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A lot of folks have mentioned that Palmer is hard to learn and test days are high priced so the region worked with the track owner to cut people a better deal. For the May 5-6 Palmer race only they has cut the Friday test day price to $150 for the afternoon, $250 for all day. if you need to get...

Registration is open for New England Regions Club Racing Experience and region race weekend at Thompson on October 4-5. http://ner.org/rr/event/20141003_john-stim-memorial-test-day-nerrcraces-closed-wheel-club-racing-experience-alterna With a safe race car you can experience real wheel to...

NER SCCA announces a Club Racing Experience event at NHMS SundayAugust 10th. Real wheel to wheel racing without all the paperwork hasslesone thinks of with SCCA. Check out the link: http://www.ner.org/announcement/club-racing-experience

The Finger Lakes, Glen and New England Regions are all including the accessible ITEZ class in their regional races. The rule set adopted is designed to allow any car that meets Improved Touring safety rules a place to race. In other word there are no illegal cars. Most cars built for other...

New England Region Club Racing is adding a new class for regional racing in 2014. 2014 New England Region Rules Improved Touring – EZ The purpose of IT‐EZ is to create a regional class where cars built for ChumpCar or Lemons racing, or for cars that could be ITE legal but do not belong in...

Guys, I got a question from the west coast guys with the Runoffs being there in 2014 and the Majors growing. I guess there are a bunch of BMW Pro 3 cars out there. http://www.pro3-racing.com/ They want to know if they can run in STU. It look like to me that the cars are legal in ITS although...

New idea for RAL NHMS weekend. In addition to the triple regional if you run in ITA, ITB, ITC, ITR, ITS, IT7, T3, T4,EP, FP, HP, GTL, SM, SSM, SM2, SM5, STU, STL , SRF, SPU, or B spec you can get a bonus 10minute qualifying and 30 minute race for $99 or free if you raise $500 for the charity...

Well I put on my Tech hat this morning and issued a brandy new log book for what may be the first in the country ITR Corvette. Very neat a tidy build but I would expect nothing less from Brian.

There was an interesting discussion this weekend during the Ne Div convention. Apparently Nasa has something at events called Contact Impound designed to make drivers accountable for metal to metal contact. The suggestion that evolved was to have an area in the impound are that if you have any...

A friend is buying a Honda engine that can be delivered to the ARRC and need to get it to southern New England or as close as possible. Is anyone going to be there?

The current developments between the ITAC and the CRB were a topic of discussion at the convention including in the session between the BOD and the CRB although that meeting was early in the week (Wednesday afternoon) before many emails had been received. There are always a number of topics that...

It is my understanding that some enduros that have a minimum pit stop length are using a software program to determine compliance rather than actually timing stops. What I have been told it that the software takes your in lap, out lap and time in the pits and compares it to you best lap times 2...

At the NER drivers school Friday group three for closed wheel cars will be an “advanced” school group. It will be for licensed drivers only and will not have the lead follow session, practice starts or flag tests. This will make it a good opportunity for drivers wanting test or practice time...

I was going to post this in the LRP thread but did not want to have it get lost. Actually I have been doing math on the closed wheel race groups based on recent participation. It would be possible to compact these 6 groups into 4 GT1, GT2, GT3, T1, T2, AS, SPO, ITE, ITR, STO, ST, 27 cars SM...

Below is a draft of a letter I am going to send to the CRB. I believe a problem exists and would like some feed back as to whether I am on the right track and if anyone sees a problem with unintended consequences. Dear CRB, I am concerned about how to best mount a racing seat in class where...