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ADDITIONAL CASH AWARDS EASTERN WING [Left Column] 2nd Place .................$500.00 3rd Place ................. 400.00 4th Place ................. 300.00 5th Place ................. 200.00 $100.00 Consolation prizes to next 20 place winners WESTERN WING [Right Column] 2nd Place ................. $500.00 3rd Place ................. 400.00 4th Place ................. 300.00 5th Place ................. 200.00 $100.00 Consolation prizes to next 20 place winners [BOLD TITLE] General Rules and Regulations for Cord Cup Race [Left Column] (1) Contestants must present their ships at their respective starting points five days prior to the start of the Derby, or not later than August 16th 1932. Speed trials will start at 10 A. M. August 16th, and will take place in the order in which the entrant has reported his or her arrival to the Derby Committee at the respective starting points. In the event entrant is not present for the speed trial at his or her alloted time such entrant will penialized five percent (5%) per lap for each day he or she is late, and such entrant must await turn for trial after all other contestants' trials have been made. (2) The actual course for speed testing will be at least one mile in length to be determined upon approval of the Department of Commerce. Approaches to the course will be made without diving and the maximum altitude with be 75 ft. (3) Each contestant will fly his or her own ship over the course twice (once in each direction) and in addition each ship will be flown twice over the course by two individual test pilots, and the average speed taken. If the Technical Committee deem it necessary in their estimation that a third flight is necessary, same shall be made at the earliest possible moment by a third test pilot. (4) Immediately prior to the actual speed trial of any contestant's plane, he or she present same to the Technical Committee for inspection. Adjustable pitch propellers will be varnished at hubs, carburetor setting and RPM and condition of ship noted after speed trials. No additional streamlining, carburetor, spark or propeller changes will be allowed. Any change made thereafter, prior to or during actual contest that will in any way affect the speed of the contestant's plane, will automatically disqualify that pilot. The Committee reserves the right to further inspect or test any entry at any control point during the contest to determine if any changes have been made. An increase of three (3%) percent in propeller ground RPM will subject the contestsant to disqualification at any time. No contestant's airplane will be allowed to leave the field after speed tests covering it have been made. (5) No allowance will be made in speed trials for any load actually carried during the running of the Derby. (6) Contestants will sign cards or a log that they are satisfied will the handicap given them before starting on cross country Derby. Contestsants are subject to disqualification for unsportmanlike conduct, upon decision of the Derby Executive Committee, consisting of the Derby Chairman, Referee and Chairman of the Technical Committee. (7) The National Air Races, Inc. and the Derby Committee assumes no responsibility or liability in case of accident to any persons or aircraft at any time. (8) Contestants may either fly alone or carry an additional person or persons of either sex as passengers who are not pilots or navigatiors. [Right Column] [Bold] METHOD OF HANDICAPPING: (1) Planes will be rated on a mile per minute basis. The speed handicap will be reduced to a time handicap, i.e., minutes and seconds, and the handicap will be absorbed at each lap when the contestant is flaggeed off at the starting city and subsequent control cities, i.e.: the slowest ship will be flagged off first. By this process to absorb the handicap at the beginning of each lap, the first ship to cross the finish line at the end of each lap, will be declared the winner. When the contestants are flagged off at the second and subsequent controls, the handicap in each instance will be absorbed at the start, and the winner of each lap will be the ship to cross the finish line first. Each control lap therefore will be a finished race in itself. [Bold] METHOD OF DETERMINING SWEEPSTAKES WINNER AND PLACES FOR ENTIRE COURSE (1) Under the method of absorbing the handicap at each starting point, each lap becomes a finished race. The number of units or points possible for each contestant to earn on each lap will be determined by the actual miles on that particular lap. For example, the airline distance on the lap from Abilene to Bartlesville is 350 miles. The winner of this lap will be awarded 100 per cent of this number or 350 points. In a like manner the contestant second across the finish line on this lap will recieve sixty percent of the 350 units or 210 points. The conestants placing in other positions will be awarded a percentage of points as indicated below: 1st--100%, 2nd--60%, 3rd--40%, 4th--25%, 5th--15%, 6th--10%, 7th--5%, 8th--4%, 9th--3%, 10th--2%, 11th to 15th incluisive--1% each, 16th to 20th inclusive--1/2% each and 21st to 25th inclusive 1/4% each. In like manner the number of points awarded on every lap will be determined by the airline miles between start and finish. (2) The total number of points available each for both the Eastern and Western wings, will be the same upon arrival at the merging points, Bartlesville, Okla. Fom that point on into Cleveland, the same course being flown by both Wings the same method of points awards will be made for each individual lap. The winner of the greatest number of points will therefore be declared the National Sweepstakes Winner. The winner must finish at the Cleveland Municipal Airport before 7 P. M. Eastern Time on the day set for the finish of the Derby. (3) Where lap money is offered on any individual lap, same will be awarded to the first five place winners for that lap. Where lap money is offered by a control point contacted by both Wings of the Derby, the amounnt will be divided between both wings. [Bold] CONTROL POINTS (1) Contestants will be required to stop at all control points. No plane will be permitted to leave any control [End Page]