PCASDR DE & Time Trial – Chuckwalla (CCW)

NOTE:  Please read the information below carefully and use the Zone 8 classification website to determine your 2013 class BEFORE registering.

Prior Experience:  DE participants need no prior experience (minimum age of 18 years, valid state driver's license, and good mental and physical health required)!  Time Trial participants without a Zone 8 Solo Permit (or approved equivalent) must have completed at least 8 Autocross and/or DE and/or Driving School days or equivalent over the past 24 months.  DE participants will have separate run groups from Time Trial participants.  Based upon past sign-ups we are likely to have only 1 DE group made up exclusively of novices.  If you are not a novice but would otherwise be seeking to participate in an intermediate/advanced DE-type of event, sign up for the Time Trial instead.  Competitive Timed Runs are optional within the Time Trial, though you must have an AMB Transponder on your car during practice regardless.

All novice drivers will be required to have an Instructor.  Novice DE drivers will have a required educational component as part of their schedule that commences on Saturday morning at the track.  If you are a novice DE driver with no prior performance driving experience you must be at the event hotel in Indio by 6:00 pm Friday January 25.  Based upon past sign-ups, It is unlikely that there will be more than 1 DE group at this event so car sharing among 2 DE participants is unlikely (though if one participant qualifies to Time Trial, sharing is not an issue so long as there is enough demand for a DE group).  Also please note that there are clothing requirements and an approved Snell helmet is required.  Please contact the Registrar at least 2 weeks prior to the event for information on helmet rental if needed.  Experienced drivers new to SDR events may also be required to have an Instructor until their competency has been demonstrated.

You must classify your car using the 2013 Zone 8 Rules before you go on to register for this event.  Fortunately there's an online tool to help you do that.  Go to http://zone8.pca.org/CarClass/Default.aspx now and enter info about your car.  You need to do this BEFORE you click Continue below and begin to register as you are required to input your class as part of the registration process.  All cars need to do this, including X class cars, as safety equipment requirements are determined based upon Performance Equipment points which are calculated as part of the online tool.  The ability for the online tool to calculate Performance Equipment points for non-Porsches is still under development.  Cars running in X class may use this spreadsheet to determine Performance Equipment Points:  http://zone8.pca.org/forms/2013/DE_TTSafetyEquipCalculator.xlsx.  Even if you had previously determined and entered your class in 2012 and have made no changes to your car you must revisit the above website and click through the edit process in order for the tool to recalculate properly.  Note the resulting point totals and class and enter them when you register.  If you register without doing the above your registration will not be considered complete and you will be placed On Hold.  If you do not complete the above until after a price increase has occurred you will be required to pay the higher price.

Pre-tech is Strongly Encouraged!  Please try to take your car in for service and have it thoroughly inspected prior to this event.  With two full days of our high track time event in the low desert, you will want to be safe and have your car make it through the weekend.  Plus you'll want to be certain that, before you leave for the track, you and your car have any required safety equipment (Stock and Street Stock coupes generally need no additional safety equipment, but see the Rules link below to be sure that you qualify).  All entrants pre-teching must present a Tech Inspection Form with name, address, phone, car, class, etc. to a qualified tech inspection shop.  The form can be found at:  http://pcasdr.net/pcasdr/forms/AXRegForm.pdf.  The Tech Inspection Form has changed for 2013.  Be sure the date on the first page, lower right corner is at least Dec '12.  Please download the new form using the link above.  Do not use any old form as only the most recent form will be accepted and if you bring the wrong form you will need to re-tech at the track.  Better yet, use our new automated tech form printer, available after you classify you car on the Zone 8 classification site (see above paragraph).  Cars inspected by shops not personally known to the Registrar are subject to random on-site re-inspection.

This is a Zone 8 event and runs under PCA Zone 8 Driving Rules for 2013 which can be found here:  http://zone8.pca.org/rules/2013/2013Z8Rules.pdf.

If there are any changes to your registration data after the online registration deadline, you need to notify the Registrar by the day of the event BEFORE the first run session.  If you know you will have a change after you sign up, it is greatly appreciated if the information can be provided to the Registrar by the Monday prior to the event.  Doing this will save you time at the track.

All entrants and guests shall be required to sign the PCA waiver upon registering at the track.  This is in addition to any waiver that the track itself may require you to sign.  You are responsible for your guests and may be asked to leave the event if your guests are found to have not signed the PCA waiver.

The track may charge its own separate nominal entrance fee.  This fee does not go to PCA and is beyond our control.

Transponders:  If you have an AMB Transponder, be sure you've entered the number under "My Account."  (Hint:  you do this where you edit your vehicle information.)  If you don't have a Transponder, they are available for rent and you must have a Transponder to drive in the Time Trial.  Transponder not required for DE registrants.