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Coca Cola
Presents Hispanic Heritage Night
NASCAR Stock Cars at
Irwindale
This Saturday Night:
September 28, 2013
Super Late Model/Lucas Oil
Late Model Double Header Set
Irwindale, Calif. - - As the 2013 NASCAR Home Track
season speeds to a conclusion at Irwindale Speedway yet another
exciting night of NASCAR short track racing is on schedule at the
family-friendly track that all the fans call: "LA's Half-Mile
Superspeedway".
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Irwindale Event Center Hispanic Heritage
Night/Coca-Cola Night Commercial
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"We've got both of our two top divisions, the
NASCAR Super Late Models and our Lucas Oil Late Models
running on Saturday night and it'll be the second-to-last race of the
2013 championship season for both. Adding to the show, we'll also
feature the Superior Automotive Engineering Super Stocks, a
quick turnaround visit from the Pick Your Part Southwest Tour
Trucks, and our own Open Comp division on the third mile
as well," said track GM Bob Klein.
Of the three points-paying Irwindale divisions
competing on Saturday night the Lucas Oil Late Models have the
greatest points difference between first and second and that's the 34
point advantage that Rancho Cucamonga's Ryan Partridge carries into
Saturday's race over Highland, California's Toni McCray (she's got 306,
and Partridge has 340). La Verne's young Andrew Porter has acquitted
himself well over the season so far with a string of good finishes
that see him third in points (292) and way out front in the run for
2013 Rookie of the Year honors. Thirty-three different drivers from
29 different cities have scored points in this year's LOLM series.
The next-closest points battle is in the NASCAR
Super Late Models where Rip Michels hold a slim 18-point lead
over none other than Toni McCray who's doing double duty driving in
both divisions and who will be running her legs off between rides all
day long and well into the night on Saturday.
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The
season-long NASCAR Super Late Model "Rip and Tony
Show" continues this Saturday. Steve Coffee photo
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As everyone in the racing
world must know by now, the San Fernando-domiciled Michels is the
winningest driver ever at Irwindale; but his "problem" this
year is that McCray seems to be shadowing his every move only
finishing off the podium once (and it was a fourth place at that).
McCray is comes into the race only the aforementioned 18 back with 50
up for grabs on Saturday eve. Twenty-nine drivers have picked up
points so far in the 2013 Lucas Oil edition of the Late Models.
One of the oldest clichés in the book is:
"Close is only important in horseshoes and hand grenades."
Perhaps we ought to modify that to include the Superior Automotive
Engineering Super Stocks where four (not so) paltry points make
the difference over whose name is listed first on the Irwindale
website racing points page. And that name would be La Verne's very
own Gary Read, whose 232 points put him a slim 4 markers ahead of
Long Beach's favorite (Super Stock) driver Zack Green. At five races
with this one and one more after that to go, the points scene is
definitely tight here. Greg Crutcher (Covina) is only 10 points
behind Green in third and Robert Dezerov is just 6 back of
Crutcher! At this point in space and time the statement,
"Anything can happen here ..." could not have any more
meaning. Fifty points to win. Nineteen drivers have run under the
Superior Super Stock banner this year.
Local resident (Arcadia), firefighter, points
leader, and all-round hale fellow, Neil Conrad, coming in with a very
popular win at last week's race, will be the man that everyone's
looking to best on Saturday in the Pick Your Part Southwest Tour
Trucks when the always exciting touring series makes their final
2013 visit to the Irwindale oval.
And just for fun and short track excitement
Irwindale's own Open Comp class will take to the inner oval for a
race that is open to just about every type of car (or truck) that
normally runs the half-mile with the stipulation that they run a
8-inch tire and use all half-mile safety gear.
The fan gates open at 5PM,
there's great fun for the whole family at the official On-Track
Autograph Session at 5:45 and racing starts on the dot at 7PM. Fans
are always guaranteed a great time at Irwindale Speedway!
Discount tickets and
directions to all the
fun are available on-line
right now at:
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