CATEGORY:  SportBar Eliminator  is open to all vehicle which pass the safety inspection.  All non-qualifiers and first round losers of DragBar Eliminator  may compete in SportBar Eliminator  and it may be run exclusively in instances where car counts fail to produce competitive qualified DragBar Eliminator  fields.

TREE:  SportBar Eliminator  runs off of a 5 tenths full countdown tree.

DEEP STAGING: 

COURTESY STAGING: 

QUALIFYING: 

QUALIFYING ORDER:  Qualifying order will be in the order of racers' Adjusted Indexes from quickest to slowest.  Ties will be awarded to those having the larger performance product.
NOTE:  Qualifying order is not relevant to ladder position in SportBar Eliminator.

ADJUSTED INDEXES: 

Racers will have their qualifying ET's rounded to the nearest 5 hundredths for their Adjusted Index. Example: A 10.18 through 10.22 would be rounded to a 10.20 index.

INDEX OPTION:  Racers believing that their Adjusted Index is slower than what they will likely run in eliminations may opt to have their Adjusted Index lowered by any amount in 5 hundredth increments. (.05, .10, .15, etc.) This request must be made prior to the start of 1st round of eliminations.  This will only be an option prior to the start of 1st round eliminations and once a racer opts to have their Adjusted Index set lower than the SportBar  standard, the index may not be raised for any reasons outside of correcting a clerical error.

LADDERING:  Racers will be laddered for 1st round as per the SportBar Eliminator  laddering system using each racer's performance product to establish their ladder positions.  SportBar Eliminator  racers will be positioned on the ladder by performance product from highest to lowest.

1ST ROUND BYE RUN: 

ELIMINATIONS:  SportBar  eliminations are run on a handicapped start based off of the Adjusted Indexes with the first to cross the finish line being the winner regardless of elapsed time.

NOTE:  Any racer running in excess of 2 tenths under their Adjusted Index will be subject to immediate disqualification.

RE-INDEXING: 

Note: All Re-Indexing run-under calculations are based off of 1st round 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 be Re-Indexed at 9.80 just as if they had run 8 hundredths under the original 10.00 Adjusted Index.

SANDBAGGINGRacers who run in excess of 2 tenths under any of their Adjusted Indexes will be subject to immediate disqualification.
NOTE: Atmospheric conditions and total field run-under average will be taken into account before the final decision of any disqualification will be made.

SANDBAGGING (RI):  Racers who have been Re-Indexed by .25 or more through any number of Re-Indexing events and proceed to Run-Under such Re-Indexing will be subject to immediate disqualification.
NOTE: Atmospheric conditions and total field run-under average will be taken into account before the final decision of any disqualification will be made.

RUN-UNDER POINTS:  Except in cases of bye-runs and competition singles, (a red lighting opponent does not constitute a competition single) a racer winning a round while running under their index in an amount which warrants Re-Indexing for the following round will also forfeit the round points to the eliminated opponent.

FINAL ROUND PENALTIES:  In addition to the round points penalty for racers winning their Final Round races while running under their index sufficiently to incur a Run-Under penalty, Final Round Run-Unders in excess of 4 hundredths for Non-Electronic cars and in excess of 2 hundredths for Electronic cars and cars having already incurred Run-Under penalties, will initiate a 50/50 split of the Winner/Runner-Up purse between the Winner and Runner-Up position racers and forfeit the race win points to the runner-up (Judicator) finisher as well.

FREE RETURN POLICY:  Any racer having been defeated  by another racer solely due to an excessive under index performance will receive the Fair Competition Free Entry Return for a subsequent next race.

SINGLE RUNS:  Eliminator  in race ready condition having no work being performed to the vehicle.

SINGLE RUN EXEMPTION: 

RE-RUN REQUESTS:  ^AmericanDRAGCAR  will only be granted in instances where both competitors involved agree and are both present to make the request to the race director.

RE-RUN INDEXES: 

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