I present chump truck
Not including the required safety equipment that you’ll need - roll-cage, racing seat, racing harness – your truck must be valued at less than $5,000. We don’t care how many miles are on the meter or if it’s got a current DOT sticker. We don’t care what it used to haul or what you paid for it. All we care is that it’s sorta old, sorta used, sorta safe and sorta fast. Overall, we want it sorta Chumpy! Oh, yeah… and we want it sorta legal, according to our rules. So read 'em.
Personal safety gear includes a Snell SA helmet and SFI-FIA certified driver’s gear.
Strip out all the interior and take out all the glass, except the windshield. Install the roll cage, seat and harness. Take off the saddle tanks and add a fuel cell. Add some nerf-bars all-around and throw-on some numbers… and you have just created a $5,000 race truck. Okay, so there’s more to it than that, but not much. Read the rules to fill-in the blanks.
ChumpTruck races will feature sprint races on road courses across the US of A… 5 heat races a weekend that lead to the Trophy Dash (aka, “The Main Event”). That’s 6 chances for you to screw-up. Each race will be about 50 miles long (that’s 20 laps on a 2.5-mile long track).
If you cheat or screw-up or both… you’ll be penalized time. If you come to Tech Inspection with a truck that’s worth $10,000 or has all kinds of trick racey-bits on it… plan on starting the race about 15 minutes after everyone else. You can still run in the race and you’ll have a great time… but you’ll never win.
Finally, you need to come to ChumpTruck with the expectation that you’re going to have a lot of fun, meet a lot of great people, have a great weekend of driving the re-caps off your truck, and not win a damn thing. If you can do that, you’re our kind of Chump!
