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Due to the soaking rain predicted tonight through early Saturday afternoon, we will cancel Practice for April 1. Note, we will not reschedule practice and go into Friday Night Racing. We will allow for additional practice time and split practice by classes for this Friday Nights Race.

Pit Spot Reservations: Renewals will be held until our first race; after that, we will open reservations to all who signed up for spot requests or need a spot. Thank you!

The Quarter Midget Super Nationals will be postponed to April 22 due to conflicts with the promotion team’s schedule. More information will be posted in the coming week.

This Saturday will be the day to get the bugs out as all divisions participating at Snydersville in 2023 will get a chance to test and tune on the 1/8th mile bullring. Practice Day will only be a Pit Pass: $20, regardless of driver or non-driver, Ages 4 & Under/Infants will have the normal discount applied. Gates open will open at 10am and Practice will run from 12pm to 6pm. Note, if this practice is rained out, we will not reschedule and go into Friday Night Racing. We will allow for additional practice time and split practice by classes for the initial Friday Night Race.

Pit Spot Reservations: Renewals will be held open until our first event (practice or race), after that we will open reservations to all. Thank you!

Due to rain on Saturday, March 25, we will cancel Practice and reschedule it for Saturday, April 1. With Practice being moved to April 1, the Friday Night De-Icer on March 31 will be moved to April 7 which will include the $500 to Win AllStar Slingshots, $250 to win Briggs Stock Heavy, a Regular Show, and the JuiceBox Division. We will see the Mini Mods first race on Friday, April 14, due to their Bi-weekly Schedule. Have a great weekend everyone and see you next Saturday for Practice.

This Saturday, we began our final preparations to get the 2023 Racing Season underway with our Track Cleanup Day. We have a lot, including scraping the wall of loose paint, painting the walls (both inside and out), painting the tires, picking rocks, repairing stuff, and cleaning up the grounds. Please let Alex know you’re coming by messaging the Snydersville Raceway Facebook Page, so we can get a headcount for lunch. Please let us know if you have dietary restrictions so we can coordinate a food order for you on Saturday.

We will have a limited supply of paint rollers, paint brushes, rakes, shovels, buckets, and scrapers/wire brushes, but we ask that you please bring the following in case we have a lot of people:

• Paint Roller or Brush
• Scraper (aka Putty Knife) or Wire Brush
• Shovel
• Rake
• Bucket
• Drill or Impact Gun

We hope to see you on Saturday!

As many of you may know, social media blew up a few months ago regarding claims that some competitors and “engine tuners” had discovered a way to “twist” the camshaft inside the engines without breaking the seals. Although we have stayed silent on this potential issue up until now, our team has been actively looking for a solution to prevent this.

Cup Karts of North America, a large road course series, spent months gathering data from multiple sources. Hundreds of camshafts were measured and documented from both new and well-used engines, as well as engines from multiple years of production. They also asked key partners from within the industry to provide their own findings of camshaft measurements from their own engines and/or engines they had come through their shops.

The result of this effort is a huge amount of information to base the creation of an allowable tolerance that Racing Promotions (aka Snydersville Raceway) and Oreville Kart Club will now use to inspect engines with:

• In addition to the measurements in Briggs & Stratton 206 rules section 28 – Camshaft Profile Limits Rules:
  • Centerline of the INTAKE lobe must measure 105°-107°.

This rule will take effect immediately. We will also outline the procedure in which our tech team will perform this check, and how disqualifications or suspensions will be handled for engines found not to be compliant with this rule.

We know this announcement comes very close to race season and in a time when engine are hard to get, but unless you (or your engine tuner) have been messing around with the camshaft, you will have nothing to worry about.