[Michael Beard]

Been talking to Mike Beard about a Pure Stock Challenge next May in Columbus Ohio. There is already a major IHRA Sportsman race scheduled for that day. It is fairly central to a lot of states and daring opportunity for the long haulers.

The Northern Class Nationals is not "an IHRA Sportsman race". It is an independent Stock and Super Stock national event in which both NHRA and IHRA classes are welcome. It will be contested at an NHRA facility, National Trail Raceway in Hebron, OH, just east of Columbus, May 2-4, 2014.

The plan is to have a Class Elimination Run Offs There are 9 Pure Stock Classes. My company is willing put some skin in the game.

Here is my pledge, since there are 9 Pure Stock classes. My company will donate $900 purse money for a $75/$25 Win/RUP Money. Not a lot but a $100 for each Class. More would help.

Thanks for your commitment, Dan!

Class Eliminations for *all* Stock and Super Stock classes will take place on Friday, May 2, 2014. There will be high quality "Iron Tree" trophies for all Class winners. Following Class Eliminations, we will be running a pair of Quick 32 CIC races, one for Stock and one for Super Stock. Saturday will feature more qualifying, a $3K-to-win S/SS Combo, and Racer Appreciation Party, and then on Sunday, a $5K Stock Eliminator and $5K Super Stock Eliminator. We will have tech, scales, fuel check, and heads-up runs if applicable, as with any normal Divisional or National event.

Mike was telling me there maybe a huge U/SA Challenge as well.

Jack McCarthy and Terry Bell have already offered up money for a U/SA shootout. Other sponsors are welcome for this or any other class(es) (just like the A/S shootout that was put together at Indy last year). We'll publish it on the flyer, and all awards go right to the racers.

Another thought, combine all the independent S/SS Series with representatives pitting each Series against each other for S/SS World Champion bragging rights.

This was discussed on the Class Nationals event planning thread, and is something we have decided not to get into this first year. There's a tremendous amount of planning and complexity to the event, and we want to make sure that our first one goes as smoothly as possible. We'll consider additions/deletions/adjustments to the program for the following year once we get this one under our belt.

Hell video tape put it on TV taking a few sessions away from Pinks All Out.

We have already announced that we have contracted Mark Walter from DragStory.com and MotorManiaTV.com to provide fully produced 4-camera Live streaming video coverage of the event. We will have the ability to display banner ads on the Live webpage as well as cut in TV commercials from the higher level sponsors if provided.

You can keep up with all the announcements regarding the event on the original thread at: http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=44467