WRIGHT'S
DEMO DERBY INC.
ALLEN L. WRIGHT - OWNER
(618) 922-4499
Rules & Regulations for
Friday Night August 26-Open:
Event Gates Open at 5:00 pm,
Derby at 7:00 pm
Saturday Night August 27- Open:
Event Gates Open at 5:00 pm
Derby at 7:00 pm
Full Size Cars ---All Cars must pass inspection or driver must make changes to comply with inspection. All rules will be enforced. Follow them or you will not run. ALL CARS MUST HAVE 20" X 20" OR SMALLER BILLBOARD SIGN MOUNTED ON TOP OF CAR WITH CAR NUMBER ON BOTH SIDES TO RUN (NOTHING LARGER).
1. Any American made sedan or station wagon can be run. **No Imperial or Imperial sub frames, 4x4's, ambulances, hearses, limos or trucks, etc.
2. Drivers must be 16 years of age and produce a valid driver's license upon request. Riders must be 16 years of age and produce proper ID. Upon request.
3. Helmets, seat belts and eye protection must be worn at all times. If any of the above items become loose or come off of the driver, the show will be stopped and if those listed items cannot be placed back on the driver, the competition stick will be broken. Long sleeve shirts and long pants must be worn during competition. Drivers must also have shoes or boots on at all times.
4.
All drivers must attend the driver's meeting. If you
do not attend this mandatory driver's meeting, you will not run the show and
you forfeit your entry fee.
5. DO NOT hit the driver's door. Intentional or careless door shots will cost the driver hitting the other driver's door to get DISQUALIFIED. DO NOT use the driver's door as a shield. If you intend to use the door as a means of competition, you may be the one to get DISQUALIFIED!
6. Idle only in the pit area, NO HOT RODDING!
7. Two fires will cause for a Disqualification.
9. No holding other opponents or double-teaming. The purposes of demolition derby are to trash out your car and have fun and maybe earn a little money. If you are a part of a team, the team stays in the pits. Teaming or holding will result in automatic DISQUALIFICATION. If the Officials find the need to stop the show to make you hit a "buddy", then we will do so. If you do not confirm to our request, you will be DISQUALIFIED.
9. You will have 1 minute to make an aggressive hit.
10. NO ALCOHOL ON THE PREMISES. Anyone caught with alcohol or under the influence of alcohol will be disqualified and asked to leave the premises.
11. The top 3-5 cars in the feature are subject to re-inspections before any prize money is paid out. If car is found illegal, driver's position will be revoked and will go to next qualifying car. You may run any of the following: switch panel, hand throttle and/or homemade shifters.
12. Please do not use the following excuse while in inspection: "They let me do that at another derby, why can't I do it here?"
13.
There is a $300 protest fee; you will have 3 minutes to protest the feature event
after completion. If driver's car found illegal, driver will loose ALL money.
If driver found legal, protestor will loose their $300, driver will receive
$150 and promotions will receive $150. Only event drivers are allowed to
protest and must have money up front.
Any controversies should be brought up during the driver's meeting.
CAR PREPARATION:
1. All cars must be stock, unless modification is stated in the rules.
2. All glass, Plastic, Chrome, Fiberglass and interior must be removed before arriving at the derby.
3. All decking in station wagon MUST be removed.
4. Tires no bigger than 16 inch. No split rims. Tow motor tires or double tires are approved. We don't want flat tires. Valve stem protectors are allowed if deemed reasonably safe by inspectors.
5. Use motor and transmission of choice. Motor must be in the stock location. You may weld or chain the motor in place. (DO NOT STRENGTHEN FRAME!)
6.
You must use a radiator and it must be in the stock location.
7. All cars must have working brakes.
8. All trailer hitches and braces must be removed.
9. Original Gas tanks must be removed and replaced with a METAL Boat tank or fuel cell properly covered. NO PLASTIC TANKS! Tank must be mounted in the back seat area and secured to floors. This is one of the major concerns that we have: If you can lift up your tank or move it, it's still loose. Make sure that this area is looked over before arriving to the track.
10. Transmission coolers are allowed but must be located in a safe place and well secured. No fuel line allowed to transmission coolers (hydraulic line is recommended).
11. Batteries must be moved to the front passenger floorboard. Batteries must be properly secured and covered.
12. You may weld all vertical and horizontal door seams. To make it simpler, weld the doors completely shut on the outside of the car. Body seams may be welded from the front door seams forward. No other body seam welds. NO ADDED METAL. Body cannot be welded to frame anywhere, but front inner fenders may have 2 weld then skip 2 and repeat.
13. The trunk may be welded from sheet metal to sheet metal only (do not attach the straps to the bumper). You may weld the trunk but you MUST also have a 12-inch square or circle in the middle of the trunk for inspection purposes. You may weld all the way around the trunk.
14. Tailgates: The tailgates of a wagon may only be welded from top to bottom. You may not attach the tailgate to the bumper in any way.
15. Distributor protectors are allowed. Can only be 3/8 thick maximum. Distributor protectors must only act as just that, protection of the distributor. In no way is the DP to be in contact with front dash bar or any cage component. In no way can the DP be used as a kicker. At the end of the show, if a car is seriously bent and the DP is in contact with any metal, as long as the contact point is not reinforcing the front end in any way, there will be no problem. But if the contact is deemed to be reinforcement, you will be found illegal and you will forfeit all winnings.
16. You may patch sheet metal. If there is a rust hole, leave the rust and patch over it
17. You may trim the fenders for wheel clearance.
18. Top frame seams may be re-welded front to back, but no extra metal may be added. NO BAND-AIDS, NO CONCRETE!!! Do not weld factory holes up. All factory holes must be open for inspection of frame. If changing front stub, cut 3 inches behind first cross member hole. When replacing, can overlap by 2 ½ inches, able to weld both sides, but no adding metal. Must be from same make and model. If re-stubbing one side of the frame, your are allowed to cut and fit the new frame flush and weld one pass all the way around.
19. All doors may be welded and reinforced. You should have a 6 point cage, cross bars
may be ran as follows, one across dash, one behind front seats and one in rear
seat area. You can run four (4) down tubes;
two (2) per side, down tubes must be behind the front dash bar. Down tubes must run straight up and
down. Down tubes must stay minimum 6
inches behind frame. NO KICKERS TO REAR
OR FRONT HUMPS, OR OFF THE DASH BAR TO THE FIREWALL SHEET METAL. Nothing out of drivers compartment.
20. Dash Bar must be mounted in a fashion that is above the steering wheel brace (not below for safety reasons).
21. Bumpers are interchangeable, any year OEM automobile to any year OEM automobile. No truck bumpers. Weld them good; we dont want loose bumpers on the track. You may trim the bumper ends or fold them around. No other welding on bumpers will be allowed. You may hard nose or weld shocks to bumpers and shocks to frame, one or the other. You may chain bumpers as follows: you may use 2 pieces of LIGHT chain per shock. You must have inspection holes to see inside the bumper.
22. Rear bumper brackets may be trimmed and welded solid around bracket to the frame. Bumper shocks may also be welded so that the bumper does not come off the car.
23. You must have two (2) 8" holes in hood, 4" in diameter on each side of carburetor. You may use 1-inch all-thread at the core support and go all the way through the bottom of the frame at the core support holes.
24.
Hoods may be bolted with four (4) 1 x 4" bolts, outboard of radiator in
the hood. You may also use No.9 wire. You may use only one method, no
combinations. Plates for hoods are limited to 4" x 4" and
1I4"thick. You are not allowed to wire your hood/core support to your bumper.
You may not add an extra brace on hoods (for lifting or opening purposes). You
may go all the way from the hood through the frame. You may put 2
pieces of angle iron back to back with a bolt through it. Angle iron cannot be longer than 6 and have
3 bolts on each side of car (total of 6 bolts). Your hood may be attached
in a total of 8 places.
25. Deck lid may be welded solid. You may also have 2 pieces of 1 all thread anywhere in deck lid going through. Inspection holes required. No washers larger than 6 diameter and 3/8 thick.
26. If rear of sedan or station wagon is "tucked", there must be "large" access holes for inspection.
27. Body mounts may be removed and sucked down to frame but no welding. You may add 2 additional body mounts (one on each side).
28.
It is mandatory that you have 2 spots of wire 2 loops per spot from the
firewall, to the roof in front of the driver. You may use flat steel or 1 inch
tubing, etc. Something has to be there to keep the hood from coming back into
the driver's compartment.
29. You may use 2 loops (4 strands) of #9 wire total in each window opening. This wire may go to or around frame. Station wagons may not use wire in any window opening beyond the rear passenger door window opening. The wire must remain in the field of the window. They may not crisscross the interior of the car.
30. Suspension may be locked in front as long as the method you choose to use does not consist of welding the A-Arms to the frame.
31. Wire or chain can go from the rear end to any SHEET METAL or PART OF THE FRAME close to the original area of the shock mount. Coil springs have to be secure at the bottom, not at the top. You may bolt or weld the tops of your coil spring to the frame only; the upper bolt may not pass through to the sheet metal. If your bolt does pass through the sheet metal, you will be required to remove it or not run.
32. You may use the rear end of your choice as long as it is a "factory" 5-lug rear end.
33.
You may strengthen your tie rods as long as they still look stock appearing.
Example: you could weld a piece of 1 inch by 1 inch angle iron on the outside
of the tie rod.
34. You may have distributor protection as long
as it only touches the motor. NO
EXCEPTIONS!
METRIC CAR RULES: (80'S OR NEWER)
All big car rules apply with the following exceptions:
1. Any automobile rear end (NO TRUCKS OR FLOATER REAR ENDS) can be used in any car. On models originally equipped with leaf springs, stock leaf springs and hangers MUST be used. '80 and newer car may be leafed. Leaf packs on all cars may have no more tan 8 leaves per pack. Must be OEM stock. Homemade spring perches or homemade trailing are brackets may be welded to rear end. Rear end spider gears may be welded solid. You may tilt rear end by shortening or lengthening rear end control arms. Trailing arms may be reinforced.
2. Any drive shaft of U joint may be used. Welding of drive shaft permitted.
3. You may modify any stock OEM hanger bracket to fit your car; it may be welded or bolted. Or you can make a homemade bracket that is no larger or thicker than any OEM stock bracket.
4. Leaf pack must have a minimum of 2 inches of stagger.
5. Rear shackles must move, cannot be welded solid.
6. Front spring mount cage be one of the following: In trailing arm bracket with a 3x3x1/4 gusset, or 4x4x1/4 thick by 4 long maximum square tubing welded to the frame, or inside the frame with a rod thru the frame add no added metal. Rear mount 4x4x1/4 thick by 4 long maximum square welded to the frame, or 4x6x1/4 flat stock, welded to or bolted thru the frame. If you leaf your car you cannot run a hump plate, its one or the other
7. If you choose
not to leaf your car, you may run a hump plate. Hump plate can only be welded to the outside or your rear
humps. Plate can only be 3/8 thick
max. Plate can only be 22 inches
long. Plate must stay with the contour
of the frame, must be placed at the center of the hump, cannot bridge across the
hump or under the hump. If you run a
hump plate, you cannot leaf your car.
It is one or the other.
SMALL CAR RULES:
1. Cars must be 104" wheel base or less. They may be
up to 106". Anything over 104" is to be front wheel drive only. Factory
specs apply. NO EXCEPTIONS!
2. If using original gas tank, must be mounted in rear seating
area securely.
3. Big car rules apply except specified above. If you have any
questions, CALL!
TRUCK RULES:
1. One half or three-fourth pickup trucks are eligible.
2. Engines may have any motor to any truck.
3. Box must be bolted to cab with four bolts only, maximum of three-fourths inch with 5 inch washer.
4. Box must be bolted to frame with four chains (3/8 inch) or new u-bolts, tailgate limited to four chains.
5. No split rims.
6. Gas tank must be securely fastened 12 inches behind the cab. An 8 x 8 inch hole must be cut between the box and the cab for the gas line. Tank must be metal and cannot hold more that five gallons of fuel. The original tank must be removed or dropped.
7. Cooling system must be original equipment and must contain water only.
8. Original bumper may be welded to frame with no extra reinforcement. Original truck front bumper only. No tube bumpers.
9. Bumpers cannot be installed upside down. No trailer hitches or other reinforcement allowed.
10. All doors must be welded shut.
11. Trucks must have standard suspension.
12. Battery must be securely fastened in the front seat area. No extra battery allowed in truck.
13. Hood must be held down using two single strands of chain (3/8 inch) or four 3/4 in bolts. One 8 x8 hole must be cut in hood for fire access.
14. Minimum 2 inch and maximum 3 inch tubing must be placed in truck running from post to post behind driver's seat with maximum 12 inch square end plates permanently attached to truck's body. If dashboard is removed a safety bar with minimum 2 inch and maximum 3 inch tubing and 6 inch square mounting plates must be installed in its place. A roll cage manufactured from minimum 2 inch and maximum 3 inch tubing with no reinforcement gussets can be installed for driver protection.
15. It is mandatory that you have 2 spots of wire 2 loops per spot from the firewall to the roof, in front of the driver. You may use flat steel or 1 inch tubing, etc. Something has to be there to keep the hood from coming back into the driver's compartment.
16. Truck number must be on both front doors and roof. No advertising or other signage in these areas. No upright signs higher than 12 inches on truck roof.
17. Driver's door may be reinforced with a maximum of 1 inch thick plating extending mo more than 3 inches past door opening seams, and no more than 18 inches wide.
18. No welding of tailgate. Bolt tailgate with 2 3/4 inch bolts or chain through bed only.
19. Competition
rules are same as cars.
20. You may add extra metal under hood as long
as it cannot be seen from outside with hood down.
21. Minimum of 5 trucks for event to run. 100% payback only.
ANY
QUESTIONS - CALL
If you're not sure it is legal, call.