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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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