News & Updates: 3/4/2004 SRA Online Racing League News & Updates 10/28 The 2003-2004 SRA Online Racing Season Kicks off! 10/29 Rooster wins the SRA Bud Shoot out 11/4   TwoDawgs wins the SRA Dayton 100 11/13 Hadafew wins at the ROCK 11/19 Rooster dominates Texas 11/27 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! 12/4  Rooster gets a close one at Martinsville 12/10 Rooster takes Kansas 12/16 Rooster cruises at Rocky Top 12/25 Happy Holidays 1/7    Rooster wins at Watkins Glen, gets last place points 1/14  Team Waaa! Gets new cars!!! 1/15  Rooster takes lead from Nitro with 5 to go and hangs on for         the SRA Patriot 100 victory 1/21  NitroMoe takes lead from Rooster with 5 to go and hangs on for the         SRA Wolverine 100 victory 1/27  Rooster dominates the SRA Richmond 100 2/5   Rooster holds off Team Kleenex to win the SRA Talladega 100 2/11 Rooster loses 4th gear with 10 to go and hangs on to win        the SRA Pocono 100 2/17 NitroMoe crushes the field at Atlanta 2/26 TwoDawgs holds on to win Dover with one pit 3/4  NitroMoe wins the last race at Lowe's 3/4  After winning his 4th straight Championship... Rooster announces his       retirement 3/4  2002 - 2003 Party night TBA SRA League Officials John Moreland (24) – SRA Online Director Mark Smith (3) – SRA Commissioner  Sam Sproat (9) – SRA Sys Admin Eric Baber (99) – SRA Rules/Race Coordinator   SRA Newsletter SRA Drivers  What can I say, we have two races in the books and we have two different winners. This is my opinion but I think the 2x pit frequency forces you to have a strategy. This is what helped TwoDawgs and Spike finish 1-2 at Daytona, the only two cars on the lead lap. We had a late caution that really helped them because the 99 and the 3 were coming, but they kind of ran into each other on the back stretch. The second race at Rockingham, the 3 car chose to stay out and held off a charge by the 8. The 3 had a 13 second lead after the 8 pitted on lap 71. The 8 made it to within a couple of car lengths of the 3 on the last lap but brushed the wall on a couple of turns. So be thinking up a plan before you race, it may get you into victory lane.... continued   NitroMoe Speaks Out... 10/3/2003 SRA Drivers  The administrators have met and the schedule is set. The first race is on Oct 29th. It is a non-points race called the Bud Shoot Out. The Rooster is working night & day on the site, so keep checking to see when he has the NEW and improved SRA web page up and running.    There is a couple of rules that have been added this year. We will be explaining them at our awards party sometime this month & before the season starts, right Rooster? The Rooster will be letting us know the time and date for the party.   I hope to start a practice race sometime soon. We are working on getting a server for this year. I hope to see everyone at the party, maybe even Spike. I hear those old guys have been getting a lot of practice. 10/14/2003    I have had a couple of emails about race Dates. It would be impossible to change the schedule to fit every drivers schedule. This is why we have to stick to the dates we set with this schedule. The plan was to have no more than one race per week. We also figured that Tues-Wed-Thurs Nights was the best nights of the week to race. Mondays you have football and Fri-Sat-Sun is the weekend. If you have to miss a race you still get points. We are meeting at Rooster's Wings & more on either this  Friday or Saturday night at 9-9:30pm in Springboro. Make sure you bring your entry fee from last year. I'm glad to report that thanks to the Rooster we have a server this year to host our races. This way no one else is using the server to race on.  We also have to buy a copy of the game to run on the server. So if you would like to donate to help cover the cost of getting  the computer and the game you can do so at the meeting. I will send out an email today or Wednesday on which night we are getting together. Let me know if you can make it. Nitro Moe 1/11/2004  Watkins Glen Protest Drivers After reviewing the race and the Rules, the officials have come up with the following ruling. First let me explain what the protest was all about. The 99 and the 1 car where racing back to the line for the lead under caution. The 99 went into the last turn before the start finish line too fast and sent the 1 car hard into wall ending the 1 cars night. In the SRA rules page under violations, #9 states that Causing a wreck while passing and/or racing back to the yellow flag, the driver is disqualified and given last place points. The 1 car issued a protest after the race was over stating that the 99 was guilty of violation #9. After much debate and thought, we are disqualifying the 99 and giving the car last place points for the race. All of the other cars points will stay the same except for the 8 car.  The 8 car is fined 5 points for passing before the start finish line. Violation #4 states that passing before the start finish line is a 5 point fine. We have issued emails and warnings to drivers in the last two seasons about the rules on starts and restarts. We race a number of laps, not to see who can get to the first turn the quickest. The advice we would issue to drivers from now on is to stay in line on starts and restarts. If a car has a mechanical problem they will announce it Wilco to everyone, then he can move to the proper lane so that cars may pass him without getting black flagged and penalized.  The Sra Rules page will be updated and effective for the next race. It will be amended so that drivers will understand that the violations are penalties for the rules or procedures stated above the violations section on the rules page. The Violation #9 rule was intended to penalize a lap car for taking out a car on the lead lap while racing back to the line under caution. The current way the violation is stated, one could interpret the rule differently. This is why we are amending the rules page. We will make sure that the rules will clearly state their intended penalty. We hope that everyone can get past this latest turmoil in our league. We need to keep in mind that this league was formed for winter time fun. If you get mad about something that happened during the race, bring it up for discussion after the race. We are all adults and should be able to work out our issues with one another in a calm manner. If anyone has any questions or comments about this email, please reply to all. Since the 99 was involved in the protest, he was not involved in the ruling. Thanks SRA Officials   A few words from "The Commish"...Hadafew Hello SRA Drivers, Well the leaves are changing colors and the air has a cool feel... MUST BE RACING TIME! The Rooster has been hard at work with creating the schedule, picking race tracks, and updating the NEW look webpage. We, as many of you may already know, have some new rules for this upcoming season. Just like NASCAR, we had to change some things to make more fun for everyone, so just give them a chance. Now, if we ever have the party, we can all talk about the new game and the new rules, right Rooster? Just like the race times and date, it's hard to get everyone together at the same time so we will justa have to wait. I know we are all looking forward to starting the season and it should be just as good if not better then last season. I know that some guys have been practicing the new game since the end of last season. I will not say any names, but they are older then 45. I think we all have fun this year and I'm looking forward to giving the Rooster something to crow about. Can he win 4 in row? We will see soon enough! Good luck to all and I will talk to you at the party! HADAFEW -911-Commish   Rooster Crow... I am currently taking requests for car paint schemes. Feel free to contact me with any suggestions you may have and I'll see what I can come up with. In the mean time, take a look at some more recent paint schemes...       Latest and Greatest.... Team Kleenex!   Announcements 2002-2003 SRA Winter Challenge Series Year-End Awards Banquet to be held in January or February!!! 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