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Show Page 5 Eth Annual 24 Hours of Moab Event Program 11. Lapped racers Lapped racers should yield to leaders. Leaders should be very vocal when preparing to pass any racer. PASSING on your LEFT!," 'PASSING on your RIGHT! should be called out. It is the responsibility of the challenging racer to overtake safely. Racers being lapped must yield on the first command. 12. Vying for Position When two racers are vying for position, the leading racer does not necessarily have to yield position to the challenging racer. However, a racer may not bodily interfere, intending to impede another racers progress; this is considered to be highly unsportsmanlike behavior (see rule 15). 13. Short-cuttin- g the course by any logged-i- n racer shall result in a disqualification of that racer's team. Short-cuttin- 14. g Law Abiding Federal, state and county laws and ordinances will be abided by at all times. 15. Sportsmanship Foul riding, use of profane or abusive language and other unsportsmanlike behavior will be taken very seriously. Such behavior by any racer shall subject that racers team to a warning or immediate disqualification. This will be strictly applied when such behavior is directed at course officials, volunteers or spectators. The penalty imposed is at the discretion of the race director or codirector, should the race director be unavailable. 16. Protests Protests can only be made by team Protests will be captains or made in writing and delivered to the race director or any time during the race or after the end of the race, up to 30 minutes after the posting of the final results. Protests should contain any information that supports the protest, including description of the incident, witnesses, names, addresses, phone numbers and signature of protesting team captain. A $50 fee shall be submitted, in cash, with the protest. The race director, after his own discovery, will promptly rule on the protest. The fee will be forfeited to the race director if the protest is denied or refunded if the protest is upheld. 17. Final Rulings The race director has the final say in any ruling, including rulings made by the 18. Quiet Hours Quiet hours for events conducted at night, will be imposed from midnight Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday. During this time, noise must be kept to a minimum. 19. Lighting During the night ride, racers must have a primary light source with a minimum rated power of 10 watts. In addition, each racer must carry a secondary or backup light source in the form of a penlight, flashlight or other lighting system. 20. Lights Burning Racers entering the course between 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday must have both primary and secondary light sources installed and in good working order. Racing with lights out to save batteries or racing with discharged batteries is dangerous and is done so at the riders own risk. After 6:30 a.m., lights may be turned off and dis At least one female teammate on a mounted. 21. Log-i- n Tent on each Racers must log-i- and lap at the Log Tent located at the StartFinish Area. The team baton must be passed from the racer logging out to the registrar, who records the time, and then from the time has registrar (after the been recorded), to the racer logging in, before the racer logging in may start his or her lap. Once the baton is passed from the racer logging out to the registrar, then that racer has time officially logged out. The of that racer automatically becomes the log-itime for the next racer logging in (regardless of whether or not there is a racer ready to receive the baton from the registrar). In other words, the clock is ticking the entire time. Helpful Hint: Racer thould give their name to the regie-tra- r well in advance to avoid confu-tioduring the baton exchange. n log-o- log-o- ut ut log-o- ut log-o- ut n on-dec- k n 22. Consecutive Laps A racer may ride consecutive laps, but at the Log Tent after his must log-ofirst lap in order to log-i- n for his second lap. If a racer is staying in for ut an additional lap, that racer must logout from the first lap by passing the baton to the registrar, then after the time registrar has recorded his for his first lap, he will receive the baton back from the registrar and begin his additional lap. If the racer does not do this, only one lap will be counted (not two). Solo racers will do this every lap. 23. Loss of Baton Penalty Loss of the baton will result in a time penalty which will be applied to the teams finish time on its last lap and will accrue to the racer finishing that final lap. The registrar will issue a new baton. 24. Verifying the Log Sheet Lap times will be recorded and compiled for each racer and listed on the bottom section of each teams log sheet. It is the teams responsibility to verify that each racer is logged-i- and logged-ou- t correctly. Please be courteous and patient while verifying information with your registrar. Registrars and race officials may request to see your race number on your back or your handlebar at any time. Helpful Hint: When the receive the baton from racer the registrar, they should repeat their team and name to confirm that the registrar is logging them in correctly. 25. Lap Requirements for Coed ProAm For the Coed Pro Am teams, there can be no more than two laps difference between the teammatefs) with the least number of laps and the teammate with the most number of laps. A one lap penalty will be applied for each teammate who does not stay within two laps of the teammate with the most laps. (For example, a team that logged 20 laps with 1 laps, would incur a one lap penalty for the teammate with 1 lap, as he or she is more than two laps behind the teammates with seven laps. By the same token, a team that logged 20 laps with laps, would incur a two-la- p penalty; one for the teammate with 0 laps and one for the teammate with 4 laps, as they are both more than two laps behind the teammate with nine laps.) 26. Lap Requirements for Open log-o- ut Open Class team must complete two laps, or a one lap penalty will be applied to the teams finish. 27. Canceling a Lap a racer must complete Once his or her lap. However, the team has the option of canceling a racers lap and restarting the lap from the Log Tent with another teammate. This is a difficult and costly decision, but if the first racer is unable to complete the lap for any reason, it may be to the teams advantage to cancel that racers lap. Any team member can cancel a racers lap by notifying the teams registrar at the Log Tent and initial the Logsheet next to the canceled lap. If a team cancels a racers lap and is restarting with a new racer, a new baton will be issued without penalty. The new racer inherits the log-itime of the canceled racers lap. Once a cancellation has been made, it cannot be rescinded. The canceled lap does not count as a completed lap. 28. The Finish Most 24 hour races start and end at 12 noon. Racers must the course from 12 noon on. Each teams final placing will be determined by the number of laps the team has completed and the sequential order of finish within the teams last lap. For example, a team that has completed 22 laps with a finish time of 12:31 p.m. would beat a team that completed 22 laps, with a finish time of 12:47 n log-o- ff p.m. And, of course, a team that completed 23 laps, with a finish time of 1 p.m., would beat them both. If a racer logs-ojust before 12 noon and no other team member logs-i- n before 12.05 p.m., then no finish time can be recorded and the team will be listed as DNF (did not finish). 29. Catastrophic Failure In the case of catastrophic failure due to weather or another extenuating ut circumstance that prevents the ongoing scoring of the event or creates a racing environment that is deemed too dangerous for the participants, the race director may call the race as of a certain time. Final results will be calculated based on each teams e as deterplacement at the mined by that teams last completed lap. This rule is intended to be exercised as a last resort, in the most dire situations, when no other means is available to continue scoring the event or when the potential for serious harm or loss of life becomes imminent. call-tim- Questions or Comments? Call us at (304)259-5533 or gear.com 2000 Granny Gear Productions, Inc. 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