Sprint Series Overview

Clutch Kickback is alternative motorsports: competitions with culture built into the championships.

CKB sits between the energy of the underground and the legitimacy and polish of corporate motorsports. It is legal and professionally produced, with the culture still in the room, and open to everyone at every skill level.

CKB runs two championships, the Drift Series and the Sprint Series. This overview is about the Sprint Series.

You compete against the clock, never wheel to wheel for the result. Time Attack, on a circuit, is scored by your fastest lap. Hill Climb, on a road, is scored by your fastest run. Competitors are ranked from the fastest to the slowest, and the result comes from the timing alone.

Your car’s points set its class, so you compete against cars of a similar performance.

Then you race, for fun. The Exhibition Race is the only wheel-to-wheel session, and it decides no championship.

Most likely. If you meet these requirements, you can enter.

Your car’s points set your class. There are three main classes, from street builds to race-prepped cars.

The score is your car’s base points, from the League’s list, plus a value for each modification, rounded to the nearest half point. Declare every modification, and always your tires. Car not on the list? Ask for a provisional rating when you register.

The League works out your class from what you declare when you register. You may choose a higher class at a Qualifying Event, never a lower one, and you enter one class at each Event.

Every Driver must attend the Driver’s Meeting before going on track. Then your class runs its Time Attack sessions, and at a circuit the day ends with the Exhibition Race and the prizes. At a road venue, the Event is a Hill Climb. Race Control runs the track, and you must obey its flags immediately.

Time Attack is free running, in sessions of about 20 minutes, two or three per class, with up to 16 cars on track at once. Set as many laps as you like, and come in to work on the car whenever you want.

A big class is split into groups by draw, and the groups take turns going first, so nobody always gets the same track conditions.

Your best valid lap of the day is your result. A lap does not count if you cut the course, exceed the track limits, impede a car on a timed lap, or set it under a yellow or red flag. You lose that lap only.

At a road venue, the Event is a Hill Climb: one car at a time, usually three runs, and your best time counts. There is no Exhibition Race, and no working on the car during the session.

Timing runs from the start line to the finish line, and the class order is by fastest time, fastest first.

Remember, you are not racing the other cars. You are racing the clock, and so is everyone in your class.

Your fastest lap, or your fastest run on a Hill Climb, is your result for the Event, and the class order runs from the fastest to the slowest. Ties are broken by the next fastest lap.

At a Qualifying Event at a circuit, the top eight of each class race, gridded by fastest lap. One formation lap, a standing start, and eight laps unless the Event sets another distance.

The race is for the day. Its winner takes an award, but it does not change the class order, and it decides no championship. Race clean: etiquette and overtaking rules apply.

Up to 32 Drivers enter a class, in the order entries were accepted, so enter early. Over 16, the class runs in session groups.

The class order of the Event is by fastest lap, or fastest run on a Hill Climb. The top three in each class win prizes on the day, and the top four earn a place at the CKB Finals.

Every CKB Team represents a region, not a sponsor. In Japan, each prefecture has one Team. Outside Japan, each approved region has one Team.

• You declare your Team when you register. It is where you are from or drive the most.
• New Teams are automatically added to the running when new Drivers register to compete.
• It is your Team for the Season, unless the League approves a transfer.
• A Team can enter any number of Drivers, so bring your friends.
• A Team may take a corporate sponsor, but its name always starts with its prefecture.

At every Event, your Team’s two best-placed Drivers in each class earn Team Points. Your Team’s Event Score adds together its two best class results. A class result is your Team’s best Team Points score in that class.

A Team with more Drivers has no advantage. Only the two best-placed Drivers from each Team score in each class. Other Drivers from the same Team are removed from the order before Team Points are given out, so extra Drivers cannot push another Team’s Drivers down the points.

Drivers’ Championship

• A Season has anywhere from four to eight Qualifying Events, then the CKB Finals, the last Event, where the champions are decided.
• At each Qualifying Event, the top four Drivers of each class qualify for the CKB Finals. Accept your place before the next Qualifying Event.
• At the CKB Finals, the fastest lap of the CKB Finals Time Attack makes the Sprint Series champion of each class. Then every CKB Finals Driver starts the Exhibition Race, the Season’s finale.

Team Championship

• Each Team’s Event Scores from every Event, including the CKB Finals, are added up into a Season Score.
• The Team with the highest Season Score wins the Team Championship.
• The prize pool pays the top eight Teams, split equally among the Drivers who scored for each.

Drive clean, and never drive impaired. Reckless or unsporting driving can cost you the Event, or your place in the Season. Treat all participating Drivers, staff, officials and spectators with respect, and follow all venue rules on Event day.

You can protest a result for free, in writing, within 30 minutes unless the Event specifically sets another time.