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OCEAN SPRINTS RETURN TO ACTION FOR FRIDAY'S OPENER IN WATSONVILLE
WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA (March 27, 2013) - The highly anticipated return of the Ocean Sprints presented by
Taco Bravo fires off Friday night from John Prentice's Ocean Speedway
Watsonville, with some of the best 360 Sprint Car talent in the nation
squaring off. After a hotly contested 2012 campaign won by Fremont's
Shane Golobic, the 2013 edition looks to be wide-open.
Drivers competing in
Friday's opener will also have the first chance at the Nobel
Construction "Back Row Challenge". If the fast-time qualifier elects
to start at the rear of the feature and can claim the win, he will earn
an extra $1500 and 10 championship points for the effort.
2012's Ocean Sprints
season came down to the wire with Golobic topping Stockton's Brad Furr
by a scant 27 points by season's end. Gilroy's Kurt Nelson steered
the Taco Bravo #72 to third in the points last year topping San Jose's
hard charger Ryan Rusconi and the Corralitos Electric #58 of Jerry
Bonnema.
With Golobic running
only a part-time schedule at Ocean Speedway, in the Keith Day Trucking
#22, the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds quarter-mile will be greeting a
new crop of talented drivers on Friday nights.
Fresno's team of
brothers Koen and Kyler Shaw are both planning to contest the entire
Taco Bravo Series. The oldest, Koen, ran several times at Watsonville
last season while Kyler will make his first Watsonville attempt on
Friday.
Pleasanton's Nathan
Washam, an Arizona transplant, will graduate out of the Wingless
Sprints and into the Ocean Sprints. The 15 year-old will drive for Mark
Beck in the ESP Engineering #4 entry out of Carson City, Nevada.
After making a few
starts last year, former Micro 600 champion Tomas Bray of Hollister is
planning to run most of the Ocean Sprints season. Bray drives a #23
entry with support from Golden Eagle Mortgage Group and Keith Day
Trucking.
A large crop of
drivers is expected to join these young teams for Friday's opener,
including Watsonville's Justin Sanders in Clayton Snow's #7, Nick Green
in his family's All Weld Fabrication #14, Steve Osborne returning to
the seat of his Get Som Sports #9j, and Nick Rescino, Jr. out of San
Francisco in the Rescino Racing Engines #11.
Friday's races for
the Ocean Sprints also includes American Stocks, BAD Dwarf Cars, IMCA
Sport Mods, and Wingless Sprints. Adult tickets are just $17 with
seniors 65+ $16 and kids ages 6-12 are $15. The family pass for two
adults and two children is value priced at just $55. Qualifying will
get underway at 6 p.m. with fan gates opening at 4:30 p.m.
Ocean Sprints
regular Steve Osborne and IMCA Sport Mod favorite Stephen Hopf will
sign autographs for the fans from 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. at the front
gate as well.
For more information on the Ocean Sprints log onto http://www.oceansprints.com and for more on the Ocean Speedway visit http://www.oceanspeedway.com
Ocean Speedway would
like to thank Taco Bravo, Digital Delivery Networks, Nobel
Construction, Get Som Sports, Ray Scheidt's Electric, Hoosier Tires
West, and Kaeding Performance for their support.
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