Two S/SS races Nov 1-2, Hagerstown MD, $2,000 or more to win

[Mike Carr]

Mason-Dixon Stock/Super Stock Fall Classic, November 1-2

Open to all NHRA and IHRA-legal S/SS cars, as well as Nostalgia/Super Stock.
All NHRA/IHRA cars must dial their Class Index or quicker. Using IHRA Indexes, or current NHRA Index +.3 (11.30 A/SA, 10.00 SSA/A, etc). N/SS dial to the nearest hundredth.
Mason-Dixon Dragway, Hagerstown MD
On US 40, approx. four miles east of I-70 exits 32; 1/2 mile east of the big Sheetz at state route 66.

Weekend schedule:
Early parking all week.

Saturday November 1
Gates open: 9 am
Test and Tune 12pm-5pm; $30 (paid to track). Crew/spectators $10
T-n-T is not called in sessions. You just go up when you want to make a run. Usually we have dedicated lanes to us. When first round is called (approx 2:30 pm), you come up and pay us your $50 entry if you haven't already. Random pairing for first round. First round bye run chosen at random. If you are chosen, please move over out of line if you can. Cars laddered for second round based on winning reaction times. If a tie, closest to the dial (on the plus side first) wins. If still a tie, the driver doing it first gets the higher spot on the ladder. Round money starts $50 third round loser.
Racers dinner: 7:00 pm, Hard Times Cafe (across from the now-closed Crazy Horse)

Sunday November 2
Gates open: 9 am
Time trials: 11:30 am
$10 tech card fee, paid to the track. $10 crew/spectator. Two time trials. First round will follow, $100 entry, at least $2K to win. First round random pairings. Bye run, if there is one, goes to the driver with the best reaction time on the final time trial (we will pull you to the side and let you run last). Cars laddered for round 2 by RT, same as Saturday. Round money starts $100 third round loser. Guaranteed $2,000 (or more) to win.

Last two races for the 2014 Tri-State S/SS Association (and last two points events).
Pay your entry in the morning each day during first time trial. If you break and can not make first round that day, half of your entry is refunded (the other half into the race purse).

Bonus money into each days race: $50 into Saturday and $100 into Sunday, thanks to Jim Lydon. Also a prize package to each days winner thanks to Dennis Roberts of www.robertsfamilymotorsports.com

Example payouts each day:
Saturday $50 race, 40 cars ($2,050 purse)
3rd round - $50
4th round - 100
5th round - 200 (semis)
Runner-up and Win - 450 and 950

Sunday, $100 race, 60 cars ($6,100 purse)
3rd round - $100
4th round - 200
5th round - 500 (semis)
Runner-up and Win - 1,200 and 2,400

And, as always, more cars = biger purses = higher payouts. If any racers, companies, etc would like to get involved with the race, please let me know. Contributions can be anything. Money into the purse(s), Long distance tow, best first round package, first dead-on-with-a zero, etc, whatever you would like to do. My e-mail and phone number are in my signature on here.

This will be the fifth year of having at least $2,000 to win on the Sunday event. Two of the last three years, we have had over seventy cars for the weekend. And this will be one of the highest paying S/SS combo races in the country, even without the benefit of major sponsorship. And it will be the twentieth straight year for me to be at this event helping in some fashion. Always a great way to end the year, to race one more weekend for some darn good money and see many of our friends one last time before winter. Yes, it can get a little chilly here in November, but I have been there when it was near/above eighty degrees. The track works great and the air can be FAST (we had a year once where the air never got worse than +200' DA on Saturday). The kind of air that is good for bigtime runs.

Fore more information, call Mike Carr (724) 510-5912

Hope to see you November 1-2 for the annual Mason-Dixon S/SS Fall Classic !!