I thought I share the latest flyer and entry form for the Mopar Blast at World Wide Technology Raceway aka Gateway.

The Mopar Blast is July 17th and 18th.

The pre-entry cut off date June 19th.

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Moderators-could we get a sticky for this?

Thanks

can you enter on line?
or just snail mail

I don't think they have a way to enter online, I know they don't take c/cards or anything like that.

Probably just snail mail.

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We went to one several years back. Spent the first night in Fairview Heights. Looked to be a really nice area with all new hotels, motels, restaurant's, shopping etc. NOT!!!!
A LOT of car break ins at the motels/hotels along with a few mugging's & assaults. One of the staff members at our place ( Drury Inn) got paid back for calling the police and was hospitalized. The police said it's an expected normal occurrence and they were too understaffed to deal with it . You would think the businesses would hire off duty officers or something. But no, they claim it's too expensive. NICE!!!!

We were lucky with no problems but didn't stick around for another night of excitement. And no these were not dives' but rather new hotels restaurants etc. The police said it's just a bit too close to Ferguson and E St Louis and the thieves consider it easy pickings.
I'll advise to anyone going and staying overnight to go another 30 or so miles up the road which is what we did the second and third nights. No problems there

You may have gone to an event at Gateway, but it was never the Mopar Blast since this is the first time it will ever be held at Gateway.
Previous years were all held on a Ballpark parking lot in O'Fallon MO and were strictly car show and swap meet events thta had no racing like this one will.

As far as the motels at Fairview Heights, we've stayed at both the Drury Inn and the Econo Lodge several times for Monster Musclecar and other events at and never had a problem.

Even though we're local, we live an hour away from the track and it's easier to spend a night in a motel close to the track than waste 2 hours each day driving back and forth.

There are criminals and thieves even in the wealthiest of neighborhoods.
Fairview Heights isn't considered a bad area by any means, it's mainly retail stores and restaurants.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Illinois but Fairview Heights isn't even remotely a bad area.
You're in a far worse area when you're at the track it's self, that's where you shouldn't feel safe.
They don't put racetracks in "nice" neighborhoods.

What a difference a few years makes. It was just a few years ago that guys were arrested for doing burn-outs in the Collinsville motel parking lots. When I saw that, I was done with staying anywhere around the track. Now it seems that the pendulum has swung to the other extreme.

Is the take away here that if your car is still there in the morning that you can do burn-outs now?

"The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Collinsville is 1 in 44. Based on FBI crime data, Collinsville is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Illinois, Collinsville has a crime rate that is higher than 82% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes."

TTT

Have fun everyone!!

That's the plan, have some fun and try not to break anything.

Everything is loaded up in the trailer and ready to head out in the morning.
The hard part will be getting up early since I usually stay up too late.