Bluegrass
2009
Official Media Release #50 (For Immediate Distribution:
August 2, 2009)
Contact-Michael
Despain (Mdespain7@aol.com and/or dirttrackracing@hotmail.com)
Bluegrass
Speedway’s Bourbon City Summer Sizzler for Modifieds on August 22
Bardstown,
KY-August 2, 2009- Bluegrass Speedway track promoters David and Anita Ferrell
will present the richest Modified event in the 15-year history of Bluegrass
Speedway on Saturday evening August 22 with the running of the Bourbon City
Summer Sizzler event, which will pay $3,500 to the winner of the Modified A-Main
feature.
The
Saturday August 22 program will feature Modified division in their biggest event
ever at Bluegrass Speedway. The
racing program for the Modifieds will feature practice, time trials, quick-six
dash, heats, B-Mains, and the 35 lap, $3,500 to win Bourbon City Summer Sizzler
A-Main Modified feature event. With
this being an unsanctioned event, it will feature the Bluegrass Speedway
Hoosier-only tire, with the Hoosier
tire compounds of A and/or H being the only legal tire compounds and must be
used on the front and rear of the race cars.
There will also be a $100 entry fee for this event.
Also
on the August 22 Bourbon City Summer Sizzler racing program will be the return
of Sprint Cars to Bluegrass Speedway for the first time since 2003 as the SCORA
(Sprint Car Owners Racing Association), based out of Terre Haute, IN.
The SCORA tour is presenting its inaugural season of Non-Wing Sprint Car
competition and has developed of very steady following of talented racers.
The SCORA Sprint Car tour promotes and only allows the use of steel-block
race engines in the race cars, which are the 410 full-size sprints, just minus
the wing.
For
the August 22 racing event, the Modified division will time trial, while the
Sprint Cars will pill draw for heat race starting assignments.
The 44 Auto Mart Super Late Models, WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman, and Street
Stocks will all have the evening off.
Activities
for the Saturday August 22 event will have the pit area opening at 4:00 p.m. and
the grandstand area opening at 5:00 p.m. A
mandatory drivers meeting will take place at 6:00 p.m., with practice laps set
to begin at 6:30 p.m. Time trials
will get underway at 7:00 p.m., while racing will see the green flag at or
before 8:00 p.m. For the August 15
event, ticket prices in the grandstand area will be $15 for adults, $8 for
children ages 6 to 12, and children under age 6 are free.
A pit pass will be $30.
The
Bourbon City Summer Sizzler Modified A-Main event on Saturday August 22 will
have the following payoff: 1st-
$3,500, 2nd- $2,500, 3rd- $1,500, 4th- $1,000,
5th- $800, 6th- $700, 7th- $600, 8th-
$500, 9th- $450, 10th- $400, 11th- $350, 12th-
$300, 13th- $250, 14th- $240, 15th- $230, 16th-
$220, 17th- $210, 18th through 24th- $200.
Bluegrass
Speedway is also proud to be one of only 60 tracks in the nation to have the
prestigious Contingency Connection national contingency program for our racers
in 2009. The Contingency Connection
will have over $50,000
in national contingency postings up for grabs.
Bluegrass
Speedway last raced on August 1 and feature event winners for that event
included Victor Lee of Stanford, KY in 44 Auto Mart Super Late Models, Jason
Wheatley of Loretto, KY in Modifieds, and Pat Hagan of New Haven, KY in WBRT
1320-AM Sportsman, while the Street Stocks had the night off.
Current
track championship points leaders heading into the August 15 racing program are
David Webb of Nicholasville, KY in 44 Auto Mart Super Late Models, Benji Lee of
Loretto, KY in Modifieds, Pat Hagan of New Haven, KY in WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman,
and Johnny Cecil of Bardstown, KY in Street Stocks.
Bluegrass
Speedway is located at