DERBY KING DEMO DERBY

Friday, June 17, 2011 • 7:30 p.m.

 

Entry fee $30.00 before 6:30 •

 Entry fee $40.00 after 6:30

NO REFUNDS

1st $500 & Trophy + $1,000 Added Purse

2nd & 3rd Receive Trophy

Roll Over Contest • 1st $250 & Trophy

NO WELDED FRAMES

POWER PUFF TO BE RUN If enough entries

PRETTY CAR CONTEST

For more information, call DERBY KING • 270-360-0586

DERBY KING’S number one concern is drivers’ safety and we do admit Demolition Derbies are a dangerous sport. DERBY KING PROMOTIONS and THE FAIRBOARD OF BULLITT COUNTY INC. assumes no responsibility, liability, or fault in the result of injury from any of these events. Your participation is your choice!

RULES:

1. Promoter has the right to approve or reject any entry. No vans,

ambulances, or El Camino type allowed. 2011, all derbies are any

year sedan or wagon.

2. Remove all fiberglass panels, all plastic panels and glass, including

windshield. Remove all molding, rear seats, hood latches, factory

gas tanks, all wheel weights and door handles.

3. No welding on frame except for mounting bumper, motor mounts,

repairs or rewelding from where you notched and pre-bent.

4. Shock bumpers should be welded, chained or bolted or all.

Bumper can be no higher than 22 inches. It can be welded directly to

the frame (C-bumper rule).

5. Rear frame rail no lower than 14 inches at the 2nd body bolt from

rear bumper. Body bolts can be changed. No washers more than 3

inches round. No washers welded to frame.

6. Doors can be welded, chained, or wired shut. Trunk lid and tail

gate may be bolted or welded shut with 3/8 bolts & washers or 3/8

rebar. No larger than 3/8 rebar or 2” wide 1/4” thick strip, if it is you

will have to cut it.

7. Four bar interior cage is allowed, may not contact frame, firewall,

motor or transmission or extend more than 12 inches behind the driver

seat or attach to floor. No bar up to firewall from dashbar, rollbar

is OK, but must be straight up and down in center of driver’s compartment.

8. Hood may be wired in six places with no more than two strands

of wire per hole, two of which can go through hood, radiator support

and bumper. No wire in front of radiator. Max 9 gauge wire, no

bolting unless you have 1/2 hood; if you have 1/2 hood you may run

All thread from core support bolts through top of hood.

9. Trunk or roof may be stuffed down, but on a sedan must have a

minimum 6 inch space between spaker channel and tunnel all the

way across. Must have 12 inch space between trunk lid and trunk

pan. On wagon, must have 6 inch gap between roof and floor.

10. Two vertical wires or bars in center of windshield. If fan blade

becomes exposed, car is disqualified.

11.Gas tank is to be placed in backseat area, on mini cars if tank is

in drivers rear floor board, may have one kicker from cage over

tank. Tank may not be installed in car so as to control the bending of

car, such as no thick plates under gas tank. On big cars gas tank protector

allowed no wider than 24” and and may continue all the way

back to the rear firewall, but not frame.

12. SUSPENSION may be solid, (C-Rule about leaf spring conversion).

NO PLATES TO CONTROL BENDING OF FRAME.

13. TIRES – round and black. No tires smaller than 24”in height.

14. Only one battery allowed, secured and covered.

NO CARBURETOR PROTECTORS.

15. Engine swap is allowed, must have 15x15 inch hole in hood.

Distributor protector allowed may not mount to front of engine.

16. Fuel pump must have shut off switch if electric.

17. Pre-run car must be able to see under rain channel of trunk seam

and have 15x15 hole in trunk.

18. Frame may be bolted through horizontally in one place, in the

rear end area with “A” bolt and 2 inch washer. One place on driver

side and one place on passenger side.

19. No interior seam welding on body panels.

20. Body must have 1” space between frame. No washers wider than

3”. No washer or bolting thru bottom of frame, inside of frame only.

Any size bolt.

21. Frame can be repaired with a maximum 3x3x1/4” patch maximum.

2 per side of car and only if we see clear evidence frame was

damaged. So call first, if it ain’t bent, don’t fix it.

22. Cars that ran with us in 2010 still have to meet these new rules

to run in 2011.

23. Brakes must be mounted at wheels only, not on drive line.

24. Driver may choose to run 1 of the following: a distributor guard

or a 22” hump plate that is 22” at the widest point, with the center

located at the center of the hump and no thicker than 1/4” applies to

big car divisions only. If you run a 1977 or newer GM, you may use

guard and hump plates or guard or leaf spring conversion. All GMs

may have distributor guard.

25. Quarter panels must be straight up and down, not folded over, no

added steel.

26. A Ford bumper shock 9s 9.5 inches long, and your’s will be no

longer. You will use a bumper shock and nothing else. No steel tube,

pipe, etc. if you shorten the frame, then you shorten the bumper

shock the same amount. You can not relocate the mounting position

of the rear of the bumper shock. It is 13 inches forward of the front

sway bar bolt.

27. No home-made bumpers. No added steel to bumpers. I don’t care

where or when you ran it before. Even if you ran it at Derby King

show, you can’t run it now.

28. You can run an engine cradle, but you must fun factory mount.

No fabricated mounts. Engine cradle an attach at engine mounts

only. No chains. If you run a pulley protector, you may not have a

front sway bar.

29. On 2003 and newer Fords, Lincolns, and Mercurys: If installing

a-frame and k-frames, they must be located the same as they were on

the donor car, not staggered.

30. Leaf spring conversion: If you are running a 1977 and newer

body style GM car, you may choose to run a 36 inch hump plate or

convert to a 4-leaf spring pack with the springs being 3/8” thick, 2-

1/2” wide, 62” long, not welded together. 2 clamps per side (flat leaf

is okay), with 2 inch stair step on springs on large cars only.

31. Rear Window Bar: 18” long, straight up and down, welded to the

roof and speaker deck. Roof may not be beat down. Remember, 6”

space between speaker channel and tunnel box.

RUNNING OF THE CAR

1. D.O.T. approved racing helmet, goggles and seat belt are required

at all times while on track.

2. One fire will result in disqualification. Fire extinguisher is recommended

in the car.

3. All cars must have dependable brakes at all times, and boundaries

must be observed. Drivers must stay in car with ALL safety gear in

place until RED flag; out of car out of race.

4. One minute contact rule enforced. NO double-teaming or sandbagging.

This WILL result in disqualification. The last car to make

contact is the winner!

5. ANYTHING left out of rules will be left up to the OFFICIALS.

All decisions of the officials are FINAL.

6. No deliberate driver’s door hitting, but no use of driver’s door as

a shield will be permitted.

7. POOR SPORTSMANSHIP OF ANY KIND WILL RESULT IN

DISQUALIFICATION.

8. Drivers are responsible for all persons in their company.

9. All persons in the pit area must sign in and purchase a pit-pass.

10. Complaints will be heard from drivers only. No wives, girlfriends,

or pitmen, etc.

11. NO CHILDREN allowed in the pits.

MINI CAR RULES

1. Wheel base not to exceed 100.5 inches for RWD, not to exceed

105.5 inches for FWD. NO AMC’s.

2. Four or six cylinders only.

3. Two-wheel drive unibody only.

4. No 16 inch tires unless factory equipped.

5. Bumper height max is 20 inches, minimum of 18”.

6. Most big car rules apply.

7. If you don’t see a rule about it, call about it.

8. If you welded on unibody, it must all be removed all the way to

the split, every last bit.

FOR COMPLETE RULES CALL DERBY KING

270-360-0586