Patent ID: 6572112
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: A63F,A63K,G06Q

Abstract:
A method of conducting a race for amateur driven street vehicles comprising the steps of:assigning entrants to said race comprising X number of laps about a race course to groups based on respective performance potential of said vehicles with said groups including a first group, requiring said entrants in said first group to traverse qualifying laps about said race course, timing said qualifying laps of said entrants in said first group, calculating a Performance Parity Time (PPT) for each said entrant in said first group based on differences in qualifying lap times of said respective entrants in said first group multiplied by said a number proximately equal to X, calculating a Break-Out Time (BOT) for each said entrant in said first group based on each said entrant's qualifying lap times less a constant measured in units of time, releasing said entrants in said first group to said race course at time intervals based on said respective PPT's of said entrants, allowing said released entrants in said first group to race, limiting passing during said race by faster running entrants of slower running entrants in said first group to designated passing zones on said race course, timing each lap of said entrants in said first group during said race, penalizing said entrants for driving at a pace during said race that exceeds said entrants' respective BOT pace and identifying a race winner of said first group as said entrant first to complete N laps.