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SUPRS Schedule Released for 2019-20 Supermodified Sim Racing Season

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Slightly Refined Schedule Has 43 Race Dates for Wing Supermodified Sim Racing Goshen, IN – September 26, 2019… The Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), has officially released its 2019-20 Gold Crest Wing Supermodified  Schedule, and although slightly refined from last year, the season still has a seven month schedule of 43 race dates in 17 different states and Canada. Five new venues have been added to the schedule, and a SUPRS will visit Wisconsin… Keep Reading

SUPRS Releases 15th Non-Wing Supermodified Sim Racing Schedule

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13 Race Non-Wing Supermodified Sim Racing Season Begins June 4 May 14, 2019 – Goshen, IN… The Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), 2019 15th Anniversary Gold Crest Non-Wing Supermodified sim racing schedule has been released and shows 13 race season that begins on June 4. Focused on Oswego, Other Tracks Added Starting with the Port City Opener 75 on 6/4/19, the season runs through August 13, and while focused mainly on dates at “The… Keep Reading

Christmas Time, Break Time for SUPRS

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December 14, 2018 – Goshen, IN…Here at the Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), we believe that Christmas is a very special time of year. In this day and age of  of an ‘always on’ and ‘constantly connected’ world, we also think it’s the best time of the year to take a break from supermodified sim racing. So we’re putting supermodified sim racing on hold for a couple of weeks.

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Christmas Break is Important

We want to remind all of our SUPRS Members, fans, friends, family and business partners, that our annual 2-week Christmas Break begins at the close of business on Friday, December 14, 2018 and lasts until Wednesday, January 2, 2019. We feel this time away from sim racing is important and hope that our members have plenty of time to travel and spend time with family.

Since the beginning of SUPRS in 2004, we have stressed the importance of family and we believe that focusing on that is more important than #simracing. and it’s what sets us apart from other leagues or sanctions.

SUPRS urges all of members, friends, fans, & followers to take this time to disconnect from racing on the web, put down their cell phones, and shut off the internet to focus on the important things in life.

Submitting Join Forms

Sim racers wishing to go supermodified sim racing with SUPRS can still submit their Membership Join Forms during our break. However, we want to remind everyone that Join Forms won’t be processed until we are back in the office after the New Year on January 2, 2019.

This also means that Member’s Only Access won’t be available to new members until after January 2, 2019. We’ll do our best to get any new members set up and ready to race the 15th Annual Crazy Canuck Snowball Derby, so if you DO submit a Join Form during break, please make sure that you have done everything on your part to be ready to race. You can learn more in our F.A.Q and rFactor Quick Start Guide.

General Emails and Press Releases

We will continue to watch our email for time sensitive press releases from supermodified sanctions, tracks, and teams to decide if any are of a time sensitive nature. General email processing is on hold until January 2, 2019.

PR representatives should contact us via our Contact Page if they have something very important that needs to go out immediately on SUPRS.net. Otherwise, all incoming email from PR departments is considered bulk mail and those releases will be added to our website upon our return to business.

Heading to Canada When We Resume

After the first of the year, it’s time to get ready for the 15th Annual Crazy Canuck Snowball Derby at Mosport Speedway. We’ll fire up the SUPRS Race and TeamSpeak servers at 6:00 pm on January 2, 2018. for this race.

SUPRS Members can plan on an extended Systems Check prior to the race and should be prepared to run SUPRS Sync beginning at 6:00pm. Race times remain the same and can be found on our Schedule Page.

Merry Christmas to All

Thank you to  all the SUPRS Members, sponsors, friends, fans, and followers that supported SUPRS in 2018. We appreciate your passion for sim racing, SUPRS, and more importantly REAL supermodified racing.

We want to wish all of you a wonderful Christmas season filled with peace, love, health and happiness. May every joy and blessing be yours at Christmas time and throughout the New Year.

Christmas Break Notes:

5:00pm est, Friday December 14, 2018 to 8:00am est Wednesday January 2, 2019

  • No Races, No Sunday Night Test-N-Tune, No Thursday A/B Testing
  • SUPRS Race Servers, SUPRS TeamSpeak Servers shutdown.
  • Membership Join Form processing and general replies to emails will be put on hold.
  • Social Media, SUPRS.net, and SUPRS Weekly updates on hold.

8:00am est, Wednesday January 2, 2019

  • Back in office. Social Media, SUPRS.net updates resume.
  • Membership Join Forms Processing resumes.
  • SUPRS Weekly mailed.

6:00pm est, Wednesday January 2 2018:

  • SUPRS Race Servers, SUPRS TeamSpeak Servers re-opened.
  • SUPRS Sync started.
  • SUPRS Sunday Night Test-N-Tune, Thursday A/B Testing & NASCAR Heat Race servers re-opened.
  • 15th Annual Crazy Canuck Snowball Derby Systems Checks.

8:00pm est, Tuesday January 2, 2018:

15th Annual
Crazy Canuck Snowball Derby
and Can-Am Challenge
January 2, 2019
SUPRS Mosport Speedway**
50 Lap Wing Supermodified Sim Race

  • Systems Checks & SUPRS Sync: 6:00pm
  • Practice: 8:00pm
  • Driver’s Meeting: 8:15pm
  • Time Trials: 8:30pm
  • Racing: 9:05pm

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“Supermodified Sim Racing for the Right Reasons” since 2004

SUPRS 15th Anniversary of Supermodified Sim Racing

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SUPRS Celebrating 15 Years of Supermodified Sim Racing for the Right Reasons with Triple Tuesday Event

November 4, 2018 – Goshen, IN…It’s not often that you can find a gaming clan, league, or group that’s been around for 10 years, let alone a sim racing sanction that’s lasted for 15. But this week the Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), celebrates that very fact when they come together for a special night of racing and remembering on Election Day 2018 for SUPRS 15th Anniversary Special. Calling it “Triple Tuesday” the original online supermodified sim racing sanction plans to run three different gaming platforms using three different modifications at three different tracks to showcase their history with an eye on the future.

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Celebrating 15 continuous years of “Supermodified Sim Racing for the Right Reasons”

Thrice as Nice

SUPRS 15th Anniversary Special “Triple Tuesday” event promises to be something few sim racers have participated in. Utilizing the first in-house, scratch-built modification for NASCAR Heat, then moving the current rFactor mod, (also built in-house), and finishing up with a brand-new, never seen rFactor2 supermodified built in-house, is sure to make for a challenging but fun night of racing.

All three races are scheduled for 33 laps with the first two races are points paying shows. The first race is part of SUPRS 14 event NASCAR Heat Supermodified Challenge which is open to the public. and uses the NHSM, (NASCAR Heat SuperModified), mod built by Shaker Designs’ Kevin Marine on former SUPRS designer, Doug “Flash” Forgue’s Paved_Featherlite Speedway.

SUPRS 2018 rFactor Belfab Racing supermodified

SUPRS newest addition to rFactor, the Belfab, was built to meticulous detail by BreezeGraphics.com owner Kevin Timmins from original blueprints provided by the late Jim Belfiore.

Moving to a new release of their rFactor wing supermodified for race two, the SUPRS racers will take on Richmond International Raceway to showcase a brand-new Belfab supermodified chassis and an articulating wing that’s never been done before.

Finally, the last 33 lap show will showcase SUPRS yet to be released rFactor2 supermodified which breaks new ground for supermodified sim racing. The exhibition takes place at SUPRS Oswego Speedway, updated to take advantage of the more modern rFactor2 gaming engine.

Humble Beginnings Quickly Turn into Growth

Like most long-running organizations, SUPRS started out very small. What initially began as a few guys getting together to race NASCAR Heat on one track, with one type of car, using 56k dial-up internet, and taking turns hosting on race night on the same rig they raced on in 2004, quickly turned into a lot more.

When Bob Gangwer and John Davidson took over the reigns of a foundering sim racing league in November of 2004, they immediately released an ambitious 38 race schedule even though there were only four members.

By the time the end of the first season rolled around, SUPRS had their first in-house mod builder, had their first dedicated race server, and released an updated version of the Mike Jackson PSTM psuedo supermodified they were racing.

When the last race of that first season ended, dealing with warp, corrupted files, and lag was still something they had to deal with, but the community had grown to 36 different drivers, including the first real supermodified racer to join SUPRS ranks, Joey Payne, Jr., and the first ground-up, in-house built mod, (NHSM) by Shaker Designs, featuring two different types of supermodifieds had been released.

Dion Parish Memorial Benevolent Fund for Supermodifieds donation graphicA Different Way of Thinking

In April of 2005, SUPRS founder John Davidson and Bob Gangwer determined that there was more to be done and after an intense meeting with all the SUPRS members that saw several threaten to leave, implemented a “donate to race” policy by offering two types of membership.

While gaming leagues asking for donations was nothing new, the difference was, donations made to SUPRS weren’t for awards, server costs, or personal gain. From that day forward all membership donations were used to help injured supermodified racers through the Dion Parish Memorial Benevolent Fund for Supermodifieds with a separate account set up for prizes and costs.

As Unique as the Cars They Race

SUPRS has remained consistent in its goals and Mission, choosing to focus more on a family atmosphere and giving and not concentrating on wins, chaos, and flaming fellow league members. Sometimes, that philosophy has come at the cost of losing members, or being ridiculed publicly, but at the end of the day, the sanction has stayed true to its original goals and has survived through thick and thin without compromising its integrity.

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While many other leagues or sanctions may race supermodifieds, they also run many other forms of race cars. You won’t find any go-karts, dwarf cars, late models, dirt modifieds, or off-road trucks at SUPRS. While on occasion SUPRS has run NASCAR Tour type modifieds, and a few sprint car races, the main focus has been, is, and always will be wing and non-wing supermodified racing. That part of the vision was decided upon from the beginning, knowing that staying super focused on supermodifieds is the only way to truly help people from other forms of online racing understand what makes the real supermodified so special.

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15th Anniversary Special

SUPRS 15th Anniversary Special “Triple Tuesday” takes place on Election Day, November 6, 2018. Practice for this three-race combination NASCAR Heat, rFactor, and rFactor2 begins at 7:30pm, with the Drivers Meeting taking place at 8:40. These races have no Time Trials so that the first Feature Race can start around 9:10pm The full race format and schedule of events is available on the SUPRS schedule page.

Watch SUPRS 15th Anniversary Special Live

Follow your favorite SUPRS racers while you view timing, scoring, and live streaming video of all the supermodified sim races on 11/6/18 from Featherlite Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, and Oswego Speedway “Live @ 9pm est via the SUPRS LIVE! page.

The SUPRS LIVE! experience includes in-car camera views as well as the main video screen and it’s a great place to spend you evening after voting while learning more about supermodifieds and the original supermodified sim racing sanction.

Learn More

Online sim racers, gamers, and supermodified racing fans can all learn more about the original supermodified sim racing sanction by visiting www.SUPRS.net, “Liking” SUPRS on Facebook, Circling SUPRS on Google+, Following @SUPRSOnline on Twitter, and Viewing SUPRS videos on YouTube. We’re also on Instagram @suprs_online, and don’t forget to check out our live streaming video at select races throughout the season via our SUPRS LIVE! page and Twitch.

SUPRS – “Supermodified Sim Racing for the Right Reasons” since 2004

SUPRS 15 Year Statistics

  • Number of Races Sanctioned: While it’s not an exact count, to the best knowledge currently available, SUPRS has sanctioned 816 confirmed races as of November 1, 2018. With six complete years of Silver Crest, and one non-wing season of Gold Crest data missing, and a handful of NASCAR Tour-type modified races thrown in, the figure is most likely closer to over 900 events.
  • Total Amount of Drivers Receiving SUPRS Points: 154-again based on data available
  • States Represented by SUPRS Drivers: AL, AZ, CA, CT, GA, FL, IL, IN, KY, ME, MO, MA, MI, MN, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, WA, WI
  • Canadian Provinces Represented by SUPRS Drivers: ONT, QUE
  • SUPRS Youngest Winner: Stephen Ritskes-age 16
  • SUPRS Oldest Winner: Carl Becker-age 75

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