AMEC AUTOCROSS NEWS
This just in from Dave Burnham:
Only 1 month until our first Autocross at Albany Saratoga Speedway!
Good news! We have opened up registration for the Saturday May 8, 2010 Albany Saratoga Speedway Autocross (with a rain date for Sunday May 9th.)
To pre register please go to the AMEC web site
http://www.icerace.com and click on the red autocross link on the left. That will take you to a spec page for the event. At the bottom of the spec page you can click on the registration page.
Our registration is being handled though Motorsportsreg.com and it’s really easy to sign up. You can pay with a credit card or money can be taken out of your bank account. No money will be drawn or charged until one week before the event. You can enter in all your info about your car, pick a car number, emergency contacts everything we would normally do at registration so it should stream line the process. There may be some SCCA type questions that you can skip over unless you want to fill that part out.
If you need to cancel your registration after your credit card or bank account has been charged there is a 7.5% cancellation fee.
It is again only $40 per driver to enter the autocross. This season there is a $5 charge for non drivers to enter the pits. No one under 14 years old will be allowed in the pit area.
There is no charge to enter the main grandstand.
We are again using our very simple classing system. This should make classing the cars easy and insure lots of drivers in each class.
1. Stock Up to 2.5 liters
2. Stock Over 2.5 liters
3. Prepared Up to 2.5 liters
4. Prepared Over 2.5 liters
5. Modified Up to 2.5 liters
6. Modified Over 2.5 liters
7. Open Class - Open wheel and home built race cars.
STOCK- Street driven with no modifications. Air filter and intake, cat back exhaust or coffee can muffler allowed.
PREPARED- Street driven with modifications to the engine and or suspension.
MODIFIED - All other street type vehicles. Anything with DOT "R" compound tires. ALL turbo cars.
OPEN - Open wheel and home built race cars.
It’s very expensive to rent the Albany Saratoga Speedway for an event like this so we need to sell out. We did last year in November and we also had a waiting list. We hope the same will happen for the 6 autocrosses we have scheduled for 2010 at the speedway. So to make sure you can get in please sign up soon!
This first event will be really neat with a Car and Truck Show put on by Firebird Nation. This will be happening at the same time our autocross is happening so you will have lots to see between autocross runs. Then at 6PM there will be a drifting show I am definitely staying to see that. It should be a fun day!
If you would like to participate in any discussions or have questions about the autocross series please go to our message board autocross link at
http://www.runboard.com/bamecmessageboard.f1.t28857 .
If you have any other specific questions please feel free to call or e mail
Dave Burnham 518 875 6956 racing48 [at]nycap [dot] rr[dot]com
Dave can also add you to our autocross e mail list. We will send out periodic emails reminding everyone about details of the event.
How fast are our "high speed" autocross events? Check out
in car video. There are more on youtube as well.
