Post by jkelly57 on Jun 29, 2006 2:58:03 GMT -6
ASCS Midwest Region Ready for Nebraska Holiday Double
Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 27, 2006)
The American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region fires back into action with a pair of Nebraska events unfolding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Friday night, the series takes to the semi-banked 3/8-mile Junction Motor Speedway dirt oval in McCool Junction. Then on Monday night, the series squares off against the ASCS Northern Plains Region in the annual
Lawrence Ideus Memorial Race at Nebraska Raceway Parks' I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, with $2,000 on the line for the Ideus Memorial winner.
It marks the second stop of the season for the ASCS Midwest Region at both Nebraska speedplants, with current series point leader Brian Brown of Grain Valley, MO, topping the April 15 outing at I-80 Speedway and Sioux Falls shoe Jake Peters winning the May 26 event at Junction Motor Speedway. Brown enters the weekend with a 23-point lead over 19-year-old Giltner, NE, racer Chad Humston. South Dakota's Chuck Swenson is five more points back in third, while Lincoln's Toby Chapman jumped to fourth in points with his first career ASCS Midwest Region feature win on Friday night at U.S. 36 Raceway in Cameron, MO. Ness City, KS, contender Luke Cranston and 16-year-old Springfield, NE, shoe Jack Dover are tied for fifth in points, just 46 points off the lead pace.
The balance of the current top ten includes Jason Danley (Lincoln, NE), Jake Peters (Sioux Falls, SD), Rick Ideus (Silver City, IA) and Mike Chadd (Lincoln, NE). Friday's card at Junction Motor Speedway fires off at 7:00 p.m., with Monday's action at Nebraska Raceway Park's I-80 Speedway getting under way
at 6:30 p.m. Junction Motor Speedway is located in McCool Junction, NE, off I-80 Exit 353, then 5.6 miles south on US 81, then 0.3 miles west on CR 4 (Lushton Road), then north. For more information, contact the track at 402-724-3100.
Nebraska Raceway Park's I-80 Speedway is located between Lincoln and Omaha off I-80 Exit 420, then 0.4 miles north on US 63, then west. For more information, contact the track at 402-944-2233.
The 2006 ASCS Midwest Region slate consists of thirteen events at eight different events throughout Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri. In its 15th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing in the United States, the American Sprint Car Series will present approximately 180 nights of racing at nearly 100 tracks throughout 27 different states and Canada in 2006 including the National Tour and its Regional Tours (Gulf South, Mid-South,
Midwest, Northern Plains, Patriot Sprint Group, Rocky Mountain, Sooner, Southern and Sprints on Dirt).
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at _http://www.ascsracing.com/_ (http://www.ascsracing.com/) .
Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 27, 2006)
The American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region fires back into action with a pair of Nebraska events unfolding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Friday night, the series takes to the semi-banked 3/8-mile Junction Motor Speedway dirt oval in McCool Junction. Then on Monday night, the series squares off against the ASCS Northern Plains Region in the annual
Lawrence Ideus Memorial Race at Nebraska Raceway Parks' I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, with $2,000 on the line for the Ideus Memorial winner.
It marks the second stop of the season for the ASCS Midwest Region at both Nebraska speedplants, with current series point leader Brian Brown of Grain Valley, MO, topping the April 15 outing at I-80 Speedway and Sioux Falls shoe Jake Peters winning the May 26 event at Junction Motor Speedway. Brown enters the weekend with a 23-point lead over 19-year-old Giltner, NE, racer Chad Humston. South Dakota's Chuck Swenson is five more points back in third, while Lincoln's Toby Chapman jumped to fourth in points with his first career ASCS Midwest Region feature win on Friday night at U.S. 36 Raceway in Cameron, MO. Ness City, KS, contender Luke Cranston and 16-year-old Springfield, NE, shoe Jack Dover are tied for fifth in points, just 46 points off the lead pace.
The balance of the current top ten includes Jason Danley (Lincoln, NE), Jake Peters (Sioux Falls, SD), Rick Ideus (Silver City, IA) and Mike Chadd (Lincoln, NE). Friday's card at Junction Motor Speedway fires off at 7:00 p.m., with Monday's action at Nebraska Raceway Park's I-80 Speedway getting under way
at 6:30 p.m. Junction Motor Speedway is located in McCool Junction, NE, off I-80 Exit 353, then 5.6 miles south on US 81, then 0.3 miles west on CR 4 (Lushton Road), then north. For more information, contact the track at 402-724-3100.
Nebraska Raceway Park's I-80 Speedway is located between Lincoln and Omaha off I-80 Exit 420, then 0.4 miles north on US 63, then west. For more information, contact the track at 402-944-2233.
The 2006 ASCS Midwest Region slate consists of thirteen events at eight different events throughout Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri. In its 15th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing in the United States, the American Sprint Car Series will present approximately 180 nights of racing at nearly 100 tracks throughout 27 different states and Canada in 2006 including the National Tour and its Regional Tours (Gulf South, Mid-South,
Midwest, Northern Plains, Patriot Sprint Group, Rocky Mountain, Sooner, Southern and Sprints on Dirt).
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at _http://www.ascsracing.com/_ (http://www.ascsracing.com/) .