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  • PASS Cancels New Smyrna Event; Greenville To Open PASS Season

    PASS Cancels New Smyrna Event; Greenville To Open PASS National, South, and Pro Late Model Seasons

    - For Immediate Release

    CHARLOTTE, NC (February 1) – Due to circumstances out of their control and with great disappointment, Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials announced today the cancellation of next weekend’s Winter Meltdown at New Smyrna Speedway. Miscommunication which resulted in the speedway website not being updated with information about the event, the speedway marquee not being changed to promote the event and a test session scheduled by the speedway that would have extremely limited PASS teams practice time on Friday led to the cancellation. For any teams that pre-entered for the Winter Meltdown, those entries will be refunded and mailed out on Monday. Any teams that would like to transfer entries to the Greenville-Pickens Speedway event on March 1 need to contact the PASS offices by Monday.
    “We are extremely disappointed in having to cancel the Winter Meltdown at New Smyrna Speedway,” said PASS President Tom Mayberry. “I know that this is very inconvenient for our teams that have prepared their cars and booked travel to Florida, but we felt this decision was best in light of the circumstances. With that said, we’re very excited to kick our season off at Greenville-Pickens on March 1.”
    The Fox Carolina 150 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway on March 1 will now become a PASS National Championship Series event and will also serve as the opener for the PASS South Super Late Models and PASS Pro Late Models.
    The Pro All Stars Series is recognized as North America’s premier sanctioning body for asphalt Super Late Models and boasts such marquee events as PASS South’s Easter Bunny 150 at the historic Hickory Motor Speedway, the Autobus La Quebecoise Triple Crown at Autodrome Chaudière, and the legendary Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. For technical information concerning all PASS divisions please send questions to passracing@roadrunner.com. For media or marketing questions, please contact Alan Dietz at 704-231-2039 or alandietzpass@live.com. Please visit ProAllStarsSeries.com for more information. And, don’t forget to “Like” the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to keep up with breaking news as it happens.
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  • #2
    That's got to be the lamest excuses I've ever heard.

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    • #3
      Couldn't agree more. I do not follow this series so I have no knowledge of their politics or their relationship with member tracks. Given the number of fans pouring into the area at that time one has to assume it is a dispute between the track and the series or they anticipate a poor turnout of cars. One thing I do know is fans don,t like to be made fools of so NSS had better get the dirty laundry squared away for the future of local fan loyalty.

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      • #4
        What a load of crap... Maybe it was cancelled based on the fact that their core drivers weren't committing to making the trip down here and locals weren't very enthusiastic either.

        Just say it's because of lack drivers and move on. "Lack of the website being updated and the Marquee out front not being changed"? Really? How stupid do they really think we are down here?

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        • #5
          It's pretty piss poor to try and deflect this onto NSS. PASS was "renting" the facility. It's up to them to promote the event. I think it's all smoke and mirrors anyway. I heard only 9 of their "regulars" had committed to making the trip and that not many of the locals were interested in running. Odd, considering that the event had a pretty big field at the extremely less desireable Auburndale last year. Didn't see a purse posted anywhere for the Supers. Would have had be pretty good to be able to lure teams all the way down from New England as well as the South boys form the Carolinas. Well I guess it truly was a "meltdown". FAIL!

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          • #6
            They probably just looked on this message board and made their decision from there.
            Normalcy is a myth. what is perfectly normal for the Cheetah, Becomes absolute chaos for the Antelope.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Benny The Mule View Post
              They probably just looked on this message board and made their decision from there.
              HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA HAHAHA.
              Best post in 4 years.

              What a shame was really looking forward to this show. Test session severely limiting practice time? Isn't that what a test session is?

              And Pass Winter Meltdown is on front page of NSS website and on Speed 51 front page. Its been talked about on the twitter too. Lame excuse.
              ROOOOOTAMANN!

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              • #8
                Guess that's how they do things up north!

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                • #9
                  Expect a press release from the track on Monday. Robert Hart is down at Desoto tonight, and will return to work on Monday.

                  I heard about a few things that were said, but the biggest whopper tossed out was that they "had 37 teams committed to coming". I'm throwing a HUGE Bullshit Flag on that one. If anyone had trouble updating their web-site, PASS is to blame there, as their site only shows 13.

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                  • #10
                    Website not updated maybe thats why mark got fired what do you guys think?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by shorttrackcar1 View Post
                      Website not updated maybe thats why mark got fired what do you guys think?
                      If you must know, Mark got fired because he broke the glass on the copy machine while sitting on it to get a photo of his rearend to post on his facebook page.

                      Moral of the story, show your butt, get fired.

                      ( completely false story but it's on the internet so it must be true )

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                      • #12
                        After reading all the posts it is clear that the only grain of truth to the press release is that the race has been cancelled.

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                        • #13
                          As usual, Shorttrack is nowhere close......

                          Nice try at stirring up the shit though.

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                          • #14
                            They added the e mods to this race but could not get payout info and it was a non-points race.... so why bother with it. JMO
                            -JIM-
                            RIP Jack Smith and Kim Brown. Many thanks for all you have done for our sport.

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                            • #15
                              I may be wrong but I think Shorttrack was joshing

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