2012 marks the 60th year of strength, stability, and service to the motorsports industry by K&K Insurance Group, Inc.  Founded in 1952 when Nord and Teddy Krauskopf  began managing and marketing a benevolent fund to provide accident medical benefits to injured race car drivers, K&K is now one of the longest enduring insurers of motorsports and other events. The Krauskopfs gained a unique understanding of the risks associated with motorsports and designed and marketed specialty insurance products for the motorsport industry including insurance programs for racetrack facilities, promoters, sanction organizations, associations, race teams, and sponsors.  Today K&K continues to innovate.  Help celebrate K&K’s 60 years as an essential supporter of auto racing and their 20th year as a sponsor of this newsletter and the RPM Promoters Workshops.  Checkout K&K’s programs today at kandkinsurance.com or call K&K at 800-348-1839.

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Issue 41.12, Racing Promotion Monthly, is now online. This month’s lead: “Thirty-Sixth ARPY, Who Will It Be?” Also featured: “Reno Workshop Report, Speedweek Next.”  Readers may vote for the promoter of their choice online at voterpm.com, and will find a time schedule for the Speedweek Workshop sessions through the link “Download Speedweek Session Lineup,” at right.   Use your password to download or read online today.

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Readers of Racing Promotion Monthly this year selected three first-time and three repeat nominees as Regional Auto Racing Promoters of the Year.  They came from among 87 different short tracks in 33 states receiving votes.  The nominees’ experience ranges from six years to over 30 years. For the first time in the history of the award, all the regional nominees operate dirt tracks.  One is affiliated with UMP for weekly racing, one with ASA, one with IMCA, one with WISSOTA, and two operate independently.  All the nominated tracks are 1/3-mile or shorter.

The nominees are: Region One, the Eastern Region, Andrew Harpell, Five-Mile Point (NY) Speedway; Region Two, the Southeastern Region, James “Redd” Griffin, Screven (GA) Motor Speedway; Region Three, the Central Region, Bob Sargent, Macon (IL) and Paducah (KY) Speedways; Region Four, the Northern Region, Wayne Anderson, Don & Linus Mack, and Darren Evavold, River Cities (ND) Speedway; Region Five, the Great Plains Region, Roger Hadan, Eagle (NE) Raceway; and the Rocky Mountain West Region, Steve Beitler, Skagit (WA) Speedway.  Harpell received his third consecutive nomination, and Sargent his second, following a prior 2002 nomination, and Beitler his second nomination. The Griffin, Hadan, and the River Cities quartet are first time nominees.

The promoter selected by RPM readers as the Thirty-Sixth ARPY will be revealed during the Thirty-Ninth Annual RPM Speedweek National Workshop at the Plaza Resort & Spa, Daytona Beach, FL; February 20, 2012.

The Queensland family, Deer Creek (MN) Speedway, received the award last year.  Previous winners are: Hugh Deery, 1976/1984; J.C. Agajanian, 1977; D. Anthony Venditti, 1978; Jack Gunn, 1979; George Eisenhart, 1980; Dick O’Brien, 1981; Howard Tiedt, 1982; Don Martin, 1983; Glenn Donnelly, 1985; Cary Agajanian, 1986; Bud Lunsford, 1987; Bob Daniels, 1988; Howard Commander, 1989; Ray Wilkings, 1990; Paul Kuhl, 1991; Robert Lawton; 1992; Earl Baltes, 1993;  Jody Deery, 1994; Andy Vertrees, 1995; Charles Powell, 1996; C-Ray Hall, 1997; Larry Kemp, 1998; Charles Cathell, 1999; Charles Deery, 2000; Ralph Capitani, 2001; Lanny Edwards, 2002; Bob & Nadine Strauss, 2003; Tom Curley, 2004, Steve York, 2005; John Padjen, 2006; Lynn Phillips, 2007; Joe & Walt Doellefeld, 2008; and the Nuckles family, Columbus (OH) Motor Speedway, 2009.

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The session lineup  for the Speedweek National Workshop is now available by download.  A time schedule will posted when speaker and panelist arrangements are completed.  Download the lineup through the link at the right.

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Racing Promotion Monthly marked 102 gatherings for promoters, and its 27th consecutive meeting in Reno, with its just concluded Western National Workshop at the Eldorado Hotel Casino, Reno, Nevada. The short-track promoters’ event attracted 121 tracks, associations, and series, 35 exhibiting companies representing 23 states and three Canadian provinces. The three-day, 27-session Workshop opened with keynote remarks from Ray Evernham, discussing the unrealistic expectations he had about track ownership and the challenges he encountered operating East Lincoln (NC) Speedway. Twenty-nine other presenters, panelists, and speakers discussed topics ranging for business management and food and beverage, to social media, and sponsorship.

Opening day sessions included a case history and discussion about a neighbor’s effort to use noise complaints to end racing at Ocean (CA) Speedway, attorney Gerald Brandenhoff’s report in on expanding efforts by states to broaden sales tax laws to include race track entry fees, Read the rest of this entry »

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