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PERRIS
AUTO SPEEDWAY TO BE PAVED! |
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(APRIL
1, 2006, PERRIS, CA)
Perris Auto Speedway promoter Don Kazarian made a historic announcement
outside his office early on Saturday morning.
At the conclusion of the 2006 season, the famous Riverside County Clay
oval will be paved. The
announcement, which shocked even those on Kazarian’s staff, is historic in the
fact that the track will be paved, but it will not host pavement racing.
“I received a phone call from a guy in Arkansas about six months
ago,” Kazarian said in front of a small group of media members and his own
staff. “His name is Steve
Dickerson and he owns a company called Arkansas Plastics.
He told me he had developed plastic dirt that would cut my expenses.
It sounded kind of crazy to me so I told him I was not interested.
However, he persisted and after a couple of weeks I agreed to let him
send a sample of his product.” Just
before Christmas Kazarian received a huge box of the new plastic dirt, which
Dickerson has named DTX-5. “I did
not open it up for a few days, because I was not really interested,” stated
the veteran promoter. “Once I
opened the box my mind changed in a hurry.
The stuff is absolutely incredible.
Each piece is a little smaller than a cheese puff.
They are hollow and very, very light.
It hit me right away that this stuff would not fly over the fence and the
wall like clay does. That is going
to save a ton of money right there, as we will not have to constantly replace
our surface. This stuff will kind
of float gently to the ground.” Perris
Auto Speedway Marketing Director Tanner Watson loves the idea as well.
“When we held further talks with Mr. Dickerson, he told us we could
have sponsor logos printed on each piece of DTX-5 for next to nothing.
This will be great news for our sponsors.
Fans who get a piece of this stuff will be taking home a free souvenir
with a sponsor’s logo on it.” Several
other cost saving advantages exist with the plastic dirt as well.
Dirt track dust will be a thing of the past.
Also, it will not stick on the crash walls, the billboards surrounding
the track or the cars. Drivers will
longer need to use tear offs and there will be no need for wheel packing before
the race. Qualifying will be the
same for all drivers no matter what number they draw before the races. There
is one more major difference that fans will notice and it is Kazarian’s
favorite reason for the use of DTX-5. “Anybody
who has been going to dirt tracks for a while knows about mud in the bottom of
their soft drink or beer,” he said with a smile.
“Starting next year that will not happen as this stuff will float on
top. They will be able to flick it
off the top of their drink. How
great is that?” Dickerson
told Kazarian that his company can make every color in the rainbow, but the
promoter says he will go with a traditional brown to start as it looks like
dirt. The likable promoter did say
that for special events he may get a different color and hinted that at the last
race of the year he may go to all white. “It
has become a tradition over the past five or six years to play Christmas music
at our last race. It is always the
last Saturday before Thanksgiving and is kind of a kick off to the holiday
season for our fans,” said Kazarian. “If
we get the white dirt, it will look like snow.
Can it get anymore holiday like than that?” The
PAS will be the first track in the country to use the new, revolutionary DTX-5.
Fans will be able to check some of it out in the souvenir stand within in
the next couple of weeks and Kazarian will have some in the pits for drivers and
crews to inspect. Promoter Kazarian and his entire staff hopes everyone gets on board for the new revolution with DTX-5 and wishes everyone a HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!!!
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