SORC board members and Arnold Volunteer Fire Department members gathered to promote the new fire and rescue Gator. Pictured are: (front, l-r) Shane Cool, Robbi Smith, Don Olson, Brock Dailey, Shelley Smith, Gregg Tickle, Josh Cool; (back, l-r) Billy Hendricks of Custer County Implement of Broken Bow, Randy Connell, Dave Smith, Don Schmidt, Aaron Olson, and Bruce Younglove. Seated in the gator is Dell Cerney.
 

Drivers who have purchased these items from Impact Racing, LLC that do not have a date in them should contact Impact Racing, LLC to obtain a letter confirming the manufacture date of their items (info available at www.impactraceproducts.com). If the date of manufacture is prior to 2009, it is the driver's responsibility to correct the situation.

So if any of you that are coming to this year's race are running impact gear of any sort made prior to 2009, you will need to correct it. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Thanks,

Aaron Olson

You can arrive as early as Tuesday afternoon, August 10, if you have a motor home or trailer...we can plug you in overnight. We have 30+ RV spots 20/30/50 amps ($15 per night on weekdays) or you can leave a trailer and stay at one of the many local hotels. 

For those with little or no road course experience, we will do an arrive-and-drive familiarization school Wednesday from 9–11 a.m. For those drivers with some road course experience, we will give you the needed orientation. Lead and follow will be available only Wednesday morning. We will have drivers' meetings and will keep you in comfortable (like vehicle) groups together. All of the Driving School Apex and Turn in Cones will be on the track to help you with the lines and the giant Yes and No signs for passing zones. We will offer a short-version road course driving school for a very small additional charge ($50) in the morning if you have no road course experience which will allow you to participate in the afternoon sessions with the other drivers. We will have open track groups Wednesday from 1–4 p.m. Due to the limited number of specialty vehicles the cost will be $100 for the afternoon and pay at the track is fine. This will include drivers from the mornings-learning experience and you will be in a group you're comfortable with for the above additional $100.

We will have the track’s SS Harchelroad Motors Cobalt car available with a RPM limiter to make everyone has the same limited power to show us his or her driving skills. This will be a timed event with one provided track car on the track at a time. You will need to sign up for this when you arrive and we will provide a track scheduled run time for you. The SORC/MPH King-of-the-Hill event will decide who's the best of the best driver! (In our limited power car.) (Sign up early so when you drive the car still has brakes.) 

For early arrivals, on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. we will host an SORC/MPH Track party in the new Guardrail Clubhouse. The Bacardi Bus rides at 7:45 p.m. for track tours by the famous track record-holding Bus Driver George.

• 8/11/2010 Orientation School $50 (A) 
• 8/11/2010 Open Track 1–4 p.m. $100 (B)
• 8/11/2010 SORC/MPH King-of-the-Hill $25 (C)

1. Cletus & Brenda Kraft 6/1/10 (Track PM and King-of-the-Hill)
2. Les Steinhoff 7/7/10 C6 Vette (Track PM)

1. Bob with Red Pontiac G8 from WI 
2. Cletus and Brenda Kraft (1 Track Day PM & King) 
3. AJ Ranft (1 Track Day PM & King)
4. Malcolm Morison 
5. Ray Bernard (1 Track Day PM & King) 
6. Sam Bryant (1 Track Day PM & King) 
7. Jared Helge (Ted H. navigator) School AM & Track Day & King) 
8. Ted Hughes (1 Track Day & King) 
9. John Stricker from Russell, KS. Just riding with son below. 
10. Chris Striker from " " (1 Track Day PM & King) #86 Fiero/Cadillac Northstar Powered 
11. Rob Walton (1 Track Day PM & King) 
12. Linda & Les Steinhoff (Les 1 Track Day PM & King) 
13. John Huff in the Orange Challenger (1 Track Day & King) 
14. Dan Sparling New Shelby Mustang (1 Track Day & King) 
15. Stan Mifflin (1 Track Day & King) 
16. Lots of others arrived too!

Arnold Volunteer Fire Department members received a presentation check from Sandhills Open Road Challenge representatives in the amount of $19,500.00 on March 26. The money will be used to purchase the new “Jaws of Life” (shown on tables).

At the presentation were: (front, l-r) Becky Dailey, John Schmidt, Robbi Smith, Shelley Smith, Nancy Cool, Randy Connell; (back, l-r) Joe Shown, Don Olson, Clay Mohr, Alan Dailey, Bruce Younglove, Ted Hughes, Aaron Olson, Shane Cool, Dave Smith, Casey Connell, Eric Nelson and Dell Cerny.

The Sandhills Open Road Challenge presented a check to the Arnold Volunteer Fire Department to purchase a “Jaws of Life.” The presentation was made Friday, March 26, at the Arnold Fire Hall.

The $19,500.00 donation was raised at auction from the sixth annual SORC Winter Party hosted annually by a number of long-time supporters of the SORC in Lincoln. The Lincoln group has raised a total of $40,000.00 in donations to the SORC, helping to push total donations by the SORC above $300,000.00 since 2001.

The SORC is a non-profit organization of volunteers who are dedicated toproviding a safe open road racing venue with all proceeds donated to local civic projects, fire departments and scholarship funds. The 10th anniversary of the event will be held August 12 through the 14, 2010, with entrants from 28 states and Canada.

Article provided with permission from The Arnold Sentinel

Here is the Process of creating a custom logo decal:

1. We will start with our 10th Anniversary Logo.

2. We add a picture of your car.

3. The Arnold School House Graphics Class will create the graphic using the logo and your car photo submitted.

Other ordering options:

You can also order the decals as just the 10th Anniversary logo or customized with driver's name/number if you do not want to go with a full customization of the decal.

Ordering Information:

The Sandhills Open Road Challenge was held August 11, 2001, in Arnold Nebraska.  You might be wondering where Arnold Nebraska is; it is about 40 miles west of Broken Bow, Basically a wide spot in the road on Hyw. 92. Arnold is a town of about 675 of Nebraska’s nicest people. Many people wonder how a town of this size could organize an open road race.  This is the short version of the story. A man by the name of Joe Shown drove this road in 1978 and thought it would make a wonderful road course.  He often thought of it as the same type of twisted winding road that the late Formula 1 driver James Clark honed his skills on in his native Scotland. The idea was merely that until January of 2000 when Shown found himself retired and looking for new toys. His long time desire to own a Corvette led him to Konken’s Corvette Store. Upon taking delivery on a “primo” 94 LT1 Joe drove the road once again on his return trip home. The idea reoccurred to him and he reasoned that if it could be done in Nevada, why not Nebraska?  With the help and encouragement of that varitable dynamo, Bruce Younglove, Joe and Bruce approached the Custer County Board of Supervisors in March 2000 with the idea. After a lot whining by a couple of contrarians and with the help and support of many fine folks from Arnold and the Silver State Classic, the idea became reality. The Sandhill’s Open Road Challenge was launched on August 11, 2001.

All of the racers were in Arnold by Friday noon for Technical inspections of their cars.  The car count was held to 40 cars, because of the short period of time the road could be closed to run the race.  After Tech there was a parade through down town Arnold (about 5 blocks long), the parade ended where they had blocked off an area of the town for a car show.  I think there was about 2000 people walking through the show, quite a turn out for a town of 675 people.  After the show we stayed in Arnold to eat supper, we had a great steak in the local bar.  After supper we made the trip back to Broken Bow, the only motel in Arnold was full so we had to stay in Broken Bow.  On the trip back to Broken Bow I had the opportunity to race a 1988 Ferrari Testarossa with my Corvette, WOW Ferrari’s are SLOW.

Saturday morning and it was time for the Road Rally before the open road race.  In my opinion the Road rally was the worst event of the weekend.  We had to drive from Broken Bow to Callaway in 28 minutes without directions or exact mileage. As close as I can figure we were about 30 seconds slow. The second leg of the rally was from Callaway to Arnold, once again we had no directions or exact mileage but we had to make the trip in 32 minutes.  Callaway is a town of 500 people and we got lost trying to get out of town. We got to Arnold’s city limits in exactly 32 minutes but we never found the finish line, so much for our rally times.

After the road rally it was time to do the high-speed leg of the challenge.  The race was held on a county road going north just outside of Arnold.  There were 5 speed classes 80,90,100,110 and the 120 class cars were teched and classified according to the safety equipment in the car.  The max speed allowed on the road was 140 mph.  We entered the 120 class with a tech speed of 140, when we started the race I was not sure if it was possible to average 120 and not exceed 140, the reason was because the road has a bunch of tight turns and the surface of the road is not very smooth.  The race was run in boomerang fashion, which means we ran 26 miles north and as soon as all the cars finished the first leg we ran 23.5 miles to the south on the same road.  The reason for the shorter run back was because we started the first leg on the north side of Arnold, the race officials thought it would be a bad idea to have cars running into the town of Arnold at 120 mph on the return trip.  When we left the starting line we found that the road actually smoothed out at speeds around 120 mph.  We were right on our time on the first leg of the race 26 miles in exactly 13 minutes 00 seconds.  The 23.5-mile return trip should have taken us 11 minutes 45 seconds but we were off that mark by 2 seconds.  Our total time for the 49.5-mile race was 24 minutes 47 seconds for an average speed of 119.836 mph.  This was good enough to earn us first place in the 120mph class.

The entire event was run with out an incident of any kind, there was only one car that didn’t finish the race due to mechanical problems.  Next years event is going to be some what different, plans are being made to run the same road for the high speed event, get rid of the road rally portion and add a one mile shoot out.  Every one that ran the race said that they would be back next year because they enjoyed the race, and the hospitality the people of Arnold showed to them.

Written by Ted Hughes