Travel costs, supply shortage force cancelation of stock car race in Clearfield

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — When the ever soaring price of fuel and supply chain problems proceed to impact day to day Us citizens throughout the United States, these economic issues are now setting up to have an effect on the globe of motorsports.

The ripple influence was not long ago felt at UMI Motorsports Park in Clearfield when they canceled an forthcoming race at their keep track of citing higher charges and ongoing tire offer chain issues as the trigger. The Super Cup Stock Car Sequence was scheduled to race at the asphalt oval monitor on Saturday, June 18 in an occasion referred to as the “Keystone Twins” that was going to feature two 50 lap races.

The final decision to terminate the event was reportedly agreed to by the monitor and the series and anyone who acquired tickets or parking for the function was made available refunds, in accordance to UMI Motorsports Park. Both equally the track and collection say they prepare to revisit the race in 2023.

UMI Motorsports Park Spokesperson Ramey Womer mentioned lots of racers in the collection are not touring because of to the economical strains of gas and other expenditures. Womer included the present cost of race gas sits at $12 a gallon without markup.

“We have a wonderful marriage with the Tremendous Cup Inventory Automobile Sequence and hope to host them when the financial state, offer chain and racing point out of the union is improved,” Womer mentioned.

Tremendous Cup Stock Vehicle Series Public Relations Coordinator Aaron Creed expanded on the troubles that the collection faced with the race weekend and claimed a lot of things lead to the mutual decision to cancel it. He stated some teams have been compelled to feel twice about their choice to race although other individuals are electing to stay property completely. Creed spelled out that numerous groups in the sequence journey from out of condition and use diesel run automobiles to tow their trailers and racecars.

Teams have also been confronted with several elements shortages and have struggled to make repairs to their racecars possibly from on-track injury and/or mechanical failures that were induced at the commencing of the 2022 season. Creed suggests the scarcity has also caused a handful of teams to skip a couple of the series earlier events.

“When I spoke with our Collection Director, Joe Schmaling, there was an appealing stage he pointed out. We’ve promoted ourselves as “Racin’ The Way It Used To Be” because the sequence was formed in late 2007, partly simply because of its relative affordability as nicely as relatives-friendly environment. There are some matters that are kind of unprecedented that are presently not slipping in that group,” Creed stated. “It applied to be that if there was a very simple component failure, or sometimes a major one particular, a crew could contact up a supplier and get a replacement element or what they wanted mounted inside of days or in some cases even overnight. At present, in a ton of cases, that is not what most are suffering from if they will need to make repairs to get back on monitor.”

On prime of sections shortages, tire supplies have also been a challenge for the series. The tire provider of the Super Cup Stock Motor vehicle Collection is American Racer, a enterprise based out of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Creed claimed the collection had been earning changes all over the time to accommodate the lack and have even limited the use of new tires per event. Nevertheless, Creed added the tire supplier has been accommodating and insightful since offer chain challenges very first turned a problem previous 12 months.

“We have required to make some adjustments alongside the way, but we take pleasure in them drastically for their ongoing communications with us in which we’re thoroughly informed of the issues all tire suppliers are at the moment encountering,” Creed reported.

Creed expects the rationing of tires to go on but suggests American Racer has informed them the future batch of new racing tires will be obtainable prior to the sequence up coming race at the Jennerstown Speedway Elaborate in July. The series hopes the time just before the July occasion will let teams to regroup and prepare.

The Tremendous Cup Stock Auto Collection very last raced at UMI Motorsports Park in 2021 which was reportedly the 1st oval race at the facility since 2015 when it was then identified as CNB Bank Raceway Park.