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Hot Wings TV Premiers with the 25th Anniversary Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints Opener at Black Rock.

       Official Website  |  Posted by General Manager / Sprint Car Editor  |  05/10/08

Hot Wings TV Premiers with the 25th Anniversary Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints Opener at Black Rock.


SYRACUSE, N.Y. – In an exciting announcement, the 25th Anniversary Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprint Season (ESS) Opener from Black Rock Speedway, in Dundee, N.Y., held on April 12, will be the first episode of Hot Wings TV (HWTV) shown on Time Warner Cable SportsNet Channel 26 in the Greater Rochester Area.



The exciting event that saw Justin Barger just nip Bryan Howland at the finish will showcase some of the best winged sprint car racing that fans can see. The 60-minute, live-to-tape format, features all of the aspects of the race night, including hot laps, heat races, dash, B-Main and the 25-lap A-Main. At least 10 interviews are also conducted throughout the night, to help soak in every second of the dirt-flinging action.



Black Rock, and Dundee as a whole, is dissected throughout the program, with focus on the track, the area, and the heritage that surrounds the popular Yates County dirt track oval run by the Hoag family.



Hot Wings TV is a great tutorial into the inner workings of the sprint car racing world, while still providing plenty of racing action for the enthusiast. Hosted by veteran broadcaster and good friend to ESS in Doug Elkins, Hot Wings TV is easy to follow from the comfort of your living room. Rich Vleck and Greg Birosh, Black Rock’s Announcing Team, provides expert commentary to detail the night of racing with Greg serving as Pit Reporter.



Along with the great main camera shots throughout the night from ESS’ own videographer Michael Ellis, Bob Miller and the Zak Fremouw, the Blizzard Performance on-board camera was strapped to the No. 45 of Chuck Hebing, as he wheeled around the 4/10-mile clay oval on the first night of the year. Hebing will give the fans plenty of on screen action with is stout fourth place finish and spirited duals with two-time ESS champion Lance Yonge and ESS veteran Doug Emery.



The first airing in the Rochester Area will take place Sunday May 11 starting at 10:00 p.m. Replays will be available Tuesday May 13 at 5:30 p.m., Thursday May 15 at 11:00 p.m. and Sunday May 18 at 5:00 p.m. Any cable customer that receives Rochester programming should be able to watch any of the airings.



Syracuse’s Time Warner Cable SportsNet is also expected to air this first edition of HWTV in 2008, but the dates have yet to be finalized. It is important to note that those times are unlikely to coincide with Rochester’s airings.



Hot Wings TV is made possible by Suzuki Motorcycles and ATVs, Ohsweken Speedway, Filtrec Corporation, Lauterborn Electric, MRE Productions, ASI Sportswear and Gater Racing News.



For more information, please visit www.timewarnercable.com/rochester/programming/timewarnersportsnet.html



For more information on the exciting world of the Lucas Oil Tour, you can log on to www.empiresupersprints.com where it’s been excitement guaranteed for over 25 years!

 

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