Racing Classes
The following descriptions are very brief and
are only meant as a rough guide to the different classes which are available to
be raced. For further Information a rule book can be purchased for each
individual class!
This class is restricted to under 1000cc unmodified Mini's where the main requirements are for safety regulations. The engine is allowed to be "Blueprinted" which means it can be constructed to all the + tolerances but apart from that must remain standard. The gearbox must also remain un-modified.
This class has a restriction of up to 1300cc engines which can be either a front engine, rear wheel drive car such as a Escort or Starlet, a rear engine rear wheel drive car such as a NSU or Skoda, or a front engine front wheel drive cars such as Nova's or Micras. Limited Modifications are allowed such as "blueprinting" the engine, and also the inlet manifold and carburettors are free! as long as they breathe through a 32mm restrictor plate. Once again the gearbox has to be standard for the make of car that you are racing in!
This class is for front engine rear wheel drive cars with an engine capacity of over 1421cc but with a maximum of two valves per cylinder. Any engine and gearbox combination is allowed subject to the front-engine rear wheel drive format. so a few hybrid cars appear in this tail end happy class such as Escorts with V8 Rover engines or 8v Vauxhall engines as well as Starlets with various engine combinations and becoming more popular are Peugeot 205 which have been modified to rear wheel drive cars to save weight!
This class is for up to 1130cc modified machines which can be either front or rear engine and front or rear wheel drive. The restriction in this class is that the engine must remain in the original position and must be of the type originally sold in that type of car. Ultra lightweight Mini's and Imps are very popular in this class!
This class is for modified saloons with a capacity of between 1131cc and 1420cc car engine. Any engine can be placed either in the front or the back of the saloon which makes a variety of machinery available like ultra-lightweight mini shells front wheel drive configuration to Micras/Novas with rear engine/rear wheel drive combinations.
This class is for over 1421cc front engine/front wheel drive modified cars. The most popular cars in this class appear to be 2litre-16valve Novas with highly tuned engines although 16valve-Golfs, Turbo-charged Fiesta's and other hybrid motors have been know to appear in this class.
The "King" of the saloon classes, this class is for modified rear-wheel drive saloons over 1421cc. This "anything goes class" can have allsorts of exotic machinery with such diverse engines as 16-valve turbo charged Ford Cosworths, V6 0r V8 often with super/turbo charged engines, to twin motorcycle setups. the engine is usually mid-mounted in the rear of a small lightweight saloon shell. This is definitely the "Loads of money" class but is also one of the most exciting classes as well!
Specials up to 1420cc. The first of our specials built just for autograss racing. These are constructed using a home-built spaceframe chassis using an open-wheel format with varying engines but now mainly motorcycle engines and over the last few years have probably developed into the fastest of all the classes but all the specials are very close in performance to each other! top class racing from these small but extremely light machines!
Class 9
Specials from 1421cc to 2070cc. A very popular class for people wanting to race open-wheeled cars but generally not having to spent quite as much money on them as the other two special classes( but not always the case!).
Used to be the undeniable king of the specials
classes with engine capacities over 2071cc, with engines similar to that of the
class 7's, but due to there light weight class 8 are now so competitive, really
have to work to get to the front in handicapped racing!
Class 1 and class 2 cars driven by Ladies racing
other ladies duly handicapped race in this class.
Class 4,5 and 6 cars duly handicapped race against each other!
Class 3 and class 7 cars race against each other duly handicapped.