2001 SPORTS CAR Code -- Article II: Definitions and Terms

ARTICLE 2        DEFINITIONS AND TERMS

            Standard nomenclature will be used wherever possible in SPORTS CAR activities. 

2.1        SPORTS CAR

Professional Sports Car Racing, Inc., 14175 Icot Boulevard, Suite #300, Clearwater, Florida 33760, a national sanctioning organization formed to promote motor sports; to organize, sanction, supervise and conduct motor sports events; to promote uniform rules and safety standards; to collect and disseminate information relating to motor sports; to supervise and grant affiliation to other organizations with similar purposes, and to cooperate with such organizations; and to undertake any other activities to advance motor sports.

2.2        SPORTS CAR CODE

The rules and regulations governing the sanctioning and conduct of SPORTS CAR-sanctioned events. 

2.3        COMPETITION

A contest in which an automobile takes part and which is of a competitive nature or is given a competitive nature by publication of results. 

2.4        EVENT

An entire program of SPORTS CAR-sanctioned competitions. 

2.5        SANCTION (ORGANIZING PERMIT)

The documentary authority granted by SPORTS CAR to organize and hold a competition. 

2.6        DRIVER

A person named as the driver of an automobile in a competition. 

2.7        ENTRANT

A person whose automobile is accepted for competition. 

2.8       PROMOTER/ORGANIZER

A person or body controlling a facility where events are organized, promoted and staged. 

2.9       PARTICIPANT

For insurance purposes, the definition of a participant is a driver, mechanic, pit man, or actual official of the race, announcer, ambulance crew, tow truck or push car crew and pit gate worker or all other persons being assigned pit passes duly and officially issued by SPORTS CAR, provided all such other persons are limited to those who have clearly defined duties allotted to them. 

2.10      WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Standards for weights and measures shall be as specified in Article 13.

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