Maple Grove 50th Anniversary Stk / SS Series

[Marty Rinehart Jr]

Before anyone reads anything into this!
This series is not intended to try to compete with Dave Ley's series. In fact, we want to work with Dave and his crew as we all know, he runs great events. Lex is all for working with Dave and not against him.

[Brian VP]

Originally Posted by Marty Rinehart Jr

Before anyone reads anything into this!
This series is not intended to try to compete with Dave Ley's series. In fact, we want to work with Dave and his crew as we all know, he runs great events. Lex is all for working with Dave and not against him.

Marty,
I don't think that anyone thinks that Lex is trying to compete with any other races but in the long run it does compete with everything. Most people nowadays have to tighten up and race less because of the world around us. Because of this people have to pick and choose. Even if in a perfect world you could get all races schedule without conflicting with any other in my calculations, that would be 23 races on 27 weekends. Don't you think that with a schedule such as this all the races are competing?

[Dave Casey]

This is a great idea and I compliment Lex and co on considering it.

That being said, everyone's comments have merit, the most being scheduling. having done the ASRA stk/ss schedule myself for a number of years, it is the hardest thing. I suggest that Lex and co look at the schedule and come up with what they can for non conflicting dates and run with it. 5 dates will be tough to find, but your season is a little longer than up in the mass/ny/nh/ct area. Maybe Dave and Lex could run races on the same weekend, one saturday, one sunday.

Michael's comment about points purse I understand, but personnaly i think points brings more cars in than a bigger purse. Some of our best highlights at our ASRA races have been related to points.

Vic, with the expense of racing and the time involved, I don't think you will have a problem with legality issues and street car issues. I only say that because it has not been an issue for us at ASRA. It seems that the racers police themselves pretty well, and that is a good thing.

Hope this happens, any stock/ss race is a good thing

[Bob Don]

How about a one weekend combined ECSSSA/ASRA/50th Maple Grove Stock/SS extravaganza? Everyone earns points for their respective series. Have a race on Saturday and one on Sunday with Wallys and big purses.

[Don Fardie]

Sounds like a Road Trip to me...

[Michael Beard]

Who exactly are all of these hoards of unknown Pure Stockers and "IHRA cars" that are infiltrating combos in the Northeast?

[robzneed4speed]

Originally Posted by Bob Don

How about a one weekend combined ECSSSA/ASRA/50th Maple Grove Stock/SS extravaganza? Everyone earns points for their respective series. Have a race on Saturday and one on Sunday with Wallys and big purses.

I'm there!

[Chris1529]

Dave Casey wrote:

"Vic, with the expense of racing and the time involved, I don't think you will have a problem with legality issues and street car issues. I only say that because it has not been an issue for us at ASRA. It seems that the racers police themselves pretty well, and that is a good thing."

I don't think it is up to us to police the cars. I think the gentlemen running the race need to ensure competitors show proof of a valid competition #, and unless it is their first race, I would like to see some sort of evidence they have raced the car at an NHRA or IHRA race. A weight sticker, decal, stats from Nitro Joe, some evidence that the car has competed at a sanctioned race and been deemed legal to compete. I think that is fair. I know I only race an IHRA crate motor stocker, not a tried and true NHRA car, but in my opinion, you really can't say you race a stock/superstock car if you only race once or twice a year at a non-sanctioned combo. It is simply not fair to the other competitors who put serious time, effort, and money into racing.