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Nationals Vehicle Classes |
This is an older article, originally published before the 10th Nationals that were held in Jindabyne. You may find it useful background information, but be aware that the system that will be used in Orange will differ from what you read here.
A New Approach in 2005The FE-FC Holden Nationals have two parallel aims:
At the Gold Coast Nationals there was a clear emergence of two distinct classes of entrants. As the event has become more popular and more prestigious, it has attracted greater numbers of top-flight vehicles. Whilst it is correct and the desirable outcome that these cars should take home the most illustrious silverware, it is important to recognize the achievements of the other 80% of the entrants. The average vehicle at the last event was of far higher quality than the average vehicle even as recently as 1995. But the top end is even further ahead, and at the Gold Coast there was a group of vehicles that could have held their own at any car show in the country. It’s not an ideal outcome when one or two cars take almost every trophy between them, but at the same time systems where entrants are limited to keeping just one trophy result in lower-placed entrants taking home awards they know they don’t deserve. To this end, the Nationals Delegates have agreed to a new system of Awarding Trophies, known as the “Top Ten” system. In summary:
Some of the benefits this scheme brings are:
The dissatisfaction of some entrants that there was no peer voting whatsoever at the last event has also been noted and addressed. From now on there will be a small number of peer-judged (or Entrants’ Choice) trophies in addition to the ones listed above, the exact number of which will be decided by the host club.
Class AwardsAs alluded to in the schematic above, trophies in the "Club" Classes are allocated in a dynamic fashion - in other words the classes are defined according to the quantities of entries of different types. The idea is to keep the competition fair by limiting the possibility of one-horse races, where there is only one or two cars in a class, whilst at the same time ensuring cars compete against vehicles most alike. There are always far more sedans than any other body-style, and typically fewer Panel Vans than anything else. Therefore to simply put each bodystyle in its own class is unfair. Similarly, FEs are routinely outnumbered by FCs, so separating by model produces a clear skew. This system attempts to find the fairest groupings of vehicles.
The box above shows the process from left to right. Note that every rule (1-6) should be applied to each grouping, i.e. even if the Commercial Vehicles cannot be split into Ute and Panel Van, it may be that they can be split into FE and FC. Each rule is described thus:
It does make sense, and it is fair. It's just hard to describe! Minor AwardsThese awards are distributed amongst the Club Class Vehicles. No distinctions are made between bodystyle or model, and are based purely on attaining the highest judged scores in any of the judging categories.
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