Just wanted to remind everyone about the 1st Annual Mopar Small Tire Throwdown heads up race this Saturday June 11th at Ohio Valley Dragway in Louisville, KY. It's an all Mopar race for street legal/stock appearing type Mopar cars with small tires. We are gonna see just who is the top dog in the True Ten Five/Drag Radial Mopar world this weekend!

Several cars will be there early on Friday for testing and some grudge race action. On Friday gates open at 6pm and racing starts then and goes til 11pm.

Saturday June 11th gates open at 2pm with time tuns starting at 3pm. There will be a Mopar car show at this race also with judging at 6pm. Racing will start around 7pm.

Here is a link to the track's website for address info....

Ohio Valley Dragway

I will make another post below with rules and info....

MOPAR SMALL TIRE THROWDOWN

This is for street legal stock appearing Mopar bodied and Mopar powered cars and trucks

It will be an 1/8 mile race

.400 pro tree

Mufflers required except on turbo cars

All Run – If more than 16 cars qualify, there is a possibility we will run two separate fields

Blind Draw – Car numbers will be drawn out of a hat for pairings

Open Time Runs start at 3pm - get as many as you want

Lane choice in 1st round will be determined by coin flip, lane choice for every round after that will be determined by the quickest et from previous round

Weights:
3300 – Big Block Power Adder
3100 – Small Block Power Adder
3000 – Big Block N/A
2800 – Small Block N/A

Body/Chassis:
Stock Appearing Mopar Cars/Trucks only
Stock Appearing interior
Firewall must be in stock location
Must have stock front frame rails
Any rear suspension allowed
No tube chassis cars or all out race cars
Wheelie bars allowed

Tires:
29.5 x 10.5 non W slicks or smaller
315/325 drag radial tire or smaller

Engines/Power Adders:
Any engine size/combo allowed as long as it is Mopar based
Any head allowed
Blowers/Prochargers – Any size allowed
Turbos – Any size turbo allowed, single or twin
Nitrous – Multiple stages allowed
No combination of power adders (can’t have blower and nitrous for example)


PAYOUT

Winner - $1,500 + trophy + M/T 29.5 x 10.5S slicks
Runner Up - $750
Semis - $325
Quarters - $200
1st round losers - $100

*NO Splitting in the final round!*

$500 to the first car to run in the 4’s during eliminations
$500 extra to the winner of the race if using Predator heads
New set of M/T 29.5 x 10.5S slicks to the winner

$50 entry fee for car and driver which will go towards the purse
$10 entry fee for each spectator/crew member which will go to the track

If there ends up being a second field we will determine a payout based on entry fee money after the qualifying rounds.

I had to make a couple small adjustments to the payout because we lost some sponsor money along the way but I cut it as little as I could. The above posted payout is the corrected version.

Sponsors for this race include.....

ROBBINS CHRYSLER-DODGE-JEEP
ROBBINS RV CENTER
BIGTIME AUTOMOTIVE
PREDATOR PERFORMANCE
SMOTHERS SUPERCARS
MONTE SMITH PERFORMANCE
CUSTOM WIRE SETS AND PERFORMANCE
MAYES PERFORMANCE


In addition to the standard payout the following prizes will be awarded.....

$500 bonus money if winner of race is using Predator heads from Predator Performance

$500 from Monte Smith Performance for the quickest nitrous pass on Saturday

Free Firecore wires from Custom Wire Sets awarded to the quickest 1st round loser, the car/driver with the longest haul to get to the race, and the car/driver with the most dramatic loss in eliminations

Free transmission rebuild from Mayes Performance (includes parts and labor, no shipping)


Hats off to these sponsors for stepping up to the plate and providing this extra prize money and goodies for this race!

Awesome man!!!!! Not too many people wanna take on the responsibility as headaches to set up a good event ! Props to you

Cant wait to meet all you guys

i will be down with Bondo Bob

I cant wait to whip up on Ricky Boobie!!!!

FYI.....any of you guys that plan to come and spectate, we will be needing a little bit of help with all the logistics of this race. Its just me and my dad with our car so it will be tough for us to handle everything and race the car at the same time. We may need some help keeping up with what et's everyone ran, who won and lost each round, etc so that we can keep everything straight on the payouts and prizes. I've never actually put on a race before, just participated so I'm sure there are some things that will come up that I haven't planned for or thought about yet. Thanks in advance....

I'm bringing a friend of mine so we'll be able to help out.......I've got my two boys going also (ages 10 and 13)......

Hey Rick, glad to hear you're coming! It'll be good to see you again, and I'm looking forward to meeting Bob and all the other attendees. Are you bringing that bad Challenger that I took all the pictures of?

-Allan

You guys ready??? The Fish is ready to hurt some feelings!!

Im looking forward to this weekend even tho my junk is not ready im making the trip from Mi to see some racing.And maybe a grudge match or two.

Hitman340 has stepped up and is providing $1,400 worth of gift certificates to his company for racers at this race. Thanks Jeff!

Good luck to all! Please take plenty of pics!!

Looks like I'll be able to ride down with Jeff Friday after work.
I was hoping to see a good old BB vs SB grudge race but........

Very sorry to hear about the breakage Josh.

Yea. It's official. I'm broke.... I'll still be there to pitch in to the winners pot, and support the vent as well as meet everyone.....bob got off easy this time

We are all ready to go. Heading out about 3 or 4pm today. See you guys tomorrow night.....Be careful traveling.

been a total thrash the last 2 weeks on the car, its not completely done but good enough to race this weekend
a big thanks for the helping hands to my good friends.

im pulling out in morning to get down their at 6 when the gates open to get some shake down passes on the car before i turn it loose

run the valves at the track and a frersh set of plugs and she is ready

see ya all there Bob stop by and say hi

Stayed overnight in a Costco parking lot just outside of Memphis last nite. Gonna head back out in a couple hours after we eat breakfast. Everyone drive safe....