APRIL 2, 2007 --- The
2007 Feather Falls Casino / Hoosier Race Tire / Coors point championship season
continues this Friday night, April 6, at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico.
Four racing divisions including the 410 sprint cars, pure stocks, dwarf
cars and wingless sprints will compete during point’s race number two.
Ashley Furniture Home Stores will serve as the nights sponsor and will
help push the 410-sprint car main event winners check to $2,000.
Ashley Furniture Home Stores will also conduct a drawing for a free bed
that one lucky fan will win at the races. Ashley
Furniture will sponsor four other nights this year at the racetrack.
We want to thank Robert and Vera
Myers, owners of the popular stores, for their continued support of dirt track
racing and Silver Dollar Speedway.
The night will also be geared towards
children. Kids under the age of 11
will be admitted free. During the
racing intermission, the gates will be opened and the kids will hunt for Easter
Eggs in the infield of the speedway. If
the infield is not usable, then the hunt will take place behind the main
grandstand.
Front
grandstand gate will open at 6 pm. Sprint
car qualifying is slated to start at 7 pm with racing to follow.
Adult general grandstand admission is $10.00.
Juniors and seniors are $8.00 while children 11 and under are free.
Pit gate will open at 4 pm.
Chico’s
Fast Eddy Lewis needs to find some racing luck.
The driver of the Ashley Furniture Home Stores #7x has been involved in
two big-time wrecks at the speedway this season.
Last Friday night Lewis was involved in a hair raising high-speed crash
down the back straight. He was
uninjured but the car was destroyed. Lewis
and Ashley Furniture Home Stores are entering their third season of racing
together. The team is led by
veteran crew chief Rod Fauver. The
team’s race shop is located in a spacious building on the North End of Chico.
Hopefully the luck will turn around and good things will happen for this
team on Friday night. You can visit
the Ashley Furniture Home Stores web site by following www.ashleyhomestorenorcal.com/.
Chico’s
Jonathan Allard won an exciting 25-lap sprint car main event this past Friday
night. Allard held off a charging
Brad Sweet, of Grass Valley, late in the race.
Sweet actually passed Allard for the lead but a red flag because of an
accident neglected the pass. Allard
won the $2,000 winners check. The
red flag was for Sean Becker. The
team stayed in Chico after the races to repair the damaged car.
They then sleep for a few minutes before heading down the road for the
next night’s race at Tulare, CA. Placerville’s
Andy Gregg was spectacular during qualifying and beat out the other 26 drivers
to earn his first fast time award at Chico.
The
pure stock division will make their first appearance of 2007 at the speedway
this Friday night.
Joining
the racing action will be the traveling Dwarf Car division.
You can visit their site for more information at http://www.dwarfworld.com/.
For
more information and updated points check out www.johnpadjenmotorsports.com
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