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(MAY
8, 2007, PERRIS, CA) The Lucas Oil USAC/CRA Sprint Cars,
presented by Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply, return to
their home track, Perris Auto Speedway, this Saturday night
May 12th, in a show that will be taped for the Lucas Oil
Motorsports Hour on the Versus television network. In
addition to the racing, Snap-on Tools will be on hand with a
display and sale of their fine tools and the Nissan Z show
cars will be on display at the track as well. Spectator
gates will open at 5:00 PM with racing at 7:00.
Marion,
Indiana's Scotty Weir returns to The PAS as the first
two-time winner in the tough USAC/CRA Series this season.
Weir, the 2006 USAC National Rookie of the Year, won his
first race of the 2007 campaign at USA Race Park in Tucson,
Arizona on April 7th. The laid back 22 year-old backed that
up with his second win of the year at The PAS two weeks ago
when he edged Temecula, California's Mike Spencer in a race
long crowd pleasing dual in the 30-lap main event. Driving
Glenn Crossno's 2006 USAC/CRA championship car, Weir has won
two of the last three USAC/CRA races and has three top three
finishes in the last four races. That has allowed the former
Ball State University student to climb to fifth in the
standings only 7 markers behind Santa Maria, California
veteran "Showtime" Danny Sheridan and only 20
behind third place driver Rickie Gaunt of Torrance,
California.
Tony
Jones, the series point leader, carries a 79-point advantage
over Spencer heading into this Saturday's race. The Norco,
California resident had an eventful evening when the series
last raced at the 11-year old Riverside County clay oval two
weeks ago. In his heat race, Jones, 37, flipped down the
back straightaway and into the billboards after contact with
another car. The car initially looked to be destroyed, but
car owner Mark Alexander and his crew surveyed the
situation. With help from crews of several competing teams,
they cut and welded the wounded car and got it back on the
track where the battered driver did his best "Rocky
Balboa" imitation and took the car to an unimaginable
second in the B Main and 7th in the 30-lap A Main.
Saturday's
race will be the second of four taped at The PAS for the
Lucas Motorsports Hour on Versus. The race will be shown on
June 9th at 4:00 PM and June 14th at 4:30 PM. All times are
Eastern Standard Time. The Versus Channel is available to
more than 70,000,000 homes nationwide and is the United
States home of the National Hockey League. The previously
taped April 14th race from The PAS will be shown on May 26th
at 4:00 PM and May 31st at 5:00 PM. The June 23rd race at
The PAS will also be taped by Versus as will the final night
of November's 12th Annual Budweiser Oval Nationals presented
by Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply. Other USAC races on
the Lucas Oil Motorsports hour will be the July 13th Silver
Crown race from Joliet, Illinois and the annual Turkey Night
Grand Prix from the Irwindale Raceway.
So you
have Snap-on Tools, Lucas Oil Motorsports Hour, Nissan Z
Show Cars and the Lucas Oil USAC/CRA Sprint Cars. Can there
be anything more? Yes! Infield announcer Ronnie Everhart
will pay tribute to sprint car racers Mom's the night before
Mother's Day.
Saturday's
entertainment filled night will include qualifying, four no
holds barred 10-lap heat races, a 12 lap last chance B main
and a clay slingin' 30 lap A main event.
On
Friday, the red-hot drag racing action at the Street Legal
Strip at The PAS will continue. Friday's gates will open at
5:00 PM with racing at 6:00.
Anyone
wishing more information can contact Perris Auto Speedway at
(951) 940-0134.
Perris
Auto Speedway is located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds
(home of the Southern California Fair), approximately one
hour east of Los Angeles and one hour North of San Diego. To
get to the track, take the 215 freeway, exit at the Ramona
Expressway and go two miles east to the fairgrounds.
racesatthepas@aol.com
is the only authorized Internet address to issue official
media news released from The Perris Auto Speedway or Oval
Entertainment
USAC/CRA
SERIES SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS
1. Tony Jones – Norco, CA – 688
2. Mike Spencer – Temecula, CA - 609
3. Rickie Gaunt - Torrance, CA, CA – 534
4. Danny Sheridan – Santa Maria, CA – 521
5. Scotty Weir – Marion, IN – 514
6. Darren Hagen – Riverside, CA – 460
7. Rip Williams – Yorba Linda, CA - 456
8. R. J. Johnson – Phoenix, AZ – 425
9. Cory Kruseman – Ventura, CA – 367
10. Garrett Hansen, Manhattan Beach, CA - 364
11. David Cardey – Riverside, CA – 356
12. Tyler Brown – Norco, CA - 318
13. Rodney Argo – Gardena, CA – 255
14. Josh Ford – Camarillo, CA – 251
15. Jason York – Chico, CA – 249
16. Damion Gardner – Concord, CA – 240
17. Michael Trimble – San Jose, CA – 235
18. Charles Davis Jr. – Buckeye, AZ – 210
19. Josh Wise – Riverside, CA – 201
Dustin Morgan – Tulsa, OK - 201 |
