Support your local Combo/Association races!!

[Alan Roehrich]

I'm pretty sure the car count at the last Bowling Green race was 66 cars.

Bowling Green has a good program for several reasons.

The track supports it, the payout is good, the entry fee is fair, and there is a points program.

Other businesses support it. NitroPlate, TCI/Comp Cams, Quick Fuel, and a few others support the Bowling Green races.

The location is good, there are a lot of really good racers with really good cars close by, or at least within reasonable driving distance.

We have heads up races, a regular ladder, and NHRA classes, and we have that because that is what the racers want. I honestly think that if we did away with the ladder and heads up runs, we'd lose maybe 30% of the car count.

No, we do not have "tech inspection". We have the "honor system". Everyone who races at the Bowling Green combo races knows everyone else there. I don't think it would work out well for anyone to try to get over on the group that races at Bowling Green. There are enough people at Bowling Green who know enough about Stock and Super Stock to know real quick if there is anything going on. The group takes it seriously, it's a matter of pride and reputation. These people love to race, if anyone tried to pull something, they'd be caught, and I doubt they'd come back.

As one guy who races the Bowling Green series has said, "if you got caught cheating here, and you would if you did it, I think the "blanket party" held in your honor would make it unlikely you'd ever do it again".

Yes, we'd like to have tech inspection. I'd bet Travis would do it for us, and at a fair price. But asking one man to tech 60 cars is asking a lot, of him and the schedule. We'd like to have fuel check as well. Again, time and man power is a problem.


Honestly, heads up races are not common, we have a pretty good split between Stock and Super Stock, there are rarely more than 3 cars out of a 60+ car field in the same class. We're usually part of the three car groups, in SS/EA it's Ryan Haag, Rusty Perkins, and us, in AA/SA, it's the Knight brothers, Thomas Arnett, and us, depending on which car we bring, this year it has been the SS/EA car. I think in the last 2-3 years, we've had maybe 2 or 3 heads up races.