CHAPTER 8 PERMITTED TYRES AND FUEL AND TESTING Appendix 2- Fuel( and other Vehicle fluids) Testing
1. Fuel( and other Vehicle Fluids) Testing
2. FTP
1.1. Organisers and the ASN have the right at any time before, during or after a Permitted Event to check and or require the testing of any fuel used or presented by the Competitor for use in Competition. This includes fuels in a Vehicle at any time during or for the purpose of the Competition including any scrutineering of it connected to the relevant Competition and to any fuel present in the Competitor’ s pit or paddock area.
1.2. The Clerk of the Course must always be notified of the intention to carry out fuel checking and or testing.
1.3. The responsibility for the checking of fuels at Events is an Eligibility matter and shall be delegated to the Chief Scrutineer at the Event who in turn may delegate this responsibility to other Scrutineers appointed to the Event but who shall report to the Chief Scrutineer.
1.4. Any non-conformity of any fuel shall be reported by a Non-Compliance Report and which must be delivered to the Clerk of the Course or to the Stewards of the Event where the Clerk has no Judicial responsibility at an Event.
1.5. A Non-Compliance Report may be a Judgement of Fact provided that the Scrutineers concerned satisfy the criteria as Judges of Fact.
1.6. On receipt of a Non-Compliance Report the relevant Judicial body must deal with the matter by way of a formal Judicial Hearing pursuant to Chapter 2. App. 8 Arts. 1.9-1.12. The result of the Judicial Hearing shall be published as an Official Document of the Event.
1.7. Fuels may be checked for eligibility under the Official Documents or for testing as set out below(‘ FTP’)
1.8. The analysis of a laboratory on the UKAS list or by an ASN approved comparison test will be a Judgement of Fact.
1.9. Any Eligibility Decision whereby it is determined that any fuel is in breach of the NCR shall be penalised in accordance with Chapter 2 App. 8 Art. 2( subject always to Chapter 2 App. 8 Art. 1.12( a ruling in respect of exceptional reason). The ASN may additionally refer the matter to the National Court for the consideration of additional penalties.
2.1. New unused ASN approved sample containers, capable of being sealed by the authorised sampling official must always be used for the storage of fuel samples.
2.2. Three samples will be taken and must individually be sealed and labelled in separate ASN approved containers as per Art. 2.1 above. An ASN Sealing Certificate must be completed and distributed as detailed on the Certificate. For Comparison Testing only one sample need be taken, providing the Vehicle remains secured in Parc Ferme to enable subsequent samples to be taken should this first sample confirm non-compliance.
3. Analysis Testing 3.1. Each sample must be a minimum of 1 litre.
3.2. Where there are less than 3 litres available, such that only two minimum 1 litre samples are available the Competitor forfeits their right to select a sample( Art. 3.6 below) and the result of the ASN first test will conclusively determine the compliance or non-compliance of the fuel( Art. 3.5 below).
3.3. If only a single minimum 1 litre sample is available, that sample alone will be tested in accordance with Art. 3.7 below and that test will conclusively determine the compliance or non-compliance of the fuel. Notification will be given under Art. 6.1 below.
3.4. The results of all analysis testing will be compared for compliance with the relevant specification, detailed in this Chapter 8 Appendix 1: Permitted Fuel, in accordance to the reproducibility of the test method.
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