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Advance Auto Parts Big-Block Twin 50s Top Labor Day Card At Rolling Wheels
Elbridge, NY – August 27, 2007 – By Tom Skibinski, Rolling Wheels Raceway Park PR Director
Rolling Wheels Raceway Park will be the only Central New York track in operation on Labor Day as Ferris Mowers presents the Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series Petrocci Twin 50s for Big-Block Modifieds on Sept. 3. Joining the special holiday card is a $1,000-to-win 25-lap Mr. DIRTcar Sportsman Series event with another $500 on the line for the 20-lap Caprara Bros. Outdoor Toy Store Mr. DIRTcar Street Stock Super Series feature winner.
Integra Shocks Time Trials leading up to a pair of Advance Auto Parts Series 50-lap races are slated to begin before the first qualifying heat rolls off the line at 5 p.m. Pit gates will unlock at 1 p.m. and the main grandstands open at 3 o'clock. The adult General Admission ticket price is $20, seniors 65 and over cost $18, kids 10-14 yrs. are $5 while children 9 and under are free; DIRT members are $25 and the non-member fee is $30.
Two-time Rolling Wheels Labor Day champion Alan Johnson is the defending race winner and also the current track record-holder, turning in a single-lap time of 20.029 sec. (112.337 mph) exactly one year ago. Brett Hearn and Gary Tomkins split Advance Auto Parts Series Twin 50s at RWR in July and Tim Fuller is the current tour points leader as the top Big-Block teams in the Northeast return to Rolling Wheels on Monday.
The Labor Day special is also the F.X. Caprara Car Companies-Dig Safely New York ‘Five-Star’ Series finale, offering valuable points in both 50-lappers towards the Big-Block Modified mini-series that is currently topped in the standings by Danny Johnson.
Rolling Wheels hosts round two of the 14-race Mr. DIRTcar Sportsman trail while the 2007 Street Stock Super Series contenders arrive for the seventh event in their inaugural championship campaign that includes a dozen extra-distance point events. Alan Fink captured the lone Sportsman feature run in July at Brewerton Speedway while Scott Smith claimed his only win of the ’07 tour at Rolling Wheels to lead the Mr. DIRTcar Street Stock standings.
For more information regarding Rolling Wheels, contact DIRTcar Racing NorthEast Headquarters during the week at 315/834-6606, call RWR (315/689-7809) on raceday or visit www.rollingwheelsraceway.com on the internet anytime. Rolling Wheels Raceway is located west of the village of Elbridge on Route 5, just five minutes east of the city of Auburn and only 10 minutes from Exit 40 of the New York State Thruway.
The Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series for Big-Block Modifieds is brought to fans across the Northeast by several sponsors and partners, including series sponsors Advance Auto Parts, Hoosier Racing Tire and Sunoco Race Fuels. Promotional partners include AMB i.t., F.X. Caprara Car Companies, Rite Aid Corporation and the University of Northwestern Ohio and the contingency sponsors are Bert Transmission, Bicknell Racing Products, Bilstein Shocks, Brodix Cylinder Heads, Integra Shocks, MSD Ignitions, Miller Electric Manufacturing Company and Wrisco Industries.
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