The Australian Endurnace Kart Championship is made up of two divisions, Division A and Division B.  Both divisions that compete do so at the same time.

Division A sees the first kart past the post declared the winner, second past is second and so on. That one is easy.

Division B is similar to a golf handicap but more akin to corrected time in yacht racing.  Each team when they start with us begins with a 5% handicap, put simply for every 100 laps the ultimate race leader completes a 5% handicap team are awarded an extra 5 laps.  After each race, the team’s handicap and performance are judged against their current result and an average across the two is taken. So a poor performance will see a handicap rise, the maximum increase is 2% per race meeting.  This has been implemented to prevent a team on a very low handicap retiring from a race and then receiving a huge handicap at the next race meeting.  In the case of good performance then the handicap can reduce and there is no limit to how quickly this may happen.  Once a team’s handicap is reduced to below 0.5% they play off zero and therefore receive no extra laps.  The maximum a handicap can be is 12%.