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View From The PAS! by Scott Daloisio |
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| March 12, 2002 |
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The next appearance of the Auto Trader Magazine/NAPA Auto Parts Sprint Cars, presented by Vista Paint at Perris Auto Speedway, will be Saturday night, March 23rd… A winner of a company just joined up with a winner of a Sprint Car team. The newest sponsor on the Ron Chaffin owned #50 driven by three times SCRA Champion Richard “The Gassman” Griffin is Temecula Valley Pipe and Supply… Last year at this time we were talking a lot about Ron Williams’ Victory Race Cars getting into the Sprint Car chassis building business. They had a long history in Drag Racing. They sold two chassis’ last year. One to Lance Gremmet and one to Will “The Thrill” Perkins. Gremmet is switching to an Avenger Chassis this year. Perkins lived up to his nickname when he got upside down in major proportions at a practice last season and promptly retired. That car was put back on the jig and is now driven by rookie John Aden. They will apparently be the only Victory Chassis’ coming out. Proprietor Williams, who is a very nice guy, is now the Crew Chief for John Force’s daughter as she begins her NHRA Drag racing career… Sad to report that Moose Racing lost a couple of sponsors from last year and for now, is on the sidelines… While it is sad news for Moose Racing, there is some good news for their former driver Danny “Showtime” Sheridan. The Santa Maria resident found a full time ride in Ron DiDonato’s Spin Tech Performance Mufflers sponsored Sprint Car. Sheridan drove it in the day race and got upside down in the main. A week and a half later they put out a press release announcing they were going to run as a team in 2002… Addition to your Perris Auto Speedway schedule. Free Style Motocross on Friday night May 3rd. The race is being promoted by IRL star Davey Hamilton… King Components is moving to a bigger facility in a month or so. They specialize in bolt on sprint car parts. You can visit their website at www.kingcomponents.com… Cory Kruseman passed his IRL test with PDM Racing on Monday February 11th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway… Did you know that cars with a letter in the number (like Dwight Chaney’s #21J) do not receive points with SCRA? Therefore, Chaney does not have any points for JJ Yeley’s win at the season opener three weeks ago. Yeley got the driver points. By the way, the main event win was the first ever as an owner or a driver for Chaney… Hot, hot new web page on the great Billy Wilkerson features some fabulous photos of the great racer. You can visit the page at: www.winglesswarriors.net/wilkerson/… Can you name the west coast 360 Sprint Car organization that had a race scheduled at a Los Angeles area pavement track, but they forgot to confirm with the track? Thus, the race had to be cancelled! Come on now, this one should be easy to figure out!!! The best deal in racing, Season Tickets to The PAS, are available through April 1st. Get this; you can get 25 reserved seat tickets for only $300.00 (Reserved Junior Seats are $150.00 and Reserved Child Seats are $100.00). That works out to $12.00 per race for adults. If you like sitting in General Admission, you get 25 tickets for $250.00 or $10.00 per race (G.A. Junior Season seats are $125.00 and G.A. Children Season Seats are $75.00. What are you waiting for? Jump on that deal now and save!!! Even though SCRA will be away from The PAS with the Midwest and Eastern portion of the Non Wing World Championship in August, The PAS will have a plenty of Open Wheel action. The VRA Sprint Cars (Ventura Racing Association) will be making their first two PAS appearances on August 3rd and 17th. The Lightning Sprint Cars will join them on the 17th. On August 10th, USAC takes over the PAS with the Western States Midgets and the Ford Focus Midget Series… Ben Astenious, who flipped so hard in qualifying at The PAS season opener, was back at work a couple of days later… John Aden, driver of the red #77 SCRA Sprint Car, is the promoter of the small (there are two tracks on the fairgrounds) oval track in Victorville… Tony Jones ex car owner Gene Cowherd is now a sponsor on the Mark Alexander owned Rickie Gaunt #4 SCRA Sprint Car… Jake Argo will be leaving the family team to become the crew chief for Josh Wise when the Riverside resident attacks the USAC National Midget Series in the Midwest later this year… |
