b.
c.
Further to the provisions in 6.5. a. above, App. 2 Art. 4.45 concerning exhaust damage may still be enforced by any Official in charge of any Control or Check.
Competitors may attempt to rectify any such damage, provided that all aspects of Ch. 13 App. 18 are respected. Failure to repair any damage to the satisfaction of an Event Scrutineer will result in the Competitor being reported to the Clerk of the Course for consideration of Disqualification.
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6.7. Organisers may delete penalties for individual Sections or Special Tests, or delete Sections or Special Tests which Competitors have yet to start in the case of bona fide unforeseen circumstances, as per Ch. 3 App. 11 Art. 1.1. a.
6.8. If the normal running of a Special Test, Standard Section or Regularity Section is interrupted, or the Test or Section is rendered impassible for any reason after the passage of one or more Competitors and it proves impossible to allow other Competitors to cover that Special Test or Section competitively, the Clerk of the Course can give each Crew that has not covered that Special Test or Section a notional penalty corresponding to the greatest penalty recorded before the interruption.
6.9. If the greatest penalty represents a complete anomaly, the next greatest penalty should be retained( and so on until the 5th greatest penalty).
6.10. No Crew which is totally or partially responsible for interrupting a Special Test or Section may benefit from this measure.
6.11 The application of Art. 6.8 above will have no bearing on any Competitor’ s lateness.
6.12 Notional penalties may not be applied for Special Tests or Sections which no Competitor has been able to complete.
Appendix 7A- Road Scheduled Time Events
7. Summary of Penalties to be Applied on Scheduled Timed Events Time
Fails
( a) Not reporting or reporting OTL at a Main Time Control Retired *( b) Not reporting or reporting OTL at any other Time Control 30 minutes 1 Fail
*( c) Not complying with the Route Card including visiting a Control more than once
*( d) Not reporting at Passage Control or providing proof of visiting a Route Check
15 minutes 1 Fail
5 minutes 1 Fail
*( e) Arrival before scheduled time at the end of a Standard Section 2 minutes per minute
*( f) Arrival after due time at the end of a Standard Section 1 minute per minute *( g) Arrival before due time at the end of a Neutral Section 30 minutes 1 Fail
**( h) Arrival before due time at an Intermediate Control or Finish Control of a Regularity Section
*( j) Arrival after due time at an intermediate control or finish control of a Regularity Section. Exceptionally at a single intermediate or finish control of a Regularity Section held between 07.00 and 22.00hrs this penalty may be reduced.
*( k) Breach of any statutory requirement concerning the use of a motor vehicle
Actual time early
Actual time late
30 minutes 1 Fail
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