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TONY JONES IS BACK – FANS BORN IN 1970S GET IN FOR $5.00 AT PERRIS!
by Scott Daloisio

(AUGUST 15, 2006, PERRIS, CA)   We interrupt this portion of the racing season with a special bulletin!  Sprint Car star Tony Jones is BACK!  The rejuvenated driver is back to his old form and he heads the field for this Saturday’s Hot August 70s Night at Perris Auto Speedway.  The show, which features the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars presented by Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply, will offer $5.00 admission to fans showing their driver’s license with a 1970s birth date at the ticket window.  Gates will open at 5:00 PM with racing at 7:00.  

 

It is only appropriate that Jones, a product of the 1970s, comes into Saturday night’s event on a roll.  Since Memorial Day weekend, the affable second-generation star has been kicking tail and taking names.  Under the bright lights at The PAS, the linebacker size racer won the Annual Salute to Indy the night before the Indianapolis 500 for his first win in nearly three years.  Much to the delight of his loyal fans – commonly referred to as the “Tony Jones Nation” – the 36 year-old Norco, California resident has won three of the last six USAC/CRA races on the Riverside County clay oval.

 

Jones who was plagued by a mind boggling series of mechanical ills in 2004 and 2005, joined forces with car owner Mark Alexander for the 2006 season.  In addition to their three wins, they have one second place finish; two fourth place finishes and three fifths. 

 

Over the years, the 2000 Oval Nationals champion has endeared himself to the fans with breathtaking slide jobs executed to the perfection of a fine Picasso painting.  Two weeks ago, he thrilled a large crowd that gathered at The PAS with a vintage Jones slide job to pull off a last lap corner win his heat race and then used another one to take the lead from series point leader and 2005 champion Damion Gardner to win the 30 lap main event.  Then, as has become a Jones tradition over the years, he jumped out of his car and climbed to the top of the catch fence on the front straight as the crowd roared their approval.

 

Jones flashy season sees him sitting fourth in the point standings only 30 markers behind Temecula, California’s Mike Spencer.  He is 216 points behind leader Gardner.  Since Memorial Day weekend, the veteran has scored 468 points.  Only Cory Kruseman (530) and Gardner & Temecula, California’s Mike Spencer (501) have scored more.  With a few breaks early in the season, Jones could have been contending for the title with Gardner and Ventura, California’s Kruseman.

 

If Jones’ slide jobs & fence scaling exploits or $5.00 to get into the races if you were born in the 1970s cannot lure you off the couch and into The PAS grandstands on Saturday, surely the wild fight between Kruseman and Gardner for the championship can.   Amazingly, their fierce war for the crown has seen the top spot in the standings change hands at ever race weekend since the first race in July.  The series had a rare weekend off last Saturday, but two weeks ago, Kruseman held a 26-point lead at the start of the night.  By the time the checkered flag ended the ferocious, crowd pleasing main event, Gardner, who lives in Concord, California, had taken the lead back and he brings a five-point advantage to this Saturday nights dirt track brawl.   

 

Saturday’s gratification of dirt track indulgence will consist of hot laps, qualifying, four ten lap heat races, a 12 lap B main event and a decadent 30-lap A main event.

 

Advance tickets are on sale 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-595-4849.  You can also order advance tickets on the Internet at tix.com or perrisautospeedway.com.

 

Saturday night’s affair on Riverside County’s only clay half-mile oval will be preceded by Friday’s drag racing action on the Diamond Valley Honda Street Legal Strip at The PAS Drag Strip.  Gates at the drag strip open at 5:00 PM with racing at 6:00.  The drag strip is also located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds.

 

Perris Auto Speedway is located on the freeway close Lake Perris Fairgrounds, home of the Southern California Fair, approximately one hour east of Los Angeles and one hour North of San Diego.  To get to the track, take the 215 freeway, exit on the Ramona Expressway and go two miles east to the fairgrounds.

 

Anyone wishing more information can contact Perris Auto Speedway at (951) 940-0134. 

 

 racesatthepas@aol.com is the only authorized Internet address to issue official media news released from The Perris Auto Speedway or Oval Entertainment

 

 

USAC/CRA POINT STANDINGS

1. Damion Gardner – Concord, CA - 1189
2. Cory Kruseman – Ventura, CA - 1184
3. Mike Spencer – Temecula, CA - 1003
4. Tony Jones – Norco, CA - 973
5. Danny Sheridan – Santa Maria, CA - 906
6. Rip Williams – Yorba Linda, CA - 783
7. Rickie Gaunt – Torrance, CA - 694
8. David Cardey – Riverside, CA - 667
9. Charles Davis Jr. – Buckeye, AZ - 634
10. Josh Ford – Camarillo, CA - 618
11. Blake Miller Yorba Linda, CA - 570
12. Mike Kirby – Torrance, CA - 569
13. Evan Suggs – Scotts Valley, CA - 503
14. J Hicks – Torrance, CA - 414
15. Johnny Rodriguez – Elk Grove, CA - 376
16. Bobby Cody – Costa Mesa, CA - 367
17. Davey Pombo – Kerman, CA - 309
18. Alan Ballard – Bakersfield, CA - 281
19. R.J. Johnson – Phoenix, AZ - 254
20. Chad Boespflug – Hanford, CA - 252

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