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Fridays 4/4/08

Come and run with South Jersey’s finest Micro Sprint drivers. See what The All New Bridgeport Speedways ¼ mile dirt track has to offer you, your team and race fans. Plenty of racing room on the track for passing and loads of pit parking for any size rigs with abundant spectator parking available. Friday night race director Joe Ruchlewicz has announced some changes for the 2008 race season, a new full time track preparer, Chip Wingate will preparing the ¼ mile track this year and announced that chip has stated that they should see a consistent well prepared track this year for the Micro Sprints. Chip took over the duties late last year and will improve upon his workings from last year. He has already begun preparing the clay surface for racing this year. Joe says he has appointed Dennis Weir as full time pit stewart, to be in the pits helping coordinate the races. Dennis will be at the sign in shack, to work with the racers to help keep the races running smoothly and on time, addressing issues and concerns with the racers as they come up. Look for increased payouts this year for the MicroSprints, Joe will speak to the racers further in the drivers meeting with all the details. Joe invites any businesses interested in becoming involved in sponsoring races at the track to contact him at info@LocalMicros.com

Hello Race Fans

We here at LocalMicros.com along with the management at The All New Bridgeport Speedway’s ¼ Mile Dirt track would like to incorporate some new and exciting programs for the Micro Classes next year. Below are some of the programs/awards we are working on. We currently are looking for marketing partners to sponsor these awards. If you know of any Companies looking to gain exposure for their business at the track and on the web, have them contact us at info@LocalMicros.com and we can customize one of these awards to fit their needs. Continue checking back to the website for updates and info on the upcoming 2008 race season. Watch for your favorite “Winged Warrior“ running on the ¼ Mile Dirt Track at “The All New Bridgeport Speedway”.  

Hard Charger Awards,  Quick Time Awards,  Most Popular Driver Awards/Poll,  Heat Race Challenge Awards,  Contingency Awards

If you intend to race at any one of the following tracks in the 2008 racing season, please pay attention to the rules listed below. There are a few that have not committed to them yet, and they may or may not choose to do so.. the following list is ones who have committed:

Trailways Speedway
Path Valley Speedway Park
Lindas Speedway
Greenwood Valley Action Track�
Shippensburg Speedway
Hill Valley Speedway
Kutztown Speedway
Bridgeport Speedway


Here is the rules as adopted by the speedways listed above. All of you are not going to agree, but they are from a large general consensus of your fellow racers. They are not from just one meeting, but from many discussions since this long overdue decision was first talked about. To answer your first question about tech inspections. All of these tracks have agreed to band together and enforce the rules. They will all be participating in tech seminars with their tech personnel complete with all of the motors in effected on display. There has also been some people come forward and volunteer their time to do a roving tech inspection at the above listed tracks on any given night. It’s a start! We can all try to make this a competitive affordable division as it was first intended to be. I do believe more than any other rules, the elimination of the rev boxes is the single most valuable rule to help this class remain affordable. Thank you all for your input, complaints, compliments, gripes, and the likes through all of this. They were all taken into account. Lets all pick up and go race again next year, perhaps these will work, perhaps they will need fine tuned. That remains to be seen. Good luck to all of you!
 

There has been much anticipation of proposed rule changes in the 600cc division for the past several months. It has taken a long time to move off of center on this issue, but the following steps were taken to try and keep the class as a growing, intermediate form of sprint car racing. Keep in mind, what you are reading in the following are strictly proposals and not new rules set in stone. It will be up to the individual tracks to adopt the suggestions for the motor rules AND to enforce them. This is the first step in moving forward, and the specific tracks that have seen the proposal and are in agreement with them are as follows….Trailways Speedway, Path Valley, Greenwood Valley, Shippensburg, and Kutztown. Bridgeport Speedway and Linda’s indicated that they would like to review the issues further before committing to them. Lanco, and Airport cannot commit to them this year due to membership issues, which is understandable. While we know everyone cannot be happy with change, it is something that is inevitable and had to be dealt with and quickly. Please keep in mind that this was in no way a conspiracy of chassis builders, motor builders and the likes to make money. A lot has been posted in many areas stating this misaligned thinking. We all want to see our division grow even more, and this may be the answer, it may not be. All that remains to be seen at this point. What I do know, a lot of effort has gone into this and still more needs to be done to make it a success. As you read the new proposal, take some time to consider the overall division and keep your own personal agenda aside for a few moments. I think you will see this is a fair set of rules and it was meant to actually keep the cost down and keep new racers coming to the division. That being said, read them very carefully and take note to the specific areas that changed. Specifically they are, Item #3, Item #8, Item #9, Item #13 ( 2009 Season ), and Item # 14. One more item of interest, a spec compound tire rule was also proposed but was tabled due to such a diverse set of opinions. Perhaps that can be addressed in the future. Good luck to everyone in the 2008 Season.

600cc Micro Sprint Universal Engine Rules
1.        Terms and conditions
·          Stock parts - original manufacturer parts for the particular year and make engine. No mixing of parts from different year and make engines, even if made by the same manufacturer.
2.        Overall Engine
·         Must be a Production Motorcycle Engine, 4 cylinder, 4 stroke
·          No current year engines
·          No Titanium anywhere in or on the engine, unless it comes stock form manufacturer of engine on production bike
·          Must have engine, clutch, and transmission all in one unit
·          Must be Chain Drive

3.        Bore and stroke
·          600cc Maximum For engine model that was new in 2006 and up. Other engine are 637cc maximum. Engine model is defined as a manufacturer redesign of overall engine. See list at end of rules.
·          Standard Stroke only (no strokers)

4.        Head and cams
·          NO PORTING, Blending the Bowls, or Blending the Valve Seats (exhaust or intake) Valve jobs are acceptable.
·          Cams do not need to be stock, but the lift must be no greater than stock. (duration is open)
·          Cam timing may be adjustable
·          May use any valves, but they may be no larger than stock valves.
·          Head may be resurfaced
·          Any head gasket may be used

5.        Pistons
·          Any Piston may be used, must be within cc limit specified under bore and stroke

6.        Bottom End
·          No machining to remove weight from the crank  (no after-market cranks)
·          Stock connecting rods must be used  (no after-market rods)
·          Aftermarket rod bolts may be used

7.        Clutch/Transmission
·          The clutch does not need to remain stock, but must remain operable
·          Transmission gears must be stock, no close-ratio gears or nonstandard gear-ratios
·          All gears must remain in transmission, no removing any gears.
8.        Ignition
·         Stock Rev Limiter must remain intact. No hot ECU boxes, no modified ECU boxes. Factory race boxes are ok, but must have the rev limit set to the street bike stock rev limit. If a computer is hooked up to check the ECU it must be set to factory stock specifications, no tolerance. See list at end of rules for RPM limits.
·         All cars must have a connector for the track to check engine rpm rev limit. These are available from the chassis manufactures and engine builders, and at the track. All cars must leave intact the rpm wire coming from the ECU.
·          Stock appearing ignition must be used (no after-market ignition systems, factory race ignitions are ok) may use different year ignitions from same manufacturer as long as stock rev limit of engine (not ignition) is retained.
·          No aftermarket coils
·          Engines that came with stock fuel injection may use an after-market add ons (example: Power Commander, Dim Sport) to adjust the fuel curve and/or timing (essentially the same as adjusting jetting and using an ignition advancer).
·          Ignition advancers may be used

9.        Induction system·          No mechanically forced induction (turbo charging,

supercharging)
·          Any carburetors may be used on any engine, regardless of year.
·          If the engine did not come from the factory with fuel injection, fuel injection may not be used
·          If the engine came with a factory fuel injection, the fuel injection may be used and may be converted for use with alcohol. The stock fuel injection throttle bodies must remain, but may be modified for use with alcohol

10.     Exhaust
·          Any exhaust may be used, as long as there is a muffler included with the system that will keep noise levels within individual track limits.

11.     Charging system
·          The original factory charging system may not be removed, and must remain in complete working order

12.     Self Starting
·          The engine must self-start at the beginning of the event. If it does not self-start, the car may be pushed off and must start at the rear of the event as the penalty

13.     Fuel
·          Alcohol or gasoline may be used (if gasoline is used, a fuel tank bladder must be installed for safety purposes)
·          Fuel Bladders will be mandatory in all cars starting in the 2009 racing season
14.     Minimum weight
·          Minimum weight at all times is 775 pounds, car and driver. If weight is added it must be firmly bolted in place.

#Engine Model Year Rev Limit Tach Wire Color
Kawasaki ZX-6R 03-04 14,400 Light/Blue
Kawasaki ZX-6R 05-06 14,800 Light/Blue
**Kawasaki ZX-6R 07 15,000 Light/Blue
Yamaha R6 03-05 15,500 Yellow/Black
Yamaha R6S 06-07 15,500 Yellow/Black/same as 03-05 R6
**Yamaha R6 06-07 16,000 Yellow/Black
Suzuki GSXR 04-05 14,600 Yellow/Blue
**Suzuki GSXR 06-07 15,000 Yellow/Blue
Honda CBR RR 05-06 15,000 Yellow/Green
**Honda CBR RR 07 15,500 Yellow/Green

**= Must be 600cc maximum displacement

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