Motorsports News

KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY RPM READING PROGRAM TO MAKE NORTHERN KENTUCKY STOPS FEB. 15

Kentucky Speedway’s RPM Reading Program will make Feb. 15 stops at Gallatin Co. Upper Elementary School and Dry Ridge Elementary School. Official speedway mascot “Horsepower” plays host during program visits and helps energize reading efforts by furnishing individual RPMs (Reading Program Manuals) to help track books students read throughout the school year. Other program materials include a classroom “Winner’s Circle” poster, color-in bookmarks and personalized cutout racecars that display readers’ names. Once schools enroll in the program, teachers work with students to
set a reading goal from a list of available, approved texts. When students complete a text, they enter the title in their RPM and complete a short test related to the subject matter. Students receive their bookmark when they cross the midway point to their goal and will have a racecar bearing their name posted on the classroom “Winner’s Circle” poster upon reaching their goal. Schools also will receive surprise visits from Horsepower throughout the program. Readers’ ultimate reward will be an end-of-the-year field trip to Kentucky Speedway. Students will pack a lunch, tour the speedway and be treated to several laps around the racetrack in their school busses or vans. Participating school principals also will be rewarded with a free driving school session from the Richard Petty Driving Experience. Students will root principals on as they race around the
1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway tri-oval track in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup style cars at speeds up to 170 mph.
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Daytona International Speedway First ARCA Challenge of Year for Team

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 7, 2007) - Hagans Racing and Tim Russell have had a young, but successful history together.  In 2006, Hagans and Russell made two ARCA attempts together, coming at Kansas Speedway and Chicagoland Speedway, posting a 15th-place finish and an eighth-place respectively. Now they are teaming back up to tackle Daytona for the ARCA 200 at the famous 2.5-mile tri-oval.
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Fla. native has seen a lot at Daytona International Speedway

Tallahassee, Fla. (February 6, 2007) - This weekend Marc Mitchell and theNo . 93 Ergon team head to the famed 2.5 mile Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway for the ARCA 200 at Daytona.

This will be the second ARCA RE/MAX Series race for Mitchell at Daytona. He finished 26th in the 2005 Discount Auto Parts 200.  Mitchell cut down a right front tire while running inside the top-ten to cut short a promising run and relegated him to a 26th place finish.
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– Freedom Motorsports Group, Inc. and SportsBlast Create Unique
Marketing Channel for Sponsors, Advertisers –

LOS ANGELES - Dec. 7, 2006 - SportsBlast, a producer of innovative online entertainment founded by Nancy “voice-of-Bart-Simpson” Cartwright, and NASCAR development driver Kenton Gray announced today a strategic marketing alliance set to launch immediately. This cross-promotional alliance, the first of its kind, brings together a campaign package featuring traditional on-track promotions and mainstream marketing as well as dynamic on-line placements in the racing show, The Kellys. This exposure greatly exceeds the penetration and measurability of other sponsorship programs.

Developed and produced in association with Turner Sports New Media, The Kellys is the first animated series to take fans behind-the-scenes and into the heart of a stock car racing family. The all-new 2007 season of The Kellys will feature new content with a topical flair.

“Team Kelly is always looking for ways to dust the competition. For the first time, sponsors can have their brands appear both at the track and in our show,” said Emmy-winning voice-actor, Nancy Cartwright. “The alliance with FMG gives sponsors the best of both worlds. They get to see their brand doing 190 in the real world on Saturday or Sunday and then in our animated series, racing on-line long after the checkered flag has dropped. Who else can do that?!”, continued Cartwright.

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Short Track Racing’s Jack of All Trades Takes Seventh at Five Flags Speedway

CHARLOTTE, NC (December 5, 2006) - Three-time NASCAR Southeast Series
Champion, USAR Pro Cup Standout, former ARCA RE/MAX Series, NASCAR Busch
North Series and NASCAR Busch Series competitor.

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FOR DAYTONA ARCA/REMAX 200

By: Melissa Rush, Director of Information Technology Johnson Hardware Co. Inc

Omaha, Nebraska (November 30, 2006) how soon do you start when the top level racing series are over working on the following year? Well twenty year old Josh Krug and his ARCA/REMAX series racing team are already making preparations for the ARCA 200 at Daytona International Speedway on February 10, 2007. ARCA has scheduled a three-day test session on December 15th-17^th in which Krug will also participate.

“It comes at you fast. We just got our equipment put away from this year and now Daytona testing is just right around the corner”, says team owner and Josh’s dad Pat Krug. “We should be in good shape to get Josh some laps at Daytona in December but it just seems you can’t skip a beat. Josh hasn’t driven on a super-speedway yet so this test is a must for him. The nearest similar track he has experience on is the two-mile Michigan International Speedway in which he did a fine job there earlier this year finishing seventh. Josh will need to get experience drafting with other cars at Daytona”, continued Krug.

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Haas CNC Racing Signs Blake Bjorklund

21-year-old Rookie of the Year in ARCA/REMAX Series

Davidson, NC - Haas CNC Racing has signed Blake Bjorklund to pilot the MRD
Motorsports NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series entry for the first 12 races in
2007.  This will be the first foray into the Craftsman Truck Series for Haas
Racing as they partner with MRD Motorsports to develop drivers.

“Blake has what it takes to become a rising star in the motorsports world,”
said Haas CNC spokesman Carl Cline.  “He has been competitive in whatever he
straps himself into.  He had a solid year in the ARCA/REMAX Series this
year.  We are happy to welcome him into the fold here at Haas CNC Racing.”

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CONCORD, NC (November 7, 2006) -  With the national champion, Terry Mathis,
in place and all of the Regional Champions declared, it’s time to focus on
two things for Pro Challenge competitors; the Mason-Dixon Meltdown at South
Boston Speedway on Saturday, November 25th, and the 2006 Pro Challenge
Series Awards banquet on Friday, December 8th.
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STEVE WALLACE AT PHOENIX
  Phoenix-Based Autoparts Chain Makes NASCAR Busch Series Debut on No. 61
 
 
  MOORESVILLE, N.C. (October 31, 2006) - RWI Racing is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with Checker Auto Parts for the NASCAR Busch Series’ Arizona Travel 200 on November 11 at Phoenix International Raceway. Steve Wallace will pilot the No. 61 Checker Auto Parts Dodge Charger. 
  
  “We are thrilled to have Checker on board for Phoenix,” said team owner Rusty Wallace. “Since adding races to Steve’s schedule, he’s shown major improvements. I am sure with the support of Checker Auto Parts, Phoenix will be a successful race for Steve and the No. 61 team.”

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee  (Friday, October 27, 2006) - - In recognition of  November
’s National Diabetes Awareness Month, BlackJack Racing with NASCAR Busch 
Series rookie Dexter Bean will unload their No. 63 Ford Taurus at Memphis 
Motorsports Park Friday proudly hoisting the Juvenile Diabetes Research  Foundation
International (JDRF) logos in an effort to broaden the racing  community’s
understanding of the  critical need to find a cure for this disease. 
JDRF is the leading  charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile)
diabetes research  worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes
and its  complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a
disease  which strikes people—many of them children—suddenly and requires
multiple  injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a
 pump.  Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent 
its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, 
blindness, heart disease, stroke, and  amputation.   

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