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WA State Speed Event Series (SSES) 2018 Cars and Classes Guidelines v2.2
* This is an informal document that will be updated regularly
Apologies for the delay in getting this information out to everyone. We know you have been seeking
clarity, however before beginning this work we needed to:
• update and lodge the 2018 Standing Regulations for the State Speed Event Series (now
approved)
• come up to speed with the National Competition Rules (NCR) Classes; and then
• find an approach that works to retain the key elements of the Series that we all love.
Background and Introduction
The CAMS WA State Speed Event Series (hereafter referred to as Series) is a CAMS Series that
groups together a number of competition events, with each event conducted by a host CAMS-
affiliated club.
Registered Series entrants are provided with a unique vehicle number for the Series and can
accumulate points with the goal of becoming Overall WA State Speed Event Series Champion or
winner of their Class for the season.
The SSES is run under the CAMS WA Motorsport Development Panel, overseen by the CAMS WA
State Council.
Historically, classes were not aligned with CAMS NCR (National Competition Rules) classes and it
was therefore not always easy or clear for competitors or series coordinators to determine whether
specific cars should be in or out of a specific class.
Regardless of who administers the series, in 2017 the CAMS State Council WA declared that the
2018 Series would have to comply with CAMS Championship Policies – that is, the competition
classes now have to conform to the NCRs identified in the CAMS manual.
Important to note
It is really important to clarify that the Series and the Series coordinators cannot allocate your
vehicle to a class. It is up to you as a competitor to choose the correct or most appropriate class
for your vehicle. That said, our role is obviously to help and support competitors and we hope these
guidelines make this task a lot easier.
About this document
This document is intended to outline the approach that the new Coordination team has taken to:
a) Comply with the requirement for us to align classes with those NCR classes found within the
CAMS manual - all CAMS vehicle classes are available to SSES competitors.
b) Point you as a competitor to the number of classes available in the CAMS manual to allow
you to choose which of those classes best suits your car.
c) Provide a method to allow competitors to compete against cars and people with whom they
have competed in the past and to continue to enjoy the camaraderie of that ‘group’.
Some of the challenges we faced
• Literally hundreds of CAMS classes covering all disciplines of Motorsport in Australia are available
– including for example Circuit Racing, Rally, Drift, Historic Classes, Speed Event classes etc.
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• Often a vehicle can fit into more than one class.
• It isn’t super easy to determine where your vehicle should fit.
• We felt it was crucial to somehow find a way to retain the previous competitor groupings.
The good news
• NCR vehicle classes found within the CAMS manual give competitors a clear indication of what is
required to comply with a particular class.
• We have the flexibility to create “Competition Groups”. This means we can group vehicles from a
number of different CAMS NCR Classes into a Competition Group to effectively retain the
grouping of car types (and by association, those drivers) that have enjoyed competing against
each other in the past.
Guidelines
Hopefully it’s obvious by now that:
• it is almost impossible for us to provide specific guidelines for everyone registered up front
with the series or for those who join later; and
• it is you the competitor who must determine the correct class for your car.
As a result, we have had a look at the key car types and groups that have historically competed in
the Series and developed a ‘template’ and some guidelines for those vehicles and for similar
vehicles.
For other more specific vehicles, we will help as best we can to provide information and supporting
documents to help you determine the best class for your car and then the Competitor Group into
which it might best fit.
We have provided a table (see Table One below) with many of the important CAMS PDFs and direct
links to those documents.
Following that you will find a detailed “Examples & Suggestions” table (see Table Two) in which we
have tried to show many of the typical vehicles and vehicle types that participate in the Series and
where possible details of actual cars and drivers so that you can hopefully identify your car or one
like it.
Please can we humbly suggest not diving straight into Table One and printing out all the CAMS
Documents, but instead take a look at the Examples table and then revisit those CAMS documents
that are most relevant to your car.
To help with this, Table Two also includes a Link # which is a direct reference to the CAMS
documents link in Table One.
The color-coding we have provided in the Table Two is based on Competition Group, which
essentially means you should be able to see the other cars and driver groups that you would be
competing against. Please note that where appropriate, many of the Competition Groups would
then be further broken up into different engine size sub-groups.
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CAMS Documents and Examples
This is where the rubber hits the road! Hopefully this will help many of you as a starting point.
TABLE ONE - Important CAMS Docs
Here is a list of the important CAMS docs and links to the PDFs.
TABLE ONE: Document Description and Link
Let’s start with the most important PDF from the CAMS Online Manual for SSES competitors: Limited road car and road car class regulations
1
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Speed/2018%20Edition/SP11_SpeedEvents_National_Championship_Classes_2018.pdf
Then there is a general CAMS classification of cars doc. This mentions turbo factor ie supercharging, rotary factor etc categories - run down from cat 1 to cat 7
2
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/GeneralRequirements/GQ02-Class-Automobiles-2017-1.pdf
Below is a link to the minimum car requirements ie Schedules A & B. A car needs to at least meet these to be acceptable to CAMS and a hosting club.
3
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/GeneralRequirements/2018%20Edition/GQ03-Schedule%20AB-2018-1.pdf
These are Sports car 2a open and closed requirements: (ie the open class for sports cars)
4
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Race/RA15-Group-2A-2018.pdf
These are the Group 2B regs and Group 2F regs: (2b allows low volume numbers made ie at least 10 quantity made in a 24 month period) (2F needs 500 quantity in
5 a 12 month period)
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Race/RA16-Group-2B-2F-Eligible-Comb-2018.pdf
Historic Car Regs – Group N (Sedans)
6
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Historic/HI06-3.4-Touring-Cars-2018.pdf
Historic Car Regs – Group S (Sports cars)
7
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Historic/HI07-3.5-Production-Sports-2018-1.pdf
8 * Note links below are for TargaWest documents dated 2017 (The 2018 documents are yet to be published)
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TABLE ONE: Document Description and Link
Tarmac Rally Regs – Classic
http://www.targawest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RR05-Tarmac-Rally-Technical-Regulations-Classic-2017.pdf
* Note links below are for TargaWest dated 2017 (The 2018 S documents are yet to be published)
9 Tarmac Rally Regs – Modern
http://www.targawest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RR06-Tarmac-Rally-Technical-Regulations-Modern-2017.pdf
Sports Sedans
10
http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Race/RA20-Group-3D-2018.pdf
Time Attack
11
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/downloads/WTAC2016_Rules.pdf
3E Production Cars
12
http://docs.cams.com.au/Regulations/Bulletins/2016%20Bulletins/B16- 034%20Group%203E%20Series%20Production%20Car%20Regulations.pdf
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Examples & Suggestions
TABLE TWO – Car Groups
Please Note
• If you see glaring errors in the examples below or you have suggestions in terms of improvement we are always happy to listen.
• Competition Groups, where appropriate will have the engine size sub-classes as per the NCR classes associated with that competition group.
TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
Classic Cars (Minis, Escorts, MGs, Alfas etc)
Cars that comply with Historic Regs (eg tyre
Mike Rowe (falcon sprint) Nc 6 Historic Group N (B or C) Classics - Standard
size, no electronic ignition etc)
Mark Hallam, Eddie Melle, Scott Bennet,
Cars that comply with Limited Modified Road Neville Grigsby, Malcolm Bowden, Limited Modified Road Car (provided no cc increase,
1 Classics - Modified
Cars Richard Wrait, Russell Riley, Jeremy otherwise fits below)
Hale, John Webb
Cars that comply with Tarmac Rally (Classics) Ian Familio (unregistered) Simon Gunson
8 Tarmac Rally Car (Classic) Different engine classes Classics - Modified
and are pre 1986 (Capri), Blaise Paris
Very modified cars eg Duratec, Honda VTEC,
Graeme Adamson, Ray Miles 10 Sports Sedans Classics – Open
Hayabusa engine etc)
Toyota MR2s
MR2 NA Keith Woolard 5 Production Sportscar 2B Production Sportscar
MR2 NA (with TBs) Richard Cox 4 Sportscar 2A (throttle bodies bump it out of 2B) Production Sportscar
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TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
MR2 Supercharged Des Leeder 5 Production Sportscar 2B/2F Production Sportscar
MR2 Turbo Murray Armenti 4 2A Sports Cars Sportscar Open
Lotus
Production Sportscar 2B/2F (b < 2 litre) or perhaps
Elise S1 & S2 Rover Kevin, Andrew etc 5 Prod Sportscar
road car class
Sportscar 2A subclass b (aftermarket throttle bodies
Elise S1 Plus Steve M, Graeme 4 Prod Sportscar
bump it out of 2B)
Exige & Elise S2 Toyota Factory 5 Production Sportscar 2B/2F Prod Sportscar
Exige & Elise S2 Toyota Plus (Supercharged) Steve M, Richard, Bill, Julian 4 Sportscar 2A subclass c (2l to 4l) Sportscar Open
Production Sportscar 2B/2F (d >=3 litre ) or perhaps
Exige S3 (V6) Vicky, Les etc 4 limited modified road car class. Exotic not eligible in Sportscar Open
road car class
Toyota GT86
Production Sportscar/2F (b < 2 litre) or perhaps road
GT86 NA 5 Prod Sportscar
car class, limited modified road car class.
GT86 Supercharged Tom Van Kann 4 Sportscar 2A subclass c (2l to 4l) Sportscar Open
Clubbies
Ray Ferrari, Brent Matthews (formula
Clubbie 5 2B Production Sports Class 2 Prod Clubbie
libre single seat?), Andrew Jones,
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TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
Clubbie David Tweddie 5 2B Production Sports Class 2 Prod Clubbie
Marcel Every (Fisher Fury) 5 2B Class 2 (if complies) Prod Clubbie
Clubbie Open
Clubbie guys got
Clubbie Turbo Ian Chambers, Luke Prior 4 2A Sports Cars, Open & Closed together and
decided they want
one composite group
4WD Turbo
4WD Turbo
4WD Showroom/Production 1 Limited Modified Road Car
Showroom
4WD Turbo
4WD Showroom/Production Bill Meeke 1 Limited Modified Road Car
Showroom
Brian Cumins, Denis Conway, Mark
4WD Tarmac Rally Cars 9 Tarmac Rally Cars Modern 4WD Turbo Modified
O’Keefe
John Brown (unreg)
4WD Turbo -> 3E Production Cars This class could be an option for other 12 3E Production Cars 4WD Turbo Modified
non reg but almost stock cars
4WD Turbo -> 3E Production Cars Bill Mclaren 12 3E Production Cars / Tarmac Rally 4WD Turbo Modified
4WD Turbo -> IPRA 4WD Turbo Open
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TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
4WD Turbo -> Street Cars 4WD Turbo Open
Neil Herbert, Rob Dagleish, Garry
4WD Turbo –> Time Attack 11 Time Attack 4WD Turbo Open
Edwards, James Wilton, Paul Weir
4WD Turbo –> Sports Sedan Neil Herbert, Rob Dagleish 10 Sports Sedan 4WD Turbo Open
Production Sports 2WD
Karl Watson, Ralph Thomas, Simon
Supras, Sylvias, 200SX, 2WD Skylines etc 5 Prod Sports 2B/2F Production Sportscar
Rough
Rotaries
RX7 & RX8 cars fit within Sportcar Class Jared Bevan 4 2A SportsCar Open/Closed SportsCar Open
Open Wheelers
Cosi Sorgiovanni, Peter Morley, Graeme
Formula Libre Open Wheeler
Renn
Others
11
Rick Grigsby or Either Time Attack 2WD or 2A Sportscar 2WD Open
4
Stephen Dougherty 11 Time Attack 2WD (log booked as 3D Sports Sedan) 2WD Open
Lance Cawardine ? Speed Event Special Vehicle 2WD Open
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TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
Rhyan Shapkaris ? Speed Event Special Vehicle 2WD Open
10
Matt Turner or Sports Sedan (if complies) or Time Attack (if complies) 2WD Open
11
Andrew Morrison Sports Sedan or Street Car 2WD Open
Lindsay Murray Sports Sedan or Street Car 2WD Open
Rod Willis (2A Sportscar) Sports Sedan or Street Car 2WD Open
Brent Peters Drift (log booked) 2WD Open
Garth Bosworth 8 Tarmac Rally 2WD Modified
2WD Modified or
Adrian Kirk Bernand
2WD Open
Andy Tudor Tarmac Rally (log booked) 2WD Modified
Justin Lines Tarmac Rally 2WD Modified
Dave Allen Tarmac Rally (unreg, ecu) 2WD Modified
2WD Limited
Anthony Rechichi Limited Modified Road Car
Modified /
2WD Limited
Byrne Redgrave Limited Modified Road Car
Modified / Standard
2WD Limited
Lauren Cornes Limited Modified Road Car
Modified / Standard
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TABLE TWO - Car Group Competitor Examples Link CAMS NCR Classes (suggested options) Competition Group
#
2WD Limited
Matthew Collett Limited Modified Road Car
Modified / Standard
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