We are happy to announce that we will become the 2010 promoters for Vermilion County Speedway in Danville, IL.
We are excited about this opportunity to look at racing from the other point of view, (not just as the racer).
We hope with Bob’s racing experience and our heavy involvement in racing that we can bring some new ideas and develop VCS back into a successful Midwest dirt track.
It’s no secret the promoters over the last several years have struggled with hard times. We’d like to add a twist to things by creating some new ideas at getting the community and the fans more involved. We plan to limit the racing schedule somewhat, (we feel that our economy cannot support weekly racing). Instead we are having 15 events, each of which is a special for one of our classes. Our specials include a Summer Nationals race, a $5000 to win 2-day Modified Spectacular, a $1000 to win Hornet Special, a Crate Late Model $2500 to win Special, some Monster Late Model Series and some Monster Sprint Series Specials, one American Modified Series special, a $500 to win Bomber Enduro race on Fair night, and much more.
Our track will be UMP sanctioned and include each of the following classes on some nights: Late Models, Sprints, Modifieds, Crate Late Models, Street Stocks, Pure Stocks, Sportsman, Hornets, Kidmodz, Mini-Sprints, and Bomber Enduro.
We plan to add a beer garden for the adults, featuring special beer pricing, and for the kids we plan to have nightly games and events to help bring the crowd participation and excitement back to the speedway.
Our hopes are that with Bob’s racing reputation and with a lot of determination we can make VCS “The Place to Race” and give the fans all they’ve wished for.
The fairboard has been very easy to work with to this point and have agreed to work through our needs. We believe that as long as both parties communicate we can make this a long prosperous relationship, and we hope that as the economy stabilizes we can get back to every week racing. We would like to ask the fans and the racers to work with us through all of our trial phases, and we will continue to work with them and try to respond to everyone’s needs.
We would like to add that we will be hiring Terry Pichon as our race day director. His responsibilities are to run the show on race day, which will include all of the aspects from handling the race itself to security, concession, teching, etc. Remember, we race with our son and support our chassis at the racetrack, which doesn’t allow much time on race day to run the show. We plan to be in attendance at all of our events, even racing in the majority of them with Bobby. This is why we’ve hired Terry to handle race day decisions.
We also plan to utilize the racetrack for our Race School, which we are developing with fellow racer, Jason Feger. More information will be posted on this as soon as it’s available.
We have big plans for VCS and hope you join in our excitement.
Please watch www.bobpierceracecars.com for all updates until a track website is done.
