ISR Oval Update:

Recently, May 1^st, 2010 the ISR oval rules meeting were held.

Jerry Korinek USSA Director of Competition 5-10-10

Several rules input suggestions from USSA were passed and approved.

The meeting was attended by USSA, ORA, Pro Ice (AXM) ASC, PRO-SCM, CNRA and I-500. Mike Kloety from Arctic and Tom Rager Jr from Polaris were also present. Larry Tiede represented the SMIDGE group (aftermarket). Larry Rugland represented LRM.

The opening session reminded everyone how fragile the oval racing situation really is, and asked that all associations consider the complete sport in rules requests and reminded all to not encourage rules making for personal gain, but rather for the improvement of the sport.

Twenty seven items were on the agenda. Major changes or concerns evolved around Champ and Pure Stock.

Champ:  Open ignition was defeated; however any ignition from any brand OEM snowmobile manufacturer was allowed to be used. In simple terms, a Ski Doo can now use an Arctic Cat ignition if the builder wishes. General discussions felt the industry was not ready to open the ignition parameters up to all aftermarket ignitions, and after negotiation this was the approved result.

Champ: A combined sled and driver weight was discussed, and failed gather a second. Champ weight remains at 375 pounds sled alone.

Champ: Discussion on factory glass only. This was spirited but failed to carry enough votes. Hoods remain open to builder’s choice.

Champ rules freeze:  Discussion and vote resulted in the Champ rules froze till 2015 with a review in 2014.

Open 600: USSA, ORA, ACS , Eagle River (early in the schedule) will offer 600 Open at scheduled events, CNRA (Beausejour) may or may not offer it, they are undecided at this point. Open 600 will remain in the book, and is open to review next year.

Formula 500: Main changes here, involved jackshafts which must remain steel but can be keyed or splined in the brake mount are.  Brakes can be any 8 inch steel disc, and the steel only hub may be altered to fit the jackshaft used.  The 8 inch disc cannot be modified in the brake pad contact area. No drilled discs. No wave disc.

Discussion on allowing Wahl Chassis and Wahl designed chain cases in LTD 500 and 600. Discussion only, motion did not gather a second. General feeling was such action would be detrimental to the class. Wahl chassis are allowed if they utilize a production OEM chain case.

Champ, Pure Stock, LTD 500, Sprint Mod 600, and F-500 have been approved as the five core classes for the next five years.  This means rules will be interpreted the same in all sanctions for these classes. This will stop regional variations from moving from group to group as acceptable rules.

All Classes: “Shaper” style wear bars are now officially not legal for use.

Junior: SCM adopted Junior I Sprint and A F-340 Junior class as their regional classes. This will allow any chassis design in Junior I Sprint. OR and Pro Ice (AXM) announced they will offer on a Junior I sprint with a four bar design restriction. ACS will offer Junior I Sprint as printed in the ISR book, which allows any design chassis. USSA officially announced they have dropped the class.

All Modified class taillight rules will now read DOT approved design LED lights required. This is to prevent the use of “bike” lights and other small LED’s as the main taillight. Bike lights and other lights may still be used as “marker” lights.

Corrections to typo’s and word flow were made in several areas but did not functionally change any rules in effect.

USSA representatives were Pete Pennington, voting delegate, Justin Olszewski, Technical director for USSA, Terry Kumrow appeared on behalf of ISR and made a fuel testing presentation.  Jerry Korinek appeared on behalf of ISR as recorder and also presented position statements for USSA when requested.