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Lucas Oil Sprint Cars – The Dates Keep Coming!
by: Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. (January 21, 2010) – In what is already shaping up as another
banner year for the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters,
several dates have been added to the 2010 slate in recent weeks since the
preliminary schedule was announced last month.
Among the added dates are a pair of premier weekend doubles to close out the
season in November as well as a return to Oklahoma’s Outlaw Motor Speedway
and Kilgore’s Lone Star Speedway in the early portion of the 2010 campaign.
It was announced today that the series will return to Outlaw Motor Speedway
near Muskogee, OK, for the first time since 2003, where reigning Lucas Oil
Sprint Car champion Shane Stewart won the third of his 18 career series
feature events.
The series will return to the semi-banked, 3/8-mile Outlaw Motor Speedway
clay oval on Friday, June 4, setting up a weekend double that wraps up the
following night at Little Rock’s I-30 Speedway.
The event originally slated for June 4 at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City,
IL, has been reset for August 27.
The Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series will also return to the high-banked, ½-mile
Lone Star Speedway dirt oval in Kilgore, TX, for the first time since 2002
on Friday night, April 9, leading the way into the first series event of the
year at I-30 Speedway the following night.
Also added in recent weeks are November weekend doubles at both Las Cruces’
Southern New Mexico Speedway and Nevada’s Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Following I-30 Speedway’s $15,000-to-win Short Track Nationals on October
28-30 and the event rain date for the following weekend, the Lucas Oil
Sprint Cars travel to the southwest to put the finishing touches on the
season.
On Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13, the Lucas Oil Sprint Cars tackle
the high-banked, 5/16-mile Southern New Mexico Speedway clay oval in Las
Cruces, NM, for the first time since Chris Ikard posted his lone series win
in February of 1997.
Then, following the 43rd Annual Western World Championships at Tucson’s USA
Raceway on November 18-20, the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N
Filters closes out the year with the Lucas Oil National Sprint Car
Championships atop the semi-banked, ½-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway clay
oval on November 26-27, with the series annual banquet to follow the next
night.
The Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters is currently slated
for 38 nights of competition at 18 different tracks throughout 14 different
states, pending the outcome of tomorrow’s expected ruling in Oklahoma City
that will determine the immediate fate of the long-standing tradition
revolving about the State Fair Speedway’s grandstand and the
governmentally-perceived safety thereof.
The Lucas Oil Sprint Cars presented by K&N Filters will once again vie for a
staggering $250,000 point fund with $60,000 earmarked for the series
champion. The standard purse for one-night events and the final night of
two-night stands includes a $6,000 winner’s share and $500 minimum to start
the main event, with a healthy tow money package in effect for the top 15 in
series points.
Bixby, Oklahoma’s Shane Stewart captured his first Lucas Oil National Sprint
Car championship in 2009 aboard California car owner Paul Silva’s Wesmar-powered
No. 57 A.R.T. Chassis, edging 2008 champ Jason Johnson by just 25 markers
for the crown.
Stewart kicks off his title defense at the 37th Annual Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Spring Nationals on March 19-20, taking on a full assemblage of full-time
Lucas Oil Sprint Car competitors along with a strong contingent of invaders
atop the famed Mesquite, TX, clay oval and each ensuing stop along the way.
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