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Landon Cassill Will Be The Guest Speaker For The St. Louis Auto Racing Fan Club's 41st Banquet of Champions ST. LOUIS, MO (Jan 20) - The St. Louis Auto Racing Fan Club will welcome JR Motorsports (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.)/Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR Nationwide National Guard driver Landon Cassill to the 41st Annual Banquet of Champions, Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Royale Orleans Banquet Center on Telegraph Road as the guest speaker. Cassill hails from Cedar Rapids, IA, and at age 18, has amassed an extensive list of racing accomplishments among a diverse group of motorsports forms in 15 years of racing. He started racing a motocross quad when he was three, followed by go-karts, midgets, legends, modifieds, American Speed Association (ASA) stock cars, the Champion Racing Association and was spotted by the Hendrick Motorsports organization at the GM Racing Development competition in 2006. He was quickly signed to an exclusive contract with Hendrick in December of 2006 and has since moved to Charlotte, NC with his grandmother. Currently Cassill is a full-time research and development employee at Hendrick and completed rigorous physical training with the company's human performance group. He's also tested their Car-of-Tomorrow entry at Lakeland (FL) Speedway and Greenville Pickens (SC) Speedway. He'll kick of his 2008 season in the first of 19 events behind the wheel of the No. 5 National Guard Chevy at California Speedway. He is a 2008 Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year candidate. "How can you not be excited about this young lion attending the Banquet of Champions and talking to our local young guns about his racing to-date?" said Banquet Chair and Fan Club Vice President, Dave Beimfohr. "The St. Louis motorsports community has a rich history of racing and those celebrating with the champions at the banquet will be very impressed by Landon's experience and accomplishments. Cassill made his NASCAR Busch Grand National (now the Nationwide Series) debut last summer at Gateway International Raceway." Cassill will help celebrate the championships won by area racers from Belle-Clair Speedway (Belleville, IL), the Big River Sand Drags (Bonne Terre, MO), Gateway International Raceway's drag racing program (Madison, IL), Highland (IL) Speedway, I-55 Raceway (Pevely, MO), the I-70 Quarter Midget Association (Greenville, IL), Montgomery County Speedway (New Florence, MO), POWRi Midgets (Mascoutah, IL), St. Francois County Raceway (Farmington, MO), and Tri-City Speedway (Granite City, IL). National Champions being honored include Tim Seebold from ChampBoats, Carl Edwards from the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series, and Troy Naeger the UMP National Sportsman Champion. The Fan Club also presents eleven annual awards during the evenings ceremonies. |