A/Stick A/SA Shootout at Indy
 

It is that time of year again! Time to get ready for Indy! That means that we need to talk about the A Stick Shootout and the A/SA shootout for class again. Over the years, we have had tremendous grass roots support for this!

Past winners since we have gathered the Support for A/ Stick

2008 Brett McFarland
2009 Jim Waldo
2010 John Calvert
2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 Caleb McFarland
2013 Kevin Helms
2014 Rich Rincke
2016 Joe Martens


In A/Stick, there are some people nipping at multi champ and current holder of the traveling trophy from last year, Caleb McFarland.

As always, anyone with an interest in supporting the racers in one of both of theee classes can reach out to me directly here or call, text five63- five 05-zero 293.

Sponsor Listing ( will be updated here on this post so please check back)

A/Stick

Maple City Tire- Doug box $100 cash- winner
Henderson Race Shop- Troy Henderson- Free 3 D printed adjustable blinder- Winner
Calvert Racing-$100-winner
Calvert Racing-$50-runner up
Russell Performance- $1,000- winner
Russell Performance- $500-Runner Up
Racer Tees
AFIS ( Air Fuel Ignition Spark) Tom Jenkins- custom Racing spark plug wires-Winner
California Car Cover-Jimmy
Biondo Racing Products- sfi gloves- winner
Nitro Joe Stats subscription- Nitro- winner
Keener Investment- $200-winner
Keener Investment -$100- runner up
Hick’s Performance-$100- winner
Hick’s Performance $75-runner up
Tilburg Racing Engines $150-winner
Tilburg Racing Engines $75- runner up
Brett Saurbaugh Racing-$500- Quickest E.T. Rd. 1 Class Loser
Dave LeBrun Alan Peters Memorial award- $100 winner from Dean Cook
Dave Lebrun Alan Peters Memorial award - $50 runner up from Dean Cook
Mill City racing $100- winner- Jerry and Nick Heath


A/SA


Russell Performance- $500- winner
Russell Performance- $250- Runner up
AFIS ( Air Fuel Ignition Spark) Tom Jenkins- custom Racing spark plug wires-Winner
Maple City Tire- Doug Box $100 Cash- winner
Calvert Racing-$100 winner
Calvert Racing-$50
RacerTees
Troy Henderson- Free 3 D printed adjustable blinder- Winner
California Car Cover- Jimmy Defrank
Biondo Racing Products-sfi gloves-winner
Nitro Joe stars subscription-Nitro- winner
Ultimate Convertor Concepts- $200-winner
Tilburg Racing Engines- $150- winner
Tilburg Racing Engines-$75- runner up
Dave Le Brun Alan Peters Memorial award - $100 winner - from Dean Cook
Dave Le Brun Alan Peters Memorial award -$50 runner up- from Dean Cook
Thanks again to Ken Miele and Classracer.com for getting the word out. Indy is a tough place for anyone to get in, but A Stick is particularly challenging. It is nice to be able to reward those that run in A. Some really cool cars by the way!

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Thanks Jim for all your hard work on this deal. I would like to start it off with 100 cash to the winner of A/S and 100 cash to the winner of A/SA from Maple City Tire.

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Thanks Doug for being a multi year sponsor!

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Please check the top thread as I will update the sponsor list there. Thanks to all that support sportsman racing!

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More sponsors!

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Nitro Joe is on board again. Multi year sponsor as well! Thanks Joe!

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Blinders are done Jim. Good luck everyone!

https://i.imgur.com/wQMXDgm.jpg

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Thanks Troy! if you have not met Troy, he races an A Stick big block Camaro and his Dad and Sister compete with big block stick Novas! Troy is also an engineer and fabricator. He can make cool custom blinders, but it doesn’t end there. Check out his race shop.


https://hendersonraceshop.com/

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Some updates! We have 7 A/Stick cars entered already! Russell Performance is putting $2,000 into the purse! More to come and from what I hear A/Stick car counts can be expected to exceed a dozen! This could be the biggest A/Stick count since the 60’s!

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Hello,LOVE A/S cars.I'm trying to get mine to ya'lls level so I can join in....
I would like to contribute $100 cash for the Winner and $75 for the runnerup
in the name of Hicks Performance.Please let me know where to send the check/////////BH

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Hello,LOVE A/S cars.I'm trying to get mine to ya'lls level so I can join in....
I would like to contribute $100 cash for the Winner and $75 for the runnerup
in the name of Hicks Performance.Please let me know where to send the check/////////BH



Thanks for all your HARD work to keep this going MR Schaechter

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Things are shaping up! A/ Stick for example will Be North of 1000 cash and almost 500 value proposition product!

Working out details as the support comes in. Stay tuned! Please check back to the top for updates on sponsors

Thank you racers!

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Swag pack and $$$ came in from John and Debbie Calvert at Calvert Racing!

A/ Stick Winner is closer to $2,000 in cans and prizes A/SA approaching $1,000! Some runner up prizes as well.

Remember this is for class at Indy! Pretty good haul for that! This doesn’t count the standard contingency NHRA provides thorough their network.

This is pure grassroots sportsman racer support!

Keep it coming! Thanks to all racers and fans that keep this small part of class racing alive! Year 11 now!

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Hi James, Ultimate converter Concepts would like to donate $200 to the winner of the A/SA Shoot Out

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Thank you! Awesome !

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This is always my favorite part of Indy ?

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Brian Tilburg is supporting both class finalists again with some cold cash! Thanks Brian!

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Wow 8 A/ Stick cars already!

Looks like several A/SA entered so far

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I know that it's been said before, but I am going to say it again; thanks James for everything that you do every year for the A/Stick and A/SA Shootouts at Indy! I will be there bright and early on Wednesday Aug.28 for Stock and Super Stock qualifying; can hardly wait!

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Attention in the pits! Attention in the pits!

A/Stick Racer Brett Saurbaugh is putting up $500.00 Cash for the Quickest Losing E.T. Round one of class for A/Stick!

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Getting good! Already about $2000 cash and prizes for A/S class winner. Nearly $1000 for A/SA!

If you want to jump in, there is still time!

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We have 10 A/ Stick cars and the A/SA cars are growing. Let’s keep a positive thread going!

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Well I only had two grade points this year , lots of stuff going on , but really wanted to run the A/S challenge for the first time . With 10 cars signed up should be a really cool!! If anyone happens to not go to Indy please call me 636-2six2-six671
Thanks Tim

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Tim you should of called, I've got three points and would have happily driven your car..ha!

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Tim, I'm in the same boat as you. Lets how a couple people withdraw and we both can get in. That would make 12 A/S.

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Lets hope so Brett, 12 A/S would be awesome!!! I hope NHRA sees this and ups it back to 180

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I wish I had known that Troy lol, be better than sitting on the couch watching :(

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In memoriam of two great racers,

Dave Le Brun and Alan Peters, Dean Cook has added more $$$ for both classes.

Thanks Dean.

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Jerry and Nick Heath from Mill City Racing Ford CJ 352 Stick project- have put up another $100 for the A/ Stick winner!

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With the new reduction in the number of cars from 180 to 160 it looks like a few A/S cars will be missing this years event including me. Just heard Brett Saurbaugh was turned down with 2 grade points. Last year I got in with 1....
Oh well...

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I had e mailed this person and did get a reply. It was pretty much a canned answer, but he should hear from as many racers as possible so he can be educated. Clearly, the quota was either botched up, or they didn’t have intentions of filling SG and SC and hoped no one would notice. Maybe William will be compelled to consider a management decision if he realizes how positive it could be. Moving some of the quota from SG and SC would not impact anyone if they put them back to 180 for SS and Stock.

William Tharpe
North Central Division Director
317-406-7740 (office)
937-231-6027 (cell)
wtharpe@nhra.com

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I would argue that changing the quota from 160 to 180 does impact some racers. If you're the guy that qualifies #130 with a 180 car quota, there's a good chance that you would have made the show with 160 entries. There's probably a few racers that entered Indy with the expectation of a 160 car quota and the belief that they could qualify.

SC and SG are both around 60 entries right now but everyone knows there will be a lot more entries as Indy approaches, why give NHRA your entry money early if there's still plenty of room in those classes? Stock and SS both went from approx half full to completely filled in the last 7-10 days.

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[QUOTE=Whalen3186;593710]I would argue that changing the quota from 160 to 180 does impact some racers. If you're the guy that qualifies #130 with a 180 car quota, there's a good chance that you would have made the show with 160 entries. There's probably a few racers that entered Indy with the expectation of a 160 car quota and the belief that they could qualify.



EXACTLY! We have all known it was 160 since the season started... you wanna run The Go... then load your stuff up 4-5 times the other 51 weeks out of the year and Go to the track.

Troy Galbraith
#3506

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[QUOTE=TD3506;593713]All valid points, however, not everyone hangs on the computer all year. NHRA has been adjusting quotas in a certain way. In large part based upon the prior year. SG an SC have been no where near 160 and Stk SS have been north of 170 so it would not have been an expectation to see it drop.

2 things have always been true about Indy.

1) Easier to enter
2) harder to qualify

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It could be that SC SG racers know their categories are filling slow,and are waiting later to enter. To change their quotas now, is a little premature.

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Possibly, but we had the same situation last year with SC and SG. They were slow to fill and eventually, if my memory is correct, each only had a little over 100 entries at the deadline.

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Lee Norton and RacerTees have come through again with the coolest shirt design. Scroll up to the beginning of the thread to see the design.

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Any “A” racers on the outside looking in need to keep an eye on the # of entries....after BG there will be spots and thanks to Jim’s hard work both stick and auto class will be epic!

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Where can I get one of those Cool A/S Shoot Out 2019 Indy tees also James would like to give $50.00 to A/S winner and $50.00 to A/SA winner.
Jerry
Retired 3490 3492 STK SS SST

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Thanks Jerry! You coming to Indy? If not, call me and we can sort out the details.
5six three-505-zero293. Jim