DEMOLITION DERBY Monday, August 13, 2007 8:00 p.m. Grand Stand Area Superintendent - David Watson Ken Buckley, Mike Parker, Dave Burt, Ron Hensley NO DEMO CARS ON GROUNDS BEFORE 12:30 p.m. Monday All Cars must be removed before 12:00 a.m. Monday, August 13, 2006 or they become the property of the Meigs County Agricultural Society All rules apply before, during and after derbies! Total Purse: $1,200.00 Entry Fee: $25.00 Includes car and Driver’s Pit Pass All others pay $10.00 for pit pass. No Children in pit area. RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. Each and every driver is required to fill out an entry blank. 2. Derby officials may accept or reject any and all entries. 3. All derby drivers, owners, mechanics, pit crew and wrecker drivers are required to sign a RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY INDEMNITY AGREEMENT day of exhibition with pit gate sign in official before entering race track and/or exhibition area or motorized pit area. All persons must be 18 years of age or older to drive. 4. No car will be allowed on the track prior to the heat in which it is to participate. 5. Intoxicating beverages and drugs, or the use of such , are prohibited prior to or during the event 6. Derby drivers and crew are independent contractors, not employees of the Association or promoter. 7. Last two cars moving on its own power making visible contact with another car will be officially proclaimed the winner. Derby officials have the option of changing this at driver’s meeting. Feature Event: Winner and Runner up unless there is a tie. 8. Heat and feature winners will receive money plus trophies. 9. Any vehicles displaying obscenities will be disqualified; only commercial advertising and car number permitted. Driver’s door and passenger’s door must be painted white. This space is for car number only, no letters symbols or fraction of number. 10. Car may be driven in one heat only and is not eligible to return to another heat. 11. THE DECISION OF THE JUDGES AND DERBY OFFICIALS WILL BE FINAL! DRIVER’S ENTRY 1. Driver must have a valid driver’s license in possession for inspection when signing in day of exhibition. NO MINORS, must be 18 years of age or older. 2. All drivers must supply their own car and may enter one heat only unless otherwise informed at driver’s meeting. 3. Any driver and/or crewmember disobeying the rules will cause his car to be disqualified. 4. Eligibility for feature event must be a heat winner and/or runner up. Drivers may use any previous heat car in feature, providing said car passes inspection. TIME LIMIT – If a driver does not hit a car within the time specified, announced by derby officials, or officials feel driver is deliberately sandbagging, driver and car will be disqualified. SPECIAL NOTICE: Derby officials reserve the right in inspect any and all cars entered in the Demolition contest at any time. DISPOSAL OF CARS – All cars participating in the Derby must be removed from the fairgrounds by 12:00 o’clock midnight, day of exhibition, unless another time or extension is announced at Driver’s meeting. CAR REGULATIONS 1. Any front engine, hard top car or station wagon is allowed, with the exception no Chrysler Imperials, no trucks, compacts, jeeps, carryalls, etc. Car is to be as near factory stock as possible, no external or auxiliary transmission cooler. 2. Safety belts and approved safety helmets are required and must be worn. Shoulder harness recommended. 3. All glass including windshield, headlights, taillights, mirrors, etc., must be removed. Car must be swept clean of all dirt and loose pieces. ALL THIS WORK must be done before entering the fairgrounds. 4. A maximum of 3 gallons of gas will be permitted. Original gas tank must be removed and not used in any location, a boat type tank or equivalent thereof may be placed in rear of car. The tank must be flat, no upright gallon cans. Gas line or hose must be secure to nozzle of tank with hose clamp. Tank must be securely fastened to floor of car. A nonflammable firewall is required over tank. If car is originally factory equipped with electric fuel pump, a kill switch must be in driver’s compartment. 5. Coil or leaf springs are permissible, if coils are changed to leafs the following standard must be met. No chaining up or down any suspension, welding to any spring or spring support. Car springs only. Seven factory stair step leafs, no inversion of leafs, one bolt on clamp equal to factory clamp front and rear. Factory workable shackles only. No struts on rear factory shocks Rear of car must bounce freely. No special bumpers, trailer hitches, or reinforcements will be permitted. No body seam welding. Car can not be tucked, must have access to trunk. A three-inch diameter safety bar is permissible with a six-inch flange on each side, from driver’s windshield post to passenger post and behind seat post to post. Stock factory rubber body mounts in original position with original body bolts and factory inserts in place. No additional mounts or bolts are allowed. 6. Drivers are to keep their cars in the boundary lines at all times. If a car is pushed, shoved or driven out of bounds and Derby Officials feel a hazard to spectators, car will be eliminated and disqualified immediately. 7. All doors must be fastened shut by wire, straps or welding. Driver’s door reinforcement permissible. (All cars must have hoods over engine compartment). 8. Hoods and trunk lids may be held down by wire, provided the wire is attached to the trunk or hood and hooked to adjacent sheet metal only. A quick release type is required on trunk and hood in case of fire. The hood and trunk must be opened during inspection prior to event. Welding or banding straps on car hoods, and trunk prohibited. This also applies to luggage compartment 9. All chrome and decorative ornaments including all fiberglass must be removed from outside of car. Protruding fenders and/or taillight fins must be cut off or bent over. Suggest three safety straps equally spaced from top to bottom of windshield. 10. You must stay in your car. Do not leave your car unless you are told to do so by an official or the last car has stopped. 11. Batteries may be moved to any reasonable position in the car, but they must be securely fastened to the car and must be covered with a suitable shield. 12. Radiator must remain in original position. Any vehicle leaking fuel will be eliminated. A visible fire results in disqualification. 13. No implement or off road tires, no studded, no bead lock screws in rim, no wheel weights. 14. Cars must have brakes prior to and during all heats. 15. Additional safety regulations may be imposed at the time of the Derby due to track conditions. 16. All drivers must be signed in with Derby Officials one half hour before program starting time. 17. Any driver protesting another car must do so at the driver’s meeting. 18. Compact car heat 4-cylinder only, front engine car with wheelbase of 104” or less. No utility or 4 wheel drive vehicles. DERBY OFFICIALS SHALL INSPECT CAR BEING PROTESTED WITH THE PERSON FILING PROTEST, DERBY OFFICIALS’ DECISION FINAL! Attention – These rules and regulations do not imply or guarantee safety. The rules and/or regulations set forth herein are designed to provide for the orderly conduct of racing events and to establish minimum acceptable requirements for such events. These rules shall govern the condition of all events, and by participating in these events, all participants are deemed to have complied with these rules. NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF SAFETY SHALL RESULT FROM PUBLICATIONS OF OR COMPLIANCE WITH THESE RULES AND/OR REGULATIONS. They are intended as a guide for the conduct of the sport and in no way a guarantee against injury or death to a participant, spectator or official. The race director shall be empowered to permit minor deviation from any of the specifications herein or impose any further restrictions that in his opinion do not alter the minimum acceptable requirements. NO EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF SAFETY SHALL RESULT FROM SUCH ALTERATION OF SPECIFICATIONS. Any interpretation or deviation of these rules is left to the discretion of the officials. Their decision is final.