CHAPTER 18 KARTING Appendix 3- Equipment for Events at Kart Race Circuits
The following minimum equipment is mandatory for all Kart Events:
1.1. Medical Equipment and Personnel and facilities as mandated by App. 4 to this chapter and where applicable Ch. 11.
1.2. Warning Notices, tickets and other authorisations for admission to the Venue including the pits and paddocks and any Enclosures as required by Ch. 3:.
1.3. The following Signals:
a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. m.
Red lights for starting and stopping a Race National Flag for start back up Yellow / black quartered Blue White Yellow Yellow with red stripes Green Red Black with orange disc Black and white diagonally split Black and white chequered Green with yellow chevron
1.4. Fire extinguishers( minimum 2kg dry powder) with a manufacturer’ s or agent’ s certificate issued prior to the season’ s certifying that they are in working order. As a minimum, one must be available at the start line two in the paddock in clearly visible positions and one at each Marshal Post.
1.5. Track cleaning equipment comprising as a minimum two units of:
a. One ordinary shovel. b. Two brooms. c. A metal container of 3kg of a suitable cleansing agent for removing oil. d. Adequate replenishment supplies for c. above.
1.6. A public address system available to the Clerk of the Course( a hand-held powered megaphone is acceptable as a minimum) for communicating with Competitors.
1.7. A Starter’ s Sheet and an Officials’ signing-on-sheet in the control of the Event Secretary. Competitors and Officials may sign-on digitally if the Organiser elects to run the Event in this way when the relevant details must be notified in the Official Documents.
1.8. An Official Notice Board for all official communications, grid positions and Race results. The relevant details of the Official Noticeboard must be notified in the Official Documents.
1.9. Certified calibrated scales and 100kg of certified check weights. 1.10. A calibrated Noise meter, microphone and accessories. 1.11. At an Event where there is to be transponder and / or light beam timing:
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