Ok, I've been fielding questions to people with some confusion over our new rules. There has been concern about making time limits, etc.
Let me hopefully stop some of the confusion.
From a WCC standpoint, all the classes remain the same. We will still score Intermediate and Expert separately in the WCC spreadsheet. Our graduated novices will be designated Intermediates for the WCC, and your intermediates will remain intermediates.
From a WMRC standpoint, you'll score based on our rules, which Intermediates/graduated novices will compete for position in a race. I'll give an example. If you are an intermediate rider, and you enter Superbike. You get gridded with everyone else, as we've never not combined the superbike class. If you come in 14th place, but are the first intermediate to cross the line, you would get 14th place WMRC points in our season, and you'd get 1st place WCC points for being the first intermediate across the line. Does that make sense? Nothing really changes there.
As for time cut-offs. We put those in as more of a safety mechanism. Rain obviously changes things, and we realize that slower paces are a result. Consider those dry cut-offs and we will also be lenient with them too for out of town riders. Here is another example of why those are there. In superbike, being 15 laps, if you cannot run consistent 1:18 laps in the race, you will likely be lapped twice in the same race. During those lapping times, our frontrunners, while competing are likely to split the rider. In the past, we've seen some riders change lines to "get out of the way", and that changes is usually disastrous. We are trying to base the cutoff on 120% of the lead rider, and again, we have discretion as to if you should be out there or not. Common sense will usually tell you if you can compete or not.
I hope that helps to eliminate some concerns. I'm not sure about high vis vests for intermediates during our races yet, but that should not be a deal breaker should it? We provide the vests anyway. We will not require you to changes number plates to yellow/black, etc. You just have to change conflicting numbers with an X or another digit.