Southern National Motorsports Park and Wake County Speedway both run weekends opposites of each other but both tracks will run under the same rulebook for the 2015 season in hopes that both tracks can attract the same cars. Wake County Speedway announced the decision earlier today on their Facebook page.
“After careful consideration we have decided to adopt the SNMP rules for the Late Model, Charger, and UCAR divisions,” Wake County Speedway’s statement read. “The only difference is our tire rules. Our rules were very close before, but there were several differences that could make running both tracks difficult. We felt if the rules were similar it would be much easier for local racers to run both tracks, if they choose to do so, especially since our schedules alternate on different weekends.”
East Carolina Motor Speedway already runs a similar rules package to Southern National and Wake County. During the offseason, East Carolina merged their Limited Late Model and Late Model Stock Car divisions and based their rules package primarily off the Limited Late Model rules.
Southern National Motorsports Park made a similar move when Langley Austin took over as the promoter of the racetrack. The main difference between East Carolina and Southern National’s rules involve carburetor sizes.
“It’s good to see tracks trying to work together. We can’t take any credit for their decision. I’m sure that was all Mike Stodder and Charlie Hansen but it is good for the racers,” Southern National Motorsports Park track promoter Langley Austin said. “We took considerably longer than Wake County and East Carolina to release our rules. We spent a lot of time with industry experts making sure that every engine combination would be competitive and I think we have the best set of rules. Of course I’m bias to our rules because of the effort we put into them.
“I’d like to see East Carolina do the same thing. Our rules are all close enough but how awesome would it be to see all three tracks in this region working together to the point of having the same rules. It’s the best thing to do for the racers and anything we as promoters can do to make it easier on them we should definitely do within reason.”
RACE22.com asked East Carolina promoter John Vick if there were plans to make alterations to their rules to align with Southern National and Wake County. Vick said that he was not aware of any plans to do so.
Wake County Speedway will run on Friday nights on weeks opposite of Southern National Motosports Park, and East Carolina Motor Speedway will run on Saturday nights, also on weeks opposite of Southern National Motorsports Park.
