Driver Grades

For the 2025 season drivers are again divided into 3 grades for racing - Premier, Main, and Clubman.   Everybody is eligible for overall victory.    Drivers in Main and Novice grade are eligible for Main grade trophies.  Only drivers in Clubman (aka Novice) grade are eligible for Clubman grade trophies.    

There was also the Masters grade which was removed for 2023.

The details are somewhat complicated, for the full details see the BSCRA Handbook - PART 3 .

For the main changes to who is in which grade see 2025 Driver Grades , The changes over the last few years are :-

 2024 changes            2023 changes        2022 changes     2020 / 2021 changes   2019 changes    2018 changes   2017 changes   2016 changes

Driver Ranking

The driver ranking system places drivers in a ranking order based on their results.   The system used to calculate the rankings is fully explained on a separate page.  The ranking list is sometimes used to decide the order in  which drivers take their qualifying runs at race meetings.