ENDURANCE RACE

Come join in the fun of endurance racing on Sun May 15 at 9AM. Details are on the website but here are some highlights:

1. 2 Hour total length
2. 5 Mandatory pit stops (25 seconds each) scheduled by the team
3. Any number of drivers so build your team
4. At pit stops you may change drivers, change karts, or change nothing
5. $300 total cost — no matter how many drivers — Increases to $350 next week
6. Drivers get pit pass plus kart insurance included
7. Extra cost practice at 9:15AM — $20 for 10 minutes
8. Drivers meeting 9:50
9. Race starts 10AM
10. Uses our premium kart

Register now to secure you spot. Call shop 815 496 2467 with team name and drivers names to speed up sign in on raceday.

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Closed Mother’s Day, May 8th

We will be closed this coming Sunday, May 8th for Mother’s Day. We will be open Saturday for practice and rentals.

TIRES ARRIVED

Some of the awaited tires have arrived. The bad news is tire pricing has increased upwards of 9% with freight added in. We will be increasing the prices on todays sales and beyond. We will honor the pricing for those who have purchased tire contracts already but new contracts will see an increase of $10 on the base plus $5 per set. MG has held prices constant for well over 6 years now but the last few years have been a financial challenge for all of us — business and personal.

Easter Weekend Hours

We will be closed Sunday, April 17th in celebration of Easter. We will reopen Monday, April 18th for practice and rentals during regular business hours.

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2022 Enduros

We are bringing back Enduro events for our 2022 season. We have three in mind this year. The first one will be held on May 15th. This will be a two hour event. Details for this event are posted on the “Next Race Timeline” page under the “Endurance Events” tab at the top of the page. Check Facebook and our website for information on future enduro events. We will post when dates are established for the other two events.

SPONSOR OPPORTUNITY

Have you ever wanted to sponsor some activity at a very nominal cost? We are in search of someone who would like to sponsor our League programs. We have Jr High League w/17 races, High School League w/17 races, and Friday League w/24 races on the road course and 12 races on the oval as well as 12 races with the Elite karts available. Sponsorship would get you advertising on our website along with name on our trophies and year end awards. This could be a low cost way to get some advertising. Contact us for specific details on how this could work for you.

Premises passes

We can no longer sell premises passes. Insurance rules change, like most things in our era, and after having a poor experience in the pits, the pits and the hot grid are seen as one and the same, by the insurance company. This means that ALL people in your pit area MUST have a hot grid wristband. Some years ago cameras mounted to the helmet were forbidden and this is just another step in the direction of safety.

The GOOD news is that we are allowed to continue with no wristband needed on the “71” side of the orange gate on event days. This gate will remain closed during the event and opened after the last engine is shut off at the scale after the last race of the day. After that gate is opened, no wristbands will be required in the pit area. On practice/rental days, only those entering the hot grid will require wristbands.

Keep in mind that our wristband policy of DQ’ing ALL in your party from the next points event if ANYONE in your party is found w/o a wristband on is still in place. Please police this so we do not have to enforce it. Snow is melting and we look forward to race season.

SEASON PASS CERTIFICATES

We issued some season pass discounts at the banquet. As a reminder, these are not transferable, and expire on Mar 15th. They can not be used, in tandem, with any other certificate.

Buying a season pass automatically puts you in the pre-registration status and speeds up sign-in on racedays. Call us to purchase a season pass and it locks in your kart number for the season as a bonus.

Points Race Pre-Registration Guidelines

We started pre-registration during the aftermath of the COVID shutdown in 2020. Many, including us, liked it because it sped up sign in for the racer on race days. We will again have this option in 2022 but felt it was time to publish our guidelines to eliminate confusion.

1. Pre-registration can be done by calling the shop
2. Pre-registration DEADLINE is Friday noon
3. Be prepared with race entry info and NAMES for pit passes (we write names on wristbands)
4. Pre-reg pricing will be lower than signup on raceday
5. Payment is expected at time of pre-reg — If the event is cancelled, credit will be applied in the future
6. Payment may be credit card or cash
7. Those who purchase Season passes, for entries OR wristbands, will be automatically pre-reg

As always, registration can be done on racedays for those who choose that option. Editing your pre-reg will cause you to line up behind those pre-reg and will pay raceday prices.