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PERRIS
AUTO SPEEDWAY HOSTS 200th USAC/CRA SPRINT
CAR RACE SATURDAY!
By Scott
Daloisio
(Perris, CA, September 18, 2017)
Saturday night, September 23rd, Perris
Auto Speedway will play host to its 200th
USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series race. In
addition, the race will also be the Annual
Glenn Howard Classic. Spectator gates will
open at 5:00 P.M. and the first race will
get the Kevin Winters’ green flag at 7:00.
“It is
appropriate that Saturday’s 200th USAC/CRA
race at The PAS is also the Glenn Howard
Classic,” promoter Don Kazarian said on
Monday afternoon. “Glenn was very
instrumental when the USAC/CRA Series was
formed over the winter of 2003-04. It is
safe to say that without his input, there
may not have been a USAC/CRA Series. Glenn
was a man who did everything in racing
from being a driver, car owner, racing
business owner to being an official.
Everyone looked to him for advice and he
was liked by everyone he ever came in
contact with.”
Kazarian
continued about the historic 200th race.
“I had no idea
we had hosted that many races in the
series until Lance Jennings (USAC PR Man)
brought it up,” Kazarian said with a
smile. “The first one was the 2004 season
opener and Mike Kirby won the main event.
It has been a longtime good series and it
features the best drivers on the West
Coast. We are honored to be its home
track.”
Among those
good drivers is Laveen, Arizona’s R.J.
Johnson. In 2005, then 18-year-old Johnson
won the USAC/CRA “Rookie of the Year”
award. Since that time, the
second-generation driver has won multiple
Arizona sprint car championships and over
the last three months, he has dominated
the last three USAC/CRA races at The PAS.
He has won all three of the 30-lap main
events (June 24th, July 22nd and August
26th) and he has led 89 of the 90 laps.
Laveen,
Arizona’s R.J. Johnson will be looking for
his fourth Perris Auto Speedway win in a
row on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Lance
Jennings.
“The last
three races R.J. Johnson has whipped up on
the locals,” Kazarian commented. “He has
the track dialed in right now and has been
running away from the field. With the way
he has been making it look easy, you have
to throw his hat in the ring as one of the
main contenders for November’s Budweiser
Oval Nationals presented by All Coast
Construction. Good for him. R.J., his dad
and the entire crew are great people. It
is nice to see them have so much success
not only in Arizona, but here as well.”
Trying to stop
Johnson from his fourth PAS win in a row
will be 5-time USAC/CRA champ and current
point leader Damion Gardner of Concord,
Brody Roa of Garden Grove, Anaheim’s Jake
Swanson, 5-time series “King” Mike Spencer
of Temecula, Austin Williams of Yorba
Linda and a bevy of other drivers.
The PAS Senior
and Young Gun Sprints will also be in
action on Saturday and it will be there
next to last race of the year. Richard
McCormick of Canyon Country holds a
22-point lead over Palmdale’s Rick Hendrix
in the Senior Sprints. In the Young Guns,
it is much tighter as Hannah Mayhew, a
college student from Acton, leads
15-year-old Covina High student Joel
Rayborne by a mere four-points.
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=922980.
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 – 1,135
2. Brody Roa –
Garden Grove, CA – 1,062
3. Jake
Swanson – Anaheim, CA – 1,049
4. Mike
Spencer – Temecula, CA – 869
5. Austin
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 801
6. Cody
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 731
7. Logan
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 675
8. Max Adams -
Loomis, CA – 623
9. Chris
Gansen – Verdemont Heights, CA - 611
10. Mike
McCarthy - Riverside, CA – 524
PAS Senior
Sprint Car Point Standings
1. Richard
McCormick – Canyon Country, CA - 315
2. Rick
Hendrix – Palmdale, CA - 293
3. Ed Schwarz
– Santa Fe Springs, CA - 265
4. John Aden –
Apple Valley, CA - 246
5. Danny
Parrish – Fairbanks, AK - 155
PAS Young Gun
Sprint Car Point Standings
1. Hannah
Mayhew – Acton, CA – 354
2. Joel
Rayborne – West Covina, CA - 350
3. Blade
Hildebrand – Yucca Valley - CA – 175
4. Daniel
Anderson Venice, CA - 114
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,
Precision Engine of Murrieta,
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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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.
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authorized Internet address to issue
official media news released from The
Perris Auto Speedway or Oval
Entertainment.
2016-2017
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY SCHEDULE
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
SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE |
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