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PRESS RELEASE, Silver Dollar Speedway – Chico, CA
FROM THE OFFICE OF JOHN PADJEN MOTORSPORTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Sunday, July 8, 2007
MEDIA CONTACT: Troy Hennig [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
INTERNET INFORMATION: www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
<http://www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com/>
_July Heats up with Two Nights of Racing_
(Chico, CA 7-08-07)...As the temperatures rise so does the competition
at Silver Dollar Speedway. Two action packed nights of racing commerce
at John Padjen's Silver Dollar Speedway this Friday and Saturday night.
On Friday night, July 13, the regular Friday night racing will take
place during point race number 16 of the Feather Falls Casino
Championship series. The night will feature 410 sprint cars, dirt
modifieds, pure stocks and wingless sprints. Our friend Ron Armstrong
and his travel company, GT Trends, will sponsor the night and offer the
410-winged sprint cars a $2,000 pay day. GT Trends has been a fixture
on
the side of Jonathan Allard's car for many years now.
On Saturday night, July 14, it is round number 23 of the Golden State
Challenge King of California Series. Local businessman and car owner
Garth Moore and his Moore Insurance Services and Financial INC. along
with Scrubs Car Wash in Chico will sponsor the event. Moore's son,
Mason, is a sixteen year old rookie in both the 410 and 360 sprint car
division. He just recorded his best career finish of third place last
week at Chico.
Adding to the festivities is Larry Tinker and Fast Trak Wings. The
winner of the Golden State Challenge main event will receive an HRP top
wing, valued at $620.00. Fast Trak Wings will also add $600 into the
purse and throw t-shirts into the grandstands for the fans. Other
goodies include a HRP front nose wing to fast time, the B main event
winner and second place in the feature. Third place in the main event
will receive a HRP engine service tray.
On Friday night the front grandstand gate will open at 6 pm. Adult
general admission is $10.00. Juniors and Seniors are $8.00 and
children's price is $4.00. The winged 410-sprint cars will qualify at
7:00 pm with racing to follow.
On Saturday night the front grandstand will open at 5 pm. Adult general
admission is $16.00. Juniors are $11.00 and children will be $4.00.
Sprint car qualifying is slated to start at 6: 30 pm with racing to
follow.
Chico's Stephen Allard leads the winged sprint car charge this weekend
at Chico. In 13 starts this year, Allard has finished in the top five
ten times. That is tops in the division by three. The next closest are
Jonathan Allard and Sean Becker with seven. In the last four races at
the speedway Allard has two wins, a second and a third. Stephen trails
Jonathan and Becker in wins. Both Jonathan and Becker have four wins to
Stephen's three. Becker won the last main event on Friday night. It had
been two months since the former champion visited victory lane at the
speedway. Placerville driver Andy Gregg continues to climb the charts
and now sits in the fourth spot. Gregg has maintained a busy schedule
by
racing at Chico every point race but the hard work is paying off.
Another driver climbing the ladder is Korey Lovell who is now in the
fifth spot. Lovell has survived during his first year as the car owner
and driver with ten top 10 finishes in the main event.
Chico's Richard Papenhausen lost a little bit of his lead last week.
Papenhausen suffered a mechanical problem and finished last in the main
event. By doing so Darin Ruley gained eight points and is now 80-points
behind. Chris Compton sits third followed by Mark Abouzeid and George
Magenheimer.
Marysville driver Jeff Olschowka won his first race of the year this
past week and continues to lead the point standings. Olschowka battled
crowd favorite Heather Bartlett to a close finish. Bartlett is now only
two points behind Mike Slightom for second spot. Slightom sits
21-points
behind Olschowka.
Rookie driver Brandon Davis scored his second main event win of the
year
on the previous Friday night. Davis lives in Rohnert Park and travels
each race with his father. Davis now leads the series by 14-points over
Jay Youngman of Grass Valley. Tracey, CA driver Matt Streeter still
sits
in third and is 20-points out of the lead. Browns Valley driver Cody
Myers is in the fourth spot. Santa Rosa's Sparky Howard is in the fifth
spot. Moving up quite a bit was Taylor Simas who jumped three spots and
now sits in the sixth position.
Campbell, CA driver Brent Kaeding leads the Golden State Challenge King
of California sprint cars into Chico on Saturday night. The 12-time
champion is leading Oroville's Sean Becker by 16-points. Kaeding has
dominated the wins this year with eight. If he wins one more race this
year it will break the record of eight, set by his son, as the most
wins
in one season. Adding to the allure is Tim Kaeding back in California
and winning races. Tim comes into the race having one the last two
races
at Tulare and Antioch. Defending champion Jonathan Allard sits third
having won three races this year and coming off a second place finish
at
Antioch last Saturday night. Sacramento's Willie Croft has the fourth
spot buckled down. Croft has one win and three fast time awards. The
tightest point battle involved Brett Miller and Jason Statler. Miller
is
one point ahead of Statler going into this race.
All points are updated on www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
www.sprintcarchallengetour.com
www.placervillespeedway.com
www.stocktondirttrack.com
www.thunderbowlraceway.com
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Hello fans,
I need to update the above Press Release. This weekend will not be sponsored by Garth Moore and his business or Scrubs Car Wash. This was the initial plan, but things were changed on Monday after I had released this. So, we will move their sponsor help to the final Golden State weekend in Chico on July 27 and 28. I apologize for the mistake but am glad that they are still on board for the final event for Golden State....
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