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).
Regulations for a motor race concerning start procedures, fueling, and pit stops.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0330 | |
| Date | 20th May 1939 guessed | |
| (28) The filling up of tanks (oil, fuel and cooling liquid) must be carried out by 2.30 p.m. so that the sealing of tanks (fuel, oil, cooling liquid) may be completed at latest one hour before the start. At 3.20 p.m. competitors will take up their places in front of the timing line so as to start in the order of the numbers allotted to them and according to the instructions of the race Stewards. It is permissible to start up engines before the start which will be given at 4 p.m. However, from 3.50 p.m. onwards, all engines must be stopped. The race Stewards and the Manager of the race may require competitors, when they are at their starting point, to run their engines in order to ascertain that cars do not drip oil on the ground. No car which might prove a danger to other competitors in this respect will be allowed to start. Likewise a competitor may be debarred from starting if he has not complied with the decisions of the race Stewards and of the manager of the race. THE START Art. 39. - The start will be given simultaneously for all competitors who will be placed in the decreasing order of their basic cylinder capacities. The start will be given with engines stopped and the doors (in any) closed. At 3.59 p.m. drivers must be within a circle traced on the track and they may only leave this position on the starting signal being given, subject to a fine of Fcs 500. Drivers will start their engines by means of the self-starter, this method alone being allowed. The time fixed for the start shall be the legal time as stated in art.37. Notwithstanding the provisions of the present regulations, if a car has not left its starting position 3 minutes after the start and is therefore liable to baulk the cars which may be passing or obstruct the stoppages other competitors may make before their pits, the race manager will forthwith cause the removal of this car to the nearest free standing room behind its starting position. SECTION VII REGULATIONS DURING THE RACE -------------------------- Art. 40. - It is incumbent on drivers to start with their cars in the racing condition defined by the regulations as stated in article 5. Any infraction, even apart from any action of the Stewards, may entail the application of a fine Frs 500 and even the disqualification of the car. STOP AT THE PITS Art. 41. - When a vehicle stops at its pit for any reason whatsoever, even merely for verbal information, it is obligatory that the engine shall be stopped, the penalty being disqualification. *** | ||