Regulations

1. The following regulations apply to the Europe Arctic Challenge Tour, organised by the Dutch Auto Driving Foundation. Registration for this event means that the subscriber knows the regulations and agrees with them..

2. The organisation has the right to reject a registration, by letter, possibly without giving reasons.

3. The entire registration fee will be refunded to teams that have been refused by the organisation and to teams that subscribe at a time that the maximum number of contestants has been reached. When the registration fee has not been paid in time, the organisation will exclude the team from participation. When a team withdraws after payment of the registration fee and before the start of the Tour there will be no refund.

4. If the Arctic Challenge Tour has to be cancelled or shortened due to reasons not to be foreseen, or when a team has to break off the Tour before the end because of disqualification or other reasons, no full or partial repayment of the registration fee will take place.

5. Each team consists of 2 persons. The minimum age is 21 years and both contestants have to have a valid passport, insurance certificate and driving licence. Each contestant is expected to have reliable travel insurance and at least liability insurance for both oneself and the vehicle.

6. The stages of the Europe Challenge Tour have to be covered by car without violating the local traffic regulations. When a team violates one or more traffic regulations - with the exception of parking rules violation - punishment will follow according to a penalty points system established in advance. The organisation can disqualify a team from a certain stage and/or the final ranking in case of unwanted behaviour, unwanted driving behaviour with possibly but not exclusively serious or repetitive violation of traffic regulations and/or speed limits.

7. Each team has to figure out its own route with the help of the coordinates they receive from the organisation during the Europe Challenge Tour. These coordinates are determined in advance according to a specific coordinate-system. The final time is the sum of the time that was needed to get from start to finish plus the extra time incurred as punishment. When a team has covered a stage in less than the ideal time established by the organisation, extra time will be added, too. This is because the organisation wants the Europe Challenge Tour to be as safe as possible. The time a team can win or lose in performing the ranking tests will be either deducted from or added to the final time.

8. The organisation will pay for hotels, breakfast, dinner and activities that have been planned. The rest of the personal costs will have to be paid by the teams themselves.

9. If the team decides to take a toll road, they must pay for those roads themselves.

10. For the entire tour only one car is allowed. Possible repairs on the vehicle are allowed, but using a replacement is not.

11. All vehicles must be standard production cars and be on the price list of the manufacturer.

12. The preceding, accompanying or following of a team by another vehicle is not on any account allowed.

13. Team mates have to be near the vehicle during the entire tour. Changes in the composition of a team are not allowed.

14. Each team is obliged to help another team in trouble and has to inform the Backoffice by phone immediately about the situation and consult with it. The instructions of the Backoffice have to be followed. The time of the helping team will be stopped during the aid, so there will be no consequences for the outcome of the stage and the final ranking. Taking the stranded team and/or other persons with you in your own vehicle is not allowed without the authorisation of the organisation. When you do not abide to these rules extra time or direct disqualification can follow.

15. Surveillance of the route and speed of a team will be done with the help of built-in Track and Tracing equipment.

16. At each reached coordinate a team has to fill in date, time and number of kilometres in the log. The team also has to contact the Backoffice for new coordinates.

17. Before starting the race each contestant is obliged to sign a statement guarding the organisation against any responsibility.

18. If it appears at the technical check-up that the car does not meet the demands of the checklist that will be handed out in advance, the team will get until one hour before the beginning of the event to fix the defects.

19. Contesting teams are obliged to hand over a bundled copy of all the publications about their team within four weeks after the Europe Challenge Tour.  Moreover, each contestant agrees that interviews and pictures of the contestant or the contesting team may be used by the organisation for media purposes.

20. Each team is obliged to put stickers handed out by the organisation on to clearly visible places indicated beforehand.

21. Violation of one or more of the regulations mentioned above will result in disqualification of the team involved.

22. For all cases which these regulations make no provision, the organisation will decide.

23. To prevent that protests against decisions made by the organisation, taken on grounds of this regulation, will be dismissed, these have to be handed in on paper within one hour after the finish of the team concerned. No appeal is possible against the decisions of the organisation and appeal on a citizen judge is ruled out.