LABOR DAY WEEKEND FEATURING SUPER LATE MODELS & MODIFIEDS

Super Late Models & IMCA Mods $1k To Win Each Night Labor Day Weekend @ Canyon Speedway Park

CSP Press Release - Peoria, AZ - August 24, 2010 ---  Next up, an open PRACTICE for all divisions is scheduled for Friday September 3rd. Pit gates are open all day with track time available from 7:00 to 9:30pm. Pit passes are $15 per person and front grandstand entry is FREE.

SWDRA Total Seal Late Models will headline Labor Day weekend at Canyon. A seperate show is scheduled for each night Saturday and Sunday.

The IMCA Modifieds are on the ticket with an individual purse payed out each night. Modified teams will race for $2000 in winnings ($1000 to win each night). There is NO entry fee for modified teams. Fee's do include a pit pass and a $5 pill draw per car.

Divisions running are the SWDRA LATE MODELS, IMCA MODIFIEDS, IMCA Southern Sportmods, Pure Stocks, Bombers.

General admission opens at 5:00pm and racing begins at 7:30pm; General admission tickets are $15, senior/military $13 and as always children 12-under are FREE.

Pit gates are open all weekend. All access pit passes are $30 per person with no age restrictions and gates are open all day.

BYOB in cans only and FREE camping is permitted (no hook-ups).

Call 602-258-race(7223) or checkout http://www.canyonspeedwaypark.com for more info.

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Modified Desert Classic '10

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ARIZONA HALL OF FAME VINTAGE CLASSIC

by Windy McDonald

Canyon Speedway Park in Peoria Arizona and the Arizona Motorsports Hall of Fame have joined forces to stage the 11th running of the Hall of Fame Vintage Classic and will also have the induction ceremonies for the 2010 inductees into the Arizona Motorsports Hall of Fame. The race, scheduled for October 23rd, will feature the American Sprint Car Series, non winged Modified Midgets and Desert Dwarf Cars.

The induction ceremonies will take place during intermission just before the main event for Vintage Cars from throughout the Southwest. The cars, some built and raced in the thirties will basically put on exhibition races since the cars do not have the necessary safety features of today’s racers.

The Vintage cars will also be present Friday night when the Southwest Region American Sprint Car Series and their winged sprinters headline the show. The winged Modified Midgets and the Dwarf Cars will also be on the card.

Several of the Vintage cars will be on display on the main concourse each night.

The winged sprints will be headed by Rick Ziehl of Las Cruces, NM. However Ziehl hold a scant 35 point lead over Arizona’s John Gaston as of this writing. The winged sprints have six races before they visit Canyon for only the second time this year. Former World of Outlaws star Johnny Herrera won the May 22nd feature at Canyon.

Ziehl has scored two feature wins and so has Herrera. Other winners have been Gaston, Joshua Hodges, Joshua Williams and Canyon’s own Dalten Gabbard.

Charles Davis, Jr. of Buckeye, AZ heads the points standings in the Discount Tire Canyon Region American Sprint Car Series. Davis, a three time Arizona Sprint Car champion has a commanding 146 point lead over Jeremy Sherman who is trying for a fifth straight driving title. Mike Martin is ten points behind Sherman and R.J. Johnson is another 30 back. Davis has won four of the nine races run this year with one of his wins coming at Canyon. He is the only driver with more than one win. Others have been Dave Darland, one of only five drivers to score championships in all three of USAC main divisions, Sherman, Martin and Johnson.

The non winged guys have been idle for six weeks and will go back to work with the annual Hank Arnold Memorial which runs two nights on Labor Day Weekend.