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The History of the Super Cup
Stock Car Series
Chapter One
About a year ago a rumbling started in the
short track world. Talk about a touring series that was
affordable started to circulate. With interest growing and
costs escalating out of control the time was right. Major
changes year after year forced teams to withdraw from USAR.
The time had come to get back to the basic idea of running the cars
that you already had. Several people were interested in a low
cost series and came together to make it happen. The time for
talking was over, and the time for doing was here.
On October 13th 2007 Hickory Motor Speedway
was chosen for an exhibition race. Teams from as far away as
Iowa and Pennsylvania came to compete. Fifteen cars showed up
for a 50 lap trophy dash. Dexter Canipe Jr. of Newton NC. won
the race.
On October 27th a second race at Tri-county
speedway had competitors from Florida, Mississippi and Indiana
joining in as well. Ryan Miller from Ohio won that race.
The Super Cup Stock Car Series was formed by a
five member advisory board consisting of Owners, Drivers and
Officials from USAR.
On November 11th 2007 a meeting was held to
determine the format of this series. The exhibition races
indicated that a new series would be well received. The core
of this series would be pro-cup cars that were no longer eligible to
compete. The New Series Made appearances at the PRI Show in
Orlando as well as Piedmont Expo in NC. The schedule was set
for 2008. In three hundred and fifty three days, ten
sanctioned races were held in five states at seven different race
tracks. The new series had four first time winners. Two
veterans also won races making six different winners in it's first
season.
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Chapter Two
The direction of the Super Cup Stock
Car Series may have changed, but its goals have not.
Continue with a simple idea that we
started with in the first place:
Race the cars that you have and don't change anything that
you don't have to. Be
inclusive, not exclusive, allow similar type cars to race with the
fewest amount of changes. Hold
races in the areas where the teams are.
We have never forgotten that this
series was started for the people who were priced out by constant
changes and high travel costs. The
main reason we have been so successful is by controlling the costs.
Our experience shows that the most expensive thing in racing
is a rule that saves money. (Amen)
Over the years this series has seen a
little bit of everything. We
had a mix of Winston Cup, Busch, and ARCA cars along with North
& East series cars. These
cars are still welcome today with some minor changes that help us to
maintain our own identity.
When Pro Cup shut down at the end of
2014 it left teams wondering what they can do with these cars.
Several Pro Cup cars have already switched to SCSCS after the
greenhouse area was approved last year making the changeover much
easier.
Slowly over the last seven years the
series moved its races, as registration grew in the north and
declined in the south. SCSCS
first raced at Motordrome Speedway (PA) in 2010.
In 2013 we raced at CNB Bank Raceway Park in Clearfield for
the first time. 2014 saw
the series return to CNB twice and also raced two times at the
recently reopened Jennerstown Speedway.
The 2015 season will see a return of
asphalt racing to the keystone state in a big way with all three
tracks in West-Central Pa. open and hosting Super Cup races.
Super Cup will begin its eighth
season at CNB on May 2nd and will be passing though Motordrome for a
summer sizzler race on July 17th ending at Jennerstown in September
for the Flight 93 Memorial race after their annual stops at Midvale
and Columbus Motor Speedway in Ohio.
SCSCS has had several requests to
bring the series to some southern tracks in the near future and is
looking to return our style of stock car racing to North Carolina,
Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Teams and track owners are encouraged to contact SCSCS for
more information.
The future looks bright for the
series, teams, and tracks that host them.
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