23th International Vintage meeting, 5-6 May 2012

(click picture to be taken to the ECA website)

23TH INTERNATIONAL VINTAGE MEETING - RONCOLE VERDI 2012
Memorial BRUNO NOVARESE
5-6 May 2012

Turin's Vintage Slot Meeting is the most classical and well-known appointment in the vintage slot world. In fact the 2012 edition of the meeting will be the 23th edition (it starts in 1978). For the 3rd year in a row, the meeting is held in Roncole Verdi on a Carrera 6 lanes track
The swapmeet will take place on Saturday (10.00 am - 7.00 p.m.) and Sunday morning.
Tables and participation are free of charge and according to tradition the market take place before the meeting.

This year's theme will be:

ITALIAN RACING CARS UP TO 1972

The Meeting is divided in two parts:
The Concours (with the score determined by selected judges) and the Race. Results in Concours will be higher (60% of the total) in respect to the Race.

The spirit of this 23nd Vintage Meeting is to gather the most exact and accurate copies of the originals slot cars in 1/24 and 1/32 scale. The scratchbuilt models may take part but will suffer a penalty.

SPORT RULES

1- The presented models will have to be the exact reproductions of model cars built before 31.12.1972.
2- Each competitor is allowed to entry one single model for each category (1:24 and 1:32).
3- In order to enter the event, each competitor will have to show his models on Saturday from 5:00 pm or on Sunday before 9:30. The entry fee is 20 Euro per driver.
4- The score of each model for the Concours will be determined by the sum of the scores of a jury composed by a representative of each Nation + one from the organizer Club (ECA).
5- The judges must assign a score from 1 to 5 for each of Originality of the slot model car, Accuracy of the replica of the real car, Rarity of the slot model car, Overall Look. Total score for each model will be included between 4 and 20 points.
6-The Contest score will be the following: the 1st 60 points, the 2nd 48 points, the 3rd 42, the 4th 40, the 5th 38, the 6th 36, the 7th 34, the 8th 32, the 9th 30, etc. up to the 23rd who will get 2 points. From the 24th onwards 1 point.
7- After the Concours, the 1:24 and 1:32 races will take place in 3 minutes heats.
8- The Management will arrange the composition of the heats according to the performance of the models.
9- The final results of the race will get a minor score of the Contest. That is: the 1st 40 points, the 2nd 33 points, the 3rd 27, the 4th 24, the 5th 21, the 6th 19, and so on.
10- The sum of the two different results (Concours and Race), after deducting any possible penalty, will declare the winner of the Meeting.
11- A Technical Commission will be created with 3 drivers to discuss and solve any type of problems which should arise.
12- The competitors should entry the model with a photographic documentation (max 2 shots) of the real car.

TECHNICAL RULES

A. The spirit of the meeting consist in having the most faithful models as possible to the originals, with chassis, body and type of engine* of the same brand. Therefore also the models which do not meet the adequate requirements will be allowed to participate but will have to have deducted some penalty points from the total of the final points.
B. All tyres will have to be black. The use of repro tyres is allowed. It is forbidden the use of mou, both on the tyres and on the track.
C. Any kind of magnet on the chassis is forbidden. Models with open motor and central magnet, will have 3 mm ground clearance under the motor. It is allowed to weight the model only with lead fixed inside the model and in any case not visible from outside.
D. It is allowed to lower the body by modifying the fastenings so to make the model look more realistic. The body of the model will not be allowed to be cut or filed. It is allowed only to add parts and not to remove them. Added parts cannot be modern photoetch. Body must be fixed to the chassis. Tilting body are not permitted.
E. Maximum width allowed: 1/32 62 mm & 1/24 75 mm
F. Chassis with angle winder motor mount are forbidden.
G. The foreseen penalties are the following:
- Chassis / body of different brands (slot provided) - 3 points
- Vacuum form body (even when original) - 1 point
- Sponge tyres - 2 points
- Rewinded engine or of a different type from the original* - 3 points
- Scratch (parts of different brands or self-built) - 6 points

* With regards to "type of engine" it must be understood X88, D16, D26, D36 etc.

If you are interested, here are a few older SlotForum topics about this meeting:

Cars for Turin Vintage meeting (2007)
19th Turin Vintage meeting 3/4 May 2008
20th Turin Vintage meeting 1-3 May 2009, General info, rules, cars,...
21st Vintage Meeting Torino, 30th April, 1st/2nd May 2010
22th International Vintage meeting, 30th April, 1st/2nd May 2011