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February 26, 2009 at
08:49:53 AM by hook
PRACTICE TONIGHT! NOT open to the general public. So you better be holding a tire guage and have a driver to vouch you in!
$50 per car, crew free.
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PLUS good non-qualifier money!
This coming Friday and Saturday night (Feb 27th & 28th) at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track located just north of Fort Worth at the intersection of I-35W and Hwy 114 and right off the turn 2/backstretch side of the NASCAR Super Speedway, the Limited Modifieds (Southern Sport Mods & SIMS to some) join in the fun at the annual Texas World Dirt Track Championship.
Limited Modifieds pay a $110 entry fee with 2-day pit passes selling for $50. Individual day pit pass costs are $25 for Friday and $30 for Saturday. The A main pays $400 to start and non-qualifiers get at least $75 back. Here's the pay out:
There will be eight qualifying races on Saturday evening with the top 2 transferring to the A main and the rest receiving that non-qualifiers pay. That means there will be 8 non-qualifiers in all getting $300, eight more getting $200, 8 getting $150, 8 get $100 and the rest get $75 back.
The grassy spectating parking areas outside the dirt track paved pits on the east side will be used to pit the race cars. Should the ground become wet, that pitting area will be moved to the paved spectator parking area on the front stretch side. There is no extra cost for these pitting areas. There may be a limited number of spots left in the paved dirt track pit area. Those cost $100, first come, first serve and it's good from Thursday through Saturday. No extra fees for camping in a vehicle that is pulling a race car. Other RVs can camp at the track near the showers at a cost of $50 for the weekend. Thursday is a practice night. That costs $50 per car while pit passes are free on Thursday.
Format: Draw for starting positions in one of 15 heat races. SUPR-style passing points from those heats will be used to seed the cars in the races that follow. Points earned for both finishing positions and positions gained in the heat race. For more on the passing point system being used, see www.suprracing.com . On Friday, the top 16 in passing points lock into Friday's A qualifier. 17th through 56 in passing points will go into one of two B mains. 57 through 96 in passing points will go into one of two C-mains. The top 4 from each C transfer to the Bs. The top 4 from each B transfer to the Friday A qualifier. The top eight from that A qualifier lock into Saturday's main event and pole dash. The rest of the cars will be seeded by their passing points again into 8 qualifying races for Saturday night with the top 2 from each transferring into the A main.
Worried about teching of the Limited Modifieds/Southern Sport Mods or the lack of it? Don't be:
This is from the head tech man himself, Greg Holmes:
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I can't say that I'll be checking everything, but we'll check a lot, last year we checked carbs, trailing arms, looked for aluminum bolts on pieces, and p&g'd motors, and looked at head numbers when this happened.
We will be looking at these cars because we want it to grow in numbers. |
Greg's got a lot of years of teching under his belt with his SUPR Late Model series. They've torn down quite a few motors over the years.
Here some more notes I got from an official about last year too:
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I do know that the leader was disqualified for illegal carb.
They checked the top 5 in the feature pretty hard. If you qualify for
Sat. event you will have to pass Tech. Friday and Saturday. |
Drivers that show up at Thursday's practice can have their cars and bodies teched then and have an opportunity to fix them before Friday if need be. They WILL be teched again on Friday and again on Saturday!
Grandstand on Saturday costs $15 for adults and Kids under 12, $5. (Sorry, no coolers allowed in grandstands.) You will see a complete $3500 to win SUPR Late Model show -- heats with passing points, B-mains and and an A-main along with 8 qualifying races each for Modifieds and Limited Modifieds. The top 2 cars from each of those advance to the A mains. Modified A main pays $3000 to win and the Limited Modified A-main will pay $2000 to win. Houston's Howard Willis is one racer who plans on racing all 3 classes and if he can win them all, he collects $8500! There is NO charge this year for paved spectator parking! Here's the schedule:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
12:00PM Credentials / Pit Gates Open
4:00PM Gates and Suites Open
5:00PM Limited Modified Practice
5:20PM Modified Practice
6:15PM SUPR Late Model Practice
Limited Modified Qualifiers (8 races)
7:00PM Opening Ceremonies
SUPR Late Model Heats
Limited Modified Pole Dash
Modified Qualifiers (8 races)
Modified Pole Dash
SUPR Late Model Last Chance
Limited Modified Championship
Modified Championship
SUPR Late Model Championship
Victory Lane Celebrations
Grandstand on Friday will costs $10 for adults and $5 for kids under 12. You will see 15 heat races each for the Modifieds and Limited Modifieds with 2 C mains each, 2 B mains each and a one qualifying A main in each class where the top 8 cars lock into Saturday night's A main. No Late Model racing on Friday, just practice.
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00PM Credentials / Pit Gates Open
4:00PM Gates Open (no suites)
5:00PM Limited Modified Practice (4 laps)
5:45PM Modified Practice (4 laps)
6:40PM SUPR Late Model Practice
7:00PM Opening Ceremonies
7:05PM Limited Modified Heats (15 heats)
Modified Heats (15 heats)
SUPR Late Model Practice
Limited Modified C Qualifier #1
Limited Modified C Qualifier #2
Modified C Qualifier #1
Modified C Qualifier #2
SUPR Late Model Practice
Limited Modified B Qualifier #1
Limited Modified B Qualifier #2
Modified B Qualifier #1
Modified B Qualifier #2
SUPR Late Model Practice
Limited Modified A Qualifier
Modified A Qualifier
For more on the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track and the Texas World Dirt Track Championship,
call Cameron Branch at
817-255-6027 or 817-528-3571
For tech questions,
call Greg Holmes at
225-275-5040 or 225-978-7079
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