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Southwest Sprint Car Series warming up the competition at USA Race Park Hawaiian Challenge Race on May 28th & 29th. |
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May 2, 2005...May 28th and 29th USA Race Park in Tucson, Arizona will host
the first" Hawaiian Challenge Race". 10 Hawaiian sprint car teams
visiting from Hawaii to Arizona to challenge the regulars of the Southwest
Sprint Car Series. The Southwest Sprint Car Series has been to Hawaii twice
with eight to twelve sprint car teams challenging the Hawaiian's at
Hawaii Motor Speedway in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Rick Ziehl 2003 Southwest Series Champion is one of the early entrants to this first time event. The first 14 Southwest Series entrants qualify for the Saturday Event with the Hawaiian Challengers and Sunday's Event will be open to all Southwest Members and nonmembers. Saturday's Challenge race will pay $1500 to win and $225 to start the feature for the first day of racing action. Sundays Open Challenge race will pay $2500 to win and $325 to start the Feature at the recently revamped USA Race Park. USA Race Park is the home of the News Years Day "Roger McCluskey Classic " sanctioned by the Southwest Sprint Car Series. Other heavy hitters challenging the Hawaiians at the city of the Sun are Jason Tanner from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Friday night's Main Event winner at the recent Southwest Sprint Car Spring Shootout at Las Cruces, NM. Tanner also in keeping the winning tradition in the family having an Uncle named Al Unser Jr., Grandfather named Al Unser Sr., and having cousin Robbie Unser on the race team helping to set-up the car. Lieghton Croutch from Lubbock, Texas will also make the long haul to justify his horrific flip that he had in last years visit to the Hawaiian Classic in Hawaii. Croutch had a very frightening flip that involved a fence post nearly going through the drivers compartment of the car and then wrapping the car up with fence material. The Southwest Sprint Car Series has several rising stars that participate in the Series and Lieghton Croutch is well on his way. One of the Southwest Sprint Car Series original creators David Burns will field two cars. One piloted by Albuquerque's James High, having several SCOA Main Event wins under his belt and Burns taking on the responsibility of his second car. -Sprint Car Racing League- www-scrlracing@aol.com |
