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crazy2
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Posted - 30 Jan 2014 :  20:57:33  Show Profile
Hi everyone!

The Wild Bunch held our AGM on Sunday, 26th January in Swindon, and various things were discussed, and the Series Dates for 2014 were confirmed. Many thanks to everyone who attended!

A 2014 Membership pack with Registration forms, Rules, Dates, etc will be sent out later this week with all the details from the meeting, and full information regarding the race dates. The Rules are the same, though there are minor amendments to dates, so please read these when you receive them.

Please note that the 2014 Registration form must be completed and returned in the post with the fee, before the first event you intend to enter, to be registered to collect points, and to ensure continued membership of the Wild Bunch. Please do this as soon as you can to help with admin, and to ensure you receive newsletters and news about forthcoming events.

Our 2014 season will start at the “Festival of Power” MSA event at Santa Pod, which is a 3-day event over the Easter Weekend, and notably held Friday-Sunday this year. Once entry forms have been posted (after the joint SPRC/APIRA meeting on Saturday, 22nd February in Northampton) they will be found on the Santa Pod Racers Club page through eurodragster.com (under Associations and clubs Link). The entry deadline for this event is usually 3 or 4 weeks before the event, so it may be Friday, 28th March, but double check through the SPRC pages through eurodragster.com. Enter as early as possible to ensure your place! This will be an excellent event, and will be our first Real Steel Series round of the year, so we hope to see lots of you there to start off the season! There will then be another Real Steel round at Springspeed at Shakespeare County Raceway, and then the first Wild Bunch Series Round is the Yanks weekend RWYB over the second May Bank Holiday, so we hope to see loads of you at that one!

2014 will be the 19th running of the Wild Bunch Series. This year it will be based on “Best 4 of 5 rounds to count”. The Real Steel Series will be based on “Best 8 out of 9 rounds to count”. The Springbridge MSA Challenge will be “All 5 rounds to count”. The Roy Wilding Nostalgia Race Cars Series will be “All 3 rounds to count”. Shakespeare County Raceway/APIRA Series rounds will “Both rounds count”. WB = Wild Bunch Series, RS = Real Steel Series, SMSA = Springbridge MSA Challenge, RWNRC = Roy Wilding Nostalgia Race Cars Series, SCR = Shakespeare County Raceway (APIRA) Series as indicated.

NOTABLE DATE INFO
There is one notable addition this year, in that we are once again running at the MSA “Summer Nationals” at Santa Pod!

DATES
Here are all the Series dates for 2014, with the rounds of each Series listed:

April 18th – 20th (Fri-Sun) --- FESTIVAL of POWER (MSA) --- SANTA POD (RS 1, SMSA 1)

May 3rd – 5th (Sat-Mon) --- SPRINGSPEED NATIONALS (MSA) --- Shakespeare County (RS 2, SMSA 2, SCR 1)

May 24th - 26th (Sat-Mon) --- Yanks Weekend (RWYB) --- Shakespeare County (WB 1, RS 3)

June 7th & 8th --- JUNE SHOOTOUT (RWYB) --- Shakespeare County (WB 2, RS 4)

June 21st & 22nd --- 21st NOSTALGIA NATIONALS (RWYB No R.E.D.’s) --- Shakespeare County (WB 3, RS 5, RW 1)

June 28th & 29th --- SUMMER NATIONALS (MSA) --- SANTA POD (RS 6, SMSA 3)

July 12th & 13th --- DRAGSTALGIA (RWYB) --- SANTA POD (WB 4, RS 7, RW 2)

Aug 23rd – 25th (Sat-Mon) --- OPEN SPORT NATIONALS (MSA) --- Shakespeare County (RS 8, SMSA 4, RW 3, SCR 2)

Sept 20th & 21st NATIONAL FINALS (MSA) --- SANTA POD (WB 5, RS 9, SMSA 5)

There will be trophies for 1st – 4th Places and Spot Prizes at all 9 of these events.

Real Steel contingency sponsorship
Unfortunately Real Steel can no longer fund us with contingency sponsorship. They did not take this decision lightly and it is for purely financial reasons. They wish us well for the future. Last year we used up all our existing funds to completion so do not have left over. We will be seeking sponsorship for individual events this year and details will be announced nearer to the season, prior to each event.

Real Steel Series
We will still be running a 9-event Real Steel Series this season, as a gesture of good will, and to support and thank Real Steel for over 13 years of sponsorship. There will be the usual trophies for the winners of this Series.

Springbridge MSA Challenge Series
We will be holding the ‘Springbridge MSA Challenge’ again this year. There will be a trophy for the Wild Bunch team with the highest points total over the 5 MSA events the Wild Bunch are competing at this season. The points will be awarded as per the ‘National Championship’ points system, not including bonus points. Thanks again to Bob Hawkins of Springbridge Ltd, who has kindly sponsored this Series.

Dragstalgia
There is a concessionary deal for the ‘Dragstalgia’ event at Santa Pod for Wild Bunch members that pre-enter. It is a RWYB event, with no restrictions to R.E.D.’s. Entry details will be in the Reg pack.

Annual Fancy Dress
The theme for this year’s fancy dress party, which will now be at the RWYB event on June 7th & 8th at Shakey, will be “Uniforms”. More details on that nearer the time!

Annual Dinner Dance and Prize Presentation
We have booked the date for the 2014 Wild Bunch Annual Prize Presentation and Dinner Dance! It is:
Saturday, 22nd November, once again in the Hamilton Suite, Drayton Manor Park.

Full details of all the dates, rules and info will be sent with the 2014 Registration packs, SO PLEASE REFER TO THE DATE LIST AND INFORMATION IN THE PACK FOR CLARIFICATION.

We’re really looking forward to racing with everyone again, and welcoming new members as well as all the regulars. We can’t wait for the season to start! We hope you’re all doing well with your off-season rebuilds! Best of luck for an exciting, fast, safe and successful season! See ya at the drags!

Chris & Claire
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