Wayne Johnson to drive M&S car at Fred Brownfield Memorial
ALK Promotions, September 10Mike & Shaylen Motorsports is pleased to announce today that former ASCS National Series sprint car champion and 2008 Knoxville 360 Nationals champion Wayne Johnson will be piloting their car in next week’s Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash.Johnson, formerly out of Oklahoma City and now residing in Knoxville, Iowa, has never set foot in the state of Washington before, let alone raced sprint cars on one its dirt tracks. Driving one of the Northwest’s top sprint cars next week, Johnson will be one of the favorites to win the $10,092 first prize in the event named for the late sprint car racer and promoter.The car Johnson will be driving is the No. 18 Shark-powered Eagle, sponsored by SignMart, Anderson Power Washington, Burlington Collision, Tri-County Truss and Heavy among other sponsors. The car has primarily been driven by Steve Kilcup and Steve won track championships at Skagit Speedway in 2006 and 2007 in that car. This year, Seth Bergman has also driven the car on occasion and won his first career 410 event at Skagit in August.The ride was arranged through one of the people at Weld Wheels. A little talk was going on between two parties and all of a sudden Johnson in Knoxville and M&S Motorsports owner Mike Anderson in Washington were talking on the phone with each other and the deal was made. Though Johnson has never been to the Evergreen State, he did know Fred Brownfield.“I knew Fred a little bit. I ran some of the NST (National Sprint Tour) back here in 2006,” Johnson said.Now living in Knoxville, Johnson in fact lives only two miles from Travis Cram, Johnson’s fellow competitor and Brownfield‘s nephew.Johnson’s won the ASCS National championship and the Knoxville 360 Nationals title in 2000 and his biggest highlight of the 2008 season so far is the $10,000 first place prize for his second triumph at the Knoxville 360 Nationals. That win was his third ASCS National Series victory of the year and his 26th of his career, sixth on the all-time list. He also won the Friday preliminary of the Knoxville 360 Nationals and his first win of the year came on July 4 at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas. He currently sits a close third in the American Sprint Car Series National standings.“I’m looking forward to coming out there and do some good for Mike,” Johnson said. “I’ve heard nothing but great things about Mike’s cars.”Johnson will be one of around 50 drivers expected to take part in the special ASCS Northwest Region event to take place on Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20, racing in memory of one of the sport's top promoters who lost his life in an accident at Grays Harbor Raceway in June 2006.“It will be special come out here to race this event, and it would be especially awesome to win it,” Johnson said. “Fred was a great man in our sport.”- - -Sponsors for M&S MotorsportsBurlington Collision
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Heavy D- - -Wayne Johnson: http://www.waynejohnsonracing.comGrays Harbor Raceway - Elma, WA: http://www.graysharborraceway.netASCS Northwest Region: http://www.ascsnorthwest.comAmerican Sprint Car Series: http://www.ascsracing.com
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