Gateway Motorsports Network

Here we go …. mark your calendars and make your plans now! It’s going to be a day to remember at Memphis International Raceway on May 25, 2013! I’m going to set the track on kill and let the Lethal1320.com boys go get the cash! Do not miss it!
With the upcoming 2013 season rolling around the corner, there is a new player in the market for small tire, Outlaw drag racing. Memphis International Raceway, located in Millington, TN, has approached Tyler Crossnoe Promotions about partnering into a first class ‘Heads-Up Havoc’ series for the 2013 campaign. I have been brought in to promote the event, as well as, oversee the prepping of the racing surface for the baddest of the bad!
This series will kick off on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 25th, 2013. These events will compose of a one-day event featuring three rounds of qualifying and eliminations compiled into one day of all heads up action! Classes to be featured at the “Outlaws – The Comeback” event will be headlined with the fastest cars on a small tire, Outlaw Drag Radial. With unlimited cubic inches, numerous stages of nitrous oxide, twin turbochargers and superchargers – these cars can rotate the world with over 3,000 horsepower on a tire no wider than a 315 Drag Radial! X275 will also headline a star-studded line-up at the opening Heads-Up Havoc event for Memphis International Raceway. With John Sears at the helm of this class, the class is headed for the stars! The local stars will be out running the X275 category, where the cars can only run on a 275 Drag Radial! The wheel-standing, bumper dragging action of X275 is worth the price of admission by itself! Mean Street, 6.00 and 7.00 Indexes are also on tap for the return of all heads-up racing to the Midsouth’s only ¼ mile racing facility!
Like stated above, I will be overseeing the race surface preparations for the series and I hope to see all of you come out and support this facility, as they are trying to offer all types of motorsports entertainment for the racer and spectator alike. I will be producing a flyer and will have it out as soon as purses are finalized and a few other small details. Just for the inquiring minds, lots of money will be thrown at this program …. why are you not already here?! There will be rules and weights in all categories with the scales on and you must hit the scales after every pass!
Stay tuned for more updates and more information on this event! Mark your calendars now!

Gateway Motorsports Park
Gates open at 11:00 am – Time Trials at Noon

SPECTATORS $10
Super Pro $60
Pro $50
Sportsman $40
All Run Bike $40

Classes eligible for Wally will be:
Super Pro 1/8 Mile
Pro 1/8 Mile S
portsman 1/4 Mile
All Run Bike 1/4 Mile
King of the Track 1/8 Mile

There will not be standard payout – Will be based on Entry Count in each category. Split is not decided. All first round buybacks in all categories.

All winners of National Dragster will race each other for King Of Track

Jackpot race – If time permits

Win an NHRA Wally – Be KING of the Track!

The original 1972 “Grumpy’s Toy” Vega (#10) is coming to Dyno Dom’s Sikeston Raceway on October 27th! That’s right! The ORIGINAL! Mark Pappas purchased this piece of history for his collection in February 2012, and is bringing it out to us.

Mark has been a Grumpy fan since he was about 15 years old. The car has recently been restored back to it’s original form. Lot’s of research has gone into this to make sure. Just a little history from the begining………..(Taken from Ledfoot News) Grumpy’s vega evolved from a National Hot Rod Association rules change in 1972 that allowed drag racers to switch to lighter cars fitted with small-block Chevy V-8′s. Jenkins dropped a 331-cid small-block into a vega that had the first chassis tube in his division.

The car made it’s first appearance at the 1972 Winter Nationals and ultimately won the event with a 9.6 second run. The car then took five of the year’s first eight events and six nationals, earning him $250,000. Those earnings made Jenkins the country’s highest paid professional athlete.” So racers and fans alike, this is something you won’t want to miss!