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TOP NASCAR DRIVERS
INVADE JENNERSTOWN THIS SATURDAY
JENNERSTOWN, PA (Aug.
9) …Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, and Martin Truex Jr, three top-20
ranked NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers, will be appearing at Jennerstown
Speedway this Saturday evening for the running of the 2006 ‘Race of
Champions’ (RoC).
| Leading the pack will be
Earnhardt Jr., who has been voted NASCAR’s most popular driver
for three consecutive years. Earnhardt is currently ranked 10th
in points, which puts him in position to contend for the coveted
‘Chase For The Nextel Cup Championship.” Although he is not
permitted to drive in the Jennerstown event, Earnhardt will be
serving as the flagman for the race.
Biffle, who was the winningest
driver on the Nextel Cup tour in 2005, currently sits in the 12th
position, but still is in contention for one of the Chase slots.
Biffle finished second in the Chase last year behind Tony
Stewart, missing the title by only 35-points. |
Dale Earnhardt, Jr |
Greg Biffle |
Nextel Cup rookie
Truex Jr. has moved up to 20th spot in the rankings after a
sluggish performance during the first half of the season. A team mate to
Earnhardt Jr. on the powerful Dale Earnhardt Inc.race team, Truex was
the 2004-2005 champion in the NASCAR BUSCH Series.
Joining the above
three drivers will be Kenny Wallace, who is running 10th in
the competitive BUSCH Series point race, and veteran Ken Schrader, the
ninth place finisher in this year’s Daytona 500.
All five drivers will
participate in a pre-race autograph session. Each driver will sign 500
autographs, which will be determined by a lottery utilizing the track
souvenir program.
Joining the RoC that
night will be a 100-lap Mid-Atlantic Asphalt Racing Alliance (MAARA)
championship event for super late models. Drivers from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York and Canada will be on hand to contest round three of the
MAARA championship series. Glenn Gault Jr. of Hubbard, Oh is the current
MAARA point leader, trailed closely by Rick Miller, Mark Bliss, Pete
Vanderwyst, and T.J. Johnson.
Also on the race card
will be a ‘feature only’ format for the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series late
models, and street stocks, as well as the hobby stocks and mini-cup
cars.
A limited number of
advance $30.00 discount tickets are still available through Thursday,
Aug. 10 on-line at
www.jennerstown.com, or by calling 1-888 695-0888. All seats are
reserved. Tickets on the day of the event will be $40.00.
Parking lots open at
8:00 am, with spectators admitted at 11:00 am. An on-track autograph
session will take place at 6:00 pm, followed by the first race at 7:00.
This event will be
held ‘rain or shine’. In the event the racing portion of the event is
cancelled fans will be issued a rain check for a future Jennerstown
racing event.
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