09/28/2026
Good morning racers,
I wanted to give everyone an update on shirts for the 2026 champions, we are unfortunate to announce that we will not be doing shirts for the 2026 season unless a sponsor wants to step up or an upcoming graphic designer wants to design them and we can just have the company put them on the shirts. As most know last year we moved away from the free t-shirt to every member to having the racers have to purchase a shirt, in 2024 we moved away from Wiekel Sportswear and went with a different company and we’ll say the quality / art was below average and I have lots of those left over also. We went back to Wiekel in 2025 and upon review we have alot of shirts left over from the 2025 season. When the cost factors come into play we order the minimum required of 144 shirts but as Dana & I found at PRI in 2024, most shirt companies don’t want to do anything over 3-4 cars per shirt and we’re doing 7-8 cars for our shirts which ups the cost because the artist is designing 8 cars and graphic, I can tell you it’s about $4k for the design, artwork, screen print and shipping and if you don’t sell shirts your stuck holding that bill and it racks up year after year and as the years go by we have to do blow out sales and sell the shirts for like $5 or 3 for $10 which is a huge loss. We apologize to those who won championships and we really want to do shirts but it’s just not in the books to do so, if the 8 champs would like to get together and could promise they could sell 144 total shirts (would have to be pre-ordered) between them all then I will do them but that would have to be discussed between everyone.