Power Tool Drag Races

From: Laughing Squid
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Subject: SQUID [03/31] Power Tool Drag Races
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:21:23 -0800

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Power Tool Drag Races

Sunday, March 31st

noon sharp

see entry fees below

----> Event Description <-----------------------------------------------

ANNOUNCING: The Shipyard Power Tool Drag Races- Sunday, March 31st

Blown Big-Block Belt Sanders . . . Nitro Burning Funny-Saws . . . Wheel Standin' Weed Wackers

It's racing . . . racing . . . racing . . . Sunday . . . Sunday . . . Sunday . . . at The Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . .

Sunday, March 31st, Chopped Chainsaws and Supercharged Speed Wrenches will go head-to-head down 50 feet of two-lane dragstrip at The Shipyard International Speedway. From super stock off-the-shelf machines, to full tilt multi-motor mooooooonnnstrosities, it will be capacitor blowing, carbide tooth shrapnel mayhem brought to you by, well, *you*- the finest redneck fabricators (a.k.a. machine "artists") in the Bay Area. Participants and spectators alike will thrill to the speed and smells as Black and Decker, Porter Cable, De Walt and Milwaukee battle it out for supremacy and $1,500* in cold hard cash.

Racing will be divided into three classes, each with a $500* 1st prize purse and a double elimination schedule to determine who walks away with the money. There will be classes for both stock machines that run "riderless", and modifieds that have to carry their maker(s) down the track.

The three classes are:

*Super Stock* (non-ridden): Off-the-shelf power hand tools run "as-is" using stock parts and attachments. Extra wheels are allowed for stability and control, but no custom frames, chains, gears, or wheel drives. Drive must be direct from tool to ground. Motors can be electric AC or DC, cord or battery, fuel or pneumatic. The "No-Customs" rule will be strictly enforced for this class, so as to make it easy for everyone who wants to race to have a competitive machine.

*Modifieds* (one rider): Single motor modified machines with provisions for a single rider. Frames, wheels, gears, seats allowable as you like. Motors must originate from hand operated power tools and both direct and/or wheel drive is allowed. No motors from stationary, wheeled or otherwise non-hand supported tools.

*Top Fuel* (two riders): Open multi-motor mayhem with two riders per machine. Motors can be electric, pneumatic, gas, hydraulic, steam or cold fusion (as long as each motor started life in a hand tool). Power sources are limited to one of the following: 40amps of 120AC, one 5gal propane tank filled with air, one car battery, or 50cc total of 4 or 2-stroke smoke. Max capacities for steam and cold fusion machines available on request.

We provide the race track, Christmas tree starting lights, Seiko timing system, annoying PA system and crack medical team with ambulance standing by. You provide the nerdy tech and steely nerves to make the machines work and stay on them for 50 asphalt pulverizing feet. Get your machines ready, cause it's only 2.5 months until the staging lights flash and the green light drops.

Music, hot dogs, posters, promo booths, special games for the kids, and a "male-only" wet T-shirt contest during intermission will make it a day of family fun not to be missed, for contestants and spectators alike.

Special Mystery Prizes for:

Most spectacular crash
Most impressive engineering
Most pathetic engineering
Most dangerous machine
Machine most likely to get its maker laid

Entry fees are $35 until Feb 15th, $45 from Feb 16 to March 31st, and $55 the day of the race. The entry fees are set at this level so as to create substantial purses for the winners. Entry fees can be paid via paypal at jimmason@longnow.org or via snail mail at: The Shipyard International Speedway, attn: Racemaster, 1010 Murray Street, Berkeley, Ca, 94710. Full specs available from Jim Mason at jimmason@longnow.org.

See you on race day for saw spinnin', chuck strippin', crowd skinnin' power tool action . . . action . . . action . . . at The Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . .

Jim Mason
Racemaster

* $500 purse for each class is dependent on getting at least 13 entries in each class. If there are fewer entries in a class, the purse will be 100% of the entry fees received.

----> Venue Info <------------------------------------------------------

The Shipyard
1010 Murray Street
Berkeley

near intersection of Ashby and San Pablo


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Friday, January 18th, 2002 danlyke@flutterby.com