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Eldora
Speedway
World
100 weekend offers five races with $1,000
payouts
ROSSBURG,
OH (August 30) -- While $45,000
is the coveted prize at the end of the World 100 rainbow, the unrivaled
event
for dirt Late Models offers five additional races over the course of
the
weekend (Sept. 7 & 8) that pay $1,000 to win and reward
valuable points
towards the UMP (United Midwestern Promoters) DIRTcar Late Model
National
Championship. And, with each of those wins comes a trip to
the famed Eldora
stage and victory lane ceremonies.
No
other event throughout the season garners as
much media focus and draws more attention to dirt Late Models than the
show
that actually began major “Crown Jewels” for the division, the World
100.
Appropriately the festival-sized happening, which dates back to 1971,
is touted
as “the granddaddy of them all”, and a victory during the World 100
weekend
produces recognition nationwide.
The
$1,000 chases begin immediately following
Friday night’s double round of single-lap time trial runs, where the
fastest 84
cars will be locked into Saturday’s heat races. The balance
of the timed
cars will be split into three qualifying features of 20-laps in
distance; each
paying $1,000 to the victor.
Six
heat races and two B-features will
determine the 30-car starting field for the 100-lap chase around the
legendary
.500-mile clay oval; but before the classic pursuit takes the green
flag, two
other drivers will have captured $1,000 pay checks through the newly
introduced
B-Feature Scrambles.
The
five-lap scrambles take place immediately
after each of the 20-lap B-Features has advanced five cars into the
World 100
starting grid. As those five cars retire to the pit
area to prep
for the century grind, the remaining cars on the track will be lined up
in a
five-lap race paying $1,000 to win.
A
total of $180,900 in prize money and awards
has been posted for the 42nd annual running of the chase for
the fabled
globed trophy.
In
addition to sponsored lap money in the World
100, multiple companies have stepped to the plate with awards; the
first of
which will be decided Friday night. CM Graphics
will present $1,000
to the fastest qualifier. In a unique twist, Integra Shocks
will present
four shocks, valued at $3,000, via random draw of all entrants coming
to the
World 100 using an open trailer.
In
what has become an intense battle,
DirtonDirt.com will reward $1,000 to the best appearing car at the
World
100. B-Feature action will find Bert Transmission and Mason
Racin’
presenting a transmission to the first driver not advancing from
B-Feature #1,
while ButlerBuilt has offered one professional seat system to the first
driver
not advancing from B-Feature #2. Additionally, Eibach Springs
will
present four springs to each of the winners of the B-Features, as well
as the
World 100 victor.
Eldora’s
website www.EldoraSpeedway.com offers
entry, ticket and camping information for the classic event
weekend. Information is also available through the
track
office (937)
338-3815 during normal business hours.
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