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PERRIS AUTO
SPEEDWAY OPENS 22ND SEASON THIS SATURDAY!
By Scott Daloisio
(Perris, CA,
February 26, 2017) Perris Auto Speedway,
the “Southern California Home of Major
League Sprint Car Racing,” will kick off
it’s 22nd consecutive season of racing
this Saturday night, March 4th, with the
annual “Sokola Shootout” for the Amsoil
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars. The PAS Young Gun
and Senior Sprint Cars will also be in
action. Spectator gates will open at 5:00
PM with racing at 7:00.
Saturday’s
season opener, which honors the memory of
former CRA winning car owner and official
Gary Sokola and his son Mark, will be the
first of 12 nights of sprint car racing on
the famous Riverside County half-mile clay
oval in 2017. Promoter Don Kazarian
expects it to be another great season of
racing.
“2016 was one
of the most competitive sprint car seasons
in the history of Perris Auto Speedway,”
Kazarian said. “In the first seven races
of the year, we had seven different
winners. When the season ended, we had
nine different winners and only two
drivers (Damion Gardner with three wins
and Austin Williams with two) had won more
than one main event. With all the young
chargers coming up in the series, we
expect that 2017 will be just as or even
more competitive than last year.”
Five-time –
including the last four years in a row –
Amsoil USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series champion
Damion Gardner of Concord, California will
head the field at the 2017 Perris Auto
Speedway season opener on March 4th.
Please give photo credit to Doug Allen.
When the final
checkered flag of 2016 closed the season,
Damion Gardner of Concord and Temecula’s
Mike Spencer, both 5-time series
champions, were the only drivers over
27-years-old in the top 10 in the USAC/CRA
championship standings. To stretch that
youth movement farther, five of the top 10
were 25 or younger.
Including the
local group of young drivers, Saturday’s
field will be boasted by the appearance of
USAC National Sprint Car Series star Chad
Boespflug. A native of Hanford,
California, Boespflug, who turns 29 on
Wednesday and who now makes his home in
Indiana, will be wheeling Dwight Cheney’s
#42 at the opener.
“It bodes well
for the series, the track and the future
to have so many young drivers doing so
good,” the longtime promoter said. “It
also helps get more young people into the
stands as they have more drivers to relate
to. Over the past three or four years, we
have seen an influx of younger fans coming
out to watch the sprint car races. We
think that trend will continue as we
graduate more drivers from our Young Gun
Sprint Car Series. The future is very
bright.”
Kazarian
introduced the “Young Gun Series” in 2013.
It is for drivers aged 14-25 with no prior
sprint car experience. Yorba Linda’s Logan
Williams, the youngest son of National
Sprint Car Hall of Famer Rip Williams, won
the inaugural Young Guns championship and
last season finished 8th in USAC/CRA
points. Courtney Crone, a 15-year-old from
Corona, won the 2016 Young Gun
Championship. This year Crone will race in
USAC Western Midget Series and do some
pavement road racing in her quest to
eventually reach the Indianapolis 500.
The PAS
“Senior Sprint Car Series,” for drivers 40
and older, will be back for its seventh
season in 2017. Chino’s Eddie Tafoya
became the fifth different champion in the
first six years of the class in 2016 and
will be back to defend his crown beginning
on Saturday.
This
Saturday’s opener will be the “First Power
of Purple” night as The PAS annually
raises $10,000.00 for the American Cancer
Society’s “Relay for Life.” At
intermission, drivers will enter he stands
to meet the fans and collect money to help
fight the dreaded disease.
The second
time the USAC/CRA, Young Gun and Senior
Sprints roll into The PAS in 2017 will on
April 1st and they will be joined by the
World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Cars for
the annual “So Cal Sprint Car Showdown.”
It will be the Outlaws only appearance in
the greater Los Angeles and San Diego
areas in 2017.
Adult tickets
for Saturday’s race are $25.00. Seniors 65
and over get in for $20.00. Active
military members with current id, teens
13-18 with their school id and kids 6-12
get in for just $5.00. Children 5 and
under are free. Parking on the fairgrounds
is $8.00.
Advance
tickets for Saturday’s race are available
calling 1-800-595-4849 or online at
http://pas.tix.com/Schedule.aspx?OrgNum=7.
For those who do not wish to order advance
tickets, there will be plenty of tickets
available for everyone at the ticket
window on Saturday.
Money saving
season tickets are available through this
Wednesday, March 1st. To order yours or
for information, call 951-940-0134 or
E-mail: mailto:openwhchic.kim@aol.com
The complete
2017 Perris Auto Speedway schedule is at
the end of this release.
Perris Auto
Speedway wants to thank its corporate
partners for the 2017 season. All Coast
Construction, Amsoil, Ayers Hotel and Spa,
Brass and Bass Firearms & Fishing
Supplies, Budweiser, Bud’s Tire Pro,
Center Point Church, Champion Towing, City
of Perris, Country Values Magazine,
Daytona Boat & RV Storage, Ed Moore Bullet
Proof Driveshaft, Edelbrock, Green Sheet,
HD Industries, Hoosier Tires, Imola
Restaurant & Bar, Indiana Truck Salvage,
K&N Engineering, Luke’s Transmission, Paul
Oil Company, Pepsi-Cola, Pick-A-Part Auto
Salvage, Pole Position, PrintItNow.com, R.
David Bulen Insurance, Scott Sales, Shaver
Specialties, Square H, Sunstate Equipment,
Swedish Speed, Original Tommy’s Burgers,
Trench Shoring, Valley News, Vista Paint
and Weedmaps.
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with all the latest Perris Auto Speedway
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Video and DVD
productions of all racing events at Perris
Auto Speedway are available from Loudpedal
Productions. For more information on these
productions you can contact them by
calling (805) 844-3854, E-mailing
mailto:trtruex@gmail.com or you can visit
the web site LoudPedal Productions
Perris Auto
Speedway is located on the Lake Perris
Fairgrounds (home of October’s 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 on the Ramona Expressway
and go three 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.
2016-2017
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY SCHEDULE
March 4th
"SOKOLA SHOOTOUT" USAC/CRA Sprint Cars,
PAS Senior Sprints and PAS Young Guns
"Power of Purple Night" Benefiting the
City of Perris Relay For Life and The
American Cancer Society
March 11th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
March 18th
NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION I - Demo Cross,
Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing,
Spectator Racing, Formula-X Autocross &
CrossKarts “Power of Purple Night"
Benefiting the City of Perris Relay For
Life and The American Cancer Society
April 1st "SO
CAL SHOWDOWN” WORLD OF OUTLAWS, USAC/CRA
Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints and PAS
Young Guns "Power of Purple Night"
Benefiting the City of Perris Relay For
Life and The American Cancer Society
April 8th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
April 29th
NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION II - Demo Cross,
Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing,
Spectator Racing, Formula-X Autocross &
CrossKarts
May 13th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks, IMCA Modifieds and
CDCRA Dwarf Cars
May 20th NIGHT
OF DESTRUCTION III - Demo Cross, Figure
8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing, Spectator
Racing and Formula-X Autocross &
CrossKarts
May 27th
"SALUTE TO INDY " USAC/CRA Sprint Cars,
PAS Senior Sprints, PAS Young Guns and
California Guns, California Lightning
Sprint Cars, "Power of Purple Night"
Benefiting the City of Perris Relay For
Life and The American Cancer Society
June 3rd
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
June 24th
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns
July 1st 4TH
OF JULY CELEBRATION AND FIREWORKS
NIGHT OF
DESTRUCTION NOD IV Demo Cross, Figure 8's,
Figure 8 Trailer Racing, Spectator Racing,
Formula-X Autocross & CrossKarts "Power of
Purple Night" Benefiting the City of
Perris Relay For Life and The American
Cancer Society
July 15th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
July 22rd
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints,
PAS Young Guns
July 29th
NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION V - Demo Cross,
Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing,
Spectator Racing, Formula-X Autocross &
CrossKarts
August 19th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
August 26th
"CALIFORNIA RACERS HALL OF FAME NIGHT"
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns, California Lightning
Sprint Cars
September 2rd
NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION NOD VI - Demo Cross,
Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing,
Spectator Racing, Formula-X Autocross &
CrossKarts
September 9th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks, Modifieds
September 23rd
"GLENN HOWARD CLASSIC" USAC/CRA Sprint
Cars, PAS Senior Sprints and PAS Young
Guns
October 7th -
15th Southern California Fair
October 21st
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns
October 28th
PASSCAR "Champions Night” - Street Stocks,
Super Stocks, Factory Stocks and Modifieds
November 8th
Oval Nationals Practice
November 9th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
November 10th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
November 11th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
NOTE; THIS
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