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2011 brings a first for the Oregon Double Shot Series traditional sprint cars run as they will run with wings on for 3 races and have 13 races in the non wing traditional topless fashion.

Founded 9 years ago and standing as the Northwest oldest and longest standing non wing group, the Oregon Double Shot Series (ODSS) originally ran with wings on but switched to the traditional non-wing configuration in approximately 2002.

In an effort to promote traditional non wing open wheel cars, sprint car guru Mike McCann formed a group of midget racers which ran under the Northern Outlaw Midget Association name or NOMA until this year. Combining NOMA with his United Sprint Car Association Mike saw the opportunity to present a combined class of midgets and sprint cars for the fans to enjoy and re-named them the Oregon Double Shot Series. The former group ran under the Inter Mountain Sprint Car Series headline. McCann is the sole responsible person that resurrected single handedly, non wing sprint cars and midgets in this region. His vision was to bring back to life a long missing part of motorsports history in the Northwest.

2011 the NOMA group has been combined with the Washington Midget Association Dirt series in an effort to promote higher car counts to help enhance the excitement of open wheel dirt midgets. The ODSS looks forward to and will share several event dates with the WMRA series this coming season.

The season ahead finds the ODSS running 3 traditional non wing events at Grays Harbor Raceway Park. Located in Elma Washington and approximately 20 miles due west of Olympia the Grays Harbor facilities are second to none. Elma is a 3/8 mile high speed track that is very well groomed and has a huge fan base that supports the track from all over the Northwest.

Continuing into 2011 the ODSS will find itself running 7 race dates at Cottage Grove Speedway located in Cottage Grove Oregon. Cottage Grove has a long history of Sprint Car racing and is a fan favorite destination for everyone looking for the fast paced action that takes place on the high bank 1/4 mile track.

Central Oregon’s Madras Speedway rounds out the ODSS schedule in 2011 with 6 race dates. Three (3) of those dates will be traditional non-wing race dates and three (3) will be wing races. The 3 races at Madras will have a separate points system from the non wing races with trophies awarded to the top 3 member winners in the class at the ODSS banquet at the end of the season.



Feel free to checkout our schedule and visit the Oregon Double Shot Series on

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oregon-Double-Shot-Series/75964326497

More information can also be had by calling the ODSS Business manager Wayne Van Raden at 800-522-0099 days.

Adding to this Mike McCann is also the one that got the 360 Sprints as the headline class at Cottage Grove Speedway formally Riverside Speedway in Cottage Grove, Oregon in 1983 or 84.

The Inter mountain Sprint Series ran at Sunset Speedway Banks, OR and Madras Speedway Madras, OR. Before going only Nonwing in 2002.

ODSS aka USCA United Sprint Car Assosiation. Now just ODSS with the loss of the NOMA Midgets has ran at the Following Tracks

Oregon

SOS - Southern Oregon Speedway White City, OR

The Grove - Cottage Grove Speedway, OR

Coos Bay Speedway Coos Bay, OR

Sunset Speedway Bank, OR

River City Speedway St Helens, OR

Madras Speedway Madras ,OR

There have been invites to run at Tracks in Washington Grays Harbor and Skagit.

But the ODSS being a working mans, low buck club. Most of the members of the Driver reps thought it was to far togo for a one day show.

And as put in another post on here there was a split in 2008. The reasoning being that some drivers and car owner didn't like the way the ODSS was doing the pill draws. If you were fast and put on a good show you got to draw first. At the time ODSS was an invitational Series. And the only Nonwing Club running in the Nowrthwest on a regular basis. If you made the Promotor mad by gripping you got to draw last. But the biggest thing was when the Promotor decided to run the last race in 2007 with the high point drivers on the front row of the heats that was the last straw, 2008 was just a bad year for Nonwing racing in Oregon. Things got said that were way out of line and cause heart feelings.

After all the club was there to have fun being around each other. And racing Nonwing Sprints not for the Money, for the fans to see a good Nonwing race. Most of the teams that run the other series were not there at the beginning of the ODSS in 2002.