Tri-State Late Model Challenge' Bonus Up For Grabs

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Memorial Day Weekend Tripleheader Grows Bigger With $10,000 ‘Tri-State Late Model Challenge' Bonus Up For Grabs

 

CONCORD, NC - April 23, 2009 - Memorial Day Weekend has become even bigger for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.

 

Next month's holiday tripleheader in the Midwest will now be highlighted by the ‘Tri-State Late Model Challenge,' an incentive program offering a $10,000 bonus to a driver who can win two of the weekend's three WoO LMS A-Mains.

 

The lucrative bonus cash has been posted by SLS Promotions, which is presenting the three-race swing that visits U.S. 36 Raceway in Osborn, Mo., on Fri., May 22; 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, on Sat., May 23; and Charter Raceway Park in Beaver Dam, Wis., on Sun., May 24.

 

“We wanted to dangle a carrot out there to make the weekend even more attractive for the drivers,” said Larry Hillerud of SLS Promotions, a respected promotional team that annually organizes more than a dozen WoO Sprint Car Series events. “We hope the ‘Tri-State Late Model Challenge' will encourage more teams to enter all three races – and if a different driver wins the first two features, it will definitely set up a real exciting finale at Charter Raceway Park with two drivers going after the $10,000 bonus.”

 

With the 50-lap A-Mains at U.S. 36 Raceway and 34 Raceway paying $10,000 to win and the 40-lap headliner at Charter Raceway Park boasting a $7,000 top prize, a weekend sweep could earn one driver a whopping $37,000 with the 10-grand Tri-State Late Model Challenge bonus included.

 

WoO LMS history reveals that there's slightly less than a 50 percent chance of a driver winning two A-Mains during a swing that visits three different tracks in as many days. The WoO LMS has contested exactly three events at three different tracks on consecutive days a total of eight times since the World Racing Group reformed the tour in 2004; no driver has ever swept such a tripleheader, but three drivers (Rick Eckert of York, Pa., in 2006, Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., in 2007 and Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., in 2008) have captured two-out-of-three A-Mains.

 

Both U.S. 36 Raceway and 34 Raceway will host the WoO LMS for the first time in the tour's WRG era. Charter Raceway Park, meanwhile, returns to the series schedule after a one-year absence; Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., won the one-third-mile track's inaugural WoO LMS A-Main on May 12, 2007.

 

All three Tri-State Late Model Challenge programs will be run with the UMP DIRTcar Hoosier tire rule (10-20-30-40 compounds) in effect and utilize the same time schedule. Each day gates are scheduled to open at 2 p.m. (pits) and 4 p.m. (grandstands), with hot laps set for 6 p.m., time trials at 6:30 p.m. and racing at 7:30 p.m.

 

Tickets are now on sale for the events. Fans can purchase tickets for all three races in advance by calling SLS Promotions at 815-344-2023 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT). Tickets to the 34 Raceway and Charter Raceway Park shows can also be purchased by calling the track offices – 319-752-3434 (34 Raceway) and 920-887-1600 (Charter Raceway Park).

 

SLS Promotions is offering an advance-purchase deal for the May 22 program at U.S. 36 Raceway that includes a reserved seat in the top two rows of the grandstand (rows 20-21) and a pit pass for $35. Other reserved seats are $30 (adults) and $15 (children 12-and-under).

 

At 34 Raceway on May 23, the top-eight rows (9-16) will be reserved seats. Tickets for rows 13-16 are $30 in advance (including a pit pass) and $35 on raceday; rows 9-12 are $25 in advance and $30 on raceday; and general admission (rows 1-8 and all of sections I, J and K) is $25 in advance and $30 on raceday. Reserved seats for children 12-and-under are $15, while general admission for kids 6-12 is $15 and free for youngsters 5-and-under.

 

Reserved-seat tickets for the May 24 event at Charter Raceway Park are priced at $32 for the chairback seating in the top two rows of sections B-C and $30 for the top 10 rows without chairbacks in sections A-B-C-D. An advance-sale offer of $35 for a reserved seat and a pit pass is also available, while general admission will be $25 for adults, $15 for children 6-12 and free for kids 5-and-under (children in reserved seats pay the full ticket price).

 

All orders taken by phone for the three events are subject to a $2 handling fee per ticket.

 

For more information on the Memorial Day Weekend tripleheader, visit www.slspromotions.com, www.us36raceway.com, www.34raceway.com or www.charterraceway.com.

 

Additional info on the WoO LMS is available by logging on to www.worldofoutlaws.com.