Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club

Update Tuesday Feb. 25 2025 7:00pm

The news is bad from Chazy Lake. Allen Pashley reports roughly two feet of slush and hard packed snow over the ice. It was enough of an obstacle that he did not manage a core sample. That said, locals claim there are 18inchs of ice locked below. In light of this news from the north and the forecast in the south, racing for this weekend has officially been canceled. Let’s hope the current warm weather will melt the snowpack on our lakes just in time for a cold front to give us the conditions we need. The window is closing but it hasn’t closed yet! The Jaffrey Ice Racing Association will be checking their track conditions on Saturday before making the decision on Sunday’s scheduled race. The NH club has been very welcoming of AMEC this season and encourages our members to check their Facebook page Saturday for updates.

Update Thursday Feb. 20 2025 8:00am

Races this weekend for the Lake George Winter Carnival are officially cancelled. Dave and Sal found poor conditions at all potential venues with hard packed snow over slush. Underneath Lake George measured in at only 8″ of real ice. At Lake Luzerne, club members found nearly the 12″ required but again under 5″ of slush and hard pack making the conditions unplowable and unsafe for racing.

President Allen Pashley is working to secure permission for a race further north on Chazy Lake up near Plattsburgh NY, for March 1st and 2nd but nothing has been finalized yet. Stand by for more information and a condition report there. Thank you to everyone who is looking for good ice!

Update Thursday Feb. 13 2025 11:00am

Well our intrepid ice checker Dave Burnham has once again gone driving all over the place looking for suitable conditions for A.M.E.C. to hold a race and has found nothing but a lot of slush. Both Lake Algonquin and Pecks Lake have a foot or more of snow with a half of foot of slush under that. Those conditions make it impossible to hold an event. So just like the rest of this season so far the club has decided to pull the plug on any racing activity this Sunday Feb. 16, 2025. That officially makes the score Mother Nature 7, AMEC O. We will again look for a suitable site to race on next weekend as we will continue to try and start our 2025 Ice Racing Championship season.

  Welcome to the Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club or A.M.E.C. as we like to refer to it. Established in 1954 A.M.E.C. has been racing on the frozen lakes of northeastern New York State for going on 71 years now. We offer a variety of motorsport’s events throughout the year focusing mainly on Ice Racing.

Ice Racing is one of safest and most economical forms of road racing available today. This season we will offer 9 classes of wheel to wheel action (weather permitting). There is room for almost any car or driver on our varied length road course circuits. Participation can vary from from 40-75 drivers per event. 

  This seasons race cars will range from bone stock Street Legal Class cars all the way up to purpose built tube chassis ice racing machines. See rules for further descriptions of classes. With our crew of hardy volunteers we offer a winter racing experience that can not be matched. Our No-Contact Street Legal Classes are broken into four groups, one for un-studded snow tires on 2 wheel drive cars or for All wheel drive cars and the same types of cars running on studded tires available from Nokian Tire as the Hakkapeliita 9 or 10 model. Our race stud cars run tires from a number of manufacturers or can be hand built in your own garage. Please see rules for details.

This season we will offer 2 heat races for each class, generally running for 20 minutes in length as well as a Finale race which will be about 25 minutes in length. That’s over 1 hour of seat time in competition not including practice at the beginning of the day. Weather and ice conditions may affect schedule.

Races are normally held on Sunday only with several full weekend events added to the schedule as they are available. Please join us and check out the “Getting Started In Ice Racing” link located on the menu bar.

A.M.E.C. holds monthly meetings on the second Monday night of each month on Zoom. Please contact one of the officers by clicking the Contacts tab above to get information on how to attend these meetings.

Final results are posted for the 2022 season!

2022 Season

Results are posted for Round 3 of the 2022 AMEC Ice Racing Championships.
https://icerace.com/results/2022-season/

https://icerace.com/results/2022-season/

If you register and the event is cancelled your registration fee will be automatically applied to the next race or can be refunded at your request. You don’t need to pay using MotorsportReg either, you can pay at registration on race day. Note that you need to come to registration and check in and sign the official waiver even if you register on MotorsportReg.