Sunday - May 20, 2012
Upcoming Events: June 2nd @ Arizona Speedway
The race for May 19th in Tucson has been cancelled. Stay tuned for more schedule updates.
Next race is June 2nd @ Arizona Speedway @ ET MotoPark.
We doing a 40th Anniversary shirt for 2012 and currently seeking sponsors.
Please contact Joe Atkinson at 602-870-4947 or Margaret Brown at 602-265-0785.
S.C.R.A will be racing in 2012. A lot of new and exciting changes are in store for the members of S.C.R.A.
Driver Memberships are $60, while a General Membership is $15. New rewards for points champion, G-60 Hoosiers racing tires added to rules, an intake manifold change also. We will be traveling this year to various tracks in Arizona. Come this Monday night for more details. See ya then...
A Chevy race motor has been donated to the Points Champion for this year!
More details to follow...
2011 SCRA Champion 06-Marlowe Wrightsman
2011 Rookie-Jesse Johnson
2011 Sportsman-Uncle Dave
Thanks to our Sticker Sponsors:
Rod's Carburetor
Prattser Graphics
Fast Signs
Drilling Service, Inc.
Big Daddy's Sports Lounge
Trophies were great and done by Pioneer Trophy
Banquet was held at the T-Bone Steak House on Dec. 10, 2011
Dinner was the best in a long time.
RULE CHANGE FOR 2012
2012 Tires- Hoosier G60-15 with IMCA stamp. No American Racer tires.
Congratulations to Ronnie Sanchez, winner of the raffle car on Nov. 5 at ET.
The lucky
ticket was # 02034
New book about Manzanita Speedway!
A new book about Manzanita Speedway is being written by Larry Upton and Judy McDonald with the assistance of the Stock Car Racing Association (SCRA). The book will be available in local book stores as well as outlets like Costco, Sam’s Club, Walgreen’s, CVS, and online book sellers like Amazon.com on January 30th, 2012. It is already listed on Amazon.com for pre-sales for $14.95 (click here).
The book will tell the story of how Jack Holloway, president of the Arizona Jalopy Racing Association, along with Avery Doyle and Gene Gunn, set about convincing Rudy Everett and Larry Meskimen to convert their dog racing operation into a quarter-mile dirt track. On August 25, 1951, Manzanita Park opened to an overflow crowd. Everett and Meskimen had found their very own “Lost Dutchman” gold mine, which was located at 35th Avenue and Broadway in Phoenix. Manzy became an integral part of the racing culture in Phoenix and was heralded as one of the top five dirt tracks in the United States. The book will use words and pictures to tell the story of the early years, the glory years, the last days of Manzy, and much more. Many SCRA members and other Manzy racers will appear in the pages of this book.
Larry Upton is a member of SCRA and author of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America: Bowling Green Stock Car Racing. Upton is the recipient of journalistic awards from both the Journal of Commercial Bank Lending and the Journal of Arizona History. Judy McDonald is Larry’s wife and former owner of an automobile dealership. This is her first book.
