2012 Tamiya Canadian National Championship
Qualified Drivers - Procedures - Format

2012 Nationals Qualified Drivers
Please Confirm with your name, class(es) and transponder number e-mail borgfeldt@idirect.com


Last Chance qualiifer and practice will be run on August 11th! Anyone is Welcome!!!!
GT1 Super Touring

Louis Vanderway Franky Chan 6182405 Carlo Roma Steve Tardif Gordie Tam
Sam Souky Mike Zufelt Eddie Mon Satish Jonathan Girard
         
GT2 Touring - Trip Winning Category!

Adam Hutchison Franky Chan 6182405 Cedric Young Joe Yiu 2128583 Sam Souky
Satish Jeff Punkari Rob McRae Corey Groves Jake Solt
Sly Joly Sly Beauregard Tyler Punkari Danial Therien Joe Glover
Steve Maines Shawn Therien Sam Souky Brian Crosby  
         
FD Touring (FF03)

Jamia Barrett Joe Yiu 2128583 Sly Joly Richard Savaria Sly Beauregard
Sang Nguyen Dan Villeneuve Eddie Mon Gordie Tam Daniel Therien
Shawn Therien Steve Maines      
         
MiniSports - Trip Winning Category!

Mario Biscaro Franky Chan Joe Yiu Jamie Barrett Joe Glover
Jake Solt Richard Tardif Jeff Punkari Jonathan Girard Tyler Punkari
Elliott Kelly Jason Tsang Carlos Rodriguez Altar Isik Gordie Tam
Mihai Gutescu Joel Lagace Eddie Mon Carlos Rodriguez  
         
Formula 1 - Trip Winning Category!

Carlo Roman Adan Hutchison Brian Crosby Cedric Young Rob McRae
Mihai Gutescu Jeff Punkari Martin Paradis 8227172 Pierre Tessier Fred Zufelt
Paul Tavarner James Chychota Sam Souky Jim Hall Mike Zufelt
Danial Therien Kerry Kelly Trevor Cook    
         


2012 Nationals Procedures
The 14th Tamiya Championship Series Canadian National Championships will be held August 12th Dynamic Hobbies 21 Concourse Gate, Unit 16 Nepean, Ontario, Canada. Sutton Aviation is the track location >>>

The race will be run by Tamiya Canada personnel in conjunction with Dynamic Hobbies. A big thanks to Dynamic Hobbies and Sutton Aviation for hosting and runningthe event.

The 2012 Tamiya North American TCS Finals will be held on August 25th - 26th at the Tamiya America Test track in Aliso Viejo, CA. Class winners will be departing on August 23rd and returning on August 27th.

 


 

2012 Weather Proceedure

For the 2012 Tamiya Championship series we have put in place an operations procedure in the events of bad weather. Since the start of the TCS, it has been a rain or shine event. We will continue that tradition and run in the rain and just like in years past, we will only stop the race if standing water starts to form on the circuit or lighting storms.

If it’s raining the morning of we may delay the start of the event to try and get dry track conditions. Remember weather can vary from area to area. Please be prepared to go, once track conditions are ok. To score the event we must at least get 1 complete round of racing in.

How Finishes Will Be Determined Based On Amount Of Rounds Completed:

1 Round completed: This will be based off the finishing order of the completed round.

2 Rounds completed: This will be based off best round out of 2.

3 Rounds completed: This will be based off best 2 rounds out of 3.

4 Rounds completed: This means everything went to plan


 
Race Format
Race Format:

All TCS races in the 2012 series will be either a 3 or 4 race rounds (Similar to the way the 2009 Nationals were run). Instead of 2 or 3 qualifiers and a Main, we will be running a point system. For the Nationals we will be running 4 race rounds, but during the regular qualifying races due to time the rounds maybe cut from a scheduled 4 to 3 with two rounds counting in either amount of total rounds.

All racers in a heat (10 racers in a heat qualifier) will be on track in a heads up race. After each complete round of qualifying every racer will be ranked based on a Qualification-points system. Racers! Keep this in mind: The following Qualifying-points system does not have throw-outs. While your best two rounds rank your finishing position in the field, ties are settled by using all rounds depending on how far the tie goes between racers. Do not think of this system as having throw-outs, it definitely does not. Every round could count to some degree.

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Points will be rewarded in the following order for each round. Winner gets zero points, second place gets two points, third place gets three points, etc.., increasing by one point per position.
 - The race results order will be determined by the sum of each driver’s best two rounds.
 - First level ties will be broken by the drivers’ third best round points. Second level ties will be broken by the driver’s fourth best round points. If ties still exist, once all round points have been used, then ties will be broken by the sum of the laps/time results of the tied drivers’ best two point rounds. Thereafter if ties still exist, these will be broken by the best single laps/time result for each driver, regardless of the round in which it was recorded.
 - In cases where only two rounds of Qualifying could be completed, the final Qualifying order is based on the single best points, with points from the second best round being used as the first level tie breaker, and the total laps/time for the two rounds being used as the second level tie breaker.

Racer Re-Sort:
There will be a racer re-sort after the first round. After the racer resort you will grid your car according to how you qualified among your peers in your first round.

Turn Marshalling:

All racers are required to marshal the race immediately after their race. Your car and transmitter must be returned to Tech after your run and you must head out onto the circuit for marshalling duties. If you are unable to perform marshalling YOU MUST get a substitute person to marshal. When marshalling remember to watch your area of track and not the race! You want to marshal the way you would want to be marshalled.

Transponders:
Personal transponders are a must.

Driver's Stand Position:
Drivers position is on a 1st come basis for the 1st round. After the first round is run, if a racer wants to swap positions between themselves it is allowed, but higher qualified drivers in a heat race receive preference.

Random Tech Spot Checking:
Racers will be spot checked at the Race Directors discretion. Don’t get upset if we randomly pull your car to have a look. We will inspect your motor and batteries to make sure everything is on the up and up. Motors will be randomly checked on a motor checker to see if extra VOODOO magic has been performed.

Tech will look for the following things:
 - Cars meet the class rules and requirements
 - Spec Motor
 - Spec Battery (REEDY WOLFPACK 7.4V 3000MAH 25C Part#730 and REEDY 2400 7.4V STICK PACK part #713 are the spec batteries )