Stock Car Road Racing Championship
Competitor Bulletin 05-9
February 26, 2005

Higher Purses in 2005
This year the minimum purse is going up from $1,500.00 to $2,600.00, and will pay through sixth place instead of fifth. As with last year, at least two races will have a higher purse (The August Stock Car Shootout at BeaveRun and Labor Day weekend VIR Stock Car Spectacular). Last year, that purse was $5,000. This year, it will be at least that amount again, perhaps somewhat more if we can swing it (tryin’).

Don Snyder Enters Series
Knoxville, Tennessee’s Don Snyder has announced plans to compete in the US LEC Stock Car Road Racing Championship in 2005. Snyder is a five-year veteran of the Thunder Car roadster series, which runs asphalt and dirt ovals as well as road courses. He has 14 career wins in the series, which shares many weekends with the USCS Sprint Cars on dirt and asphalt ovals. Snyder won the first-ever road race for the Thunder Roadsters and finished the 2002 season third in national points. Current plans are to attempt to finish his car, a Port City chassis Monte Carlo with a Five Star body, in time for the opener at Barber Motorsports Park.

Birmingham’s Jay St. Clair to Join the US LEC Tour
Jay St. Clair of Birmingham plans to join the series beginning with the first race at Barber Motorsports Park in April. The 46-year-old Alabama attorney has been racing ovals in Alabama for 13 years. His most productive season was 2000, where he notched five late-model feature wins at Birmingham International Raceway, and in 1994 he completed the season third in championship points at the same track. In preparation for the switch to road racing, St. Clair attended the Derrick Daly Driving School. He plans to have his Howe Chassis Pontiac Grand Prix on the grid in April at Barber.

... more soon.