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OUT OF
TOWN INVADERS COMING TO SATURDAY’S
USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE AT PERRIS!
By Scott
Daloisio
(Perris, CA, July 18, 2017)
Much to the delight of fans and to the
chagrin of USAC/CRA Series drivers, a
strong contingent of cars will be coming
from Arizona and a top driver from Indiana
will be flying in to take on the locals
this Saturday night, July 22nd, at the
“Southern California Home of Major League
Sprint Car Racing,” Perris Auto Speedway.
In addition to the stars and cars from the
West Coast’s number one sprint car series,
The PAS Senior & Young Gun Sprint Cars
will also be on the program. Spectator
gates will open at 5:00 PM and the first
race will begin at 7:00.
With the heat
on full blast in Arizona, most tracks in
the “Copper State” closed in early June
and will not reopen until the start of
September. That leaves drivers looking for
a place to race. Four weeks ago, on June
23rd, five Arizona teams made their way to
Perris Auto Speedway for the USAC/CRA race
and they left a big impression. Multi-time
USAC Southwest Sprint Car Series champion
R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona, beat back
the locals to win his second ever main
event on the famous Riverside County
half-mile clay oval. If that was not
enough, Ronnie Gardner of Norco, drove the
Robbie and Gaye Allen owned car out of
Cottonwood, Arizona to third in the main
event just behind Visalia’s Richard Vander
Weerd.
Arizona star
R.J. Johnson will try to make it two wins
in a row at Perris Auto Speedway when the
USAS/CRA Series visits this Saturday
night. Please give photo credit to Doug
Allen.
“Arizona has
always been a great state for sprint car
racing,” promoter Don Kazarian said. “You
go back 40-50 years and some of the top
drivers and race cars in the country came
out of Arizona. Back in the day, the
battles between the California and Arizona
drivers over here at Ascot and in Arizona
at Manzanita Speedway were epic and still
talked about today. Over the past decade,
410 sprint car racing in Arizona has
pretty much died (been replaced by 360
sprint cars). But, the guys came over last
month and kicked some rear end on a lot of
our regulars. I am anxious to see them
again on Saturday.”
Johnson will
be back to try and make it two in a row on
Saturday and Gardner, who won his first
ever wing sprint car race at Petaluma last
Saturday night, will be back as well.
Joining them will be hard charging Stevie
Sussex and KTAR radio personality/sprint
car driver Bruce St. James. Both of them
call Phoenix home.
If the Arizona
contingent is not enough, one of the top
sprint car drivers in the nation, Chad
Boespflug, will be flying out from his
Plainfield, Indiana home to drive the
Dwight Cheney owned sprint car on
Saturday. Three weeks ago, Cheney’s #42
won the last USAC/CRA Series race at the
Santa Maria Raceway with 2016 “Rookie of
the Year” Max Adams of Loomis, California
behind the wheel. Boespflug, a native of
Hanford, California, who moved to the
Midwest after graduating from high school
a decade ago, is currently ranked third in
USAC National points. He is no stranger to
success at The PAS. Last November, the
then 28-year-old won the opening night
main event at the 21st Annual Budweiser
Oval Nationals presented by All Coast
Construction.
In addition to
the out of town drivers and cars, San
Bernardino’s Don Gansen will be ending a 3
½-year retirement to race in the USAC/CRA
Series. The former Chaffey College student
and 2006 California Lightning Sprint Car
Series Champion will join his brother
Chris and five-time USAC/CRA Champ Mike
Spencer on the Gansen Engineering team.
Acton,
California college student Hannah Mayhew
won the last Young Gun (drivers 14-25 with
no prior sprint car experience) main event
in June and took the point lead from
14-year Covina High School student Joel
Rayborne. Despite mechanical ills that
kept him off the track at the last race,
Canyon Country, California veteran Richard
McCormick still leads Ed Schwarz by
23-points in the Senior Sprint Car
(drivers 40 and older) standings.
Adult tickets
for Saturday’s race are $25.00. Seniors 65
and older get in for $20.00. Active
military members with proper id, teens
13-18 with their school id and gets age
6-12 get in for $5.00. Children 5 and
under are free. Parking on the fairgrounds
is $8.00.
Advanced
tickets for Saturday’s event are available
24-hours a day by calling 1-800-595-4849
or online at
http://pas.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=922978.
For those who do not wish to purchase
advance tickets, there will be plenty of
tickets available for everyone at the
ticket window on Saturday.
Amsoil
USAC/CRA Point Standings
1. Damion
Gardner – Concord, CA – 520
2. Brody Roa –
Garden Grove, CA – 502
3. Mike
Spencer – Temecula, CA – 467
4. Jake
Swanson – Anaheim, CA – 437
5. Austin
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 407
6. Cody
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 386
7. Logan
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 343
8. Chris
Gansen - Verdemont Heights, CA – 292
9. Richard
Vander Weerd - Visalia, CA - 289
10. Matt
McCarthy - Riverside, CA – 246
PAS Senior
Sprint Point Standings
1. Richard
McCormick – Canyon Country, CA - 236
1. Ed Schwarz
– Santa Fe Springs, CA - 213
3. Rick
Hendrix - Palmdale - 187
4. Danny
Parrish – Fairbanks, AK - 155
5. Mike
Trottochau - Acton, CA – 123
5. John Aden –
Apple Valley, CA - 123
PAS Young Gun
Sprint Car Point Standings
1. Hannah
Mayhew – Acton, CA – 231
2. Joel
Rayborne – West Covina, CA - 228
3. Daniel
Anderson - Venice, CA – 114
4. Blade
Hildebrand – Yucca Valley - CA - 113
5. Malyssa
Perkins – Oak Hills, CA – 102
Perris Auto
Speedway wants to thank its corporate
partners for the 2017 season. All Coast
Construction, Amsoil, Ayers Hotel and Spa,
Brass and Bass Firearms & Fishing
Supplies, Budweiser, Bud’s Tire Pro,
Center Point Church, Champion Towing, City
of Perris, Country Values Magazine,
Daytona Boat & RV Storage, Ed Moore Bullet
Proof Driveshaft, Edelbrock, Flowdynamics,
Full Throttle Scissor Lift Rental, Green
Sheet, HD Industries, Hoosier Tires,
Indiana Truck Salvage, K&N Engineering,
Living Water’s Hospice, Luke’s
Transmission, Moreno Valley Magazine of
Values, Paul Oil Company, Pepsi-Cola,
Pick-A-Part Auto Salvage, Pole Position,
PrintItNow.com, Scott Sales, Shaver
Specialties, Square H, Sunstate Equipment,
Swedish Speed, Original Tommy’s Burgers,
Trench Shoring, Valley News, Vista Paint
and Weedmaps.
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productions of open wheel racing events at
Perris Auto Speedway are available from
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Perris Auto
Speedway is located on the Lake Perris
Fairgrounds (home of October’s Southern
California Fair), approximately one-hour
east of Los Angeles and one-hour North of
San Diego. To get to the track, take the
215 freeway, exit on the Ramona Expressway
and go three miles east to the
fairgrounds.
racesatthepas@aol.com is the only
authorized Internet address to issue
official media news released from The
Perris Auto Speedway or Oval
Entertainment.
2016-2017
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY SCHEDULE
July 22nd
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints,
PAS Young Guns
July 29th LKQ
PICK YOUR PART PRESENTS NIGHT OF
DESTRUCTION - Demo Cross, Figure 8's,
Figure 8 Trailer Racing, Spectator Racing,
Formula-X Autocross & CrossKarts
August 19th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
August 26th
"CALIFORNIA RACERS HALL OF FAME NIGHT"
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns, California Lightning
Sprint Cars
September 2nd
LKQ PICK YOUR PART PRESENTS NIGHT OF
DESTRUCTION - Demo Cross, Figure 8's,
Figure 8 Trailer Racing, Spectator Racing,
Formula-X Autocross & CrossKarts
September 9th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks, Modifieds
September 23rd
"GLENN HOWARD CLASSIC" USAC/CRA Sprint
Cars, PAS Senior Sprints and PAS Young
Guns
September 30th
Southern California Fair – Nitro Circus
October 1st
Southern California Fair – Demolition
Derby
October 2nd
Southern California Fair – Monster Trucks
October 3rd
Southern California Fair – Monster Trucks
October 7th
Southern California Fair – American Flat
Track Motorcycle Finals
October 8
Southern California Fair – Night of
Destruction (afternoon and evening)
October 21st
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns
October 28th
PASSCAR "Champions Night” - Street Stocks,
Super Stocks, Factory Stocks and Modifieds
November 8th
Oval Nationals Practice
November 9th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
November 10th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
November 11th
Budweiser Oval Nationals “Presented by All
Coast Construction"
NOTE; THIS
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