Sportsman and Trophy, which compete on the full 1,320. Multiple classes of Jr. Dragster competition are available, along with motorcycles and all the other classes one would expect to see in a well-rounded dial-in series.
In addition to the gathering in March, five more weekends are on tap in 2025. Each weekend, things get started on Friday with parking and test-and-tune, while Saturday and Sunday each have separate eliminators.
Whitmore is forever trying to accommodate his racers, so when they voiced their desires of wanting more prize money this year, he went to work on finding a solution. Raising the gate fee would have been one solution, but instead, the decision was reached to raise the buyback fee in Super Pro and Pro, thus increasing the payouts to third and fourth round winners, along with the runner-up, who gets a couple hundred more dollars.
After the May event is complete, DER will return in June with a pair of points races before taking off the month of July. After a single event in mid-August, the season finale is slated for September.
“ I started out wanting to make one of the best bracket racing programs in the region and that continues to be my goal, and after all these years I feel like it’ s still a work in progress,” Whitmore concludes. DI
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