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All Star Circuit of Champions set to rock Fremont Sept. 17 & 18 |
 Camargo, IL (9-10-10)By Brian Liskai – The stakes will be high when the O'Reilly Auto Parts All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Cars invade the historic Fremont Speedway for the Jim Ford Classic, Friday, Sept. 17 and Saturday, Sept. 18. Not only will Knoxville Nationals champion and defending All Star champion Tim Shaffer be looking to wrap up the 2010 All Star title and the $50,000 that goes with it, but the teams will be competing for a purse of nearly $60,000 over the two nights of racing.
On Friday, the All Star program will pay the feature winner $4,000, while Saturday’s payout is $10,000 to the winner and $500 just to start the A-main. Also, Fremont Speedway Promoter Rich Farmer is increasing the B-main non-transfer payout to $100.
The weekend will be the 93rd and 94th appearance of the All Stars in the 59-year history of “The Track That Action Built.”
Shaffer has won three of the last four All Star events at Fremont Speedway, the other claimed by local driver Bryan Sebetto.
To encourage fans to make it a great racing weekend, the Sandusky County Fair Board is offering free camping in the north campground on Friday and Saturday. There is a camping fee for those fans who set up prior to Friday.
And, after the races Friday night the band Quickshine will crank out the rock-n-roll in the north campground in a free concert. The show is “open ended”…so fans can plan on staying long after the roar of the engines has subsided and instead listen to the roar of well played rock music.
On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. race teams are invited to display their machines at the Baumann Auto Group on W. State Street.
Ticket prices for Friday’s All Star event are $20 general admission for adults; $18 for senior citizens; $15 for students; and free for children 10 and under. On Saturday, general admission is $25; $20 for seniors; $15 for students; and free for children 10 and under. Pit passes each day are $30.
For more information go to www.allstarsprint.com
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O'Reilly Auto Parts is excited to be affliated with the All Star Circuit of Champions and so many other great racing associations throughout all of our market areas. All of these sanctioning bodies celebrate the racers and put O'Reilly Auto Parts deep in the grass roots of racing. These racers and fans are our customers and we are pleased to serve them in our stores. From our roots as a single store in 1957 to our current size of over 3,337 locations and still growing. Stop by on your way to the track. 
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.