Class Nationals event planning

[Michael Beard]

There were 108 Stockers at Columbus this weekend. Only 7 were Div. 1 cars. One month ago, the Lebanon Valley Div. 1 LODRS event drew 111 Stockers, with not a single Div. 3 car. The Cordova Div. 5 event drew 54 Stockers, with 25 Div. 3 cars... just looking at three representative events, there were over 250 Stockers in competition... and that's not even looking at the other divisions! With the right weather to go along with our date and location, it's a very real possibility that we could see over 200 Stockers and 180 Super Stockers at the Northern Class Nationals.

We've already gone through our first short run of promotional decals. We'll make more. Thanks to everyone who is helping to spread the word!


In order to keep the staging lanes from being a cluster and racers having to sit in the lanes forever, we will be randomly distributing colored "run decals" when you go through tech. They serve multiple purposes, not only as a commemorative participant decal, but also to verify that a car has gone through tech, and allows us to mark off Qualifying runs. In the event of a 'cleanup' session, we'll easily be able to tell who still has a run left to make. We will call cars to the lanes by colors, for example Stock RED, Stock BLUE, Super Stock RED, Super Stock BLUE. We use run stickers at all of our big money bracket races, and it makes big car count races run MUCH smoother. We want to get you in the lanes and down the track as efficiently as possible!

(Not a final design, but just to give you an idea...)


As Nitro Joe said, this event will be ALL RUN, and Sunday's $5K main events will be laddered right from the start! We'll be done with Qualifying Saturday afternoon, leaving Nitro plenty of time to generate ladders, so everyone will know their pairings the night before eliminations. (although we're working behind the scenes on a way to computer-generate ladders over 128 cars and save a whooole lot of "handiwork") If you can, hook up with your dance partner in the morning and come to the lanes together. Many of us were asked to do so at the Norwalk National event due to cramped quarters behind the rear of staging, and it made the pairing process much easier on everyone involved.

'Course this is all stuff we'll go over in the weeks leading up to the event, but "while we're thinking of it..."