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View From The PAS by Scott Daloisio |
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October 11, 2001 The biggest Non Wing Sprint Car race of the season is three weeks away. On November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, Perris Auto Speedway will play host to the 6th Annual Budweiser/Temecula Valley Pipe and Supply Oval Nationals. For the second consecutive year, the race will pay a whopping $25,000.00 to the winner of Saturday’s 50-lap A main. That is the largest first place prize in Non Wing Sprint Car Racing. What will it take to pocket the twenty-five grand? A 100% effort that will start as soon as each competitor unloads his car in The PAS pit area. Don Kazarian, President of Oval Entertainment, has laid out a format that dictates each driver will have to run his hardest from the time he takes his first green flag in qualifying. Thus, it will produce three nights of the best Non Wing Sprint Car Racing on the finest dirt track racing facility in the world. Want to know what the format of this great race will be? Read on, as we are going to spell it out for you for a 60-80-car field. The field will be split into two equal number groups for the Thursday and Friday preliminaries. Once a driver has taken a green to qualify on Thursday, that car is locked into that night’s program and the driver will not be able to scratch and re-enter Friday. There will be four, ten lap heat races with a maximum of ten cars in each on Thursday and Friday. The first four rows of each heat will be inverted. The top four finishers from each heat transfer to the Twin Twenty lap mains. Cars finishing 5th through 8th go to the B main. Cars finishing 9th and 10th in the heats will go to Saturday’s Last Chance Race. The preliminary night B mains will be 15 laps with the cars finishing 5th through 8th in the heat races. The lineup up will be straight up (fastest in the front) by qualifying times. The top six finishers from each night’s B main will go to the Twin Twenties. Cars finishing seventh and back will go to Saturday’s D, C or B Mains based on qualifying times. The first of the Twin Twenties will be lined up straight up by qualifying times. The second Twin Twenty will be completely inverted by the way they finish the first twenty. The winner of the first one will start dead last (In one of the most exciting nights of racing at The PAS, Rip Williams won the first Twin Twenty from the front row at the inaugural Oval Nationals in 1996. He started dead last in the second one and weaved his way through the traffic for an amazing win). First place in each Twin Twenty will pay 22 points. Each place behind will receive one less point all the way back to one point for last. The top five in points from each night’s Twin Twenties will go straight to Saturday’s $25,000.00 to win A main. In the case of a tie for fifth place in points, the tie will be broken based on qualifying times. For Saturday, cars that finished 9th and 10th in the heats and the cars that qualified for Saturday’s A main from the Twin Twenties, will be removed from the master qualifying list. All remaining cars will be ranked fastest to slowest for the B, C and D mains. The first race Saturday will be the 12-lap Last Chance race for all cars finishing 9th & 10th in Thursday and Friday’s heats. Thursday night’s cars will be on the inside and the Friday will be on the outside. They will be lined straight up by qualifying times. The top four finishers transfer to the back of the D Main. The “D” Main will have twenty cars. The first eight rows will be straight up with the 32nd fastest qualifier on the pole back to the 48th fastest qualifier. Rows nine and ten will be made up of the cars that transferred out of the Last Chance race and they will start straight up by their finishing order. The D main will be 15 laps and the top six will transfer to the back of the C main. Saturday’s C main will have twenty cars and will be 20 laps. The first seven rows will be straight up starting with the 17th fastest qualifier back through the 31st. Rows 8, 9 and 10 will be comprised of cars transferring from the D main and they will line up straight up according to the way they finished. The top eight finishers will go to Saturday’s B main. Saturday’s B main will be the final chance for any cars to get into the $25,000.00 to win 50-lap A main. It will be comprised of 24 cars and will be 20 laps. The first 8 rows will be straight up with the fastest qualifier on the pole back through 16th. Rows nine through 12 will be the cars that transferred from the C main and they will start straight up according to the way they finished the C. The top fourteen (14) cars will transfer to the back of the A main. The A main will have 24 cars and will be 50 laps. The first five rows will be made up of the ten cars that transferred from Thursday and Friday’s Twin Twenties. Thursday’s cars will be on the inside row and Friday’s on the outside. They will be inverted with the fastest cars starting in the fifth row. The fifth fastest will start on row one. Rows 6-12 will be made up of the 14 cars that transferred from the B main and they will be lined straight up according to the way they finished the B. Yellow flag laps will not count. Should the A main have more than 20 laps under yellow, the race will be red flagged and only fuel may be added. Any car that is modified in any way on a red flag for fuel will be sent to the rear. Three day passes (a $54.00 value) are on sale now for $45.00. You can purchase them at the south souvenir stand during race nights at The PAS or by calling (909) 940-0134. |
