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The Standard Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic Remains the Final
www.MyRaceLife.com World Challenge International Qualifier
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (January 6, 2009) - The AUS$30,000-to-win The
Standard-sponsored Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic (GASC) at Premier
Speedway’s Sungold Stadium in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, on January
24-25 remains the final international qualifier for this year’s
MyRaceLife.com World Challenge at the Knoxville Raceway. Twin qualifiers on
the North Island of New Zealand were recently held at the Western Springs
Speedway in Auckland and the Baypark Speedway in Mount Maunganui, with
Americans Jonathan Allard, Craig Dollansky, Ricky Logan, Paul McMahan, Bill
Rose, and Joey Saldana all qualifying for the Friday, August 14, feature.
Amongst those ‘Yanks’ expected to compete in Warrnambool’s GASC are 1996
World Challenge champion Danny Smith, Shane Stewart, Gary Wright, Terry
McCarl and 2008 North American 360 Sprint Car Poll “Driver of the Year”
Jason Johnson.
According to Knoxville Raceway’s Ralph Capitani, “Knoxville Raceway is
extremely proud of its long-standing partnerships with Rollie Nash at
Castrol Raceway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Glenn Styres at Ohsweken
(Ontario, Canada) Speedway; David Stewart at Western Springs; Willie Kay at
Baypark; and David Mills at Warrnambool. All five tracks are premier
international speedways and we believe our $10,000-to-win MyRaceLife.com
World Challenge program on the Friday night of our Super Clean Knoxville
Nationals, presented by Lucas Oil, is greatly strengthened by their
participation. We hope all five promoters can attend this year’s sixteenth
edition on Friday, August 14, at the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa,
U.S.A.”
Those drivers that are thus far inversion-eligible for 2009 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: Kerry Bartlett, Hans Boere, Dean Brindle, Mark Browne, Graeme “Skinny”
Colson, James Dahm, Havard Daniels, Ian Easton, Daniel Eggleton, Colin
Entwisle, Matthew Gillingham, Bernie Gillion, Raymond Griffen, Allan Haigh,
Corey Haigh, Martin Halcrow, Jeremy Halpin, Brent Harris, Nelson Hartley,
Clint Herring, Peter Huijs, Kerrie-Anne James, Danny Lee, Alan Lewis, Jason
Madden, Andrew Marks, Jamie McDonald, Laz Meszaros, Ryan O’Conner, Shay
Oliver, Greg Pickerill, Ben Quin, Tom Rusher, Jason Scott, Matthew Smith,
Glenn Torphy, Bradley Tyrrell, Chris Uhlenberg, Allan Wakeling, Steve
Walling, Craig Ward, Mark Weal, Carl Wilson, Gary Wilson, Rodney Wood
USA: Jonathan Allard, Craig Dollansky, Ricky Logan, Paul McMahan, Bill Rose,
Joey Saldana.
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, fans are urged to check out www.myracelife.com.
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