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From Troy Hennig-

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Silver Dollar Speedway


King of the West Stars Geared up to Win Fall Nationals

By: Troy
Hennig

CHICO, CA – September 26, 2011...The top seven drivers in the
traveling Golden State King of the West 410 winged sprint car division are all
entered into this weekends 19th Annual Pacific Sprint Fall Nationals at the
Silver Dollar Speedway. The first year traveling series features the best 410
sprint car drivers in the State of California . Current point leader, Tim
Kaeding, is coming off his big win last weekend at Placerville Speedway and
could be considered the odds on favorite to win it all. Kaeding clean swept last
year’s event and is currently second on the all-time wins list at Chico . Scotts
Valley ’s Evan Suggs, Campbell ’s Brent Kaeding, Chico ’s Jonathan Allard, Grass
Valley ’s Jason Statler, Sacramento ’s Willie Croft and Placerville ’s Andy
Gregg are all prepared to try and show the rest of the field that they are the
top sprint car drivers on the West Coast.

“We have had a successful
first year,” said Director of Communications Gary Thomas. “Sixteen full-time
drivers have followed our schedule in 2011 and it has been the best level of
competition that the 410’s have had in years.” He continued by saying, “With
this tough of a field for the Fall Nationals anything is possible; however, I
have to give the slight edge to one of our guys winning it all.”

Thomas
is also adding Kyle Larson as one of his. The 2010 reigning King of California
comes into the Fall Nationals as the hottest driver in the country. Fresh off
his sweep of the Four Crown USAC event at Eldora, Larson will be piloting the
same Stadelhoffer Construction / Kaeding Performance #99 that he just recently
won the Gold Cup with. Larson has been the crown jewel on Speed TV recently
getting quite the publicity on SPEED CENTER and Wind Tunnel. Most in the media
are calling him the next can’t miss driver to make the jump into NASCAR or Indy
Car Racing.

Tim Kaeding is the man in charge when it comes to this
year’s version of the King of the West Series. Six wins this year and he has a
big enough point lead to all but wrap up the title once he qualifies at the
Cotton Classic in October. The last three King of the West events have been won
by Kaeding and as we noted earlier, Kaeding won the Al Hinds Civil War tribute
race at Placerville on this past Saturday night.

The weekend’s races
will pay tribute to Mike “carwash” Avilla. Mike passed earlier this week and our
whole community has been saddened by his loss. While Mike loved all forms of
sprint car racing, he had a close relationship with many of the King of the West
drivers. Avilla’s love for the sport and the many friends he made were not just
confined to Northern California . His Iowa Racing Family has come together and
raised a substantial amount of money to present to each night’s Hard Luck Award.
Chad Adams and his group from Iowa knew that Mike liked to give money to the
guys that were not always the winners. “Mike enjoyed handing out money to help a
racer get to the next race,” said Adams . “In honor of Mike, we wanted to be
involved with the tribute race for him and contribute something from his Iowa
Racing Family.” Each night the award will be given to the driver with the worst
luck or hardest crash. On Friday night the award will pay $200 and Saturday
night will pay $285. We here at Silver Dollar Speedway want to extend our thanks
to the Iowa fans and their thoughtfulness about Mike Avilla.

For race
drivers and teams interested in registering for the Fall National you can
download the flier at http://www.silverdollarspeedway.com. More information about
this weekend of racing please contact the office at 530-350-7275.

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Tim Kaeding and Evan Suggs sit one-two in the King of the West standings and both will be in action this Friday and Saturday at the Fall Nationals in Chico. Kaeding is the defending winner of the event, having swept both nights last year and is coming off a victory during last Saturday's Tribute to Al Hinds in Placerville.

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Kyle Larson will look for his first Fall Nationals triumph this weekend. The
19-year-old led laps in the main event on Saturday night last year, but finished third behind Kaeding and Jonathan Allard. Larson also finished third in '09 at the Fall Nationals.

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all i kept hearing was gold cup so i drove up there from so cal but i never heard mention of fall nationals until now sounds like a good race ? wonder if its worth the drive up from orange co ? cmon you guys twist my arm just a lil .

We need more sprint car racing at our home track.

Haha the Fall Nationals is usually a great weekend of racing. Arguably many times better than the Gold Cup is year after year.

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Dirtface, you'll never know unless you go. If you do go I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I can't speak to last year because I missed it but prior to that the Fall Nationals was a can't miss event. Lot's of cars and great racing at a much better price than the Gold Cup and a lot less people. It's been a while but the parties after the races during the Fall Nationals used to be EPIC. It's a long haul but if you don't have anything else to do and the budget for it you may be in for a surprise.

My 3 can't miss races every year are; The Fall Nationals @ Chico; The Trophy Cup @ Tulare; and The Johnny Key Classic @ Ocean Speedway. Don't miss this race. It will be the best race of the year at Chico.

Carwash Mike in our hearts