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Manzanita's Hank Arnold Memorial on Tap for ASCS Canyon Region This Saturday! |
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Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 9, 2008) – The Discount Tire Co. American Sprint Car Series Canyon Region shifts to Manzanita Speedway's famed half-mile clay oval in Phoenix, AZ, this Saturday night for the annual running of the Hank Arnold Memorial. It marks just the second time thus far in 2008 for the series to take to Manzanita's bigger track, with current series point leader Jeremy Sherman outlasting Charles Davis, Jr., to top the March 29 event. While Davis has collected more winner's hardware than Sherman thus far with four wins in comparison to Sherman's three, the reigning series champion still holds the top spot on the point charts. With ten of 30 scheduled nights of action in the books, Sherman of Surprise, AZ, holds a slim 24-point lead over Buckeye's Davis entering Saturday night's Hank Arnold Memorial. Goodyear's Nathan High climbed back into third in points this past weekend, with Yuma's Mike Martin and Peoria's Josh Pelkey close behind in fourth and fifth. Phoenix shoe R.J. Johnson enters Saturday's card ranked sixth, as just 20 points separate the four drivers ranked from third to sixth. Nineteen-year-old Jeremy Reagles of Mesa is currently seventh, with Litchfield Park's Mike Leslie, Chandler's Andrew Reinbold and Goodyear's Thomas Ogle completing the current top ten. Glendale's Justin Fisher is just 14 points outside of the top ten, with Seainn Hendricsen and 17-year-olds Nick Aiuto and Mike Colegrove knotted in a three-way tie for 12th in points. Tucson's Bobby Taylor is currently fifteenth. Certificates will be awarded to each of the heat race winners, with Racing Optics sponsoring heat race one, MPD Race Products sponsoring heat race two, Winters Performance sponsoring heat race three and Sunoco sponsoring heat race four. Arizona Race Mart sponsors the Trophy Dash, while Sunoco will also award a certificate to each "B" Main winner in ASCS Canyon Region action this year. Parker Store sponsors the Roll for Inversion. Saturday night's Discount Tire Co. ASCS Canyon Region action at Manzanita Speedway is set to go green at 7:30 p.m. Manzanita Speedway is located in Phoenix, AZ, off I-10 Exit 141, then four miles south on 35th Avenue to West Broadway. For more information, contact the track at 602-276-7575. The Discount Tire Co. ASCS Canyon Region brings the best in non-wing Sprint Car racing to Arizona with a full slate of 30 nights of racing in 2008. In addition to events atop both the ½-mile and 1/3-mile ovals at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, the series will also be in action at Tucson's USA Race Park and Casa Grande's Central Arizona Raceway over the course of the season. The nation's most prominent Sprint Car sanctioning body with a dozen different Regions throughout the United States in addition to the O'Reilly American Sprint Cars on Tour National series, the American Sprint Car Series' (ASCS) 17th year of activity will include approximately 250 nights of racing at more than 100 different race tracks throughout 28 different states and Canada. Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at www.ascsracing.com. |
