MikePeters95

This is an absolute truth you have spoken, 100%. There are a lot of folks in the wait-and-see crowd. I really hope we can get them going. I am new to this community, but I've been surprised how many folks I had that are wanting to come check it out, hopefully it turns into something. Even had some the guys that I play iRacing with starting to ask about getting cars. Just going to take some time, but I know we have tried to put the word out as much as possible, but if you've got a car, we will find a class for you to run.

That's awesome!

I was happy to contribute to wiping it out, almost put some hot dogs on track under those yellows haha. But for real, nobody can solve a problem they don't know about. I appreciate you guys not being jerks about stuff. Friendship Speedway was a martyr for the potential toxicity of communities and I hope we never have to deal with that around here again. I won't allow it or partake in it. There is a right way to criticize and a wrong way. Let's stay on the right side and be better.

As someone who grew up with TMS, we stole that from Wilksboro. TMS didn't stay full, the All Star Race is for the NASCAR community and teams, they're based out of Charlotte, I 110% support this move. With that said, a fall playoff race at TMS will be fun. If you have the means, support it!

I'll take ownership of that. I was buried at work and getting my truck going with a bunch of last minute things and just forgot to post here. I'll own that, and I'll do better. There were some other folks that were also supposed to be following a playbook and, well, 60 days ago we didn't exist. That's not an excuse, but we're going to have some teething issues, I appreciate the constructive critisism, and also just the bluntness of your post. I didn't know there were people who only cruised here, and now I know. I did see that Nick was posting everything as well so I didn't post as much as I was just slammed. Let me know what all you guys would like to see as well. I do know that we need to send out more email blasts, again, work in progress, brand new thing started 4th fiscal quarter. I'm not asking to hear excuses but let us figure it out, juuuust a bit. Can't solve a problem we don't know about, I appreciate you putting that out there bluntly so we can fix it! Edit: We were keeping this on the downlow because, again, everything is new, and we simply didn't have the luxury of time to validate things. Our website is STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS, but if you want to bookmark it and check it closer to race weekends, our web guy (who's also a racer!) is working on features to make it easy to get the info you need. The site has been up for about 6 weeks now, it got leaked a few times even though it absolutely was not supposed to be public or seen yet, but as of now, we believe we have most of the bugs worked out. Again, work in progress. I think as a team of folks that didn't know each other, in less than 90 days, we did a decent job, but most importantly we're self-critical of what we know we didn't do a good job on. Excited about SPRS Race 2, that is absolutely certain. https://southernpremierracingseries.com/

I posted a long write up I'll copy paste here too, if anyone's interested in my weekend summary as an outsider coming in first time. Posted from My Facebook Page: "First race, done Southern Premier Racing Series kicked off their Fall Shootout Series at Houston Motorsports Park . Short summary, 0 laps before the racing action, avoided trouble and wound up 6th with about 20 trucks starting. My Dad decided to hold off running his truck this weekend. The full breakdown for the most part is below. Please support those who support us if you can! Raising Cane's | 1 Guard Inspections | Carry The Load | Skills Driving | The Awesome Shop | CJE Performance For those wanting the full breakdown, here we go. As most of you know, bought Charles Evans Jr.'s old #58 truck from back in the day at HMP. It had been sitting for a bit, and CJE Performance did some updates on it. I've got to drive it a few times at practice on some old tires, but no races at all. We practiced last Friday at the open test put on by SPRS before, but couldn't get our tires as we were running around and the tire barn was intermittently open, and ran the old ones. Race day we got our tires mounted, missing first practice doing that. The series did a great job procuring every American Racer tire available and we were able to get some tire sizes we thought would work. The truck has never been ran on the American Racer Tires, previously it was a Hoosier that was pretty different. Second practice, well, I'll be printing out a schedule and taping it in the trailer next time so we don't mis-read the online flyer like we apparently did this time. First event, we're there to have a good time and figure this out, it happens. Thankfully there was a heat race, and everyone would transfer. We approached this as a throw-away race and a practice with other cars on track. As I went out for the heat race, started to turn the wheel and put some heat in the tires. As soon as I do this, my wiring harness for my radio splits in half, and no radio. Pulled the handset out, told my spotter to let race control know to point that black flag at me and I'll park it, or I'll just ride out back. So as we're rolling out, I have no radio, no spotter, and have no clue what this thing is going to handle like. We guessed at tire pressures based on feedback from friends we've made, but had no clue how much they were going to expand once hot. Elected to just ride around in the heat, while also being super annoyed that I broke my radio harness, but again, first event, new truck, etc. Again, everyone transferred, I've never driven this on new tires, tire pressures are a science project, we just rode, no sense in tearing anything up for a race that literally, does not matter in any way at all. I decided to run top and bottom and see if there was a grip difference since the 40-lap feature would have near 20 trucks, so surely some side by side will happen. Again, just feel it out, no need to press the issue at all, and if something happens that I can't really see, I don't have a radio to let me know to give it some space. So we get back to the pits, tire pressures are crazy high as expected even after rolling slowly down pit lane, through the pits, etc etc etc. Get the radio sorted, eat some $1 Hot Dogs from the concession stand, rehydrate, etc. Found out my Dad elected not to run his truck yet as the setup in it was pretty off. I took some laps in it the Friday before and while these trucks make less horsepower than a Ford Explorer ST, they really need to put that power down. A few laps in his truck, and it would just not put the little bit of power these things make down, at all. Hopefully we can get a test day before next event, bring all the springs and shocks and get that thing where it works, because right now the setup in the rear end is just off. Anyways, In the feature, we'd line up and start dead last since we rode around in the back of the heat race. Which is fine, it's 40 laps long, that's plenty of time to sort stuff out without racing like an idiot, tearing up people's stuff, etc. 40 laps may or may not sound like a lot, but that's 80 different times going through the cornered ends of the track, and 160 opportunities to outbrake someone into the corner, or get on the gas quicker than them, or just wait on them to make a mistake. Plenty of time to get to where you're probably going to be without tearing things up. Well, at least as someone new to this, that's what I thought would be somewhat logical, and a majority of my fellow in class racers seemed to think as well. Once the green flag dropped, started moving around, saw some guys who I'd met and knew who they were and had seen some videos, so it was a blast racing them as I could trust them. I'm new, so 90% of the field I didn't know, so was very very patient running with them and wanted to make sure they were stable before really engaging with them. Plenty of time. Was also still on first long run on new tires, pressures should be good, I was adjusting bias every 2-3 laps, lots going on. Started making some passes and running side by side, and it was pretty fun. As the event transpired attrition became a thing. I was able to avoid all the trouble mostly. As mentioned earlier, most of the racers there understood the opportunity to make headway. Most of us have to fix the stuff we tear up. Most of us understand actions have consequences. As the race transpired there was a rash of cautions where it seemed like we couldn't get more than a handful of laps in. Started seeing a lot of tore up equipment and trucks missing a lot of body panels. Started discussing on the radio how I needed the cautions to end so we could race, but also because the fumes from rolling around under caution were making it impossible to breathe in the truck, something I'll fix. Right as we start to think everyone has it out of their system, roll into turn one right after a restart, and my whole drivers side knocked off by someone who was just in a wreck, but hadn't had enough, barrel into me and 4 trucks. I saved it, but whatever. Pretty purposeless and dumb. It appeared that, in an effort to hit every truck on track, a red flag came out later when the next person they hit didn't save it. It was a pretty unilateral relief based on post-race discussion with other racers in class when we saw that the truck involved would not be continuing, one of the minor setbacks of non-professional, for fun local racing, while most people are responsible and respectful, some people don't have to work for anything and just destroy, bringing out the red flag, and a lot of work and cleanup for the SPRS staff as well as On Site Towing, who's Lighting McQueen pace car pulled us down and stopped us on the apron after the Show was.. well... Stopped. I was thankful for the red flag because we did learn my truck doesn't ventilate well, and I was nearly crying due to the fumes and was having a hard time keeping my eyes open. Being able to shut the truck off and get some fresh air was needed, and thankfully after that most everyone calmed down with the purposeless nonsense of wrecking each other for no reason. Again, just some first-race little issues we can sort out. But just getting some fresh air was much needed. We had a nice green flag stint at the end, my new friend Jaron in the 43 overshot the corner and somewhat turned us, which was pretty easy to straighten it up and keep going ( The drift skills are still there ) and went back and forth with the 43 for a bit, and wound up 6th. It did pull both of us back, not that we necessarily would have kept up with the front 3 trucks that broke away, but just rode around and survived the end. A lot was learned. A lot, and there will be a LOT more to learn. Came back home, need to remount my body on the passenger side, fix the bumper, and that's about it. Got a lot of operational procedures, prep, and other things I need to address and prep for as well. Being the first event there were a lot of things that I didn't know I needed to do as well as a lot of things that I wanted to see how they played out and then work on them from there. This did exactly what I wanted, it was fun, the truck sounded cool and was a handful, and it's not super easy so I can actually apply myself to something and not be mentally bored and unchallenged which is something I've struggled with a lot lately, and a chance to achieve something with buddies. That's fun. So in summary, had a lot of fun, learned a lot, wrote a novel for the internet now as well. Lucked my way into a 6th even though I was pretty slow for where I should have been. The degree, detail and complete inconsistency of the tires, track, and setup is really surprising, and it's a lot to learn, which is fun and look forward to trying to figure it out. There are a bunch of people who thought this would be fun (they were correct) and have helped, thank you all, but especially thanks to Charles Evans Jr. who built the truck, and my buddy TJ Hull ( who is one of my old drifting buddies and has become a good friend of mine over the last decade, who was my spotter and it's been extremely helpful talking to someone else with a very similar background helping translate some of the circle track stuff to what I am familiar with. Was cool even though we butt heads sometimes to have my Dad there, and my Danger Ranger 9k friends Catie and Archibald from SOS Transport, Dustin from One Guard, and a ton of others. The media content has been great as well from Daniel Regalado and others. IAS Drift was awesome and let us put word in their circles and it was awesome to see the way they captured the event to share online in ways that aren't typically done. Also thank you to the circle track community for being super friendly, and accommodating to the new folks, and John and Dean from SPRS/HMP for giving us a place to race. It was really cool putting a lot of names to faces that I had talked to previously and everyone was super nice. I'm sure that will change once we all wreck each other or see a political joke on social media we don't agree with, but it's nice for now. I was so stressed out in July when the previous promoter pulled the plug. I needed this to work so badly I jumped in trying to help with the series, was welcomed, made some good friends in the process and it's been cool to see something be assembled from scratch in less than 60 days between, literally, nothing, and a functioning event. It's good to see the track moving forward, and I think all of us, including the previous promoter, are really happy to see that, with a driver-centric group as well where feedback is taken in, processed, studied and acted upon in time. Thanks for reading my novel. This is set to release in a 440 page hardback version at your local bookstore soon. Also I know most of my friends and followers are NOT circle track folks. Let me know stuff you'd like more info on, I'll post about it!"

Obviously I was there just trying to have my own fun and race, but I talked to some the guys about this after.I'm new but am staying in my lane on helping, but would love to hear your input on this. You can post here and DM me too, whatever. I know you're fair and want this to succeed too. I don't have the experience to understand, yet, how much time normally is between rolling off track and them coming back up and didn't know what the variables here were. I did get some feedback on some things that left room for improvement, but I'm also just trying to stay in my lane on the back end, which is not tech and stuff. I haven't talked to John or anyone as I'm sure he's had that conversation a thousand times and 2 business hours after the event its absolutely something that is still going to be very fluid.

Hey @Holleywood2151, as GCRS has left HMP and a new series has stepped in, they are putting a ton of work in behind the scenes to figure out the classing problem with the traditional street stock / pure stock / wheel man melting pot that has happened so you guys can race. Please fill this out, we are trying to catalog ANYONE that has a car for this class and figure out a plan to bring traditional class rules to get that class going again, but without alienating or forcing people to spend money rebuilding cars that were supporting the track. It's going to be a lot of work on our end but we will figure it out. We need to know what we're working with, right now we have 13 cars that would like to run a Street Stock / Pure Stock style class, and we are trying to structure it in a manner where, again, people will not spend money over, and over, and over, and over and over not to mention the time that goes into rebuilding a car, over, and over, and over, and over. If anyone reading this knows someone that has a car mothballed, sitting, converted to dirt but they'd like to convert it back to asphalt if there was a true and genuine reason to do so, have them fill this out and in class just write "super stock" and as much info as they can about their cars current state and we are going to reach out. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/130jwdNqw7Gl7IpssL99VHvVvr4NstJdfQvdhkxA1I2E/edit

Racers, look for an official announcement later but here are a couple things you need to know. -Fuel will be available this weekend -Tire mounting will be available - Day Motor Sports will be the official tire vendor of SPRS, but we will not have tires on site this weekend, but you can order them from Day. Look for announcement and schedule on the Southern Premier Racing Series - SPRS media pages later today.

These are cool, you okay if we throw some of these up on the SPRS page on Throwback Thursday sometime? Be awesome if any of these are still around, we got quite a few leads on that survey to try to get that class going again and in the correct direction.

Howdy LSSZ, Southern Premier Racing Series is hosting an open house, come run your car and get it dialed in for the upcoming September 10th race at Houston Motorsports Park. Also a venue open house and meet and greet for everyone as a lot of new faces are involved, and a racer-centric community is a big thing SPRS is pushing going forward. Hope to see some of you there, here is a link to the Facebook event for those of you on Facebook. https://fb.me/e/1jmp2ozsQ

Pretty solid deal, any interest in running it now that HMP is back open? Do you have a listing anywhere? I can try to circulate it in some the SPRS groups if so. Feel free to email it to raceSPRS@gmail.com and we will try to put the word out on it

I just wanted to say, the aero manipulation using the wrap and padding (tape) to move it up a couple MM is quite brilliant. Also cost them a lot. Denny's Instagram video with the "300k piece of tape'' in the Eagle's mouth on the trophy is outright hilarious, and kudos to Chase for acknowledging the hollow win and wanting to earn it instead of have it. Pretty cool. Instagram link, no login required. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgdGT5jDd4J/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Hey everyone, I know you all aren't on Facebook. Sometimes I see posts from my friends, and I wish I wasn't on there too. Anyways, as you may or may not know, the Southern Premier Racing Series has a Facebook page. Obviously events are going to post there, but events don't exist without drivers. Even if you don't have Facebook, we want to promote our community. If you can, if you're racing with us, send an email to raceSPRS@gmail.com , title it PHOTOS, in it include your name and a brief history of the photos if there is a story to tell, but if you just want to send in a couple photos we will try to use as many as we can and as diverse mix as we can so everyone can be a part of the community, because, well, you are. Couple quick tips to help get us photos we can actually use. If its on a jackstand in your garage, just being honest, we're probably not going to post that one. The best photos that we will most likely be able to use will have: •no damage •whole car in photo •no cars cropped in photos •be on track preferably •a watermark that is reasonable and not intrusive to the action of the photo or the subject of the photo We would REALLY love to see old photos too from Kyle, San Antonio, HMP back in the day, anything. History is important, it's how we got where we currently are, and we want to share that. Send the photos with the email Subject PHOTOS - DRIVER NAME (obviously put your name) and we're going to catalog them and start trying to use them any time we post anything. We'd really like to start having some fun with #throbackthursday and some of us are car guys, and also history nerds as well. If you'd like you can also just drop stuff in this thread, I can save it and add it to my collection. Always open to any feedback and things you'd like to see as well on our social media. Again, this is supposed to be, and is going to be fun. Any ideas to make it fun, 100% open. May not happen, but we will hear you out on it!

Hey everyone, just wanted to update a few links. Thank you immensely to the over 85 drivers who filled out our Racer Intake Survey. That is absolutely incredible feedback for a series that has been built in less than 30 days. If you'd like to fill out the survey, please do so by clicking here. It takes about 8-15 minutes, or as much time as you'd like to invest in it. If you're not a survey type, that's fine. We now have a Racer Information Form you can fill out by clicking here if you'd like to race with us, but don't want to do any surveys. Totally fine. Please fill out one or the other, not both. If you did the survey, no need to fill out either. For those of you who want to be involved but not racing, we do have a Volunteer and Staff Survey and Intake form you can access clicking here . This will take at least 15 minutes to fill out, to help us get to know our potential staff and have the information to get you with the best fit, and make sure we can find something you'll truly enjoy. Right now we have established Class Ambassadors that will start outreach to the racers over the next week or so. We hope to have rulebooks finalized now that we have a good idea based directly off racer feedback of class car count, class interest, class concerns, staff concerns, thank you. We hear you loud and clear. Outside of SPRS, I'm gonna make a comment as a human with my personal account here. Speaking freely, I just wanted to also say, it's been really incredible to come into this community, and see and hear the same thing on so many surveys. Everyone wants this to succeed. Most of the concerns were completely aligned, and most importantly the willingness, and now, the ability to overcome them was there. This is really going to be something special and I'm excited to be a tiny part of it with you guys. John Alverson has really been awesome to deal with, open to communicate with, Dean Baker, Tiffany Vogel, Corey Winne, Chris Earhardt, Mike Mecum, Jaron Hasley, Jaron Watkins, and a ton more. We, and I also reached out to a lot of folks at the recommendation of Todd Farris, and CJ Evans. Nick Holt and several other folks that were very honest, informative, and passionate about sharing ideas, direction, and networking to do anything they could to see asphalt racing succeed around here, and it's been really cool to see the community interact, and a lot of the folks constantly point out and appreciate how less than 30 days ago, none of us really knew each other at all. Pretty cool if you ask me, and it's only going to keep going. Hope to have you all on board and see you at the track, and the concession stand. Also pretty pumped to run doors and finally get to race this Pro Truck I was already supposed to have two races on, but it seems like it worked out alright just how its going.

This should be a public link anyone can see without logging in: https://www.facebook.com/raceSPRS

The latest list and car count. If you know someone and don't see them, reach out to them. Let's make this fun, let's make this last! We are really all hands on deck trying to find the mothballed late models and get them on track, as well as the Legends/Dwarfs. If you've got a pavement car, we want it running. We have lots of new ways to make sure (within reason) everyone can get on track, if you've got a vintage stock car, Ecostock, Pro Late Model, or the traditional Outlaw, Pro Truck, Modified, let's get you on track!

Hi Everyone, A big announcement will come Monday but John Alverson and Dean Baker are working hand in hand to bring the track back beyond the glory years. They are aware of the recent shaky history and lack of stability and are looking to fix that and create a stable rule package and schedule for the next few years. To do that though they need to know who's out there, and what's out there that can race. PLEASE fill out this survey. The folks that always say "They don't listen to the racers" here is your chance to be heard. I am helping them collect the information and can verify every survey is read by more than just me and the information IS used to determine direction of the future at HMP, which will be bright, strong, and hopefully you'll be a part of it. Please pass this along to anyone you know who has a car they'd like to run at HMP. Below is a photo of everyone who has filled it out and class car count so far. Please fill this survey out. If you don't see your name, or your class represented, fill out the survey so that you can be. This is your shot. Survey here: https://forms.gle/6o4Efeaf1gXs9h399 Hope to see you all there! Mike Peters 95 Pro Truck