Winter Autocross Series To Debut At New Jersey Motorsports Park
Millville, N.J. (November 11, 2009) -
A new autocross series will debut this winter at New Jersey Motorsports Park as a four-race season, providing a cold-weather alternative for racers and an entry-level option for those new to the sport.
The open series will run at New Jersey Motorsports Park in conjunction with the South Jersey Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), but SCCA membership is not a requirement for entry. The four race season will open on December 5, 2009, and include January 9, February 6, and March 6, 2010 events.
The winter series will run each race on a different, challenging configuration in the Lightning Raceway paddock. Autocross events run one car at a time on a tight, twisty course typically set-up in open paved areas. Courses are laid out with cones, allowing a different course at each event.
Cars are separated into classes, with the winners determined through time trials.Awards will be provided to the top three in each class at each race, as well as overall champions at the end of the season.
To participate, each driver needs only a car and a helmet. It’s not unusual for autocrossers to compete in the same cars driven to the event, making autocross the perfect entry-level motorsports activity.
Additionally, portions of the $35 entry fee to each winter series event will benefit a pair of worthy causes. Entrants in the season opener can receive $5 off the entry fee by bringing a new child’s winter coat to benefit the New Jersey Motorsports Park Coats For Kids drive, which provides coats, hats, scarves, gloves and mittens to local school children in need. As required by the Coats For Kids Foundation, all coats must be new and include the tags, but can range in size from Youth 2Y to Women’s and Men’s 2X.
The latter three events will benefit Laps to Conquer MS. New Jersey Motorsports Park will donate $5 from each entry fee to the Laps to Conquer MS fund, which uses motorsports to increase awareness of multiple sclerosis and raise money for the national MS society.
The winter series will run under SCCA Solo rules, with officiating from the South Jersey region. More information on the South Jersey Region of the SCCA is available at www.sjr-scca.org.
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More information on the series is available at www.njmp.com or by calling 856-327-7225. Sitting on more than 500 acres in Millville, N.J., New Jersey Motorsports Park is conveniently located to Philadelphia, the Jersey Shore, New York and Baltimore, and offers diverse and dynamic motorsports attractions. The facility includes two world-class road courses (Thunderbolt and Lightning), an exclusive motorsports country club known as the Drivers Club, the Breighton Room Restaurant open to the general public, and F1 New Jersey, one of the top karting facilities in America. Opened in July 2008, New Jersey Motorsports Park hosted seven major motorsports events in 2009 and countless club events and track rentals. The 2009 spectator schedule opened with the Verizon Wireless 250 presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 in May, and also included the Formula X weekend featuring the Atlantic Championship powered by Mazda and a host of Mazda-powered race series, as well as All Revved Up; the debut of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Pro Road Race Series, including the American Superbike class and the new Daytona Sportbike program; the return of the South Jersey Building Trades 150 ARCA/ReMax Series race; a Ferrari Challenge event; and the excitement of two separate Vintage race weekends. For more information on New Jersey Motorsports Park, F1 New Jersey, Breighton Room, or to purchase tickets, visit www.njmp.com or call 856-327-7217. Children 12 and under are admitted free to every event at New Jersey Motorsports Park.