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PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY...
18700 Lake Perris Drive...
Perris, CA 92571
(951) 940-0134
www.perrisautospeedway.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAJOR LEAGUE SPRINT CAR RACING AT PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!
(MARCH 25, 2008, PERRIS, CA) While the first pitch of the Baseball regular season will not be thrown in Southern California until next Monday, fans can till catch some STEROID FREE Major League action – that is Major League Sprint Car Action – this Saturday night, March 29th, when Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply presents the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars at Don Kazarian's famous Perris Auto Speedway. Spectator gates will open at 5:00 PM with racing at 7:00.
The highly competitive series has produced six different winners in the first seven races of 2008 heading into Saturday's showdown at The PAS. Ventura's Cory Kruseman, the 2006 USAC/CRA champion, is the only driver with two main event wins thus far in 2008. He scored both of his victories at The PAS season opening weekend on February 8th and 9th. When the cars take to the brightly lit half-mile clay oval on Saturday, the 37 year old father of one will bring a slim 5-point lead over Temecula's Mike Spencer in the championship standings. Spencer, a 26-year-old engineering graduate from Cal Poly Pomona, took advantage of a break in the USAC/CRA schedule last week to win the VRA main event at Jim Naylor's Ventura Raceway.
Hard driving "Showtime" Danny Sheridan won the last race at The PAS three weeks ago. The Santa Maria veteran scored his third ever PAS 410 win by besting teenage sensation Nick Faas, of Huntington Beach, and Spencer. One of the pre season favorites for the championship, Sheridan, who has had some mechanical gremlins early in the campaign, currently sits sixth in the standings.
Kruseman, Spencer, Sheridan and Faas are all expected to be in action this Saturday night along with defending series Champion Tony Jones and Tyler Brown, both of Norco, Manzanita fast qualifier "The Bullet" Blake Miller or Yorba Linda, Garrett Hansen of Manhattan Beach, Camarillo's Josh Ford, "Dynamite David" Cardey of Riverside and a full field of USAC/CRA regulars.
Local fans are starving for the action, as it will be the first appearance of the popular cars at The PAS in three weeks. And, it will only be the fifth USAC/CRA Series race on their home track since last November. However, local fans can begin to breath a sigh of relief, as the series will revert to its almost every other week at The PAS format starting with Saturday's event. In fact, beginning Saturday, the next five USAC/CRA races will all be at The PAS.
Saturday's non-fendered 410 free for all will be fun for the whole family. The racing action will include qualifying, four ten lap heat races, a sudden death style 12 lap B main and a slide job filled 30 lap A main event. And, for the kids, there will be a Big Wheel heat race during one of the breaks in the action and, of course, the popular PAS Dance Contest at intermission.
Advance tickets for Saturday's USAC/CRA race and night of family fun are available now by calling (800) 595-4849 or (951) 940-0134. You can also order tickets on the Internet at tix.com or perrisautospeedway.com.
Anyone wishing more information could contact Perris Auto Speedway at (951) 940-0134.
Perris Auto Speedway is located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds, home of the Southern California Fair. The track is approximately one hour east of Los Angeles and one hour North of San Diego. To get to the track, take the 215 freeway, exit at the Ramona Expressway and go two miles east to the fairgrounds.
Video and DVD productions for all USAC/CRA at races Perris Auto Speedway are available from North Hollywood, California's Raceway Video. For more information on these shows call Jeff Kristensen at (818) 618-9764 or visit the website at www.racewayvideo.com
[email protected] is the only authorized Internet address to issue official media news released from The Perris Auto Speedway or Oval Entertainment
2008 USAC/CRA POINTS
1. Cory Kruseman – Ventura, CA – 360
2. Mike Spencer – Temecula, CA – 355
3. Levi Jones – Olney, IL - 350
4. Blake Miller – Yorba Linda, CA – 335
5. Garret Hansen – Manhattan Beach, CA – 315
6. Danny Sheridan – Santa Maria, CA – 294
7. Jesse Hockett – Warsaw, MO - 292
8. Tyler Brown – Norco, CA – 270
9. Cole Whitt – Alpine, CA - 244
10. Josh Ford – Camarillo, CA – 297
11. Nick Faas – Huntington Beach, CA - 198
12. R.J. Johnson – Phoenix, AZ – 193
13. David Cardey – Riverside, CA – 173
14. Chad Boat – Phoenix, AZ - 171
15. Dustin Morgan – Broken Arrow, OK - 153
16. Seth Wilson – San Clemente, CA - 121
17. Bret Mellenberndt – Sioux Falls, SD - 115
18. Rodney Argo – Gardena, CA – 106
19. Tony Jones – Norco, CA – 105
20. Davey Pombo – Kerman, CA - 95
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