our‘ 55 Chevy and Ryan’ s champagne‘ 69 Camaro. It’ ll also give Phantom a place to race his truck, and if Aiden’ s car is done, he’ ll have his Chevelle in it. The Outlaw 5.30 class is just a fun class, and it doesn’ t matter who you are, what your car runs. It’ s pretty amazing. |
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There’ s been a lot of discussion recently in small-tire racing about whether the clocks should be on or off. Which way will they be at your races?( Long pause …)
RM: I was waiting to see what
Shawn said. SE: I was doing the same thing. RM: You know, we haven’ t really talked about that a lot. We’ re trying to figure it out, watching to see how everything else is going to pan out. We wanted to see how everybody accepted the Winter Series with the clocks being on, and I honestly don’ t know how they accept it yet. I’ ve seen a lot of mixed opinions. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I truthfully don’ t know what to do, whether we should have them off or not. We’ re gonna have to make a decision here pretty soon, but we haven’ t pulled the trigger on that yet.
SE: And let’ s be honest, we realize that we were racers way before we were promoters, so things may change as we go. We may say this
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— Shawn Ellington
is the way it’ s gonna be and then figure out at the first race it can’ t be like that. We’ re new to this and we are open to change. We’ re just gonna throw our hats in the ring and see what happens.
RM: I think it’ s gonna be great, and if we learn to adapt to what is popular and what people like … sometimes the general public doesn’ t agree with that. I think our goal here is to make people happy, give them somewhere they want to go, somewhere they want to race. If we have to make adjustments along the way to figure that out, then that’ s what we’ re going to do.
SE: And so far, we’ ve got some amazing sponsors on board. We haven’ t even really written everything down yet. Well, I’ m sure Carson has, but if you saw the list of things that the championship is gonna be worth, it’ s gonna be huge.
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RM: You know, the prize pack … we got Polaris on board for a Razor …
SE: Kicker’ s gonna outfit that Razor with a stereo system. There are people like Mark Micke who’ s going to throw in a shifter to the winner, all kinds of sponsors who are talking about giving products to the series champion. It’ s going to be amazing. It’ s going to give somebody a reason to chase this series. Not only for that, but the $ 20,000 to win is pretty good for these smaller tracks.
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There was also talk about the two of you grudge racing throughout eliminations. Is that still on the table? SE: I don’ t know. That’ s definitely a possibility and I do believe we’ re going to have the cars there.
RM: It depends. I don’ t know if it’ s feasible for us to bring everything. We’ re trying to figure that out. If we focus our efforts on running Outlaw 5.30 Index, we’ re not going to compete with these guys with small-tire cars. But that doesn’ t
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