12 Car Championship 2025/6
Competitors page
This page is to help you follow what happens on a 12 car, if you’re new, and provide you with some of the necessary documentation prior to competing. The best way to learn what goes on is to help out at a couple of events as a marshal, and ask as many questions of anyone there! We all want to encourage new competitors and we’ll do our best to make you welcome!
First before anything else, you need a minimum of a Motorsport Clubmans license to compete, these are available free of charge from Motorsport UK.
You can use any car for this within the limits spelt out in the Motorsport UK National Competition Rules (NCRs), download a copy from the buttons below. Routes are always checked with a road car, so we know they’re passable. The NCR is a massive document, start at Page 496 CHAPTER 13 RALLY Appendix 15 – Technical Regulations – Road, Endurance and Historic Road Rally Cars. Summarised as a 4 cylinder petrol or diesel engined passenger car, up to 1.5l turbocharged or 2l naturally aspirated.
White Roads:
The 12 car championship generally does not use white roads, however there are a few roads locally which although classified as white roads they are passable in a standard road car without damage, these are occasionally used. White Roads or coloured roads requiring underbody protection will not be used. The pictures below were taken on a white road! It is intended that all events can be undertaken in a standard road car without risk of damage.
Insurance:
For competitors with modified cars it is expected that you will have your own competition insurance in place (Kingfisher, Auden etc…) for those competitors with standard road cars where the insurance is not applicable while competing a top up insurance is available from Kingfisher, this is normally around £60* per event per competitor plus a £35 administration fee. The admin fee will be covered by Malton Motor Club, the competitors fee by the competitor. Should this be required please contact the 12 car co-ordinators or Kingfisher direct: Info@kingfishermotorsports.com 01159651040.
As a competitor it is YOUR responsibility to ensure your car is Taxed, MOT’d, and insured correctly.
*Insurance costs are very variable at the moment, so £60 is a guide figure not necessarily accurate!
Other instructions!
Clues: The organiser will choose how to present the clues, for each of the classes. 1: separate clues for each class, expert, novice and marked maps for beginners, presented as handouts for experts and novices, with beginners getting the clues and a marked map at time card hand out. 2: same clues for expert and novice, but with novice getting the clues issued with the time card. The organisers instructions will ask for all classes to get their own clues AND the clues from the class(es) above for “training purposes” – give them a go once you get home.
Control points: as described below in the control board instructions, come to a full stop at the control board, your time will be recorded once you come to a full stop, so if you drive straight up to the marshal point your time will be recorded later. Penalties are available for the marshals to give out for anyone who drive unsafely up to the marshal point, marshals are “judges of fact” for this and there is NO appeal! One minute penalties for the first and second offence, disqualification for the third offence!
What marshals are expected to do for you: They will record on their check sheet that you have approached from the correct direction, your time of arrival, or departure, how many code boards they signed for. YOU need to ensure that you ask them to record the times, sign for code boards and direction of approach on your time card, if they forget or miss anything IT’S YOUR FAULT!!! many marshals are newbies so don’t expect them to do anything with out being POILITELY asked! Also check your time sheet for time make-up available and claim it if you’re able.
Times: The normal schedule for an event is as follows:
7:00-7:30 everyone meets up and marshals are sent off for their posts… hopefully the route to the posts is shorter than the competitors route!
7:45 car 0 leaves MTC1 so should arrive at marshal points 16mins before car 1.
8:01 car 1 leaves
8:12 car 12 leaves
8:32 Over Time Limit (OTL) at MTC 1
Event signage
Example Control Board at a manned control, all time controls are manned unless specifically advised in the final instructions.
STOP at the Control Board (previous image) and progress forward to the marshal at a low speed and dipped headlights. Timing is recorded as you come to a FULL STOP at the Control Board. NB: if you don’t come to a complete stop your time will be recorded when you eventually Fully Stop. Blatant disregard for this will result in a penalty, marshals are Judges of Fact for this issue.
Beginning of a QUIET ZONE, when you see one of these you are to switch off your driving lights, and if safe dip your headlights, and drive slowly in a high gear until you see the end of quiet zone sign. ALL speed restricted areas (20, 30, 40 MPH) are to be treated as quiet zones.
End of quiet zone, this may be further away than you expect from the beginning sign, so continue to drive quietly until you see this sign.
Route Check, first image! to confirm you have followed the route correctly, you need to ensure you write down the code from the code board behind this sign…
Route Check, second image. You need to record both halves of the codes as shown in this image and the second half as shown in the next image..
Route Check, third image, the second half of the code is set at right angles to the first, and both halves are to be recorded, it is not important which order you record them, but records with only one half will count as a fault. NB this is not a handwriting competition, so as long as your written record is recognisable as the correct code board it will be accepted.
SC denotes a Secret Check and may be used in addition or in place of the route checks, these can be in the form of a passage check or as a map check (where your map is checked for compliance) This is a manned stop and you MUST come to a complete stop at the SC board and proceed slowly to the marshal. Penalties will be applied for anyone driving unsafely around marshals.