Seth Bergman to hit the ASCS trail in 2009
ALK Promotions, December 4
Steve and Terri Bergman and Mike and Shaylen Anderson are teaming up to put Seth Bergman on the road chasing the National Championship in the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series in 2009. Bergman, out of Snohomish, Wash. will be piloting the long familiar blue No. 18 sprint car that fans around the Pacific Northwest have seen race for several years and fans across the rest of the country will get to know. Once on the road, the team will be keeping shop in the Knoxville, Iowa area.
“I can’t wait to go,” Bergman simply said Tuesday night, expressing his excitement in his family teaming up with the Andersons for 2009. While either side could perhaps go out on the road on their own, it may not be advisable to do so. For Seth Bergman and Mike Anderson, who had already worked together and had some success late this season, combining their resources was just a better idea.
ASCS only has part of a tentative schedule out, but if the opening date does not change Seth will see his first action on March 20 and 21 at historic Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, Texas with a two day show the next weekend at State Fair Speedway in Oklahoma City. The season is scheduled to end with the Short Track Nationals at I-30 Speedway in Arkansas at the end of October. Other events currently on the schedule are in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee.
While Seth will be seeing virtually every single track on the schedule for the first time, he will have one of the country’s top 360 sprint car racers around to help guide him. Oklahoma’s Wayne Johnson, the two-time Knoxville 360 Nationals winner who piloted the No. 18 to a third place finish in September’s Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge at Washington’s Grays Harbor Raceway, will be giving Seth pointers and good advice when needed.
Many sponsors from both sides of the deal are aboard for this, including Corridor Electric, Sign-Mart USA, Speedmart Inc., Anderson Power Washing, Burlington Collision, Shark Racing Engines, A&L Printing, and Triple X Race Co. among many others. The frames in all of Seth’s cars are Eagles, and as Anderson’s cars have had for several years one of Marc Huson’s Shark motors will be under the hood of the No. 18.
Over the last few years Seth has established himself as one of the top sprint car racers in the Northwest. His coming out party was in July 2006 during the Northern Sprint Tour’s final year of existence. Seth surprised everyone at Southern Oregon Speedway with a third place effort behind eventual series champion Danny Horner and longtime west coast standout Roger Crockett. That September at Cottage Grove Speedway, Seth broke through for his first victory and later earned the distinction as the last Rookie of the Year in the NST‘s history. The next season didn’t see a lot of success early, but a string of strong finishes late in the season vaulted Seth to a fourth place finish in the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series standings.
2008 saw Seth win a race at Grays Harbor Raceway competing in the new ASCS Northwest Region, eventually finishing sixth in that series, and also pick up a weekly 360 sprint car race victory at Skagit Speedway. Having always driven his family’s No. 23 car, Seth stepped into M&S Motorsports No. 18 car late in the summer and immediately did well. On August 16, Seth made a last corner pass at Skagit to win his first career 410 sprint car main event. Seth later drove the car in Montana and then had a strong showing with the World of Outlaws at Gold Cup in California.
More information on Seth can be found online at http://www.sethbergman.com. The ASCS website, which includes part of the 2009 Lucas Oil ASCS National schedule, is http://www.ascsracing.com.
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Seth Bergman’s sponsors for 2009
Corridor Electric
Sign-Mart USA
Shark Racing Engines
Speedmart Inc.
Race Outfitters
Performance R/C Hobbies
Anderson Power Washing
Burlington Collision
A&L Printing
Triple X Race Co.
Eagle Chassis
Art’s Auto Wrecking
H2H Photo
Heavy D
Website maintained by Warwick McLaren
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Seth Bergman: http://www.sethbergman.comAmerican Sprint Car Series: http://www.ascsracing.com
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