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EASTERN DRIVERS ADD SPICE TO BRODIX TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (July 4, 2007) - The entries this week of American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) Patriot drivers Chuck Hebing and Bryan Howland of New York and ASCS Rebel driver T.J. Winegardner of Florida have added spice to this year’s Brodix Tournament of Champions at the Knoxville Raceway on Sunday, August 5. Not since 1997 has a driver from the Eastern Seaboard won the prestigious ‘360’ tournament, when the United Racing Club’s Greg Coverdale of Delaware captured the inaugural trophy.
Ontario , New York ’s Hebing currently leads the ASCS Patriot Region point standing in his number 45 Maxim sprint car, while Howland sits tenth in points. Likewise, Pierson , Florida ’s Winegardner currently leads the ASCS Rebel Region point standings in his number 11T WRP Racing Engines-powered J&J sprinter. It is expected that all three drivers, like most of the Brodix Tournament of Champions competitors, will compete in the 17th annual ASCS-sanctioned Knoxville 360 Sprint Car Nationals on Thursday-Friday-Saturday, August 2-3-4.
To date, twenty-five sanctions will participate in the Sunday, August 5, $5,000-to-win Brodix Tournament of Champions: Alberta Sprint Tour (AST), American Sprint Cars on Tour (ASCoT), American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) Coastal, Gulf South, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northern Plains, Patriot, Rebel, Rocky Mountain, Sooner, Sprints On Dirt and Southern Tour regions, Big Sky Sprint Tour (BSST), Empire Super Sprints (ESS), Knoxville 360’s (KNOX), National Championship Racing Association (NCRA), National Racing Alliance (NRA), Northern Lights Dirt Series (NLDS), Northwest Sprint Challenge Series (NSCS), Sprint Invaders Association (SIA), Southern Ontario Sprints (SOS), United Racing Company (URC), Winged Outlaw Warriors (WOW), and Australia’s Warrnambool-SCCA 360 Title Series (W-SCCA). The Brodix ToC has become ‘360’ racing’s international version of baseball’s All-Star game, where the best of the best from the U.S. , Canada and Australia are invited to compete against each other.
Interestingly, the Brodix Tournament of Champions has already attracted the interest of four Western drivers: Paxton Lambrecht of the Big Sky Sprint Tour (BSST) and Seth Bergman, Evan Funk, Tyler Spath and Bobby Vaughn of the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series (NSCS). Lambrecht is from Montana , while Spath is from California and Bergman, Funk and Vaughn are all from Washington . Nobody from west of the Rocky Mountains has ever won the tournament, although Eugene, Oregon’s Roger Crockett was runner-up in 2004 to winner Loren Langerud of North Dakota.
Those interested in viewing the current entry list for the Brodix Tournament of Champions are urged to visit the track’s web site at www.knoxvilleraceway.com and click on the Brodix ToC special event logo on the right-hand side of the page.
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