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move down into Auto B.) If you are going up in speed, your vehicle must qualify for the higher speed, i.e., the tires must be rated high enough.

4. If you change class under this rule, your first run, if there was one, will be discarded from scoring. However, if your first run was in excess of 5 MPH over your original Tech Speed limit, you will still receive the official warning referred to in Breakout Rule 2. And if the first run was more than 10 MPH over your original Tech Speed limit, the Event Disqualification rule could still apply. WATCH YOUR SPEED on your first run!
    
5. If you change class under this rule, you may also change your Index Challenge speed selection, if you are entered in that optional competition. 
    

• Breakout Rule

1. Exceeding one’s Tech Speed limit by any amount will cause that run to not be scored. 
    
2. Exceeding it by more than 5 MPH will cause a warning to be issued, the first time it happens.
    
3. After the warning above has been issued, if there is another infraction of more than 5 MPH over your Tech Speed, a Breakout is deemed to have occurred. This will cause a bump, or forced move, within the same division, to the next higher class in which the speed would have been legal, if the vehicle qualifies for that higher class.
    
• If no suitable higher class is available in the same division, the vehicle being bumped can be moved up to run in an appropriate higher class in a higher division, but only if all the requirements are met to run in that higher division and class. This does not apply to Pure Street cars, which cannot leave their division.
   
• If the vehicle does not qualify for the bump, due to not meeting requirements for the higher class or division, or for any other reason, the driver/rider will be disqualified from any further runs with that vehicle.
   
• As part of being “bumped”, any speed runs previously made by that driver/rider with that vehicle, will also be transferred to the new higher class. It will be as though he/she had originally entered in that higher class. However, runs that exceeded the previous Tech Speed will still not be scored. 
   
• The “bump-up” reclassification will still take effect even if the vehicle makes no more runs.
   
• Alternate Drivers/Riders cannot bump up at all; if they break out, they are disqualified. In this situation, vehicle reclassification will not occur.
   
4. Only one bump-up is allowed. After that, even one more Tech Speed infraction of more than 5 MPH (over the new, higher tech speed) will cause that driver/rider to be disqualified from any further runs with that vehicle, and may result in Event Disqualification of the driver/rider.
    
5. A flagrantly high Tech Speed violation (more than 10 MPH over) may cause immediate Event Disqualification of the driver/rider.