Bluegrass
Speedway
2221
New Haven Road
Bardstown,
KY 40004
2009
Media Release #3 (For Immediate Distribution: March 14, 2009)
Bluegrass
Speedway Set to Begin 2009 Racing Season on Saturday April 18
Bardstown,
KY-March 14, 2009- Track promoters David and Anita Ferrell will begin their 10th
season at the promotional helm of Bluegrass Speedway as the 2009 racing season
will get underway on Saturday April 18 with a full program of weekly racing
series action for the Super Late Models, Modifieds, Sportsman, and Street Stocks
divisions, with the 2009 track championship points chase also getting underway
that same evening.
But
before the green flag flies for real on the new season, there will be an open
practice day at Bluegrass Speedway on Saturday April 11 from 6:00 p.m. to 10
p.m., with gates opening at 4:00 p.m. that day.
It will be an important practice day as it will be the first laps the
racers will get on the over 140 new loads of red clay that have been applied to
the racing surface at the ½ mile high-banked Nelson County oval that will begin
its 15th season of dirt track sports entertainment in 2009 with a
16-event schedule that is chocked full of special events for all divisions.
The
Super Late Model division will have several special events throughout the course
of the ’09 racing season. The
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series will again sanction the track’s signature
event, the 9th Annual Bluegrass Classic, on Saturday August 29,
paying $10,000 to win and with the cameras of SPEED TV in attendance to tape the
action. The Battle of the Bluegrass
DirtCar Series Super Late Model will sanction four events of “Saturday Night
Showtime” in 2009. The 12th
Annual Spring Sizzler, paying $3,000 to win, goes on April 25, with the 8th
Annual June Jam taking place on June 13, paying $3,000 to win.
The 11th Annual Kentuckiana Klash will go green on July 11,
paying $5,000 to win, while the 11th Annual Bluegrass 50 will move to
August for the very first time on August 1 and pay $5,000 to win in front of the
television cameras of the Outdoor Channel.
Other Super Late Model special events for ’09 include the 6th
Annual Jerry Rucker Memorial event on May 9 and the 7th Annual My Old
Kentucky Home Shootout on June 27, with both of those events paying $2,000 to
win. The Super Late Models will
also sport the convertible look with the track’s 6th Annual Topless
Terror Night on July 4. Dustin Neat
of Dunnville, KY is the 2008 Bluegrass Speedway Super Late Model track champion.
The
Modified division will have three extra money paying events over the course of
the 2009 race season, with a pair of those events being sanctioned by the Battle
of the Bluegrass Modified Series. The
first “BoB Mod Squad” event will take place on May 16 and will be the 9th
Annual Mod Squad Bash, paying $1,500 to win, with the other BoB-sanctioned event
taking place on July 25, that being the 9th Annual Bluegrass Rumble,
also paying $1,500 to win. An
unsanctioned Modified event that will pay $1,000 to win has been added to the
Bluegrass Speedway for August 15 as well. The
Modifieds will also be a part of the 6th Annual Topless Terror Night
on July 4, also sporting the convertible look.
Benji Lee of Raywick, KY is the 2008 Modified track champion at Bluegrass
Speedway.
The
Sportsman division will again be in action at Bluegrass Speedway in 2009 with
the top event for this division set for June 20, with the contesting of the 6th
Annual Shorty Gardner Memorial, paying $500 to win for the Sportsman division.
The full-fendered stock car division will also pay $400 to win as a
special event on the 2009 season finale night on September 26.
The Street Stock division will also be back in action at Bluegrass in
2009 as the entry-level division of stock cars at Bluegrass Speedway with a pair
of $300 to win events scheduled for May 23 and September 19.
Roger Cecil of Bardstown, KY is the 2008 Sportsman track champion and
Robbie Settles of Bardstown, KY is the ’08 Street Stock track champ.
Bluegrass
Speedway is located at 2221 New Haven Road, just outside of beautiful and
historic Bardstown, KY. David and
Anita Ferrell are the track promoters and present dirt track sports
entertainment on Saturday evenings from mid-April through September.
For more information about Bluegrass Speedway, browse the internet during
your visits to cyberspace at www.bluegrass-speedway.com.
April 11-
Open Practice for All Divisions: 6
p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
April
25- 12th
Annual Spring Sizzler: O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series- $3,000
to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Modifieds and Street Stocks (Sportsman Off)
May
2- OFF
(Closed for Kentucky Derby)
May
9- 6th
Annual
Jerry Rucker Memorial: Super Late Models-$2,000 to win; Weekly
Racing Series- Modifieds, Sportsman, and Street Stocks
May
16- 9th
Annual Mod Squad Bash: Battle of the Bluegrass Modified Series-$1,500 to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Super Late Models and Sportsman (Street Stocks Off)
May
23- Street
Stocks-$300 to win; Weekly
Racing Series- Super Late Models, Modifieds, and Sportsman
May
30- OFF
June
6- OFF
(Closed for Dream 100)
June
13- 8th
Annual June Jam: O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series-$3,000 to
win; Weekly
Racing Series- Modifieds and Street Stocks (Sportsman Off)
June
20- 6th
Annual Shorty Gardner Memorial: Sportsman-$500 to win; Weekly
Racing Series- Super Late Models, Modifieds, and Street Stocks
June
27- 7th
Annual My Old Kentucky Home Shootout: Super Late Models-$2,000 to win; Weekly
Racing Series- Modifieds, Sportsman, and Street Stocks
July
4- 6th
Annual Topless Terror Night: Topless Super Late Models, Topless Modifieds; Weekly
Racing Series-Sportsman and Street Stocks
July
11- 11th
Annual Kentuckiana Klash: O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar
Series-$5,000 to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Modifieds and Sportsman (Street Stocks Off)
July
18- OFF
(Closed
for Nelson County Fair)
July
25- 9th
Annual Bluegrass Rumble: Battle of the Bluegrass Modified Series-$1,500 to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Super Late Models and Street Stocks (Sportsman Off)
August
1- 11th
Annual
Bluegrass 50: O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series-$5,000 to win
(Outdoor Channel Television Event); Weekly
Racing Series-Modifieds and Sportsman (Street Stocks Off; No Modified Track
Points)
August
8- OFF
August
15- Modifieds-
$1,000 to win; Weekly
Racing Series- Super Late Models, Sportsman, and Street Stocks
August
22- OFF
August
29- 9th
Annual Bluegrass Classic:
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-$10,000 to win (SPEED Television Event); Weekly
Racing Series-Sportsman and Street Stocks (Modifieds Off)
September
12- OFF
(Closed
for World 100)
September
19- Street
Stocks-$300 to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Super Late Models, Modifieds, and Sportsman
September
26- Sportsman-$400
to win; Weekly
Racing Series-Super Late Models, Modifieds, and Street Stocks