2.20. All Controls must be clearly identified at the roadside( App. 5).
2.21. Controls at which Competitors are required to stop for the purposes of recording a time and which are on the public highway must not be less than two miles from any similar control.
2.22. Competitors must be provided with all necessary regulatory information at or before their starting time.
2.23. Competitors must be started on the road sections of a Rally at intervals of one minute and will leave the start in numerical order unless the Official Documents specify a longer time interval or a different order. Road sections prior to a Stage must be a minimum of five minutes regardless of distance.
2.24. Events must provide additional road timing when utilising media interviews at Stage ends. A figure of one additional minute is recommended.
2.25. On Road Rallies reverse seeding is not permitted.
2.26. After a Rally has started the Organisers must not accept any claim from Competitors concerning either Force Majeure or baulking. Nonetheless the Clerk of the Course has the judicial discretion to disqualify any Competitor proven to have unreasonably baulked another( Art. 4.39 below).
2.27. Wherever possible the Event route should be checked for damage immediately before and after the Event.
2.28. The Safety Delegate, Stewards and Observers( as appropriate to the Event) must be supplied with a complete marked map of the route before the date of the Event and must also be supplied with a set of all instructions and route cards that are issued to Competitors and Officials as soon as they are available.
2.29. Competition Licences should be signed proving that the holders completed the Event without adverse report. Signatures may be obtained by both the Driver and the Navigator or Co- Driver.
2.30. The Chief Timekeeper appointed for the Event is responsible for issuing timing equipment and ensuring that the Marshals are competent to use it.
2.31. The Chief Timekeeper must be able to deal with operational problems affecting timing equipment.
2.32. Any section of an Event that is timed to less than one minute must be timed by certified equipment digital clocks to ASN specification R( O / I) R or E / B recording clocks printing to seconds or automatic apparatus.
2.33. All official clocks or watches must be set to GMT / BST time.
2.34. Any official timepiece timing to the minute that is not within 15 seconds of GMT / BST time or any official timepiece timing to the second that is not within five seconds of GMT / BST time will be disregarded.
2.35. If competing Vehicles or service Vehicles are required to carry any identification markings the name of the Organising Clubs must be incorporated except in Single Venue Rallies confined wholly to private property.
2.36. All Official bulletins, Permits and authorisations, times and results( unless issued in accordance with Chapter 3) must be published on an Official Notice Board whose location has been notified to Competitors in the Official Documents for the Event( Chapter 5).
2.37. At Events where there are Classes for designated groups or categories of Vehicle suitable arrangements to undertake eligibility checks should be available before the Competition or at its conclusion.
2.38. Any Event with a Class or Classes exclusively for historic Vehicles as defined in the NCR( Historic Special Stage Rallies) must appoint a Historic Grade Eligibility Scrutineer. Events with a Class or Classes exclusively for historic Vehicles as defined( Historic Road Rally Cars) may be required to appoint a Historic Grade Eligibility Scrutineer at the discretion of the ASN.
2.39. All modified / Competition Vehicles used as Course / Safety Cars on Special Stage and Targa Road Rallies must comply with the relevant Technical and Safety Regulations.
2.40. Technical and Safety Regulation checks may be carried out both before and during an Event.
2.41. The Chief Scrutineer must be available throughout the Event to ensure that the Technical Regulations are complied with.
2.42. When the ASN Safety and Medical Radio frequencies( 81.575 and 81.5375MHz FM) are to be used
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