American Ethanol Late Model Tour...

[MittenMadman]

As of now the only dates I’ve seen posted anywhere is Tri-City Motor Speedway(Auburn, MI) opener and Merritt’s Woodtic. Curious to see if they will reign in on the distance it’ll cover as last year they only had 3 teams follow the entire tour. Also the opener at Tri City Motor Speedway is only 2,500 to win when the last 2 years all AELMT races were 4,000+ to win. Really hope this tour doesn’t fold up for the northern Midwest guys as not many tour come through the Michigan, northern Illinois, northern Ohio and northern Indiana area.

[hoosier race fan]

The Ethanol series needs a 15 race schedule.

Merritt 3 races (including Woodtic)
I-96 3 races (host season championship race)
Hartford 2 races
Tri-City 2 races
Thunderbird 2 races
Winston 1 race
Butler 1 race (or a co-sanctioned race with ALMS @ Oakshade)
Plymouth 1 race

[jensenracing18]

tracks around here aren't going to keep paying big $$ to get the same 15 cars that show up every Saturday or Friday night for a local show, also looks like there will be another change with Scott Menlen the tour director taking the GM job with Nashville fairgrounds speedway

[HoosierDirtFan]

The Ethanol series needs a 15 race schedule.

Merritt 3 races (including Woodtic)
I-96 3 races (host season championship race)
Hartford 2 races
Tri-City 2 races
Thunderbird 2 races
Winston 1 race
Butler 1 race (or a co-sanctioned race with ALMS @ Oakshade)
Plymouth 1 race

You won’t see a race at Plymouth anytime soon. Just a hunch.

[jensenracing18]

I96 has also dumped UMP late models so I doubt you see them on the schedule anytime soon.

[T3GJason47]

Dont this the series will be back at Oakshade anytime soon. Ethanol officials and Oakshade management werent really on the same page

[jensenracing18]

The series took a giant step backwards with the departure of Nick Rice IMO

[SHOESTRING TRVLR]

Why no cosanction mars/ethanol races.

[zstine87]

You wont see them at Butler. Bob is to smart for that series and the late models.

[HoosierDirtFan]

Why no cosanction mars/ethanol races.

I was wondering the same thing. I thing Hartford being the closest track to where the MARS Series races with be a thought. Even tagged Hartford in a couple of Facebook post on the MARS Series page.

[i-pod]

The series took a giant step backwards with the departure of Nick Rice IMO

Yes. This series has gone downhill fast since they got rid of Nick.

[jensenracing18]

so much for that just announced the tour is shut down.. https://www.aelmt.com/single-post/2020/01/09/American-Ethanol-Late-Model-Tour-Cease-Operations

[MittenMadman]

Guess I got my answer. What a bummer. Might be the nail in the coffin for UMP in Michigan. Down to 1 Friday track and 1 Saturday track and no series.... not good.

[NeedforLMspeed]

Modified tour is done also. But wasn't it originally the Michigan Dirt cup tour though.

[jensenracing18]

Modified tour is done also. But wasn't it originally the Michigan Dirt cup tour though. yes it was

[Bigdirtfan]

You wont see them at Butler. Bob is to smart for that series and the late models.Butler is hosting a summernationals race this year. If that goes as well as the ethanol race they had a while back, the dirt will be full of rocks, it will start two hours late, they wont run heats, and they will cut the feature laps in half. I wish sam would have been smart enough not to schedule there, its going to be a disaster.

[NeedforLMspeed]

That's what I was wondering how they were able to get that. Are they desperate for tracks to put on the tour

[MittenMadman]

Not to mention Butler and MMRP are neck and neck for the least racey track in the state

[t4g2]

they are to cease operation immediately from what I'm seeing on rpm

[zstine87]

Late models at butler should be better this year if they keep the track the same as last year. Mods should put on a hell of a feature once they weed out all the crap that will showing up that night

[HoosierDirtFan]

Kinda suck for the Michigan guys because now they don’t really have a tour that their able to follow if they wanted to. The closed regional tour to them are ALMS & MARS.

[Rocky]

Michigan is pretty isolated. If you wanna travel, you gotta go south.

[Jim11h]

Tracks so far I've seen suck as well, just sayin