Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (September 28, 2007) – One lucky and talented driver will come away from Devil's Bowl Speedway's Winter Nationals in Mesquite, TX, on October 12 and 13 with a brand new Wesmar Racing Engine by topping the ASCS / Wesmar Clash.
That engine, worth more than $30,000, will be quite the carrot for each of the 26 drivers eligible for the ASCS / Wesmar Clash. But a number of other manufacturers and suppliers in the industry have stepped up to ensure that no driver competing in the ASCS / Wesmar Clash walks away empty-handed.
All drivers competing in the ASCS / Wesmar Clash will come away with at least several hundred dollars worth of merchandise, with other prizes including an Eagle Chassis, a Maxim Chassis, Brodix cylinder heads, a Simpson helmet, Pro Shocks, MPD wheels, Hoosier tires and Weld certificates.
The breakdown of prizes for the ASCS / Wesmar Clash is as follows:
1
st – Wesmar Racing Engine
2
nd – Eagle Chassis or Maxim Chassis
3
rd – Eagle Chassis or Maxim Chassis
4
th through 8
th – Set of cylinder heads from Brodix
9
th – Simpson Voodoo Helmet
10
th – Set of Pro Shocks
11
th – MPD right rear wheel
12
th – MPD left rear wheel
13
th – two MPD front wheels
14
th on back – Hoosier tires and Weld certificates
Twenty-six drivers from throughout the nation have earned invitations to the ASCS / Wesmar Clash, which will be run as a part of the 34
th Annual Devil's Bowl Winter Nationals which will be headlined by two full nights of O'Reilly American Sprint Cars on Tour National series competition.
The field for the ASCS/Wesmar Challenge includes the following:
2m Dustin Daggett (Portland, MI) – Sprints on Dirt
3g Tim Norman (Warsaw, IN) – Sprints on Dirt
4a Kenny Adams (Malabar, FL) – Rebel/Southern
4J Lee Grosz (Harwood, ND) – Northern Plains
5 Eric Lutz (Sioux Falls, SD) – Northern Plains
5x Dave Glennon (Casselton, ND) – Northern Plains
7 Michael Herrington (Gonzales, LA) – Coastal
7m Kevin Ramey (Fort Worth, TX) – Sooner
07 Johnny Bridges (Cherryville, NC) – Southern
9 Gary Wright (Hooks, TX) - National
11F Foster Landon (Collinsville, OK) – National
11T T.J. Winegardner (Pierson, FL) – Rebel
12 Michael Dupuy (Amite, LA) – Coastal
21 Brian Brown (Grain Valley, MO) – Midwest
29 Travis Rilat (Forney, TX) – National
31 Brandon Berryman (Missouri City, TX) – Gulf South
32 Justin Barger (Montrose, NY) – Mid-Atlantic
35 Jared Zimbardi (Salamanca, NY) – Patriots
41 Jason Johnson (Eunice, LA) – National
45 Chuck Hebing (Ontario, NY – Patriots/Mid-Atlantic
45x C.J. Johnson (Quinter, KS) – Rocky Mountain
53 Jack Dover (Springfield, NE) – Midwest
64J Johnny Miller (Burleson, TX) – Gulf South
71 Keith Rauch (Thornton, CO) – Rocky Mountain
87 Brian McClelland (Tulsa, OK) – Sooner
94 Wayne Johnson (Oklahoma City, OK) – National
The ASCS / Wesmar Challenge will be run in multiple segments. Passing and finishing points will be in effect for each segment, with the top points earner winning a new Wesmar Racing Engine.
Drivers earned points towards the Wesmar Racing Engines Challenge by earning three points for a feature win, two points for a runner-up finish and one point for each third-place feature finish. A driver had to compete in at least 60% of a respective Region's events prior to the September 15 deadline and be a registered member of the American Sprint Car Series to represent that Region in the ASCS / Wesmar Racing Engines Challenge.
The top two point earners from each ASCS Region, along with the top National Tour contenders, earned invitations to the ASCS/Wesmar Challenge.
The 2007 season is the 16th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing for the American Sprint Car Series, with the series set to sanction approximately 240 nights of racing at more than 100 different race tracks throughout nearly 30 different states and Canada.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at
www.ascsracing.com.
