Roof Grades

Can you please all ensure you have a roof grade sticker on the top of your car. These can be purchased from the shop.

Roof grades are directly related to personal bests and are as follows:-

Roof grades are directly related to personal bests and are as follows:-
( 1300 & Mini Stox)
If your personal best is:
59 laps or less = white roof
60-69 = yellow
70-79 = blue
80 & over = red
* Season winners = red with a silver stripe
* Class winner (annual) = red with a silver cross

( Saloon Stox )
If your personal best is:
64 laps or less = white roof
65-74 = yellow
75-84 = blue
85 & over = red
* Season winners = red with a silver stripe
* Class winner (annual) = red with a silver cross

( Hotrods )
If your personal best is:
69 laps or less = white roof
70-79 = yellow
80-89 = blue
90 & over = red
* Season winners = red with a silver stripe
* Class winner (annual) = red with a silver cross

ROOF GRADING EXPLAINED

In short, circuit oval racing across the board in real life and all scales of model racing there is a “handicap” grading system for drivers.

The more experienced drivers can start up to half a lap behind the beginners in order to make it more of a challenge to win races.

Below we have briefly explained each roof grade that will be used at our club or at a national level of 1/12th oval racing.

White Roof: White graded drivers are those who are a complete “novice” to the 1/12th oval racing.
They will start with a white grade and be at the front of the field. Drivers also moving from current class to a more specialised class will start their new class as a white grade.

Yellow Roof: A yellow grade is someone who has made the first step out of the “novice” bracket.
Although they are still learning, they are now well into the swing of the racing.
and have to start a quarter of racetrack behind the white grades.

Blue Roof: Now onto blue roof’s. The drivers who have progressed here are now someone to talk about.
They’re not far from reaching top grade and some are as good as the higher graders,
but they still have the advantage of starting in front of the higher grades. The blues will start a quarter of a lap behind the yellows.

Red Roof: Red grade! The drivers who have got this far are definite championship contenders.
These guys should be setting the example for the rest of the field and winning lots of races.
But yet again they start behind the white, yellow and blue roof graders so much work to do every race. The reds will start a quarter of a lap behind the blues.

Season Winner: These are the drivers in each class who have just won the previous season championship. This excludes club ( annual) champions. The will start on the tails of the red grades right behind them.

Club Champion Grade: Now here we have the biggest and best grade that you can achieve at club level. This grade is worn by the CLUB CHAMPION in each class. These racers are the ones to beat! These champions will start right behind the season winners.

Silver Grade: The silver grade, We are now talking big! The driver who has the privilege of painting his roof silver is the driver who beat the rest. This is the driver who is NATIONAL  champion. At any race track this driver will have to start behind everybody apart from the world champion (gold grade).

Gold Roof: Although we’ve spoken about some pretty sought after titles and grades here, this one is by far the one that all the drivers would like to have shining on their roof at some point. The gold roof may only be worn by the WORLD champion. A special event taken place which is open to all who wish to enter. The driver who holds the Gold roof has to start behind everyone at any track in 1/12th oval racing.

General Roof Grading Rules

  • The term “roof grading period” is used for the time between each series in the club fixtures.
  • Spring,summer & winter . At the end of each series the roof grades will be re-calculated. There will be drivers who move up a grade, drivers who remain the same, and some that will loose their winning grades.
  • A driver will drop a roof grade if they attend 2 or less meetings in that series.
  • A driver will remain the same grade if they attend 3 or 4 meetings in that series.
  • A driver will be promoted to the next grade if they are in the top 2 of their grade and have done 5 or more meetings in that series.
  • If a driver doesn’t attend any meetings in a whole series then they have no scores to be rated on so will remain the same grade.

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