US LEC Stock Car Road Racing Championship
Competitor Bulletin 06-1
January 19, 2006

Happy New Year.

This won’t come as news to the teams who had already committed by telephone to the first race at Sebring, because I’ve talked with almost everyone expected at Sebring on the phone the in last two days.

Our first race will not be Sebring, March 2-5, with HSR. It will be at Road Atlanta, March 18-19 with NASA Southeast.

Historic Sportscar Racing has decided to uninvite us to the three races we were supposed to run with them.

We were completely blindsided by this. The HSR principals apparently held a meeting about ten days ago, at which they decided to uninvite our series from running with HSR in 2006, but nobody bothered to tell us about it. HSR has known since November of last year that we intended to run three races with them again 2006. As a matter of fact, I talked with HSR director Ken Fengler Tuesday about an unrelated licensing matter, and he never said a thing to me about this decision, which had apparently been made a full week earlier. We’re obviously disappointed with this, but especially disappointed in the incredibly unprofessional manner in which it was done. I had to find out about it from Judy, the HSR secretary. To this day, I’ve still not been provided any official notification about it from any HSR official.

A revised schedule is below. The two other HSR race dates we need to replace will be filled quickly.

Running With NASA.

NASA Southeast, a three-year old NASA region based in Atlanta, was very accommodating in quickly confirming that we would be welcome at their race at Road Atlanta, March 18-19. All we need to do is for our drivers who are not already NASA licensed to join NASA and apply for licensing. It’s actually less expensive than renewing your HSR license would have been.

The registrar from NASA Southeast tells me she is going to put together an e-mail for me to forward outlining the easiest way to get registered on-line.

However, you can do it now by simply going to www.nasaproracing.com and join online with a credit card. There's a button to click on to join on-line. I did it today in just a few minutes. The membership cost was $40.00. You are joining the Southeast Region.

To get licensed, you have to download a PDF of the license application and medical form, fill them out and send to NASA. Your SCCA, HSR or NASCAR license should be all they need.

Click here for PDF’s of the paper membership application, the competition license application, the technical inspection form and the medical form.

To get information about NASA Southeast, their web site is www.nasa-southeast.com.

More information very soon.