T minus 30 days until the 2019 Vernal Dinosaur Dash!
Registration and memberships are available at the website below. Please sign up ASAP so we can get a count for t-shirts, trophies and dash plaques, and to determine classes. We haven’t implemented late registration penalties yet, but that may be coming depending on how it goes for Vernal. Finalizing registration on the day before the race just makes everything more difficult, and I know the racers don’t enjoy determining class divisions at driver’s meeting any more than staff does.
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All drivers and codrivers will need a membership, either for the season or individual race. Membership comes with a racer packet including a t-shirt, a race specific dash plaque, and gift cards valued at the $40 price of admission. There are only twelve days left to get into the drawing that will entitle you to a FREE Sportsman entry good at any of the subsequent 2019 races (must be present at Vernal to win).
Entry fees have gone up this year to help cover rising permit, insurance and operational costs. However, payback is increasing as well. $200 of every PRO Truck/Buggy and $150 of every PRO UTV entry fee will go towards payback this year, which is an increase from last season. PCI Race Radios is offering up $50 to the winner of each class (another reason to encourage your fellow racers to sign up!). Remember, three like vehicles form a class, so if three YXZ’s or Class 7 trucks show up, they can form their own classes and add another $50 to their prize money pool.
We are still finalizing the schedule, but it will be course marking Thursday and Friday, tech and registration, guided pre-run Friday afternoon (no open prerunning), racing all day Saturday with limited vehicles and UTV’s in the morning, and unlimited vehicles in the afternoon. Cleanup on Sunday.
Volunteers are still needed before, during and after the race. We need people to help with course marking, running checkpoints, vehicle recovery, course cleanup, registration and t-shirt sales, etc.
Hotel room codes will be available next week, once again at the Springhill Suites Marriot.
RACERS: Please reply below if you are racing Vernal, what type of vehicle (SNORE Class Designation if known), and whether PRO or Sportsman. And call out your fellow racers to get them signed up!
VOLUNTEERS: Please reply with what days your available to help on and what you’d be willing to help with (checkpoint, recovery, course marking, registration, merchandise, tech inspection). Also indicate whether you’ll have a VHF radio to bring and use (we have a limited number to loan). If you’re available Saturday (race day), please indicate if you are unavailable during one of the races due to racing commitments.
Thank you! We are looking forward to a great race and season!
- Allen Gerber and the BOR crew
