[j21moss]

Hey there all you Mach 1 Cruisers!!!! R U ready for a Big Weekend???? Well I'm here in Indianapolis waiting for all of you and to Welcome you to O'Reilly Raceway Park outside of Indianapolis for the 2009 MCA's Race to Indy Mustang and Mach 1 Nationals starting up with registration beginning at 8:00am this coming Friday. So far at this time from Diane, I have 11 official Mach 1 entries and I know of 4 more signing up at the day of the show. Bob Coulston, Dave Quinn and I have been getting together a plan on where to park all your beautiful Mach 1's as well as the Bullitt Registry and the SSP Mustang's (Mustang Police Cars). As of right now we have over 402 total cars coming to this event and about 30 Vendors will entertain you over the weekend.

Drag racing will start around 8:00am on Friday for some of the ones whose got the Baddest Mach to strut his stuff on one of the most famous Drag Strip's in the Nation. It should end around about 11:00am. So far 48 Cars has entered for that.

About 12 noon the Autocrossing will be running thru 4:00pm with 37 cars that will attack the roadcourse track that will be setup.

Registration will end at 5:00pm on Friday for the day but Registration will start back up on Saturday Morning at 8:00am thru 11:00am Sharp!! The Hog Roast which is a huge sellout will begin around 6-6:30pm. Also at the same time, there has been some discussion at ORP, the Drag Strip track maybe having a Friday Night Madness on a makeup race from a previous raindate a couple of weekends ago open. And about 9:30 or 10:00pm the Fireworks will be display for everybody to ohhhh and ahhhh, to finish up the evening and a long day of activities.

Saturday morning Judging will begin at 11:00am and they are hoping to be done by 5:00pm. Just giving you all reminder..PLEASE have your entry forms completed for the ones who were not pre-registered before you come to the show so when we get you in line to be parked, you'll minimize the wait in line at the registration table. Also NO Car entry will be allowed to move from their parking spot PERIOD!! unless oked by the Head Judge from MCA until all cars have been judged. Also at the Drag strip, thru out the day, they will be running the Diesel Truck Nationals for some of you that love the power of Diesel!! and boy can they run FAST!! The park will close around 6:00pm for the evening so most will be going to the Host Hotel fo the MCA Dinner Banquet. John Force's Funny Car will be on Display at the Main Lobby at the Host Hotel and we have a Special Guest Speaker from Ford Motor Company who helped engineered the 2010 Mustang will be on hand as well has some great Door Prizes for the ones who go to the Banquet.

For the ones that are not going to the Dinner Banquet, the Mach 1 Registry is going to have a Cruise-In at Hooters Resturant. Address is 7551 US Highway 31 S, Indianapolis,In 46227. So tell anybody that is not going to the banquet, to come on down for a night of fun.

On Sunday, Gates open at 8:00am. The Hot Oval laps will begin at 9:00am for the people who want to take laps around one of the most favorite short tracks the Nationwide Cars and Camping World Truck Circuit which is coming up this July. For some of you who were not here last year, this was a BIG hit!! They will be running a pack of 10 cars at a time and they will have a Pace Car there to lead all the packs to run at a reasonable speed. Don't worry about going to slow like we did at IMS years back..believe me...it will be fast enough!!! about 153 cars will take on this event, so we need everybody who is going to do this to be ready before 9:00am. this will run thru 12 noon.

The Awards will start up sometime early in the afternoon with about 300 awards to be given out on the cars that will be judged. the awards that MCI does have been pretty good in years past and this year is no exception, we have done pretty good job on selecting a good award. There will be a 50/50 drawing on both days and door prizes will be drawn on both days and we will have some special items that will have a special drawings that will be annouced at the show on how to get a chance to win one of them.

So there you have it!!! Looks like plenty to do for everybody to enjoy and we hope everybody who comes will have a great time and we look forward on meeting everybody at the 2009 MCA Race to Indy Mustang and Mach 1 Nationals

Thanks for reading and please be careful coming to the show.

Jerri "The Dr." Moss