The Rules of the Road Trip
May 30, 2009
This is a fun Road trip, not a Rally, Race or competitive sports event. No laws are to be flouted, broken or ignored. please drive responsibly.
Drivers must pre-register before event (entries are now closed for this year's *2009* event - We have 12 teams!) & have registered with the End to End club (form will need stamping on departure and arrival)
Co-pilots are allowed, but pit crews, support teams and groupies are not.
Communication during the event (whilst on the road) will be via hands free mobile, text, shouting or sign language.
Time Table of Road trip
Pre-start drinks - 8pm Friday 5th June at the Seaview Hotel
START: John O'Groats House Hotel Car park- 7am Saturday 6th June 09 (mandatory attendance with fully working car) at least 10 min's before start.
STOPOVER: Saturday evening in Preston (Hotel Ibis). Time dependent on the day's progress.
CONTINUE: 10am Sunday 7th June 09 morning after large breakfast
FINISH: 8pm Land's End Sunday 7th June 09 at the Lands end hotel bar (last arrival buys the next round)
Accommodation: Bookings as follows
Friday 5th June 09 - Seaview Hotel
John O'Groats
Tel: 01955 611220
Saturday 6th June 09 - Hotel Ibis
Preston
Tel: 01772 861800
Sunday 7th June 09 - Land's End Hotel
Land's End
Tel: 01736 871844
Monday 8th June 09: Depart for Home
Route
The route (Updated to take in the BEST east coast roads
in the UK) must be followed unless diversion agreed by all contestants.
We travel in convoy - not a race, points for fuel economy, reliability, bits not falling off.
VEHICLE
1. Purchase Price of Vehicle: £500 (receipt required) MOT and Road Tax valid and included.
2. +10 points per 10 pounds under £500, -20 points per £10 over for first £100 then -100 points per £10 over £600
3. It must be fully paid for (No rentals, Deposit paid, part paid for etc etc)
4. Must have Insurance, Breakdown cover, tax and MOT for the duration of the event.
5. Must be able to pass an MOT - I.e. no Salvage/accident damaged cars.
6. Type of Vehicle: Car with 4 wheels min engine size 1.0 - max 5.0 Other than that what ever you like but bare in mind the point system!
POINTS AWARDED FOR:
1. Newest Car - 20 points
2. Oldest Car +20 points
3. Highest Mileage +50 points
4. Sportiest Car +10 points (to be agreed upon by all competitors)
5. Cheapest Car +50 points,
6. Car least likely to make it +75 points
7. +10 Bonus points for "my dad had one" factor ( Allegro, Marina, Maxi etc),
8. +25 points for "my first car" (evidence to be provided)
9. Kerb Appeal (Voted favourite car) +30 points
10. Most modified car +50 points
11. Most Economical car over the entire journey +100 points
12. Collecting a list of items along the route +10 points for each item.
Items;
a) Photos of you and your car in strange interesting and different places - points at discretion,
b) Hitchhiker (photo evidence required),
c) Significant (but non essential) parts from other participants cars - (cars can be excluded from this)
POINTS DEDUCTED FOR:
1. Breakdowns -50 points per breakdown, -200 points for roadside recovery and completing in a hire car.
2. Non Working Parts -5 points for every piece of equipment that is not working.
3. Parts and features failures -25 points per break during journey
4. Using a Motorway -1 point per mile.
5. Speeding Fine or Caution etc etc! -100 points
Environmental issues:
This road trip is illustrating that you don't need to run a new car, it is well documented that it is more environmentally friendly to drive a well maintained old car (resources required to build, chemicals to produce, environmental impact of disposal) than to buy a new one. This goes a little way to show with even a £500 car, you can do more than you would think!
Final Rule
all rules may change
To be continued.......Next year
