Mark your calendars, RV and automotive race enthusiasts: Perhaps the biggest race of the U.S. racing season is coming Halloween night, Oct. 31, to Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. It’s part of opening day of the 36th annual K&N Halloween Classic.

The race is huge. Well, maybe not the race, but the race vehicles. “It’s also ponderous, cumbersome, slow, and anything but boring,” say its promoters. It’s the General RV Center Mean Motorhome Race, the most unlikely drag race imaginable. With speeds and times approaching “that of a startled Water Buffalo,” track officials are careful to allow plenty of time to complete this preposterous event.

According to race promoters, “Unlike other races throughout the racing season, contestants in the motorhome race must buy their way in. They have to pay the track crew to get into the staging lanes, out of the staging lanes, and then they have to pay the starter to start the race. What, you may ask, is the customary form of tender for the privilege of participation? Well, let’s just say that these may be the only alcohol powered motorhomes in the world! This choice of currency also becomes a “driving” force for the track crew.

“The behemoths in competition regularly succeed in dumping a significant amount of liquid on the dragstrip, the contents of which we can only imagine. This may also be responsible for a whole new meaning to the term ‘track cleanup!’ We noticed, during last year’s race, that an extraordinary number of the motorized living rooms had a GPS running during the race. It seems that it would be exceptionally difficult to get lost on the dragstrip.”

The Mean Motorhome Race is the kickoff to five days of racing. “There is no bigger race for the entire event, promoters promise. “Literally!”

SOURCE: Race promoters and RVtravel.com

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