This is for everyone participating in the Rocking Chair Nationals Volume II:
On Friday, June 26, I will be on site yellow taping our parking area for all show cars, display cars, race cars, trailers, and special interests that will be participating. The gate opens Saturday, June 27 at 9:00 am. Please arrive to get in line, the earlier the better. I will be there assisting cars and trailers as they arrive and help you with where to go. I will have a canopy set up in the middle of our area which will serve as an Information Center.
The day will start off with us driving to the staging area where we will line up as a group along side the 32 Nostalgia Group where the track promoter, Gary Gore, will hand out individually named plaques to all participants. This includes all show cars and race cars. This will also be a photo op. This will wrap up at 11:00.
1. Entry fee for racers will be $45.00
2. Entry fee for show cars will be $20.00 or $25.00 with girlfriend.
3. Racers...Money class is $500.00 to winner
Runner up receives $200.00
Semi-finalist receives $75.00
We will have 16 cars who will be paid $25.00 for quarter finals.
4. It will be up to us to provide our cars paired up to the closest time so we look more like "heads up" racing rather than "bracket" racing. This will take place at eliminations.
5. There will be a one time buy back that will cost $20.00.
I'm looking for volunteers who will be interested in photographing and/or videoing our events. Please let me know if you or any of your friends are interested in helping us out with this.
Also, make sure you come by our Information Center to pick up a Rocking Chair Nationals window sticker.
I have also made five hand crafted trophies that our Grand Marshall Mousie Brown will be handing out toward the end of the day. (These are in-house trophies for our group only.)
One last thing ... as everyone knows, Dick MacKenzie and I have partnered to pull this event together and we've spent a lot of time discussing the right thing to do. I have been to Thompson twice and Dick has a lot more events under his belt. The main thing we were trying to do was achieve fairness. I asked Dick to come up with the rules based on his past involvement so I don't want him thrown under the bus. My mistake.