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Funk to run diversified schedule in 2007
Andrew Kunas, NSCS Publicist
LA CONNER, Wash. - Evan Funk has a long year ahead of him.
The 17-year-old sensation out of La Conner, Washington will be traveling up and down the west coast in 2007, driving 410 and 360 dirt sprint cars, wingless 360 pavement sprint cars, and even jumping in a midget on a number of occasions. Funk will also chase the inaugural Northwest Sprint Challenge Series championship, driving the Speedmart Inc. and Frontier Chevrolet sponsored #8 Rocket, powered by a Shark Engine.
Funk made an impact in his rookie season in 2006. He won three winged dirt 360 sprint car main events at Skagit Speedway and also set fast time on the first night of the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup in a 410 sprint car.
“Our main focus is to gain as much track time in as many different venues as possible,” Funk said in a statement on his website. “We will compete for and hopefully win the inaugural NSCS championship. We will be attending as many races with the USAC Western States to gain asphalt experience as well.”
Funk will also pilot an asphalt midget car on a part-time basis for longtime WMRA standout Rob Lindsey. Funk’s first race of the year will be in that midget on March 31 in a BCRA event at Shasta Raceway Park in Anderson, Calif. He’ll race it again on May 5 in a WMRA event at Stateline Speedway in Post Falls, Idaho.
Other midget races Funk will race in are in Eureka, Madera, and Irwindale, Calif. and Ephrata, Tenino, and East Wenatchee, Wash. The November 22 race in Irwindale is the USAC-sanctioned Turkey Night Grand Prix, where Funk will also drive his pavement 360 sprint car in USAC Western States competition. Funk will also race in USAC Western States Sprint Car events at Madera and Tracey, Calif.
On Friday, April 27 Funk will begin his chase for the NSCS championship at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash. The NSCS will compete at six dirt tracks across Washington and Oregon. On top of that, Funk will race his 410 dirt sprint car in June’s Dirt Cup at Skagit and in all three World of Outlaws events in Washington in August.
Funk also expects to take part in the Brodix Tournament of Champions at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa on August 5. Later that month, Funk will also compete in the 2nd Annual Kasey Kahne Foundation event at Skagit Speedway. In October, Funk will complete his dirt 360 sprint car schedule (as it is scheduled now) when he races in the prestigious Pacific Sprint Fall Nationals at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, Calif.
The bulk of the schedule, still, will be the NSCS. After the two-day opener at Elma at the end of April, the series will run a two-day show at Skagit two weeks later, then run three races in Oregon on Memorial Weekend. After two more races in June, Funk will run the grueling Northwest Speed Week in July, which contains seven races at five different tracks in nine days time. After the inaugural Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge at Elma, the NSCS will race three events at as many different Oregon tracks before heading back to Washington to race in the Bob’s Burgers & Brew Skagit 360 Nationals.
Sandwiched between the World of Outlaws events at Skagit and Elma, the NSCS will run a Sunday event, August 26, at Elma. After two more events in Oregon at Willamette Speedway and Cottage Grove Speedway, the NSCS closes its inaugural season at Central Washington State Fair Raceway in Yakima, Wash. on September 28 and 29.
Evan Funk’s tentative schedule can be found at his website at http://www.evanfunk.com. More information on the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series can be found on its website at http://www.racenscs.com.
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