ASRA is making changes to its endurance racing series for 2024.
Once called the AMA Sanctioned ASRA Team Challenge, the new series will now be known as the AMA Sanctioned ASRA National Endurance/Team Challenge Series in 2024.
Team Challenge is changing and will now be a relay-style race with multiple riders using separate motorcycles and swapping a single scoring transponder during a pit stop or stops.
The new National Endurance will use a tradition format with a single motorcycle and scoring transponder with rider swaps, refueling, and tire changes happening during a pit stop or stops.
Both Team Challenge and National Endurance will have GTO, GTU, and GT Lights (GTL) classes, which will be scored separately, but each class will be limited to four entries in the Team Challenge format.
All grid positions will be based on lap times recorded during timed qualifying and most races will run to a two-hour time limit, although two of the six scheduled events will be longer than two hours, according to ASRA.
All 2024 race license renewals and applications received prior to December 31, 2023, have been processed and mailed out, but due to an outbreak of flu among ASRA staff, renewals and applications received since January 1, 2024, are still being processed. As a result, the deadline to renew and keep an existing competition number has been extended to January 15. After January 15, all unclaimed race numbers will be available.
An ASRA Midwest Region “get-together” has been scheduled January 19 at Lake Lawn Resort, 2400 Geneva St., Delavan, WI 53115. RSVPs via the ASRA website are required.
Two BBQ/cookouts for the Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic region have been scheduled April 5-7 at Carolina Motorsports Park and April 27-28 at New Jersey Motorsports Park. For more information, go to www.asraracing.com.
“As you know, 2023 was the first year of the new ASRA,” ASRA’s Mark Lienhard wrote in an email. “While this was a massive undertaking both personally and financially, only with the help of several key people whom I greatly respect helping to rebuild and bring this back would this have been attempted.
“All that being said, 2024 is the year to come out and be even better. We have been working on streamlining processes, creating an easier user experience, upping the ante on the competition level, and creating a safer race day from qualifying grid times and positions for every race for both Amateurs and Experts, separating qualifying sessions for both Amateur and Expert, grid spacing, and starting lights. I want this to be an organization built for the racers by the racers. If you have an awesome idea, send it on.”
