between this time and the Competitor’ s actual starting time will be counted towards cumulative lateness and a Time Penalty applied( unless the Official Documents specify otherwise).
5.20. Re-grouping Controls: the Road Book or Route Card can specify any controls that relate to Competitors who are considered to have retired through having accumulated more than the maximum permitted lateness at a Control.
5.21. These Competitors commence the next section with zero lateness towards Disqualification.
5.22. In a Special Stage Arrival Control a Competitor proceeds to the Special Stage Start immediately after checking in to the Special Stage Arrival Control. The area between the Special Stage Arrival Control and the Stage Start must be Parc Fermé.
5.23. Similarly in a Special Stage Finish Control a Competitor receives a Special Stage Finish Time in hours minutes and seconds at the Special Stage Finish Control. This time( in hours and minutes) is used as the start time for the next section( unless the Official Documents specify otherwise).
5.24. Competitors will receive penalties on Special Stages as follows( unless the Official Documents specify otherwise):
a. b.
Under Bogey = Bogey Time Over Bogey under Target = Actual Time taken c. Over Target = Target Time. 6. Scheduled Timing Definitions
6.1. Standard Time is the time of day a notional Competitor number zero would be due at any Control or check.
6.2. Scheduled Time is the actual time each Competitor is required to be at any specific point and can be calculated for any point by adding that Competitor’ s Competition Number multiplied by the time interval between Competitors at the Start to the standard time at that point.
6.3. Delay Allowance is a Penalty-free allowance granted by an authorised Official to specific Competitors following a delay and it must be recorded in writing on the Competitor’ s Time Card by the Official.
6.4. Due Time is the time a Competitor is due at any control or check inclusive of any previous lateness. 6.5. Penalised Time is the difference between Due Time and an earlier or later arrival time.
6.6. Penalty Free Lateness allows a Competitor late at one Control to be an equivalent amount late at the next control without incurring further Penalty.
6.7. Maximum Time is the latest time a Competitor can arrive at a control or check without incurring further Penalty.
6.8. Outside Total Lateness( OTL) is the point where a Competitor is considered not to have visited the Control or check by virtue of the fact that they are more than 30 minutes past their Scheduled Time( including any delay allowance). It is permitted for the Official Documents to specify a different period.
6.9. Organisers may require any Competitor who is late to reduce their lateness by either foregoing or reducing any period provided for remaining at a Control or official Halt.
6.10. Competitors may themselves reduce lateness without Penalty in the following ways( providing the Section is not defined as Neutral and unless forbidden to do so by the Official Documents or by breaching Art. 6.17 below:
a.
b.
When Target Times are used by traversing the distance between any two or more points in a time less than the Target Time so long as they do not report at a control or check before the original Scheduled Time.
By reporting at any Control or check following one at which a Penalty was applied for lateness at any time not earlier than Scheduled Time.
c. A Competitor on any Rally without Special Stages who wishes may miss a Control or Controls.
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