Priority #1 is to get monies to the racers, drivers, teams!!!

We will have underwriters laboratories or review boards who understands products & different levels of racing. Incentive programs to gain customers to build a base of end users. Provide a resale market with quality reusable parts.

Our organization will support existing programs and point funds as well as going head to head against crate series. We will start a new sanctioning being involved with new and direct connected point funds. We will guaranty customers to our contributors in the aftermarket community. We are currently building a advisory committee to allocate funds and review rules and rule changes. All of these areas will be represented: WD's, manufacturers, engine builders, promoters, racers, media and sponsors.

Incentives to Racetracks:
* Must have 75% participation at local weekly tracks, this will guaranty drivers.
* Give point funds for racetracks.
* Advertising in track year books and billboards.
* Set criteria that is track friendly.
* Have National Championships which tracks benefit from.

Incentives for Manufacturers:
* Racer training programs
* Stop abusive practices on products
* Teaching proper part use
* Help explain customer accountability for failures
* Recommend parts & products
* Design common rules for specific series on tracks for National spec engine to help with mismatch rules on untechable rules
* Have training for tech people who can keep rules and specs simple.
* Hold engine builders accountable for tech process & education of tech people
* Direct communication to eliminate misunderstandings.

R.A.C.E. stands for Racers Alliance Concerning Engines. Through R.A.C.E. we have an innovative and competitive voice. We are proud to be racers and are racers first before we are manufacturers, businesses, builders or individuals. We believe in racing as a pure form of innovation, dedication and competition through team work.

At R.A.C.E. we want to allow people to reach their goals, live their dreams and MAKE IT HAPPEN through their own efforts and decisions.

We want racers to be able to choose quality products they believe to be the best and use them to better their teams and the people around them.

So often we have rules changes and promoters meetings with little or no voice from the mom and pop industries in America. As a lobby group we can have a loud voice and show we are not the problem, but an alternative to the monopolies created through crate motors.

At the end of a race we would like to know we gave it our best, win or lose, we did it as a team. Not that we got cheated by some crate rule with little or no tech. Show me a rule book that is thick and full of tedious rules and we'll show you thousands of ways to cheat. Show me a rule book with a few pages allowing for innovative technology driven ideas and we'll show you a competitive sport where you build a team to be the best.

Working together through R.A.C.E. we can unify racers, promoters and businesses. R.A.C.E. will be inclusive rather than exclusive and help keep racers on the track in a competitive and common sense environment.
Remember if you know something is wrong and you have the ability to change it, you also have the obligation to change it.

To be a part of this process, please contact Bill Schlieper @ 262-593-5801 or 414-840-9836. You can also fax any information to 262-593-2832 or e-mail at propowerracing@gmail.com. Thank you for your participation.

People ask me about crate motors. I feel they don't belong in late models. Late model cars are innovative and cutting edge but at the same time the equality among our competitors has included many different winners across America. Our engines have extra and for that reason it has become a training ground for talented young drivers learning to use throttle control to succeed.

Engine builders have worked hard to build the racers engine assets. Racers use these assets to build their teams and liquidate to upgrade their teams through resale value. Late Models and other premier race cars allow you to have a return investment that will only get stronger when we get common engine rules and common sense ideas.

Drivers will not only be able to compete in weekly shows but also be competitive at the big events.
Crate engines can't compete in existing rules, so they outlaw or make illegal existing engine packages and create their new rules that exclude all the existing engine assets, devastating current engine programs. We as a group must work together to keep quality an innovation in our sport.

By using quality parts we have built power and longevity so that many engines built 10 years ago are still competitive today. If we change the ecosystem of our racing community then who will buy the used engines? Where will the money come from to buy new engines? Who will buy the used parts? Who will buy new parts? Which manufacturers of race engine parts will survive?

How can we side with the "monopolies", the corporate engine builders who have no competitors and no personal contact with their customers? Who becomes accountable for failures? Many engine builders help their customers through labor, time and parts when they need it. America is about free market and freedom of choice. Competition on price, competition on product keeps the engine builders in check. Who keeps the crate builders in check? Follow the money and look who gets paid when crate motors are sold. Who gets a cut and who benefits from their sales?

They talk about engine builders self interest but imagine monopolies self interest with no rules or regulations. Look at ASA prices for example. To buy crate motors for the first year $13,000, last year $18,000, freshen engines $8,000? Who controlled these prices? ASA lost control of their crate engine from a competition stand point and a price stand point. Now they are gone. We have people making decisions that don't understand what it takes to be competitive in a competitive market. Who is trained to tech these crate motors? What about the black market break away bolts already sold? What about the cheaters? We have to as a group, give all the competitors a fair chance and stop paying the guy that cheats the most when he wins. The people are pushing these engines are getting a cut per engine sold, greasing the promoters and or sanctioning bodies while building a monopoly for themselves.

These crate providers need to be held responsible because as they get parts from foreign countries at cheap prices and low quality, who is held responsible when they begin destroying all the mom & pop manufacturers and builders as they did and are doing in our asphalt racing community? Even the raw material suppliers and machinery sales people are affected when these engine builders go out of business.

Please understand I believe in hard work, competition, innovation, quality, and trust. That being said, I believe we must put our trust in these American companies, the innovators, the teams, the competitors that love racing, support racing, and especially dirt late model racing.

What about the PRI show? Who will be there when these companies are gone? We all must pull together to fight the monopolies. Thru R.A.C.E., we can fight the monopolies and the people who promote the spread of crate engines in racing before our whole racing community is affected and our ecosystem destroyed.