From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Page of race regulations concerning information for competitors, objections, and non-competitor pits.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0336 | |
| Date | 17th June 1939 guessed | |
| (34) INFORMATION FOR COMPETITORS Art. 52 b. - The scoring board and the loud-speaker are primarily intended to keep the public advised of the progress of the race. Competitors should consider the information supplied as unofficial. Should the latter require any precise information regarding the progress of the race and more particularly regarding the position of the cars, they should notify the race Stewards by a written application. This application must necessarily specify the time at which it is made. The answers will be supplied in writing, in the order of receipt of the applications and according to the possibilities of checking. From this point of view any information supplied other than by the race Stewards must be considered as valueless. SECTION VIII OBJECTIONS ---- PROCEDURE AND TIME LIMITS Art. 53. - Objections must be notified in writing and handed over to one of the race Stewards together with a surety of Frs 250. A regularly entered competitor alone is entitled to lay an objection and no one can sign on his behalf except as provided in article 4. The procedure of objections is ruled in accordance with articles 208 to 219 of the I.A.R.A.C. Sports Code. Consequently : I. - Objections against the validity of an entry, the qualifications of vehicles or drivers, the distances announced for a run, must reach the race-stewards 2 hours at latest after the closing of the checking control fixed at 5 p.m. (art. 211) of the I.A.R.A.C. sports code) that is to say at latest on Wednesday 14th. June at 7 p.m. 2. - Those relating to occurences during the race must reach the race stewards at latest half an jour after the finish of the race (art. 213 of the I.A.R.A.C. international sports code), that is to say at latest on Sunday 18th. June at 4.30 p.m. Collective objections will not be entertained. No objection deposited can be withdrawn subsequently. SECTION IX MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ----------------------- PITS FOR NON-COMPETITORS Art. 54. - Non competing firms interested in the Le Mans 24 hours race who wish to occupy a stand among the pits (1st. floor stands) installed as indicated in article 52 ... | ||