Objective foundation
Define the specification before judging the car.
Race cars evolve continuously. Their identity is tied not simply to a model year, but to a particular event, season or competitive configuration.
race-car judging begins with 60 Technical Points, assessed against an agreed race specification — the configuration in which the car competed at a defined event, for example the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans. The reference is established jointly: the entrant provides documentation of the chosen configuration, and the judging team researches and confirms it. Deductions then address confirmed deviations from that reference, limited to a maximum of two points per section — as in every M100 judging form.
Up to 40 Award Points then recognise history in two layers, assessed within the class: up to 20 points for the significance of the model within motorsport history, and up to 20 points for the individual competition history of the chassis. Together they can reach the full 100 points.
In motorsport, achievement weighs more heavily than absolute correctness — this is deliberate. The balance remains with one qualified team: the judges entrusted to deduct Technical Points are also entrusted to award history points, ensuring that significance is recognised without excusing a car that no longer represents its history credibly.
Establish the reference
The entrant documents the event, season or period specification; the judging team researches and confirms it before judging begins.
Assess correctness
Evaluate the restoration, presentation and components against that documented configuration.
Add historic context
Recognise the importance of both the model type and the individual chassis.
Two layers of history
Model significance and individual achievement.
Two examples of the same race-car model may be equally correct yet carry very different histories. M100 makes that distinction visible through two complementary layers of positive scoring.
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Model history
Up to 20 points: how influential or successful was this type of car within motorsport history?
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Individual history
Up to 20 points: what did this particular chassis achieve, and which events or drivers define its provenance?
In motorsport, correctness establishes the car. Competition history distinguishes it.
Illustrative example
Not every GT40 carries the same story.
Two Ford GT40s may share the same model significance. A chassis such as 1075, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968 and 1969, nevertheless carries far greater individual significance than an otherwise comparable chassis whose best results were second or third place. Both may be excellent and correctly restored. Their individual competitive histories are different — and M100 allows the score to reflect that difference.
The result
A race car is judged as a technical object and a historic actor.
This layered approach rewards accurate presentation while preserving the meaning of what the individual automobile actually accomplished.