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Marysville CA - July 8, 2008 --- We will once again turn the wheels in anger this Saturday night. It will be “Little League Night” at Paul and Kathy Hawes Marysville Raceway Park. If you are12 years and under and wear your jersey you are in for free when accompanied by an adult. The Winged and Wingless MRP Sprint Cars will headline the program that also features the MRP Mini Stocks. The Sprint 100s will return and the 600 Lites will make a stop as well. Point leader Brent Dothage of Kelseyville will bring a slim eight-point lead into the MRP Winged Sprint Car division program. His closest rival, Korey Lovell of Yuba City, has been closing the gap lately and is a real contender for his fourth title. Dothage has two titles to his credit. Last time out Lovell made up a lot of ground when leader Dothage laid his car over on its lid. Marysville’s Cort Dozier lurks in third just twenty points out of the lead. A maximum of sixty points is available in any event. In the Wingless Sprint Car Series Tony Richards is expected to appear and try to add to his incredible string of feature event wins. Richards, who resides in Paradise has won six of the last seven events. What makes this more amazing is that he has only entered seven events this year. Richards lies eleventh in the standings going into Saturday’s race. Point leader, Sacramento’s John Anderson, takes a healthy lead into the Wingless Warrior program. Tim Sherman Jr. is thirty points out of the lead and Cort Dozier (yep, same guy) is third, fifty-three points off the pace. Feature event winner earlier in the season, Jeremy Hawes is in fourth, fifty-seven points out. Dozier and Hawes are going to have to start hustling to keep the lead duo from getting away in the standings. The MRP Wingless Sprint Car Series is without a doubt, among the most competitive series presented in Northern California with some serious contenders making the tow each week. The mighty MRP Mini Stocks will return after a couple of weeks off. This division has a real tussle going on for the top spot. Lady racer Misty Castleberry has been red-hot all season and follows 2006 champ Joel Giusti by just four points. Giusti’s had his problems lately, but still manages to sneak into the top five regularly. Another full field of cars and stars will be out at MRP on Saturday. The visiting Sprint 100s and the Sprint 600s are also on the card in the five-division program. The Sprint 100s have put on very competitive shows lately. The Sprint 600s are what used to be called Modified Midget Multis. Remember, MRP is just a few miles from anywhere in the Yuba Sutter area. Stay close to home, save your gas and experience Yuba-Sutter’s only professional sports series. Only at MRP. Pit gates always open at 3 with the grandstands opening at 5. Practice and hot laps start at 6 with qualifying and racing to follow. Put www.marysvilleracewaypark.com on your “favorites” button on you computer. Watch this site for press releases, updates and complete results. $300,000 in contingency rewards ongoing through 2008: Remember, our racing program will get $150,000 worth of contingency dollars for our winged and wingless sprint cars. The way it works is that Contingency Connection has signed up 181 sponsors nationwide who contribute products or merchandise each race to the winner. The only catch is that drivers must be sporting the decal of that sponsor to earn the bonus. If a driver who wins the MRP Winged or Wingless feature race has every decal on his car, he could receive some $1150 in products or merchandise. The vouchers can be saved and traded in for larger ticket items. The bonus is a healthy addition to the weekly $1,000 promoter Hawes already pays to the winner of MRP winged sprint car main events and the $750 he pays to MRP wingless sprint car feature winners. You must be a member of the association, but you can buy a membership at any event throughout the year. In addition to the $150,000 Contingency Connection is providing during the regular season, the program also has earmarked another $150,000 toward a year-end bonus for the top two drivers as well as four other "at-large" drivers whom the promoters believe are deserving of some added cash. Note: Please make this observer aware of any names that are misspelled or incorrect. The text is based on information we have at the time of its release. |
