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November 24, 2009 at
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Perris Auto Speedway
18700 Lake Perris Drive
Perris, CA 92571
(951) 940-0134
perrisautospeedway.com
For Further Information contact Scott Daloisio (909) 226-7768 or [email protected]
For Immediate Release
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY CLOSES SEASON WITH GLENN HOWARD MEMORIAL THIS SATURDAY!
(NOVEMBER 24, 2009, PERRIS, CA) Perris Auto Speedway will close the 2009 season this Saturday night, November 28th, with the running of the 2nd Annual Glenn Howard Memorial for the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars. The $30,000.00 Glenn Howard Challenge will also be a part of the show which has drawn entries from all of the USAC/CRA stars as well as Midwestern based drivers Damion Gardner, Dave Darland, Bryan Clauson, Nic Faas and Cole Carter. Spectator gates will open at 5 PM and the first race will begin at 7:00.
"We are pleased to host the Glenn Howard Memorial and the Glenn Howard Challenge," promoter Don Kazarian said from his office on Monday. "Glenn did just about everything there was to do in racing. He was a driver, owner, official and innovator. Most of all he was a great guy. Last year's initial Glenn Howard Memorial was a great event and with the addition of the Glenn Howard $30,000.00 Challenge, this year's race has added excitement."
Before the main event begins, the driver who is slated to start on the pole will be presented with the Glenn Howard Challenge. If he accepts the challenge, he will relinquish his pole position starting spot and go to the back of the field. If he wins from the back, he will collect a $30,000.00 bonus. Two drivers have won from the last starting spot at The PAS before and both will be in action on Saturday. Damion Gardner, a native of Concord, California who resides in Pittsboro, Indiana during the racing season, and Yorba Linda, California's Rip Williams.
While the fight for the Glenn Howard Memorial will rage for 30-laps until the checkered flag brings a close to the 2009 season, one battle has already been determined. Temecula, California's Mike Spencer has already sewn up the 2009 USAC/CRA championship after a hard fought battle with David Cardey of Riverside, California. Spencer, an engineering graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, becomes the first two-time champion of the USAC/CRA series (he won the crown in 2008 as well).
While Spencer has already clinched the title, Manhattan Beach California's Garrett Hansen, who will claim the 2009 USAC Western Midget championship at the 69th running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix on Thursday at Toyota Speedway At Irwindale, still has a shot of stealing second from Cardey in the final USAC/CRA standings. Hansen trails Cardey by 50 points heading into Saturday's season the finale.
The most intriguing points fight as the USAC/CRA series comes to a conclusion is the battle for fourth overall. A mere 21 points separates the fourth, fifth and sixth place drivers. Yorba Linda, California's Blake Miller, the 2006 USAC/CRA Rookie of the Year who will turn 23 on Sunday, is currently in fourth with 719 points. Gregg Bragg, a three time California Lightning Sprint Car champion from Visalia, California, is fifth with 700 points. Two points behind Bragg with 698 points in the popular Kittle Motorsports #18 is Santa Maria, California's "Showtime" Danny Sheridan.
Saturday's open wheel prelude to Auld Lang Syne will feature qualifying, four ten-lap heat races a 12-lap B main, the 30-lap Glenn Howard Memorial and the $30,000.00 Glenn Howard Challenge.
Advance tickets for this Saturday are available 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-595-4849. They can also be ordered on the Internet at tix.com or perrisautospeedway.com.
For more information call The PAS at: (951) 940-0134.
You can keep up with all of the latest news from Perris Auto Speedway on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/perrisautospdwy
Video and DVD productions of all USAC/CRA races at The PAS dating back to 2004 and including the last five Budweiser Oval Nationals are available from Jeff Kristensen's Raceway Video. For more information on these productions you can call: (818) 618-9764 or visit the web site at: racewayvideo.com.
Perris Auto Speedway is located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds (home of October's Southern California Fair), approximately one hour east of Los Angeles and one hour North of San Diego. To get to the track, take the 215 freeway, exit on the Ramona Expressway and go three miles east to the fairgrounds.
[email protected] is the only authorized Internet address to issue official media news released from The Perris Auto Speedway or Oval Entertainment
LUCAS OIL USAC/CRA
- Mike Spencer – Temecula, CA -- 997
- David Cardey -- Riverside, CA -- 897
- Garrett Hansen -- Manhattan Beach, CA -- 847
- Blake Miller – Yorba Linda, CA -- 719
- Greg Bragg -- Visalia, CA -- 700
- Danny Sheridan -- Santa Maria, CA -- 698
- Matt Mitchell -- Yorba Linda, CA -- 634
- Rip Williams -- Yorba Linda, CA -- 601
- Cory Kruseman -- Ventura, CA, CA -- 564
- Damion Gardner – Pittsboro, IN – 443
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November 24, 2009 at
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I'm thinking that Damion might be the only guy crazy enough to give up the pole and take the challenge .............unless the track dries out a bit???
Cardey almost came from the back on August 1st, so with the right track conditions, he would be another guy who could do it.
It's the last race of the year, so I say bolt in the big motors and USAC can conveniently forget the bubble checker at home.
Good luck to all you guys and I hope you appreciate all that Steve Howard has done to raise money for this race and the Vermeil race. So go put on a show for his Dad and say "Thanks" when he hands you the dough.
Sorry we can't make it, but we used up all our parts (and then some) at the Oval Nat's........but it was fun!
Chad
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November 24, 2009 at
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Thanks again Chad for a great Calistoga weekend! We hope you and the crew have another show with USAC/CRA next year.
"Ralphie, Senor, muchas gracias por una mas cerveza" -
Scott Daloisio @ the PAS
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November 24, 2009 at
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Posted By: RACERX3C on November 24 2009 at 10:32:24 AM
I'm thinking that Damion might be the only guy crazy enough to give up the pole and take the challenge .............unless the track dries out a bit???
Cardey almost came from the back on August 1st, so with the right track conditions, he would be another guy who could do it.
It's the last race of the year, so I say bolt in the big motors and USAC can conveniently forget the bubble checker at home.
Good luck to all you guys and I hope you appreciate all that Steve Howard has done to raise money for this race and the Vermeil race. So go put on a show for his Dad and say "Thanks" when he hands you the dough.
Sorry we can't make it, but we used up all our parts (and then some) at the Oval Nat's........but it was fun!
Chad
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I think you would also have to think that "The "Cowboy" Tony Jones who is not chasing points would love to pocket over $30,000 and you can't argue that he would not have a chance from the back either
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November 24, 2009 at
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Posted By: ImissAscot on November 24 2009 at 08:32:47 PM
I think you would also have to think that "The "Cowboy" Tony Jones who is not chasing points would love to pocket over $30,000 and you can't argue that he would not have a chance from the back either
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I'm thinking that with it very slick down low and the cushion dangerously close to the wall ..... the Cowboy could do it from the back (but you might need 40 laps?).
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November 25, 2009 at
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I say let's put up some fan money and do 40.......weeeeeee
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November 25, 2009 at
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This message was edited on
November 25, 2009 at
12:41:16 PM by new-parts
The
Most Exciting Sports Event No One Will Ever See?
A Demon's demonic charge will probably go unnoticed
'cause the money's not there.It’s
probable that despite the remarkable circumstances described below, little or
nothing will happen as the result of all the noise we hope to make (see
below).Sprint car racing, once at the top of the sports (not just
auto racing) pyramid in the USA, has slipped into near obscurity. There were
less than 2,000 people on hand at Perris last night to witness one of the most
astonishing feats in the sport’s 100-year history. The races there are rarely
televised live, although they receive a few seconds on Speed each week. Yet the
quality of the competition and the intense action are the stuff a WWF or NASCAR
promoter would give his arm for. Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 00:04:28 -0700
(PDT) From: Rodger Garrett Subject: Damion's Big Night To: [email protected]He's
won a pile of main events in the SCRA and USAC-CRA. He's set fast time in eight
of the nine race nights thus far this year in the 1250-lb., 800-horsepower
USAC-CRA 410 sprints. (Arguably the fastest non-airfoil cars on dirt.) He's won
three main events against some of the best sprint car drivers in the country
already this year. He's been the highest ranked driver in the national sprint
car poll several times since joining the top sprint car show in the west a few
years ago. He's won multiple main events every full year he's been in the show
and never been out of the top five in points. But what he did tonight at
the 4/10'ths mile clay oval at the Perris Auto Speedway near Riverside,
California, will go down in sprint car -- and auto racing history. The
31-year-old driver from Concord, California, who drives the red #50 for
multi-time west coast sprint champ owner Ron Chaffin, did thus: He came
within a 20th of a second of breaking the existing track record -he- set several
years ago. He was forced to T-bone a competitor in his heat race when several
cars spun in front of him. He stripped the tread off his inside rear tire in the
B Main and retired. He had to take a provisional position to start the 30-lap
main event from 23rd place. He made it to sixth by the yellow flag in lap 19 and
had to pass five of the best drivers in the country in the next seven or eight
laps. Which he did: 100-time main event winner Rip Williams, former
Arizona champ and current USAC-CRA #2 point man Charles Davis, former Oval
Nationals champ Tony Jones, former CRA champ and very-hot-at-the-moment Mike
Kirby, and former SCRA champ and last year's #3 man in the USAC National Sprint
standings Cory Kruseman... all went down, one by one. It was simply
-incredible-. And it deserves to be seen on national television.
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November 25, 2009 at
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Its been done before, it can happen again!
Caution.....wing alert! Watch The Wild Child take the challenge....and win!
http://www.racewayvideo.com/clips/99frontrowchallenge.wmv
Jeff Kristensen
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November 25, 2009 at
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yawn! just another wanger parade......coincidently won by the guy that sheared the USAC sheep at the Mopar Million (w/ his barn-door car).
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November 26, 2009 at
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What a energy packed crowd and announcer!
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November 26, 2009 at
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This message was edited on
November 26, 2009 at
09:41:03 AM by surfnsprint
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Posted By: new-parts on November 25 2009 at 12:28:55 PM
The
Most Exciting Sports Event No One Will Ever See?
A Demon's demonic charge will probably go unnoticed
'cause the money's not there.It’s
probable that despite the remarkable circumstances described below, little or
nothing will happen as the result of all the noise we hope to make (see
below).Sprint car racing, once at the top of the sports (not just
auto racing) pyramid in the USA, has slipped into near obscurity. There were
less than 2,000 people on hand at Perris last night to witness one of the most
astonishing feats in the sport’s 100-year history. The races there are rarely
televised live, although they receive a few seconds on Speed each week. Yet the
quality of the competition and the intense action are the stuff a WWF or NASCAR
promoter would give his arm for. Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 00:04:28 -0700
(PDT) From: Rodger Garrett Subject: Damion's Big Night To: [email protected]He's
won a pile of main events in the SCRA and USAC-CRA. He's set fast time in eight
of the nine race nights thus far this year in the 1250-lb., 800-horsepower
USAC-CRA 410 sprints. (Arguably the fastest non-airfoil cars on dirt.) He's won
three main events against some of the best sprint car drivers in the country
already this year. He's been the highest ranked driver in the national sprint
car poll several times since joining the top sprint car show in the west a few
years ago. He's won multiple main events every full year he's been in the show
and never been out of the top five in points. But what he did tonight at
the 4/10'ths mile clay oval at the Perris Auto Speedway near Riverside,
California, will go down in sprint car -- and auto racing history. The
31-year-old driver from Concord, California, who drives the red #50 for
multi-time west coast sprint champ owner Ron Chaffin, did thus: He came
within a 20th of a second of breaking the existing track record -he- set several
years ago. He was forced to T-bone a competitor in his heat race when several
cars spun in front of him. He stripped the tread off his inside rear tire in the
B Main and retired. He had to take a provisional position to start the 30-lap
main event from 23rd place. He made it to sixth by the yellow flag in lap 19 and
had to pass five of the best drivers in the country in the next seven or eight
laps. Which he did: 100-time main event winner Rip Williams, former
Arizona champ and current USAC-CRA #2 point man Charles Davis, former Oval
Nationals champ Tony Jones, former CRA champ and very-hot-at-the-moment Mike
Kirby, and former SCRA champ and last year's #3 man in the USAC National Sprint
standings Cory Kruseman... all went down, one by one. It was simply
-incredible-. And it deserves to be seen on national television.
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fascinating article
thanks new-parts for posting it
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November 26, 2009 at
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This is a cool promotion for the track I hope someone takes the challenge and gets the loot.
Watching Tim Kaeding start dead last in a field of 24 cars and win at the Trophy Cup this year was probably the best race I have ever watched. He and Shane Stewart battled it out the whole race from the back to the front.
"Winged or non-winged its all about
the sprint cars for me!"
http://mattmusselldesigns.daportfolio.com
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