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PRESS RELEASE, Silver Dollar Speedway – Chico, CA
FROM THE OFFICE OF JOHN PADJEN MOTORSPORTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Sunday, July 22, 2007
MEDIA CONTACT: Troy Hennig [email protected]
INTERNET INFORMATION: www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
Championship To Be Decided at Silver Dollar Speedway This Weekend
The Golden State Challenge King of California Series championship will be decided this Friday and Saturday night at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico. Rounds number 24 and 25 will take place putting the season long battle between Campbell's Brent Kaeding and Oroville's Sean Becker for the championship on the line with one of the two stopping on the front straight away after Saturday night's finale. Kaeding leads Becker by 22-points heading into the final two rounds of racing. Full fields of 410 winged sprint cars are scheduled for both nights of racing. On Friday night the wingless sprint cars will join their winged counterparts. On Saturday night the dirt modifieds will join the 410 winged sprint cars.
Front gates will open at 5 pm on both nights. Adult general admission is $16.00. Juniors are $11.00 while children are $4.00. Sprint car qualifying is scheduled to start at 7 pm with racing to follow.
Brent Kaeding has been the class of the field all season long. Kaeding, who hold 12 King of California titles but none since 2003, has won the most main events this season with eight. Kaeding has 18 top five finishes out of 22 starts, tops among the series. His counterpart Sean Becker doesn't have the win pedigree that Kaeding does, two wins, but he has more top tens and heat wins than Kaeding. Becker has compiled 22 top ten's out of 23 starts. He has also won seven heat races, also tops in the division. Sacramento's Willie Croft sits in the third spot in his first full season following the King of California series. Croft picked up his second career victory and first of this season at Quincy in June. San Jose driver Jason Statler will lead his team into battle this weekend while sitting in the fourth spot. Statler's season was marred when he split with car owner Tom Rolfe and scrambled to put his own deal back together. With help from numerous people he was able to continue and fight for a top five finish. Chico's Brett Miller rounds out the top five. Miller leads the local drivers in the point standings. Miller and crew have even raced the pasted few events with a 360 motor just to keep in the point chase. Rounding out the top ten in points and drivers who should attend include Salinas driver Ronnie Day, Gilroy's Jon Maiwald, Tracey's Jason Botsford, Fresno's Mark Workentine and Scotts Valley driver Evan Suggs. San Jose driver Tim Kaeding is also slated to return after missing the previous week at Chico with a back injury. Kaeding raced on Friday night at Watsonville and won the most recent King of California event. Also scheduled to attend is the Beef Packers driver Brandon Wimmer.
Locals who look to compete with the traveling King of California driver's include Ashley Furniture driver Fast Eddy Lewis, Stephen Allard in Skip Jones #1m and Ryan Kaplan of Chico. Kaplan is scheduled to drive the #64 Fauver Race Ready Rental sprint car. Kaplan earlier this year drove the Troy Hovey owned #37. Kaplan currently leads the Western States Sprint Car Series on pavement. Allard has three wins at Chico this year and is coming off a strong charge from 20th to 3rd this past Friday night during the Civil War race at Chico.
Other locals will include Johnny Gray, Robbie Whitchurch and Mason Moore. All three of these drivers have competed in out Friday night series.
Garth Moore, owner of his son Mason Moore's #22 sprint car, is sponsoring the weekend. Moore Insurance Services and Financial Inc. business in sponsoring the weekend's festivities along with Scrubs Car Wash in Chico. His son, Mason, is just sixteen years old and currently run both the 410 winged Friday night series and the Civil War 360 series. He and his team are starting to make a big splash in open wheel racing.
Cherry St. Mini Storage of Ukiah will be adding a special bonus for the weekend. Mike and Carol McCann are giving $1,000 to the driver who can earn the most points for both nights of racing. This should give the drivers extra incentive to make every pass they can on the track to earn more points.
On Saturday night HoservilleCa is starting the qualifying pot at $250 for quick time. Last year the group surged the award to over $700 by the time qualifying started on Saturday night.
Also on Saturday night, Man Camp Motorsports wants to give away trophies to the heat race winners. They in turn will walk two trophies into the grandstand and give them away to a young racing fan, boy and a girl.
On Saturday afternoon the Benevolent Fund Barbeque will start at noon inside the Garden Court on the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. This year the barbeque will be free but any donation collected will go into the Benevolent Fund. This year will not feature a raffle but later in the night other fund raising themes will take place during the night of racing.
More information at www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
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