DRAGCAR RACE FORMAT

        Upon entering into an American DRAGCAR  event, racers will receive a technical data and classification form which must be filled out accurately and completely before proceeding into technical inspections.  During technical inspections each vehicle will be weighed with it's respective driver.  Vehicles will be assigned a category of competition according to the extent of their vehicle's modifications and the racer's technical data will be put into the DRAGCAR  indexing formula to produce a vehicle specific performance index factor which will designate their specific class and index.  Racers will be notified at this time of their minimum allowable weight for their class and will be afforded the opportunity to adjust their vehicle's weight in order to bump up or down a class.

        DRAGCAR  racing venues will then start off by giving racers two minimum (or three minimum if a 2-day event) rounds of qualifying to establish the field's qualifying order based on performances against their respective indexes.  The quickest run of the qualifying rounds for each racer will become that racer's official qualifying time.  The elapsed time furthest under any competitors respective index will become the Number 1 qualifying time and Numbers 2 through 32 will be in descending order correspondingly.
        The 32 qualifiers will then be placed on a competition ladder for first round pairings in this manner;

        Odd numbered qualifiers (1-31) will be placed on the left side of the ladder in descending order and even numbered qualifiers (2-32) will be placed on the right side of the ladder in descending order.
        Consequently, there will be no "sure thing" 1st round winners as each pairing will hypothetically be fairly closely matched and each round following will still have the  possibilities of remaining closely matched dependent upon each pairing's winner.
        This will allow for the lower half of the field to still have a fair chance at reaching the semi-finals by insuring that two competitors from both the top and the bottom half of the qualifying field will indeed get to the semi-final round.
        The reasoning behind this format is to encourage lower field qualifiers to continue to compete in subsequent races with the knowledge of the possibility of earning some round money as well as accumulating race points rather than hopelessly throwing in the towel after only a few repeated bottom of the field qualifying performances.

        Note: Field sizes will be dependent upon that category total entry count.  Forty six entrants are required to allow for an 8 car qualified field, sixty two are required for a 16 car field, ninety cars entered are required for a 32 car qualified field, and 114 entries are required for a 64 car qualified field.

        All non-qualifiers and first round losers are automatically entered into
EconoDrag Eliminator  which re-indexes contestants according to their actual performance.

            All DRAGCAR  competitions will be held utilizing a four tenths full competition tree starting system. The reasons for this are numerous, as much thought has gone into determining this to be the official American DRAGCAR  starting system.  A full tree allows for handicapped racing without the detrimental effects of having faster vehicles unnecessarily enduring extended periods of high rpm readiness in wait for their own start signal to be given.  It also allows for slower less competitive racers to maintain realistic hopes of continuing into subsequent rounds of competition by means of "cutting" better lights than their opponents.  While the full tree does allow for a greater likelihood of red-light starts, it eliminates instances of racers red-lighting by way of simply being too quick such as in cases where a driver and vehicle's combined reaction time actually total less than 4 tenths of a second.  On a Pro light, these racers would be forced to slow their vehicles reaction time by means of lowering launch rpm or some other means which could ultimately have negative impacts on the vehicles quarter mile performance as well.  The full tree simply keeps all competitors on a level playing field.

All safety guidelines enforced by the hosting facility must be followed.

     DRAGCAR RACE RULES

Note: All Re-Indexing run-under calculations are based off of First Found Adjusted Indexes regardless of the number index re-adjustments. This means that running under a 5 hundredths re-adjusted index by 3 hundredths will be calculated as an 8 hundredths run-under, and the subsequent Re-Indexing will be accordingly.

Example: A racer with an Adjusted Index of 10.00 which has been Re-Indexed to 9.95 and now runs under the 9.95 Index by 3 hundredths will not be Re-Indexed as a 3 hundredths Run-Under but as an 8 hundredths Run-Under as the 3 under (9.95-9.92=.03)  9.92 is actually 8 hundredths under the First Round Adjusted Index of 10.00.

EconoDrag Eliminator  Run-Under Re-Indexing Table for Non-Electronics

NOTE: Once a re-indexing run-under has occurred for a Non-Delay competing vehicle, the 2 hundredths cushion is removed and subsequent run-unders start immediately upon running under the Re-Adjusted Index.

EconoDrag Eliminator  Run-Under Re-Indexing Table for Electronics

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