[Spridgets] SMRS New Leadership

[stanbmason at aol.com]

2025 New SMRS Lead

1/11/24

 

I am very happy to announce that Tom Wilcox will carry thetorch of the Sprite Midget Race Series as the lead.  Tom is the perfect person for the jobdemonstrating his leadership from his Co-Chairmanship of Blackhawk Farm Racealong with his background in Program Management will make him the perfectleader.  Please lend your support to Tomlike you did for me.

This group is a democracy with some ground rules that werestarted by all of us.  I know the futurecan be even better with Tom’s Leadership. Like all organizations there are pros and cons to any situation, but throughcompromise the majority should be met.

I would like to leave some heritage of why the SMRS wasstarted in 2012.  A couple years before SMRSwas started VSCDA was questioning if they could continue as a private club realizingthey were paying more for race weekends than they were taking in due to lowerrace entrants.  I thought we could improvethat situation increasing Spridgets race attendance with a Race Series similarto what VSCDA’s Vintage Formula Vees (VVV) had in place.  We were excited before this time to have 5Spridgets at an event, last year we averaged over 19 cars per event with 36 atthe Road America Healey Challenge thank to Jim Donato’s dedication.  VVV provided an outline of their process, whichwe adapted as a prototype and modified to fit our needs over the years.  More recently we have had larger numbers whencompared to VVV.  The ultimate was at theSprite 60th in 2018 at Road America where we had 47 racing Spridgets.  The inaugural SMRS started at Gingerman witha group pic seen below.  I will send anupdate of SMRS Rules / Regulations and races scheduled for 2025 in January,which will conclude my responsibilities as lead.

Enjoy a Spritely Life!!!
Stan Mason





 






 

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