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USAC Spring
50-Lap Chase worth $10,000
NAPA
Auto
Parts Sponsored July 28 Event at Eldora Speedway
ROSSBURG,
OH (July 19) – With $10,000 to win, a unique racing format, an increase
in
Feature Race laps and a bonus for the winner determined by their
starting row,
the ingredients are present for a United States Auto Club (USAC)
non-winged
Sprint Car event indicative of its title – the July 28 Summer Sprint
Car
Shootout, presented by NAPA Auto Parts at Eldora Speedway. The benchmark occasion
will celebrate the
50th anniversary of USAC Sprint Car racing at Eldora and include NRA
Sprint
Invaders and Eldora Stock Cars in the tripleheader program.
The
impressive money flow doesn’t stop at first place.
By offering $2,000 for tenth place and
$1,000
to take the green flag; the Shootout becomes one of the highest paying
events
on the 2012 USAC Sprint Car schedule.
Getting a
shot at that $10,000 is going to take an ‘all out’ racing approach from
the
drivers. While
the standard format of
two-lap time trials will place the cars into traditional heat races,
the
similarities of a conventional USAC Sprint Car event end there. From that point
forward, all further
starting positions, including the 50-lap Feature Event, will be
determined by a
driver’s finishing position in their qualifying event rather than their
time
trial effort.
Based upon
a four-heat program, the top four finishers of each qualifying heat
race will
advance to the rewarding Feature, while the next three will line-up in
the
B-Feature and the remaining finishers into the C-Feature; again based
upon
their finishing position in the heat race.
After the heat races, the quickest two
cars from time trials that did
not advance will be locked into positions 17 & 18. The balance of
the field will consist of the
top five finishers from the B-Feature and a provisional spot reserved
for the
highest finishing driver from the 2012 Indiana Speed Week that did not
transfer
through the preliminary events.
Adding
intensity to the winner’s payoff will be the unique “more you pass-more
you
cash” bonus that offers $500 for every row advanced from the start. An example of
that would be if the winning
driver came from one of the starting positions in row 8; that driver
would earn
an additional $4000 to make for a $14,000 payday.
The
Eldora/USAC association dates back to April of 1962, when Stan Bowman
laid
claim to the first USAC Sprint Car checkered flag on Eldora’s .500 mile
clay
oval. Since
that afternoon, 180
additional USAC Sprint races have been staged, with 70 different
drivers
tasting the flavor of an Eldora victory.
Tickets for the Summer Sprint Car Shootout
presented by NAPA Auto Parts may be purchased online at
www.EldoraSpeedway.com
24-hours a day or by calling the Eldora ticket office (937) 338-3815
during
normal business hours. You
can follow
all of the Eldora happenings on the website, Facebook or Twitter.
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