Group ND Racing is for cars built between 1 January, 1973 to 31 December, 1984.

Start date

The Start date of 1 January 1973 was chosen to continue on from where the current NA, NB and NC classes currently end at 31 Decenmer 1972.

End Date

The End Date of 31 December 1984 was chosen for various reasons

• it is just past the Effective end of Gp C in Australia and at the widespread adoption of GpA locally and internationally.
• C&A Heritage are an established historic category that only cater for original logbooked GpC and GpA  race cars, but  they have proven there is considerable interest in this time period.
• Stopping at 1984 largely eliminates the entry of emerging 'supercars" like the R32 Skyline (Godzilla) and Sierra Cosworth, both of which will widen the performance gap in any event, as well as being technically very complex and thus expensive to race by amateurs, and equally difficult to regulate.  

Whist there were a few very high performance touring cars produced in the early to mid 1980's like the Audi Quattro sport, it is believed most models (if not all) were made in very small volumes and/or only sold to race teams, and will therefore be excluded from Nd on the basis they are not mass-produced for public purchase.

Currently there exists a hole in the available racing classes for people who want to race cars made after 1972 either because of personal preference or because they find other classes such as 3J, 2B and 2F unaffordable. There needs to be room for more amateur motor racing in the proposed ND era and beyond. 

The image below shows the number of entrants spread across the various years for each of the existing classed. The classes are also arranged vertically from affordable at the bottom (Sprints) to unaffordable at the top (C&A)

Historic Racing is basically for sedans and not sports cars, Cars that MSA have already classified as a Sports Car will not be eligable for Group ND Racing.

The vehicle used must have been available for purchase during the date ranges specified above but the actual car used can have a build date outside of the date range.

For run on models, the body used can be from beyond 31 Decenmer 1984 but the exterior apperance and engine used must be consistant with a vehicle made before 31 December 1984

For run in models, the body used can be from before 1 January, 1973 but the exterior apperance and engine used must be consistant with a vehicle made after1 January, 1973.

An example of a "run on model" is the E30 BMW which was built from 1982 to 1994 but you can only use the engines that were availaible up until 31 December 1984 ie you cant run a 2.7L engine.

An example of a "run-in model" is the Triumph 2500 which was built from late 1969 to early 1978 with trivial changes to items like grilles and bumpers over the life. Any such shell is acceptable provided the key visual factors such has grille, are a post 72 specification Model

Group ND is being developed to align with the Motor Sport Australia (MSA) framework. The Group ND Regulations will require both General Requirements and Specific Requirements as per the current Motor Sport Australia Manual,5th Category Historic Cars.

5TH CATEGORY – HISTORIC CARS

General Requirements

Group ND will basically align with the current MSA General Requirements for Historic Race cars, Some minor changes will probably be need to the existing wording to include the words ND along with some definitiosn for newer technolgies that Group ND brings into Historic Racing such as Forced Induction and Fuel Injection. 

Specific Requirements

Group ND will require a complete new set of Specific Requirements very similar to the existing Specific Requirements for other Historic Racing Classes that extend the General Requirements. The new Specific Requirments will touch on teh following subjects

Group ND Specific Requirements

Group ND will require Vehicle Specifications to be developed for each log booked vehicle as per the existing Na, Nb and Nc regulations.

Group ND Racing are suggesting that more stringent and Era Specific vehicle specifications will required