10. Scheduled Timing 10.1. Definitions for Scheduled Timing
a.
Standard Time is the time of day a notional Competitor number zero would be due at any Control or check.
b. Scheduled Time is the actual time of day each Competitor is required to be at any specific point. c.
d.
Scheduled Time can be calculated for any point by taking a Competitor’ s Competition Number multiplying by the time interval between Competitors at the start and adding the result to the standard time at that point.
Delay Allowance is an allowance free of penalty granted to specific Competitors following a delay under the instructions of an authorised Official of the Event.
e. Any Delay Allowance must be recorded in writing on the Competitor’ s Time Card by that Official. f. Due Time is the time a Competitor is due at any Control or check inclusive of any previous lateness. g. Penalised Time is the difference between Due Time and an earlier or later arrival time. h.
i.
Penalty Free Lateness allows a Competitor late at one Control to be an equivalent amount late at a succeeding Control without incurring further penalty.
Outside Total Lateness( OTL) is the point where a Competitor is considered not to have visited a Control or check being more than 30 minutes past the Scheduled Time( including any delay allowance) unless the Official Documents specify a different period which may not be less than 15 minutes for rallies where part of the itinerary traverses public roads open to the public.
10.2. The Organisers can require any Competitor who is late to reduce their lateness by either foregoing or reducing any period of time provided for remaining at a Control or official halt.
10.3. Competitors may themselves reduce lateness without penalty in the following ways unless either forbidden to do so by the Official Documents or if by so doing they commit a breach of Art. 10.5 below:
a.
By reporting at any Control following one at which a penalty was applied for lateness at any time not earlier than Scheduled Time.
b. By missing a Control or Controls. The Competitor will be penalised in accordance with App. 14( a) or( b) for every Control missed. On rejoining the route at a Control at the end of Road Section the Competitor will be permitted to restart without further penalty at any time between their original Scheduled Time and their Maximum Permitted Lateness in relation to their original Scheduled Time. c.
If the need arises for an Organiser to extend Maximum Permitted Lateness this can only be done at a point on the route at which Competitors are required to report to avoid Disqualification. Maximum Permitted Lateness can then only be extended for the following part of the route and cannot be applied retrospectively for earlier sections.
These provisions are subject to Standard Condition 4 of the Motor Vehicles( Competitions and Trials) Regulations where applicable.
10.4. No Penalty Free Lateness or official delay allowance that has been either reduced or foregone as permitted by Art. 25 above can be reclaimed but this does not exclude fresh claims based on new circumstances.
10.5. A Competitor found to have traversed a distance greater than four miles between two consecutive time Controls in less than three-quarters of the time [‘ the ¾ Rule’] specified by the official time schedule will be penalised by the addition of 30 minutes for the first offence and Disqualification for a second offence( see App. 14). In calculating the penalty any fraction of minute will be ignored. The 3 ⁄ 4 rule does not apply to sections of less than 8 minutes scheduled duration.
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