Seminar Schedule
MOTORSPORTS 2024 SEMINARS
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19
4:30 – 5:30 PM SHOCK SENSE – DALE and BRANDON PLANCK of DIG SHOCKS have quickly combined a proven product with race winning knowledge to a growing list of customers in Dirt Modified and Sportsman competition. During a one-hour seminar they will offer understanding advice on how to improve handling through shock and suspension changes, what communicate is needed to adjust to an ever changing dirt track and much more. After retiring as a winning driver and champion, Dale Planck has coached many young drivers and teams to victory lane. His son Brandon Planck is a mechanical engineer with not only a great knowedge, but knowledge of shocks few unders. Bring your notebook, have your questions ready.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20
11:30 – 12:30 PM (Room 1) DIRT MODIFIED 4 COIL, & LOADS – CHUCK SCHMICK Technical Sales Advisor Behrent’s Performance Warehouse: Suspension Expert Chuck Schmick of Mooresville, N.C., formerly with Eibach Springs, will present an informative seminar to get you updated with today’s ever changing Dirt Modified chassis set-ups. Hyperco and Behrents will be giving one person a set of four Hyperco coils that attend the seminar via a drawing.
12:45 – 1:45 PM (Room 1) SPRINT CAR HELP with JIM SHREINER: With over 25 years of experience working with some of the best Sprint Car drivers and teams in the country, veteran crew chief Jim Shreiner be hosting a one-hour seminar to offer advice to the Sprint Car beginner to racers competing at different levels up the ladder in the sport. A former Micro Sprint driving champion, Shreiner learned Sprint Car racing from some of the best crew chiefs in the business after his retirement behind the wheel. He then enjoyed success working with drivers such as Keith Kauffman, Doug Esh, Justin Henderson, Tyler Walker and most recently Dylan Cisney. Shreiner will discuss needed car and engine maintenance, chassis set-up, following a race track, needed discussion with the driver and much more. Bring your concerns and questions!
1:00- 2:00 PM: (Room 2) TAKING PHOTOS AT THE TRACK– Hosted by award winning racing photographer BOB YURKO of Area Auto Racing News: For the “amateur” or the person looking to enter the business, this seminar provides “the basics” of racing photography.
2:00 – 3:00 PM: (Room 1) WATT’S UP IN SPORTSMAN – Veteran Modified winning driving RYAN WATT quickly coached his teenage son LOGAN WATT to the Grandview Speedway crate Sportsman track championship, second in Big Diamond Raceway points and third in the Short Track Super Series this season! Both father and son have offered their time to cover what they feels is needed for a team to know or have to help a young driver making the move from small cars, or a current Sportsman competitor wanting to improve. From maintenance to motor/set-up advice to driving coaching, both Watt’s will be available to answer your questions so prepare in advance.
3:00- 3:45 PM: (Press Room): Race Track/Tour & Series Media Workshop – Hosted by WAYNE HARPER, Lincoln (Pa.) Speedway press director. Open discussion between racing writers/photographers and track/series Promoters/Managers and Press Directors as to professionalism, credential usage and pre and post-event coverage. A featured topic will be “Today’s Racing Social Media”, with emphasis on how tracks/organizations are using Facebook, Twitter and related “social media” in publicizing their events; and “credential approval by tracks in the new era of social media.”
3:15 – 4:15 PM (Room 1) TIRE PREP – Jay Castimore, the long-time dirt Modified tire specialists for Brett Hearn and most recently Stewart Friesen, will address American Racer and Hoosier tire preparation and equipment to use for grooving, siping and needling. He’ll talk about where on the tire to do the work, which blocks, how deep and what direction. When to use it, when not… plus tire compound choice and watching an ever changing race track before making a decision. The discussion will also include tire maintenance and dicussions he has with his drivers. Bring your questions to the tire expert!
4:30- 5:30 PM: (Room 1) NEW ENTRY LEVEL CLASS FOR CHILDREN – HYPER RACING will be hosting an informative seminar regarding Junior Sprints, a new entry level division for children that is being introduced this season to the northeast. The Junior Sprint class originated in the Midwest around 2004 as a driver development class and is designed for drivers 5 (or 6 depending on track) to 12 years old. The class was born with the idea to create a class where the 600cc Sprint drivers would have a place for their children or younger siblings to race at the same track on the same nights.
5:45 – 7:00 PM (Room 1) ATQMRA RULES MEETING