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Sunday 1st of March 2020 - Motorsport Series 11 Admin Page

This is the Administration Page for Series 11 of the Mazda MX-5 Club of Western Australia Inc. Motorsport Championship.

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This page always carries the most uptodate information applying to Series 11 and should be treated as the definitive source.

This page will be continually updated and added to until the first round of the series is ready to run. From that point on all information, for each round, will be posted on the event page for the particular round.
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Bookings for the Motorplex have been secured.
We again have a 10 round series, 2 rounds at each venue, with championship points counting for your best score at each venue. The series will run from early March through to mid December. Due to the high number of competitors three extra events have been inserted to cater for the number running at venues where only on competitor can be on the track at a time.

Classes

Overview
Classing competition vehicles is complex due to the enormous number of variables.
In most competitions, to limit the number of classes, organisers find the only way to group cars is by their engine capacity. This mostly means the people that spend the most will end up on the podium if they have better than average driving technique. As a marque specific club this is exactly what we do not want. What we want is for our club members to come and actually complete in their car with no additional expenditure necessary at all, while encouraging the more committed competitors to develop their cars and also have a close and fair competition. Our club now has 10 years of worth of competition data we have formulated a close and fair competition with only 4 classes.
Classes A and B are for daily drives.
Classes C and D are for performance cars.

Class A is nominally a <=1800cc class.
Class B is nominally a <=2000cc class.
Class C is nominally a <=3000cc class.
Class D is nominally a >3000cc class
The capacity factor for forced induction is 1.7

Really Class D should be <= 4000cc, but we have the V8 engine swapped cars at around 6 litres. In this series there is only 2 of them. A class needs a minimum of 4 regulars to have proper competition so they are staying in Class D. More than doubling the engine capacity at the top end of a competition such as ours doesn’t give the advantage that you might expect. Our events are designed for OEM MX-5s. Much more about braking and turns than straight line speed. In fact because many of our competitors have open topped cars with no roll bar, our permit only allows speeds up to 140kph, so courses are designed to naturally achieve this. The V8 drivers still have to be very good to win.

This sums up the basis on which our classes are developed. Each class contains vehicles that are able to compete with each other. Below is the criteria that separates the classes. Classing is only concerned with the car. Driver ability is not a factor.

For all classes.
A statutory declaration for compliance with the class being entered is mandatory.
All vehicles competing shall be clean and tidy, road worthy and road registered, unless by prior approval.
The full complement of working lights as required for road licencing.
All loose objects must be removed from the vehicle.
Towing points, front and rear are mandatory.
Seatbelts must be fitted and in good condition. A racing harness is recommended.
A driver accessible fire extinguisher is recommended
A roll bar and racing harness is permitted and recommended.
Front lip and boot lid spoiler are permitted.
Night driving lights are permitted.
Fuel must be normal consumer grade 91, 95 or 98 octane only. Gas boosting is prohibited.
Tyres must be of a type approved for road use (DOT)
Vehicles must comply with the venue/land owners noise requirements and should not exceed 95dB (A) measured at a point 30 metres from the track edge by approved measuring equipment. Loud exhaust noise will exclude you from the event.

Class A This class is for club members to compete in their non ABS daily drive MX-5.
Road licenced daily drive OEM MX-5s Naturally Aspirated, without ABS on street tyres.
Street tyres = Wear Rateing of >=180
These cars must be a complete OEM vehicle including a roof, all sound deadening, carpets and all trim with the following exceptions:
Clutch and Pressure plate.
Differential.
Shock absorbers, springs and sway bars.
Engine and tower bracing.
Brake lines, calliper, rotors and pads.
Air cleaner and intake system
Exhaust.
Driver’s seat
Rims and tyres. Tyres must have a wear rating of 180 or more.

Due to the age of these cars many of these OEM items will have been replaced. OEM replacements are not required for these.
The entire driveline as the car as delivered including ECU and programming must be completely OEM except for the clutch assembly and differential. Any replacement driveline components must be direct OEM equivalents. (Including internal components)
Power Steering and air conditioning are not required and can be deleted.
Weight stripping is not permitted.
Aero is not permitted.

Class B This Class is for club member to compete in their ABS daily drive MX-5.
Road licenced daily drive OEM MX-5s Naturally Aspirated, with ABS on street tyres.
Street tyres = Wear Rateing of >=180
These cars must be a complete OEM vehicle including a roof, all sound deadening, carpets and all trim with the following exceptions:
Clutch and Pressure plate.
Differential.
Shock absorbers, springs and sway bars.
Engine and tower bracing.
Brake lines, calliper, rotors and pads.
Air cleaner and intake system
Exhaust.
Driver’s seat
Rims and tyres. Tyres must have a wear rating of 180 or more.
Due to the age of these cars many of these OEM items will have been replaced.
The entire driveline as the car was delivered including ECU and programming must be completely OEM except for the clutch assembly. Any replacement driveline components must be direct OEM equivalents. (Including internal components)
Weight stripping is not permitted.
Aero is not permitted.

Class C This Class is for club members to compete in their forced induction daily drive and performance enhanced Class A and Class B MX-5s
Road licenced daily drive OEM MX-5s forced induction on street tyres.
These cars must be a complete OEM vehicle with the following exceptions.
Clutch and Pressure plate.
Differential.
Shock absorbers, springs and sway bars.
Engine and tower bracing.
Brake lines, callipers, rotors and pads.
Air cleaner and intake system
Exhaust.
Driver’s seat
Rims and tyres. Tyres must have a wear rating of 180 or more.
There is no requirement for Class C cars to be OEM. They can be clones of production models or custom builds.
Non OEM engine management hardware, software and tuning are permitted.
Weight stripping is not permitted.
Aero is not permitted.

Class D Unlimited Modified MX-5
These must be either a car with a MX-5 VIN and still looks very much like an MX-5
OR
A car with a complete Mazda MX-5 driveline (eg Exorcet). These cars need not be road licenced, but may only be admitted if of a high enough standard to satisfy the Chief Scrutineer.
Tyres are restricted to medium compound R comp tyres (No soft rated R comps are allowed)
Engine swapped cars must have a roll bar and a racing harness. This is highly recommended for everyone in this class.

This class accommodates all the restrictions prohibitions in the other classes.
Aero
Built engines.
After market ECU and tuning.
Weight stripping
Swapped driveline components.
Higher than OEM intake boost.

Class change option
Class A and Class B drivers may opt to fit tyres with an approved lower wear rating tyre and compete in the next higher class. All the conditions of the original class still apply. If this is done during the series championship points are not transferable to the new class.
Approved tyres for this upgrade are Toyo R888GG, Nankang AR-1, Achilles 123.
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If you have any doubt as to which class you can enter, email me detailing your confusion. The motorsport management team assess and decide.
A statutory declaration declaring compliance with the class being entered is required. Anyone found competing while non-compliant will be removed from the series.
Statutory Declaration
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Championship points.
At each round each class will get awarded points - 15 for first, 13 for second, 11 for third etc. down to 1 and then 1 point for each competitor after that.
To have points awarded the competitor must complete at least one penalty free run.

Our club motorsport championship is a fully fledged serious motorsport competition. The events are run under AASA National Competition Rules V2.8 October 2019 plus supplementary regulations for each event.
We now have a championship event management team to ensure the integrity of the competition and that the rules and regulations are strictly adhered to. Safety, Fairness and Fun are our priorities.

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Entries CLOSED at noon on Wednesday February 26th, 2020
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Entrant List
E=Entry recieved
S=Stat.Dec. received

Class A
Rupert Cotter E
David Phillips E
Rafell Herrera
David Hope E
Lyall Tilson ES
David Rickard E
Brad Katnich ES
John Board ES
Morris Holder ES
Ross James E
David Saunders ES
David Currell ES
Alexis Hernandez
Andrew Curell ES
Nick Bordi E
Paul Denton ES
Bradyn Iannello E

Class B
Lauren Messenger ES
Jennifer Ellison ES
Carol Mesenger ES
Roger Collinge
Jurgen Lunsmann
Martin Drake E
Peter Wellman ES
Adam Mazur ES
Carlos Calderon E
Damon Bordi E
Jason Abbott ES

Class C
Derek Wall ES
Steve Bedford E
Russell McChesney ES
Jeffrey Low E
Shaun Sia
John Woon E
Geordie Thompson E
Zac Maggi E

Class D
Don Messenger ES
Rod Willis
Tom Whitfield E
Warwick Gates E
Neil Harris E
Ben Marshall E
Andrew Cathie E
Yannis Hondros E

Updated 26/2/2020 @16:30

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