If you’ve competed in Rev It Up before, you understand the basic idea – we bring the cars, helmets, gas, pit crew, cones and timing equipment. You bring the fast.

For the rookies in the crowd, here’s the way it all works:

• On each day at each event, one of the Rev It Up Pro Drivers establishes the Index for the current track and weather conditions. If conditions change significantly, like rain, locusts or track temperature, a new Pro Driver Index will be set (typically several times a day).
  
  
• Then you go out and try to beat the Pro. Good luck, it’s only happened once in four years. Barring that, try to set the best score. Your score is a product of how close your time comes to the Pro Driver Index – the theoretical perfect score of 1000 points.
  
  
• The total score for each driver equals Lap Time minus Penalties. Penalties are given for hitting cones, as well as for other infractions outlined in the Official Rules and Regulations.
  
  
• Your highest score of two timed runs determines your ranking.
  
  
• The drivers with the highest scores for the day (10 on Friday and 25 on Saturday, for a total of 35 in each city), regardless of skill level-based class, advance to the final Corvette Challenge, where they compete again – fresh times, fresh laps but in Corvettes instead of Cobalts.
  
  
• The Corvette Challenge is run at the end of each day’s competition and you are personally responsible for checking if you qualified.
  
  
• The person with the highest score at each of the six individual Events, regardless of classification, receives two days of instruction at the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving (like they need it). Individuals are eligible to win one City/Event prize package only.
  
  
• The ultimate winner, the best of all regional indexed scores, is named Rev It Up 2007 National Champion. To the victor go the spoils, in this case a brand new 430-horsepower 2008 Chevrolet Corvette.
  
  
• Awards are also given to those with the highest scores posted in each driving class in each city. These are called Piloti Hot Shoe Awards, which makes sense since Piloti – one of our partners – makes hot shoes.
  

Results will be posted (on the results page) after each of the six regional events, plus there’s a good chance we’ll post some pictures so you can show your Mom. If that’s not incentive, what is?

Remember, you don’t have to win to have fun... winning’s overrated... how many tickets would you get in that Vette anyway?