RULES
ALL RACERS PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY !!!

First of all I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Pete and Sam D'agnolo for an incident that happened at last years running of this event. Through an error in judgement a decision was made by me, Rob Cutman, that effectively kept Pete from winning this event and relegated him to a second place finish. As I said this was an error in judgement on my part and for that I am very sorry.

We have made some major changes to the rules and procedures that will be in place for the event this year. This years running of the 18th US Open Wheel Championship will be the first major race to utilize the new dirtoval.com rules for 1/10th dirt oval racing. This new rules package was a colaboartive effort among 11 different people from several different aspects of our industry. We are very excited about the potential these rules have to help unite R/C dirt oval racing around the country and allow it to grow to a much bigger and better recognized sport. These rules have already been adopted by the WDRA, PA Nitro Tour, ECDOS, NSCS, February Freeze and we expect several other series and tracks to be adopting them shortly. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people for the hard work and diligince in getting this rules package developed.

Every racer that enters this years event will be given a 2008 US Open Wheel Championships rules and race procedures hand book. This book will explain everything that will be expected by you the racer and also what you can expect from us and the race directors. A few of the procedures that will be new for this year I would like to explain here as well. First of all, this years pre-tech procedure will be optional and not mandatory. Because these new rules are now available online, and will be provided in your hand book, it is 100% your responsibility to ensure that your car is legal throughout the duration of the event. We will gladly check any items or dimensions that you would like checked but we are putting the responsibility of compliance on your shoulders.
It is not our responsibility to find something wrong with your car, it is your job to make sure it is legal!
If you are not sure about a rule, ask ahead of time. All cars will be teched going out to the track each round, we will not check everything but we will check some things. After each heat race and main event any number of cars from each race may and likely will be teched thoroughly. If an infraction is found at that time and it is a qualifying heat the run will not count. If a violation occurs during a main event you will be scored last in that event. This may seem harsh to some you need to understand that it is your responsibility to thoroughly read and understand the rules as they are written. Just because we may miss something one time it doesn't mean you are legal for the next time.

All sprint car classes will utilize the 6x6 wing rules as published on the DODC rules page. As a reminder limited and 13.5 sprint cars are not allowed to run a front wing. All latemodel classes will utilize the same rules package which allows for only a rear spoiler and a spoiler brace on each side of the car, side dams are no longer legal for open latemodel. The electric 13.5 classes must run DODC spec brushless motors and Li-Po batteries that are provided as a handout. These will be legal at all DODC sanctioned tracks that will run the 13.5 SPEC classes from this point forward.

We will also be utilizing our expert driver class division again for this years race. This means that Expert class drivers are not elligible to enter the 13.5 electric or limited nitro classes. You can view a better explanation and the expert driver list by clicking here: ( More info)

The complete dirtoval.com rules package can be veiwed by visiting this link: dirtoval.com/rules

When reading rules below it is a good thing to realize that chances are if it is not mentioned here, it is not legal. Do not plan a defense of your latest concoction by saying "it doesn't say I can't do it". Save yourself and everyone else a lot of time by being realistic in what is expected and in the spirit of the rules.

- The final decision regarding rule enforcement is at the discretion of the Race Track Owner and Race Owner (C&S Raceway and Custom Works).