User:Donnie Park/BRCA Rallycross National Championship

BRCA Rallycross National Championship is a national multi-round radio-controlled racing championship sanctioned by British Radio Car Association taking place in the United Kingdom, it is exclusively open to drivers of 1:8 scale nitro powered off-road buggies.

It is one of the many national championships that enable drivers, paid members of BRCA, to earn eligibility to compete in the EFRA European 1:8 IC Off-Road Championship and the biennial IFMAR 1:8 IC Off-Road World Championship depending on their seasonal performances.

David Crompton is the most successful driver with eight titles, Kyosho is the most successful car brand with nine titles, surpassing the Italian brand Crono when Elliott Boots took his second title in 2015. Darren Bloomfield, a factory driver for Agama representng Nemo Racing, is the defending champion as of 2017 after winning his forth title, elevating him in the second most sucessful driver of all time.

Race format
The national championship takes place on full season of five race meetings over five different venues from April to October with four championships on offer aside the National Championship (for all drivers); the Clubmans (for drivers who have not reached the top 30 placement over the last three years and have not appeared in any Grand Final), Junior (for drivers under the age of 16), and Over 40s (for drivers over the age of 40).

The track is required to be closed over 15 days prior to the championship round taking place.

A minimum of two 5 minutes rounds of practice will be run in heat format (up to 9 heats of 14 cars).

Drivers will take part in the five qualifying rounds in which they will be grouped over 9 qualifying groups consisting of a maximum of 14 cars each.

They will be ranked on average score achieved over the best three of the previous four rounds

At the end of the qualifying rounds, drivers are placed in their finals group determined by their best set of times (usually best 3 of 5, minimum of 2)

Like all nitro races, the races are run in a Christmas tree elimination format in which the top 4 or 5 finishers of each round is promoted to the next round until they reach the quarter finals then the top 4 are promoted until they reach the semi-finals. Each of these races run for 20 minutes. The top seven from each semi-final group form the grid for the 45 minutes long Grand Final. The winning driver receives 127 points counting toward the championship, runner-up receive 125 points, third 124 points, down to the driver who finishes 126th receiving 1 point. In addition, the top 3 qualifiers receive an extra 3 to 1 points.

Once the season is completed, 75% of championship counts towards the overall score; for a 5 round championship, only 4 of these counts.

In an event that two or more drivers tie for the same number of points, the fifth discarded score will be used then by number of rounds attended and number of finishing positions until the winner is resolved.

Regardless of their overall placements, the drivers of the four classes will be placed separately in their own groups

The winner of the Clubman class will be offered a place to compete at the EFRA European Championship.

Winners
n.b. National Championship winners are only included.