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John Padjen Motorsports
Silver Dollar Speedway – Chico, CA
Contact: Troy Hennig
For Immediate Release: Tyler Walker is Glad to be Back in Sprint Cars
Championship Auto Racing Continues this Friday Night at Chico
(Chico, CA 4-14-08)...The third installment of Feather Falls Casino Championship point racing continues this Friday night, April 18th, at Silver Dollar Speedway. Another $2,000 is on the line to the 410 sprint car main event winner. This nights sponsor of the event is NMI Industrial Contractors, who this year have hired the talented Tyler Walker to drive their beautiful #24 sprint car. Three divisions will hit the track this weekend. Joining the winged 410 sprint cars are the wingless sprints and street stocks.
Front grandstand gate will open at 6 pm. Racing is scheduled to start at 7 pm. Adult general admission is $11.00. Seniors and Juniors are $9.00 and children are $5.00.
Los Angeles driver Tyler Walker was hired this year to drive the NMI #24 sprint car. *Walker began racing bicycles at the age of six and motorcycles at age eight. He then began racing go-karts, and won four California state karting championships and had a total of 200 wins. At the age of sixteen, Walker started racing in winged sprint car around Northern California. He moved up to World of Outlaws competition and won several main feature events over the next two seasons. He was hired to drive a NASCAR Busch Series car for the 2000 season with Tyler Jet Motorsports, but sponsorship problems caused the deal to fall through. Walker would attempt his first Busch race that season for Larry Lockamy at Nashville Speedway USA that season, but did not qualify.
In 2002, Walker won the World of Outlaws Gumout Series championship, winning a total of sixteen races during the season. During this time, he began celebrating his victories by doing a backflip off of his racecar, a celebration soon copied by Carl Edwards. He began racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2003, racing 3 races in the #7 Mopar PerformanceDodge Ram for Ultra Motorsports, his best finish a 21st at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In 2004, he began racing in the USAC Silver Crown Series for Kasey Kahne Racing, while competing three times in the Busch Series. He made his series debut at Pikes Peak, qualifying eighth and finishing 27th. After driving one race for BACE Motorsports, he drove another Busch race in the #38 Great ClipsDodge for Akins Motorsports. In 2007, Walker was slated to drive the #36 truck for Bill Davis Racing full time, but after 6 races it was announced that Ryan Mathews would drive part time sharing the ride with him.
In 2007 Walker reemerged back in sprint car racing. Teaming up with the NMI #24 Walker has been a force at Silver Dollar Speedway this year. The team is also running for the Golden State King of California Championship. On April 5th, Walker won the main event at Antioch Speedway. In victory lane he said, “I want to say sorry to all the NASCAR fans who won't ever see me there again. I love dirt and am glad to be back on it.”*
Joining Walker this weekend will be point leaders Andy Forsberg and Sean Becker. Both for track champions look to capture their second driving championship at the speedway. Rookie driver Keith Bloom sits atop the Silver Dollar Speedway wingless point series. Second year driver Cody Myers is second followed by Taylor Simas. Ryan McDaniel and Scott Rogers lead the street stock point battle into this Friday night.
For more information please visit www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
*Tyler Walker Bio from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Walker_(NASCAR)
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