Pavement Super and Pro Late Model racing once again has an Approved Body Configuration committee to oversee regulations for Super Late Model shells.
The group represents numerous decisions makers across pavement straight rail competition and was organized by ASA STARS director of marketing and operations Marty Melo. Despite putting the group together and serving on the committee, Melo is a non-voting member alongside officials from the two largest body manufacturers in Corey Schultz of Five Star Bodies and Dave Kamholtz of AR Bodies.
Those with voting responsibilities:
Freddie Query: ASA STARS technical director
Tim Bryant: Five Flags Speedway, Southern Super Series and Snowball Derby operator
Todd Thelen: Slinger Speedway, Slinger Nationals operator
Kip Childress: CARS Tour executive director
Tim Huddleston: CARS Tour West, Kern County Speedway co-operator
Dan Garber: Northwest Super Late Model Series race directory
Brent Roy: Speedway 660 race director, operator
The 2025 Approved Body Configuration rule book can be read at www.abcbodyprogram.com
This is a revival of a group of regional promoters that oversaw Super and Pro Late Model bodies from 2004 to the early part of this decade. Included in that group was Bryant, the CRA’s RJ Scott and Glenn Luckett; Larry Collins of the SRL SPEARS Southwest Tour, the Midwest Tour’s Gregg McKarns and CARS Tour then-president Jack McNelly. It also included body manufacturers Five Star Bodies, AR Bodies and Lightning Light Bodies.
The new group was spearheaded by Track Enterprises and president Bob Sargent, who owns the CRA and Midwest Tour and has a strategic alliance with Bryant in creating the STARS national tour.
Notable omissions in the new group are Ricky Brooks, UARA operator and Cordele Motor Speedway general manager, who is not currently on the same page with Track Enterprises and the ASA group and Pro All Star Series operator Tom Mayberry who has generally always existed on his own competitive figurative island.
Still, this new group includes a vast majority of racing minds across the continent, representing numerous sanctioning bodies as well.
