Payout at Stuart

OK------more answers coming on payout. He is still working on it Jimmy. but getting a more firm answer and will know more in a couple days. Dollar amount.
THERE WILL be a guaranteed payout, probably up to 20 cars. More than 20 it could raise. Not exactly sure of that number, but we are not talking 10 or 11. This way you will know that when you come to race, you will be paid this amount to win and finish.
Talking a basic bonus for more than roughly 20 cars.
We are wanting more cars to show up. We want you there weekly. We do not want you guessing that, well maybe so and so wont show up this week so there will be only 9 cars and they will pay us $50 less because of 9 there instead of 10. then next week so and so comes and you decide not to so there is never really a full field there to race. We want you there weekly.
Hopefully this helps in guessing what you will be paid and no you will be paid that amount.
Chuck will have me an actual amount before the end of the week. he said. Not me said, HE SAID.

Also we have bought a DECENT tractor.
We have got the snow mostly off the track but not everywhere, toooo muddy.
Water trucks are going in to get pumps on them. One is gonna be a mister and the other to dump it on.
The MISTER to help keep the DUST down. It will be used just like a farm sprayer. We can then go out when dusty and mist. go a couple laps to work it in and then race. hopefully this keeps the dust down a bit more. We know it sucks and can only hope this helps.

We will be working diligently on putting WATER IN THE TRACK!! not on it. But if we gotta use this MISTER we will. Better than dust. This is IOWA AND DIRT, not asphalt.

Please if you have any comments or concerns let us know and I hope this helps!!!

Rest of rules for Cruiser Cars

I missed these when posting yesterday.

Part 3 - Rear End Suspension Wheels Tires

24. Must run passenger car tires. Must be 70 or 75 series, stock DOT tires. P rated 4 ply and B

load rating. No mud, tire inside a tire, snow, no chained, stud or racing tires. No LT pickup tires.

No alterations. Hubcaps removed..

25. All 4 tires must be the same size.

26. All wheels must have 1” lug nuts. Cars cannot race with broken or stripped studs or nuts.

27. No bead locks. Valve stem protection is allowed. Reinforcement of rim at stud hole location

is recommended.

28. 4 wheel working brakes required. No brake valves.

29. No sandbags.

30. APPROVED TIRES: Only 70 or 75 series tires allowed. No light duty truck or aggressive

tires.

No grinding or grooving on tires. See rule #24 for clarification.

Part 4 - Cooling, Fuel, Battery

31. Must remove factory fuel tank.

32. All cars must have racing fuel cell with rollover valve and vented outside of drivers

compartment. Fuel cells may be in trunk or over axle hump with good fire stop wall between tank

and driver. No rubber fuel line or oil line inside of drivers compartment.

33. Only gasoline fuel is allowed. No racing fuel of any kind. Maximum of 10% ethanol fuel mix

allowed..

34. Battery must be under the hood contained and in a metal box. Must be accessible from hood

only—not seen in drivers compartment.

35. Must have battery kill switch mounted to left of steering wheel on dash in plain view. Must

kill engine, prevent engine from starting.

2010 Stuart Cruiser car rules

2010 Cruiser Class Rules

Part 1 – Chassis, Body, Roll Bars/Cage

1. Car must be completely stock, any 2 or 4 door car that meets wheelbase & frame requirements

is eligible.

2. 112” minimum wheelbase- Car must have frame. No 4x4, pickups, el camino, unibodies. May shorten it some to allow for old hobbies and or 2 doors.

3. Remove all exterior trim, molding, glass & mirrors. Remove all front end nose pieces that can

be broken with a hammer. No covering of radiator or headlight area, except light mesh screen or

wire. (no metal, expanded metal or tin, etc.)

4. Remove all flammable material including dash, door panels, carpeting & bench seat.

5. All doors must be chained or welded shut, can have “inside the car” door protection.

6. Must have a 4 point roll cage (or better) welded to the frame. We will allow an X brace under roll cage and under fuel cell. Roll cage not to be cluttered together with miscellaneous tubing, metal.

7. Window nets on driver & passenger side required.

8. Full screen in place of windshield required and numbers must be on a 3-sided sign, 16x16,

securely fastened to car top. Putting number on door is optional.

9. No frame plating, no bumper reinforcements (no channel), no kickers, no frame mounted hood

pins.

10. Bumper straps from side of bumper to fender and a real quarter panel is recommended

maximum material 6” wide by 12” long by 1/8” thick. (No channel iron).

11. Tow hooks mandatory on both ends of car you may use chains or flat straps. Must be visible,

easily accessible and reachable from standing position.

12. Trunk must be able to be opened with quick release pins for fuel cell inspection, fire or

leakage or 4” x 6” non-covered hole over fuel cell.

13. Doors can have metal protection that does not exceed 6” past the doorframe on the right and

left front door only. Nothing more than 1/8” plate on outside. Pipes must be attached to cage on

inside of original body. No rub rails that exceed 1/8”. No extended , tubing, angle rub rails.

14. Approved circle track steel or aluminum racing seat required.

15. No jagged or protruding metal. Official’s decision is final. Must start with a bumper and

hood, if it falls off you will get equipment flag. Must enter track the next race with a bumper and

hood in place.

16. Must be a factory fire stop wall without holes between engine & driver. No cooling systems

(i.e. water, transmission, or oil) allowed inside the vehicle.

Part 2 - Engine Transmission Drive Train

17. Maximum cylinder compression of 155 at any time. (Zero Tolerance)

18. Motors must pull 16” or greater (17,18,19) of vacuum at 1000 rpm that is checked by the

carburetor. (Zero Tolerance) A Tach will be used by inspectors. Must have vacuum supply line

accessible to the fender well.

19. Accelerator belongs on passenger side only, far right side, attached to the floor, out of reach

of the driver. There is to be no pedal, wires, strings, or rods, etc. within reach of driver.

20. No electric fuel pumps. Must be carbureted. No fuel injected motors.

21. Motors must be in original position.

22. Drive shaft must be painted white and have a loop 360 degrees around the front of each one

approximately 3” behind the U-joint. Minimum 1 1/8 flat strap. NO CHAINS. NO ALUMINUM

DRIVESHAFTS.

23. No aluminum intakes.

24. Anything we (SIS) deem as a safety issue will be brought up, and need to be corrected. No questions!!

Marshalltown Frostbuster

Wow, what a night!! Could not have been any more perfect. Decent temperature, no wind to speak of and alot of race cars.
Got to the track about 315pm. Most of the Wisconsin contingent were lined up on the south side of the pit fence. There were a few cars inside the pits already.
A dozer was moving about the track as they were hauling dirt.
The cars just kept lining up and I do not think the line went down at the pit shack till after the races started.
Track was in great shape and stayed that way all night. Suprising for the number of cars.
Racing started jsut after 7pm. The final checkers flew just after midnight. 5 hours for 200+ cars. Pretty good time.
I am not going to write about any results as you can find them at http://www.positivelyracing.com/index.shtm or http://foxman1987.blogspot.com/ or http://www.citrackside.com/

I met alot of very nice people on Friday night. thanks for everyones kindness.
Will try to get my Boone report for Saturday night on here soon.

Frostbuster at Marshalltown Speedway

I will be attending the Frostbuster race at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night.

Should be great weather from what they are saying.

Hopefully the car count will be up there as Park Jefferson canceled there show and a few of the cars that were racing there may show up.

Promotor Toby Kruse always does his best to put on the BEST SHOW ON DIRT.  I dont think Friday night, it will be anything different. Track seemed to be in pretty good shape at practice on March 29.  With the somewhat good weather we have had since then, has given promotor Kruse the time it takes  to prepare the surface.

Hope to see a good crowd enjoy the first race in Central Iowa Friday night.

Iowa State Fairgrounds will also be holding the first race of the year at the facility in Des Moines.  Good luck to promotor Mick Trier on his first night of racing in the year 2009.

Pizza King link

if you do a search for Pizza King in Council Bluffs, It comes upand the website is under it.
Well it is not the website fot the Pizza King in the Bluffs. I it not hte same menu nor anything like it so disregard the link please.

Also, If you have not noticed my spell check doesn't work, just like my punctuation half the time. i will try to make it a little more barable for you to read in futur calums.

no time for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!

This blog idea is a great idea!
IF you have time to do it.
I would love to do it and keep it up to date if I had time. I just cant with trying to run my real business and following a 17 yo son around.
Spring has sprung and we have track and starting to practice for baseball which means going to batting cage to hit.
I have a special school board meeting April 1 and a special council meeting April 2 and SW Iowa Shutterbug camera club meeting the same night.
Then the week of April 13 I have regular council meeting and regular school board meeting. Dont feel sorry for me as I signed on to do these things. But that same week we have 4 track meets and I announce at 2 of them and take pictures at another 1, then miss one because of school board meeting the same night.
It is starting to get busy as well. Although today Chuck Vanderheiden and I went to the golf dome in Des Moines and hit a few golf balls. back to getting busy. Got the first lawn seeded on Monday March 30. Was pretty dry overall but damp hear and there. It went well getting the seed in the ground and matted.
Now with moisture it is back to looking at jobs and starting work looked at last fall and finishing some. Gotta finish seeding the Ethanol plant in Menlo and although we have hydro-seeded about 15 windmills near Adair, we still have about 60 left to go.

Well real short about my racing weekend in Beatrice. Windy as hell is the word!!! It sucked Sunday. I still am digging out Beatrice dirt from my ears. i really enjoyed the weekend but feel like it was not completed as I was unable to get to talk to Joren Boyce. He came down and I was running around trying not to miss any pictures and did not get over to chat. I think he left Snday morn to as did not see him at all Sunday.
Also did not talk or see Dave Hardesty. Sorry!! Maybe should not worry so much about the picture as getting to to talk with some friends.
Did get to talk with Justen Yeager so that was nice. Also to Shane Stutzman which is always good.
Meet bergy, Troy Cordes, Chris Burke, Joey Schafer, Jay Goosman, Mr Brack, Jon Snyder, Kyle Krampe and so many others I cannot remember. Team DandyLand is a heck of a nice crew. Oh yea saw Knutsen's too.
I have also gained an admiration of Jay Schmidt. We all know Schmidt Happens but with him it happens with his young son in tow. I have taken a couple pictures of him with Mr Young Son in tow hand in hand. One in Webster and the other one in Beatrice that weekend. Keep them memories and that boy with you as mine at 17 wants nothing to do with dad now unless it is handing over the greenbacks or a new 4 wheeler or something for his f350. THEY GROW UP TOO FAST. Congrat Jay for having him and the rest of your family with you.
I know there are other families with the driver as I always see Kyle Krampes mom at the track and in Beatrice she was in the pits but she is not walking with him holding his hand. Congrats to the people who bring their families as it truly is a family sport.
Overall the weekend was good as I said before somewhere. Good Eats were to be had at the only real meal I had the whole weekend was at http://www.backalleyeatery.com/. It was wonderful. i had a 3 bone rib meal with beans and homemade creamed corn. oh yea they gave me a little cornbread muffin too. Then I had that I can eat anything moment and thought I could eat a slice of peach pie with ala mode after I was full from real meal.
Well it was great bbq ribs and an excellent bbq sauce. the creamed corn that was homemade was just more than I would have imagined it would have been as I have been denied my whole like if this homemade delicasy. I now have made it at my own house now and it was much better than the canned variety you can find on the shelf at your local SUPERMARKET.
Otherwise I dealt with AMigos on Thursday after practice, McD;s on friday after the lights went out in Beatrice. Then on Saturday evening as I just felt I could not take any more entertainment (hint hint) after the races were over, and before I headed back to http://www.newvictorianinn.com/ I sucuumbed to the lovely confines of the Taco Johns of Beatrice. I then went back with my tasty to go meal to the room and after eating and cleaning off the dust I crashed.
Nothing real eventful happened besides the dustbowl at the track on Sunday. I will comend those involved that the races were completed before it raned. To those naysayers who complain about this and that. Well I will say I hear about the driver saying to the fan until you have drove story and then we have to all, until you have promoted then! Well that is as far as I will go.
I got out of Beatrice about 4pm.
Passed 17j, wahoo was behind me. Then on the way to Omaha I went by Racer, Noteboom, Abelson, hamilton county plates, pott county plates, the Jerovitz cars, and a few others . Oh yea Gutowski too.
I had to stop in the in the great town of Council Bluffs. For what you say. Well to eat!!
but before I got there I stopped at QT for a soda I did not need. Counter clerk said you look a little dirty and tired and I handed him my card. Said look at these as I just left Beatrice. His reply of really, I was to go there and help Jeff James the 19j but had to work.
Where at you say? http://www.pizzakingindiana.com/
You have to try this place. One of my top 5 pizzas of all time. Zenos in Marshalltown is the best of all time. Just so you know.
As I was in Pizza King the young lady was waking by and saw me going thru photos on my camera and had to discuss them. She is getting a car this year and her dad (i think) drives a late model. See- racing is everywhere!
Well till next time, which may be a while as am off to Marshalltown on Friday for the FrostyBuster and not sure I am gonna have time for another one before then.
It will keep em coming back for more thinking I may rite and I just might.

I will be getting something out on the Boys State Basketball apperance at The Well also.
Till next Time, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Thats not me I will have to think of another one.