80edays

Category I – Standard
Standard 100% electric car – not modified. Two drivers per team.
A) Adventurer class: Both drivers have to be all 80 days together with the car – transport over seas included.
B) Business class: One or both drivers can leave the car for transport overseas and go home (assumed driving time 30 days).

Category II – Autopilot
100% electric vehicle, shall drive 80% of the driven route by itself. Two drivers per team.
A) Adventurer class: Both drivers have to be all 80 days together with the car – transport over seas included.
B) Business class: One or both drivers can leave the car for transport overseas and go home (assumed driving time 30 days).

Category III – Converted
100% electric vehicle, can be converted or built from scratch. Has to have license plates and drive permits for all crossing countries. Two or more drivers per team.
A) Adventurer class: Both drivers have to be all 80 days together with the car – transport over seas included.
B) Business class: One or both drivers can leave the car for transport overseas and go home (assumed driving time 30 days).

Category IV – Multi
Standard 100% electric vehicle – not modified. Two or more drivers per team.
A) Not applicable.
B) Business class: In this category only business class is applicable. Drivers can change whenever they want.

Category V – Part
Standard 100% electric vehicle – not modified. Two or more drivers per team but not making the whole around the world but a part of it.
1) Europe crossing from Barcelona to the west coast
2) America crossing East – West
3) Asia crossing Guangzhou – Kiev
4) Europe crossing Kiev – Barcelona

Only teams starting in class A will be added to the Hall of Fame of Circumnavigators.

Only 100% electric cars are allowed to participate.
Traffic rules have to be followed.
Night driving is not recommended especially
not in Kazakhstan (bad roads).
No towing or transporting of the car in the direction of the aim is allowed, backward transportation in case of a technical problem is permitted.
In Category I – IV the vehicle has to drive itself the whole way on it’s own wheels.
Every 80edays tree has to be visited and a picture of the team beside of the tree has to be uploaded to the 80edays website.
Every team will get points for joining events and sympathy points from the audience.
Sponsors are welcome to award teams at the finish line.
Driving home is not allowed during the whole time of the event for any team starting in class A.
Any kind of announcement of personal records done in the frame of 80edays is not allowed.
The slowest charger has always priority in case of meeting at a charge point.
Teams can ask the stewards for rule exceptions.
Exception example: A team is not able to catch up and asks to make a short cut skipping obligatory stops.
The stewards have to be asked for rule exceptions or breaches.

Rule breaches:
The stewards decide if a team will be disqualified.
The first rule breach leads to a warning and can cause that the team will get a time penalty.
The second breach causes a time penalty.
The third breach leads to disqualification.
Disqualified teams will be deleted from the GPS tracking list so that fans won’t be able to follow them.
They are not allowed to join any following 80edays event.

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