Vic Santos Memorial Race - June 7th

[T. Boucher]

ASRA last a long time supporter with the passing of Vic Santos last year. He was well respected as a racer, a tuner, and even more as a person. He was involved with ASRA since its inception in 1982 as a driver, car owner, crew chief, and board member. He was a key contributor to the bylaws that we operate under today.

With the support of Boucher's Racing Engines, ASRA is honored to announce that our race on Saturday, June 7th at New England Dragway will be held in memory of Vic Santos. Tom and Mary Boucher were long time friends of Vic and his wife Judy.

Boucher's Racing Engines is contributing $1,000 to the purse and ASRA will be contributing an additional $250. The increase payout will provide an extra $650 to the winner, $300 to the runner up, and $150 to each semifinalist. For ASRA Members, this now makes the winners purse a guaranteed $2,300 to win and $1,100 runner up with round money still starting with a 1st round win.

As with prior memorial races run in conjunction with ASRA, if there is anyone interested in making additional donations to the race purse in honor of Vic Santos, please reach out to any of the board of directors.

Stickers have also been made in remembrance of Vic. ASRA will be selling them for $3 each or 2/$5. All proceeds will go towards the memorial race purse. They will be available at our rules meeting on February 8th. For those interested that can't attend the rules meeting or one of our races, stickers can be shipped with additional cost to cover postage. Please contact me at tboucher1122@gmail.com with any requests and I'll do my best to respond as promptly as possible.

Thanks

[T. Boucher]

With just over 2 weeks before we open the 2025 ASRA season, here is the current outlook for the Vic Santos Memorial Race on June 7th at New England Dragway.

We've had numerous individuals contribute to this memorial race and they have to be thanked for their support in honoring a long standing contributor to the racing community and ASRA:

Donations of $1,000+
Peter Foster, East Coast Tire
Tom and Mary Boucher, Boucher's Racing Engines
Mark Callanan, Atlantic Drywall
Jim Boudreau, Jim Boudreau's Automotive Service Center

Donations of $500+
Jim Whitehead, Whitehead Motors
Tim Stickles, Gutters By Design
Mike Sullivan, Malden Machine

Donations
ASRA
Ted Mazzotta
Brian Fink
Gary Parker
Pete Merceri
Val and Deb DiGenova
George Labelle, Performance Distributing
Mathiew Beriault and the Beriault Family
Joel McMahon
Brady Jezewski
Brad Rose
Davey Farris
Dean Ribeiro
Tom Pickett
Pat Aubin, AEI Subsurface

How the money is awarded to participants was at the discretion of those that made the contributions. Some wanted their contributions to go to members only while others wanted their contributions to go to any participant. The generosity of these individuals allow the current payouts to be guaranteed! $6,700 to win for members!

ASRA Members
(Track Payout + Membership Payout + Memorial Race Payout)
Winner: $6,700
R/U: $2,900
Semi: $1,070

Non Members
(Track Payout + Memorial Race Payout)
Winner: $2,850
R/U: $1050
Semi: $310

There is still the opportunity to contribute to this race if anyone is interested. Please reach out to me at tboucher1122@gmail.com. There are still memorial stickers available as well.

Thanks

[RKelliher]

Wish I make could the race but engine not done yet. good luck to all.

[T. Boucher]

We continue to have contributions roll in for this race and the payout details have been updated above. Thanks to those all that have contributed. We are now up to a guaranteed payout of $5500 for members!!

I think the value of the ASRA speaks for itself, but here is my sales pitch on why one should really consider being a member:

Race with us on June 7th, pay $85 at the gate and then join the association before first round for $350. You are now eligible for the full $5500 payout for the Santos Memorial race. Stay Sunday for the 2nd race of the double header and pay the $85 gate fee and now you are running for $1750 guaranteed to win along with a variety of bonus programs.

Have so much fun that you want to attend more ASRA races and join us for the double at Lebanon Valley and other remaining races. 4 more races with an $85 gate fee and you are running for a guaranteed $1750 to win at each race. No need to worry about car count. Do well enough and qualify for the 16 car shoot-out (free race) that pays the winner at least $1000 guaranteed (Total purse in excess of $3k in 2024, the more members, the larger the purse). You're also eligible for end of your top ten purse that pays the season champion at least $1,000 guaranteed (Total points purse in excess of $3500 the last 14 years running, more members equals more money here as well).

That's a lot of guaranteed payouts for a membership investment that costs less than a national event entry. Always willing to answer any questions one might have.

[Jim Whitehead]

If Mother Nature prevents the memorial race on Saturday, will it be run on Sunday ?? Or will that race be rescheduled ??

[Marc LaBrecque]

Originally Posted by Jim Whitehead

If Mother Nature prevents the memorial race on Saturday, will it be run on Sunday ?? Or will that race be rescheduled ??

Jim , the BOD will get together and get a answer soon .

[Marc LaBrecque]

With the impending weather we hope to make a decision on this weekends schedule by end of dayThursday . Stay tuned to CR and the ASRA Facebook site .

[tstickff]

Curious as to why the Vic Santos race wouldn?t be held Sunday and the reg all star race for Sunday would be postponed to the rain date? People have left their trailers after the national specifically for this race, can you explain the hang ups with the decision?

Tim Stickles

[T. Boucher]

Originally Posted by tstickff

Curious as to why the Vic Santos race wouldn?t be held Sunday and the reg all star race for Sunday would be postponed to the rain date? People have left their trailers after the national specifically for this race, can you explain the hang ups with the decision?

Tim Stickles

Tim - I'll take primary responsibility for not wanting to make a final decision until Thursday. There are a lot of things we have to consider before changing schedules when we have limited dates to work with (and our rain-out date being in conflict with a national open). Knowing weather forecasts can literally change overnight, holding off on a final decision until Thursday isn't unreasonable. That doesn't mean we haven't been evaluating a variety of possibilities. I do appreciate the patience as we take one more day to finalize and communicate plans. When mother nature doesn't cooperate, any decision we make is going to cause an a** ache for somebody.

To be clear, the absolute priority is to run the memorial race this weekend and that is the goal. There's a few different ways to try and tackle this and deal with moving the "regular" race around to accommodate.

Heck, NHRA has no problem running us in the rain so why not do the same for an ASRA race

[T. Boucher]

Support continues to come in for the Memorial Race and payout details have been updated in prior post. Up to $6,600 to win if you are a member!

Thanks to everyone that has made generous contributions in memory of Vic Santos.