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‘Down Under’ MyRaceLife.com World Challenge Qualifiers Next
Up on the Schedule
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (Dec 18, 2008) - Following the completion of this Fall’s two
Canadian qualifiers for the Friday, August 14, 2009, MyRaceLife.com World
Challenge at the Super Clean Knoxville Nationals, presented by Lucas Oil,
the next three qualifiers are set to happen ‘Down Under’ in the next six
weeks. They are as follows:
December 26, 2008 - Western Springs Speedway; Auckland, North Island, New
Zealand - Thunder DownUnder International Sprint Car Classic (410's)
January 2-3, 2009 - Baypark Speedway; Mount Maunganui, North Island, New
Zealand - New Zealand Sprint Car Grand Prix (410's)
January 24-25, 2009 - Sungold Stadium at Premier Speedway; Warrnambool,
Victoria, Australia - $30,000-to-win The Standard Grand Annual Sprintcar
Classic (410's)
According to Knoxville Raceway’s Ralph Capitani, “It is especially important
for American sprint car drivers to know which events in Australia and New
Zealand are qualifiers for this coming year’s $10,000-to-win MyRaceLife.com
World Challenge as Americans are not eligible to qualify through the events
in eastern and western Canada. Those American and international drivers
competing in one of the five designated qualifiers and competing in the 2009
Knoxville Nationals will again be inversion-eligible for the MyRaceLife.com
World Challenge on August 14.”
Those drivers that are inversion-eligible for 2009 following the events in
Ohsweken, Ontario, and Edmonton, Alberta, are as follows:
AUS: Kerry Madsen.
CAN: Norman Beaudreault, Alain Bergeron, John Burbridge (Jr.), Jamie
Collard, Bob Crawford, Jesse Dakus, Keith Dempster, Craig Downie, Marc
Duperron, Dave Dykstra, James Evans, Wade Fleming, Tim Gee, Jeff Hodgson,
Tom Huppunen, Ryan Hunsinger, Kevin Job, Mikey Kruchka, Gord Kynoch, Rob
Ledingham, Dick Mahoney, Warren Mahoney, Brad Malloy, Justin Martin, Brian
McDonald, Kelly Miller, Sean Moran, Michael Parent, Rob Pietz, Steve
Poirier, Jim Price, John Riegling, Chris Schmelzle, Glenn Styres, Trevor
Turnbull, Adam West, James Whittaker, April Wilson, Kyle Wilson, Rick
Wilson, Tim Zack, Stan Zanchin.
NZ: (none)
USA: (none)
For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its MyRaceLife.com World
Challenge, fans are urged to visit
www.knoxvilleraceway.com . For more information on the social networking
web site geared specifically for auto racing fans, individuals are urged to
check out www.myracelife.com .
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