Stock/Superstock Association Spokane, WA

[Paul Plummer]

Originally Posted by Sean Kennedy

The problem seems to be up here it's hard to get any class guys to show up for anything less than a divisonal race. Most of them won't even run national opens it seems like. The other issue is that if you loosen up the rules, most stock racers don't like racing 'bracket' guys, even though is just a glorified bracket race.

The only way to make it work is to have a really good payout. Something like 100$ to win, and hopefully pays at least 1000 to win. If you can get 20 - 30 cars you can do that and actually pay out some round money too.

I don't have a stock legal motor in my car at the moment, but if the rules are more lax I would be interested.

Great input......actually it would be great to get some of the existing stock & superstock guys interested in the association but for many great reasons, cost, travel, payouts, etc. likely an exercise in futility.

I think the main focus of the local/regional association would be attracting "new blood", people who have always wanted to class race or people who class raced in the past but were eliminated based on the high cost to compete. People like you who may not have a legal class motor but who's car is for all intents a stocker.

As far as format goes the collective association would need to agree on the format, classifications,rules etc. As far as format, here is something some of the other groups are doing.

The eliminator would be just like stock eliminator is today without the mandatory heads-up if two cars in the same class happen to get paired up. Yes, just foot brake bracket racing - the only difference is no one will have to play the shut-off at 1000' game to avoid the heads-up race. This would get a lot of newbies into the association and everyone would have a fair shot at winning an event.

More importantly, each event would also have a class race. This would offer something for the go fast guys to run every round heads-up, plus offer the fans something they can actually understand (no shoe polish and the first one to the end wins).

In its infancy, the association would probably not have a large enough draw to have many cars in each class. So until we could get this association built up maybe the class event starts out as some class/heads-up racing and some grudge racing - still heads-up and still fun for fans and racers.

At the end of the day, if we could organize a group of 20-30 racers who would be willing to attend 1-3 events per summer I think we could put together a great association and some fun drag racing.

If we can get this off the ground, I will gladly donate all of the time and effort to get this organized as well as put up some $$ to sponsor the class/association events.