated except one racer, which will be the outright winner.

NOTE.

Above guidelines based on guidelines published by MGCC Hunter Region for the inaugural National Rocker Cover Racing Championships run at the 2005 MG National Meeting.

Extract from MG Motoring - Laurie Houghton Editor