West Coast Pro Mod Association 2005 membership information (Rules follow membership info below)
2005 membership: $200.00
Membership gives each team race contingency and any season ending point funds you have earned.
If you are not a member you are not eligible for contingency or points fund. Your team will not be included in any promotion or marketing in the West Coast Pro Mod assoc throughout the 2005 season. Non members will receive full payout at event they enter though
Photos and results from non members will still be posted on the WCPM web site as well at in SpeedZone Magazine, but you will not have your own profile page on the site. (The exceptions will be any non member who is a series sponsor).

WCPM Race weekend entry Fee: $100.00 (Member)
WCPM Race weekend entry Fee $200.00 (Non Member)

All teams will get free gate from the track and up to 5 crew member tickets (varies from track to track)

West Coast Pro Mod Purse structure 2005 (based previous formula)

Winner 3000.00
R/U 1500.00
Semis: 1000.00
First Rd losers 700.00

Non Qual: if two or less $300.00
If more than two: $200.00

(The purse above is based on all sponsor money, membership dues and other fees being used for the season ending point fund that should be $15,000.00-$25,000.00)

Proposed race purse structure based on 50% of the sponsor, membership and other fees being used in event purses. (making the season ending point fund Approx. $7,000-$12,500.00)

Winner $3500.00 (Min)
R/U $1800.00 (Min)
Semis $1200.00 (2) (Min)
First rd loser $ $900.00 (4) (Min)

Non Qual: if two or less $300.00
If more than two: $200.00

If the teams like the second purse struct please inform Brian our myself. Members will be allowed to vote on this. (note: there is no guarantee of the season ending points fund. We are making every effort to have a total purse close to last season).

West Pro Mod association rule changes for 2005

1. The Ford engine that has been run for a number of years by WCPM members (Glen May and Wayne Torkelson in the past) will be allowed even with the new IHRA rules. These engines have not proven to be any advantage and since this series was started for part time racers, forcing teams to make complete engine changes seem very counter productive.
2. We will also allow the Lenco Drive/Converter combination in the series (as per IHRA rule book).

3. The biggest change has to do with safety in the class. With the increased performance of the Pro Mod class a decision was made to make the racer as safe as possible, much like the rules have been to make the cars themselves safe. Starting this season a neck safety restraint system will become mandatory. Two systems currently are available. The 'HANS' Device and the Hutchen system. The 'HANS' appears to be the most widely used one out there and it is the official and only system allowed in NASCAR, CART, INDY CAR and F-1 to name a few. NHRA and the IHRA are expected to make this mandatory in the very near future. The West Coast Pro Mod series will be the first assoc. in drag racing to make it mandatory.
Because of the popularity of the HANS devise and all racing bodies having seemed to have adopted it as the best out there the company producing them is very busy. Because of back log and anticipated wait to receive one, we will not mandate you have to have it by the start of the season. We anticipate that you will be able to purchase and have one shipped by July or August at the latest. That being said, by the start of the 2006 season every driver will have to wear one. Your family will be happy.

Before drivers flood our emails and phone lines to comment on this rule, remember this. All you racers make sure your car itself is as safe as possible, don't you think your family deserves to know that you yourself is as safe as possible. The Hutchens is a fairly involved strap system that appears to take quite a bit of work to put on, where as the HANS is quite simple. It does restrict moved so it does take some time (maybe three or four runs down the track) to get used to, but everyone using it at this time, and a very high percentage of professional Drag racers from Pro Stock and up are using it and say they have no problem with it and are glad this restraint was developed. I have talked to racers who use it and even had conversation with a driver that had two crashes over a three year span, and the second one, when he was using the HANS device, was much more violent and yet his injuries and pain were non existence than his first crash when he was not wearing one. He is LIVING proof; they make your life safer. Currently there are numerous suppliers of the HANS device including here on the West Coast.

Dennis Taylor at Taylor Motorsports Safety sold over 200 of them last season and appears to be the drag racing source, but there are others. The cost of the HANS (the model most widely used by Drag Racers) is just over $900.00 US (what is your personal safety worth), and he has stated that if we purchase them all as a group he would be willing to give a discount in the 40-50 dollar range. He is not the manufacturer of this product, like almost all of the other safety products he sells, so his margins are not very large. It is certainly up to the members if they want to buy as a group, but there is a little bit of saving.

http://www.hansdevice.com/
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/nascar-safety4.htm
http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/hansdev.htm
http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGBKO7D935E.html
http://www.hutchensdevice.com/
http://www.stockcarproducts.com/safety9.htm
http://www.stockcarproducts.com/safety9.htm

Here are web sites (above) that have info on both restraints and here is a web site that discussed this very topic. The one below very much fits into our assoc. because it is a pro mod forum.

http://www.promodifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6762

The postings are very enlightening:

If you have questions or concerns about this, please call or email Brian or myself.
brian@nitrophotomotorsports.com

speedzone@telus.net
604-826-5775

If you don't respond or comment to us on this then we will assume that you are happy that we will implement this rule.
No reply, means no problem. We want your dialog on this topic.
Any other rules or concerns this season, please email us so we can hear your input.

Dean Murdoch