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you guys can, but what I can do is work hard, reach out to tracks, and put this stuff together.”
We told him what we were looking for … not huge venues. We don’ t need to get a place that houses 30,000 people and 5,000 people show up. We need smaller venues, places we haven’ t been to the last 10 seasons with NPK, closer to people that haven’ t gotten to get out and see us race.
Carson talked with all the tracks, got us set up, and made the schedule. It’ s tough trying to not schedule things on top of other races, and we also have things that could interfere with what Ryan and myself already have going on, which is Mid-West Pro Mod and the four NHRA races that we’ re planning on doing this
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season. It took a lot of work, and I feel like where me and Ryan lack, Carson makes up for it.
RM: One thing Shawn’ s kind of forgetting is whenever COVID hit, him and I were both used to making money on this TV show, so what are we gonna do now? COVID was an uncertainty – we could go two years or five years without work. We just didn’ t know, so we did something pretty close to this same thing and we hit some ridiculous amount … it was like 12 tracks in four weeks. It was all small venues, and we knocked it out of park on every one of them.
So when I did my series last year, I went to smaller races that are not too far away from me. We ended up at a lot of tracks in Mississippi and
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Texas here in the south where people hadn’ t seen us 405 guys before, and it was a big hit. We took the list from COVID and we took a list that I did, listed every single track we could think of, and I turned Carson loose with it. I gave him about 25 tracks and we came up with eight that are a good fit for us.
“ Our goal here is to make people happy, give them somewhere they want to go, somewhere they want to race.”
— Ryan Martin
There have been a couple changes to the class line-up recently. What can fans expect to see at your events? SE: We did change a couple of things recently. We’ re going to add a 6.50 Index class and a Jr. Dragster
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class for the kids. A lot of these tracks that we’ re going to cater to Jr. Dragsters. They’ re the future of racing, so we wanted a place for them also. So we’ re not going to do the All Steel-All Glass because honestly, anybody who could run ASAG can jump in the Outlaw 5.30 Index class.
RM: Yeah, we basically decided to merge those two classes after putting some thought into it. We had a long conversation between the three of us, and we wanted to add the 6.50 Index because it seemed like the most popular index class. We wanted to do Jr. Dragsters for the kids, but we felt like we were possibly shortchanging one of the classes by having those two. We kept 5.30 because it’ s obviously the next big thing going right now. I think it’ s hot. You could have 40, 50, 60 cars if you’ re really trying. And like Shawn said, most all of the ASAG cars can run in 5.30 if they want. We’ ll still have Daily Driver. The 28’ s class is still gonna pay 20 grand. We think that Outlaw 5.30 is gonna pay $ 5,000, but we’ re currently talking with a few sponsors that have asked for that to be their class, so we’ re trying to get it up around 10 grand.
SE: We’ re gonna have a good time, and we’ re gonna run the Outlaw 5.30 Index class with a couple of cars, like
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