Quincy adding Crate Late Models next year
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Quincy Raceways
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So now that it's the 2017 race season... let's talk about it. Here is a general outline of our plans. We will be adjusting and tinkering through the remainder of November. Your feedback and comments are appreciated. Feel free to text or call Kenny at 217-371-3653.
First, we still are within the window where we would invite anyone else that wants to lease and operate the race track to contact Paul and work something out. We've always said that Quincy Raceways would best b...e operated by a committed person or group from the Quincy area. It's so much easier to run a race track when it's in your own back yard - not an hour away. Assuming that doesn't happen, here's our general plan subject to change...
We will schedule a total of roughly 20 racing events in 2017. The season will start around the first of April and continue through the end of September. We will be taking some weeks off now and then at times where it's been proven over the past few years that things will be slow. Expect us to be closed on Easter and probably Mother's Day. We also plan to race every-other week during the heat of the summer from early July through August. We will have the kart track open on the nights the big track is closed to allow the karts to start later. There will be something going on at the race track every week during the season.
We plan to schedule 15 Super Late Model events with 5 of those paying 2,000 to win or more. There will not be a World of Outlaws event, but we do plan to add a $5,000 to win event along with our Summer Nationals. This 15 event number is what we arrived at after visiting over the past 6 months with several of our teams about a target number of races.
We currently plan to have 10-12 Crate Late Model events. The crates will be UMP sanctioned. They will run on the weeks Super Late Models aren't scheduled, and also on some weeks we are also running Supers. We have devised a plan with UMP that we will share later that will allow the top finishers from the crate division to also race in the Super Late Model feature when we have both on the same night.
Other classes will also be scheduled for 15-17 nights with occasional weeks off which will allow us to rotate in the crates and 3-4 nights of 305 sprints
We will still have a couple of sprint car special events - although we don't expect to have the POWRi midget week event this year.
So with that general outline, and subject to thoughtful input and comment, we will begin putting together our 2017 schedule over the next few weeks with plans to have it released prior to Thanksgiving.
Quincy Raceways
11 hrs ·
So now that it's the 2017 race season... let's talk about it. Here is a general outline of our plans. We will be adjusting and tinkering through the remainder of November. Your feedback and comments are appreciated. Feel free to text or call Kenny at 217-371-3653.
First, we still are within the window where we would invite anyone else that wants to lease and operate the race track to contact Paul and work something out. We've always said that Quincy Raceways would best b...e operated by a committed person or group from the Quincy area. It's so much easier to run a race track when it's in your own back yard - not an hour away. Assuming that doesn't happen, here's our general plan subject to change...
We will schedule a total of roughly 20 racing events in 2017. The season will start around the first of April and continue through the end of September. We will be taking some weeks off now and then at times where it's been proven over the past few years that things will be slow. Expect us to be closed on Easter and probably Mother's Day. We also plan to race every-other week during the heat of the summer from early July through August. We will have the kart track open on the nights the big track is closed to allow the karts to start later. There will be something going on at the race track every week during the season.
We plan to schedule 15 Super Late Model events with 5 of those paying 2,000 to win or more. There will not be a World of Outlaws event, but we do plan to add a $5,000 to win event along with our Summer Nationals. This 15 event number is what we arrived at after visiting over the past 6 months with several of our teams about a target number of races.
We currently plan to have 10-12 Crate Late Model events. The crates will be UMP sanctioned. They will run on the weeks Super Late Models aren't scheduled, and also on some weeks we are also running Supers. We have devised a plan with UMP that we will share later that will allow the top finishers from the crate division to also race in the Super Late Model feature when we have both on the same night.
Other classes will also be scheduled for 15-17 nights with occasional weeks off which will allow us to rotate in the crates and 3-4 nights of 305 sprints
We will still have a couple of sprint car special events - although we don't expect to have the POWRi midget week event this year.
So with that general outline, and subject to thoughtful input and comment, we will begin putting together our 2017 schedule over the next few weeks with plans to have it released prior to Thanksgiving.
Some interesting discussion going on at the end of that thread. You can read it at:
https://www.facebook.com/quincyraceways/
https://www.facebook.com/quincyraceways/
Yes. We are introducing crates on a partial schedule as a way to accomplish two things: 1. Make a path from our very strong junior kart program to the super late model division and 2. Give some of our area teams that are already running a crate in our super division a chance to race among equals now and then. Having decided to go from 20 super late model events to 15 left a gaping hole in our show for at least 5 nights. We hope the crates help fill that with familiar local names in the field. This isn't a plan to replace the supers. We view it much like we do our 305 sprint program at Jacksonville - a way to get new blood into a chassis that will ultimately be a stepping stone for our premier division.
The success of Quincy depends on local racers due to racing on Sunday nights. We don't draw many teams from more than an hour away. We hope that we will start to see some of the kids that are racing karts on Sunday afternoons move through either our Sportmod or Crate division in the coming years and ultimately spend the next 20 years racing on Sunday nights in Quincy.
The success of Quincy depends on local racers due to racing on Sunday nights. We don't draw many teams from more than an hour away. We hope that we will start to see some of the kids that are racing karts on Sunday afternoons move through either our Sportmod or Crate division in the coming years and ultimately spend the next 20 years racing on Sunday nights in Quincy.
