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All Stars Embark on 26th Annual Ohio Sprint Speedweek |
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CAMARGO, IL (6-20-08) by Bryan Autullo – All Star PR Director The O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions is set to kick off the 26th Annual UNOH Ohio Sprint Speedweek presented by RacingJunk.com. KS Sales & Service has also rejoined the All Stars in 2008 to help make the week of events another roaring success. The 2007 Speedweek was one of the best yet with Dale Blaney nearly picking up the $50,000 bonus winning 3 of the 7 races. Shane Stewart was the most consistent driver walking away with the 2007 Ohio Speedweek Champion’s trophy. The 2008 version of Ohio Speedweek has some minor changes in scheduling from 2007. The week kicks off with a warm up night at WaynesfieldMotor Sports Park on Saturday June 21st. The All Stars have some special promotions for the fans at Waynesfield as one lucky fan will walk away with an extra $5000 in his pocket. Fans will register for a chance to draw from 24 starting positions and if the car that wins the A-main was drawn, they’ll go home with $5,000. |
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O�Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions Set to Visit Central PA |
CAMARGO, IL (6-9-08) by Bryan Autullo, All Star PR Director
The O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions will return to Central PA again this week for a 3 day swing through Posse country to face some of the toughest local competition in the country. One of the toughest, Lance Dewease, is leading the All Star points chase and is looking to use his home turf to put some distance between him and the rest of the traveling group before heading into Ohio Speedweek at the end of June.
The first of the three stops will be at the world famous Williams Grove Speedway on Friday June 13th where the speeds are fast, the fans are frenzied, and the competition is fierce. Nowhere else in the country will you find the local drivers as loved and the invaders hated as much as at “The Grove” making it one of the tracks each season where a good finish is coveted by any outsider who visits there. Posse driver Mike Erdley picked up the All Star win in 2007.
On Saturday June 14th, the cars and stars will travel to Lincoln Speedway where the All Stars and Posse will do battle for round two of the weekend’s events. Fred Rahmer picked up the win the last time the All Stars visited the speedway, marking his 151st victory at the track and setting off a celebration of family, friends, and fans that was nothing short of spectacular.
The series will wrap things up with a stop at “The Big Track” on Sunday June 15th in Clearfield, PA. This will be the first visit to Central PA Speedway for the All Stars and hopefully several of the Central PA teams will follow and join in for a shot at the All Star loot. The event was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but it was moved to Sunday to help reduce travel expenses for the teams. |
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Buckeye State Gears Up for Ohio Speedweek - The Countdown Begins |
CAMARGO, IL (6-4-08) by Bryan Autullo – All Star PR Director
The 2008 UNOH Ohio Sprint Speedweek is fast approaching and later this month, winged 410 sprint cars will converge on the Buckeye State to extend a tradition that began in 1983. Ohio Speedweek has always been one of the premier weeks on the All Star schedule and is also one of the most prestigious weeks of sprint car racing in the United States. The event is rich in tradition and history and another chapter will be added starting on June 22nd at Attica Raceway Park.
The deadline for pre-registration for points fund and bonus money has been extended through June 15th due to the lateness of the advertising for these events. Wayne County Speedway in Orrville, OH had announced early this season that they have closed for the season, and there was some indecision as to where the Monday night event would be held. Since that time an agreement has been reached with the facility to open the gates one more time this season to host the 2008 Ohio Speedweek event.
Each year, nearly 100 drivers compete over the seven nights of dirt track mayhem with one driver emerging as the Ohio Speedweek Champion. The crews call it “hell week” and many rarely find time to sleep until the week is over. It is a grueling week for teams and drivers, but for the fans it is one of the best values in sprint car racing. With a shaky economy and high fuel prices, an effort was made to ease the travel distances between each event by not having to criss-crossing the state multiple times.
For more information on Ohio Speedweek, please visit www.ohiospeedweek.com to view the schedule, driver pre-entry list, track contact information, and stats and stories. The All Star web site can be found at www.allstarsprint.com for more info on the series.
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All Stars Move Central PA Speedway Date to Sunday June 15th |
In an effort to relieve teams of additional travel expenses, an agreement has been made between the O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions and Central PA Speedway to move the race scheduled for Wednesday June 11^th to Sunday June 15th .
The event will now cap off a powerful weekend of Pennsylvania racing for “America’s Series.” Friday night, June 13th the All Stars will kick off the PA swing at the "Home of the Posse" - Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA. On Saturday June 14th , historical Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, PA will play host to the All Stars once again. Then on Sunday the series will wrap things up with a trip to "The Big Track" - Central PA Speedway in Clearfield, PA.
For additional information, including past results and the all-important Championship points battle, log onto www.allstarsprint.com. Lance Dewease leads the charge back into PA with an obvious home field advantage as he looks to increase his points lead while Dale Blaney, Randy Hannagan, Greg Wilson, Paul McMahan, Brandon Martin, Brock Mayes, Ryan Myers, and Lee Stark try to chase him down.
For more information on start times and admission prices, visit:
www.williamsgrove.com
www.lincolnspeedway.com
www.thebigtrack.com |
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Dewease Tops Outlaws at Lowe's Motor Speedway |
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Concord, NC— May 23, 2008— Lance Dewease has spent 20 years perfecting his craft in Central PA as one of the Posse's finest and has ventured outside of PA state lines from time to time with some success. After winning over 200 races and several track championships in "Posse Country", he took his show on the road in 2008 traveling full time with the O'Reilly All Stars while still running as many races around his home state as he can squeeze in. Dewease took the opportunity this weekend to travel to Charlotte, NC for the Rite Aid Outlaw Showdown at The Dirt Track @ Lowe’s Motor Speedway. He made the most of his trip south, as he led all 30 laps of the contest to earn his fifth career Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series A-Feature win earning $12,000 live on SPEED Channel in front of a national audience and a sell-out crowd at the track. “People say that we can’t win away from Pennsylvania,” he noted. “We race a lot there, and this is really the first year that we have done a lot of traveling. We are going to do a ton of traveling this year and we're running full time with the All Stars this year. I am looking forward to the rest of this year." |
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The All Stars are one of the premier sprint car sanctioning bodies in the USA. It is owned by Illinois businessman, and now in their 30th year of operation, the All Stars take pride in their reputation of providing highly competitive, fair, exciting racing for outlaw sprint cars with many different winners in a year. About 400 drivers participate in All Star races yearly in front of an average of 5,000 spectators per event. Currently 40+ races are scheduled in numerous states, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Kansas. 
Ohio Sprint Speedweek proves to be one of the most competitive weeks in racing during the 2010 All Star season. Tough battles happened in the 2010 Ohio Sprint Speedweek season, as it included nine straight nights of racing action in the buckeye state, it challenged the best of the best, but young David Gravel- DDR Motorsports was crowned the 2010 champion.