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Message started by LMR on 06/03/10 at 10:31pm

Title: Road To $30K Firecracker 100 Jackpot At Lernerville Speedway
Post by LMR on 06/03/10 at 10:31pm

Contact: Kevin Kovac
World of Outlaws Late Model Series PR Director
kkovac@dirtcar.com | 704-254-7929

Road To $30,000 Firecracker 100 Jackpot At Lernerville Speedway Winds Through New York & Canada
Three-Day Spectacular On June 24-26 Caps World of Outlaws Late Model Series 'Great Northern Tour' That Kicks Off On June 15

CONCORD, NC – June 3, 2010 – The road to a $30,000 jackpot at Lernerville Speedway will wind its way through upstate New York, Ontario and Quebec over an action-packed two-week span.

More than 1,400 miles of travel across the Northeast will conclude when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series 'Great Northern Tour' reaches the four-tenths-mile Lernerville oval for the fourth annual Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com, a three-day, $170,000-plus extravaganza of speed scheduled for June 24-26.

The stars of the WoO LMS will visit five different tracks over a one-week span from June 15-22 before setting up shop at Lernerville, a DIRTcar Racing flagship facility that will once again put a cherry on top of the Great Northern Tour. This year's Firecracker 100 has been expanded to three full nights of action, with a pair of preliminary programs featuring 30-lap A-Mains paying $6,000 to win on Thurs., June 24, and Fri., June 25, helping to set the lineups for the grand finale on Sat., June 26, that includes heat races, B-Mains, the $3,000-to-win 'Uncle Sam 30' Non-Qualifiers' Race and the prestigious 100-lapper.

"There's never been more anticipation for the Great Northern Tour and the Firecracker 100," said WoO LMS director Tim Christman. "The Great Northern Tour and the Firecracker 100 have grown together over the past three years – the tour has become a season highlight because it brings our unique brand of World of Outlaws Late Model Series racing to thousands of fans in a region where DIRTcar big-block Modified rules, and the Firecracker 100 has developed into one of the country's most exciting and fan-friendly crown-jewel events.

"With some new additions to the Great Northern Tour and the unveiling of a bigger-and-better three-day Firecracker 100 format, we're going to kick off the summer in thrilling fashion."

The 2010 Great Northern Tour kicks off on Tues., June 15, at Chapman's Can-Am Motorsports Park in Lafargeville, N.Y., a half-mile oval in New York's Thousand Islands region that is virtually a hometown event for WoO LMS regulars Tim McCreadie and Tim Fuller. Both drivers hail from nearby Watertown, N.Y., and spent the early days of their DIRTcar 358-Modified careers racing at Can-Am, so they will be the center of attention in the F.X. Caprara Car Companies 50.

Can-Am drew a standing-room-only crowd for its first-ever WoO LMS event one year ago and the buzz is building again as the national tour heads to the track with both McCreadie (second in points) and Fuller (fifth) in championship contention. Rick Eckert of York, Pa., won last year's inaugural WoO A-Main at Can-Am, outrunning McCreadie to reach the checkered flag first.

The series then heads across the border for a trio of Canadian events, starting with the first-ever WoO LMS show at Merrittville Speedway in Thorold, Ont., on Thurs., June 17. Located just outside the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls, Merrittville is a D-shaped, one-third-mile oval that has been a staple on the DIRTcar big-block and 358-Modified circuit for three decades.

Now co-owned by DIRTcar's 'Mr. Small-Block' (and 20-time track champion) Pete Bicknell and his Bicknell Racing Products partner Randy Williamson, Merrittville will host the Niagara Frontier's lone WoO LMS event in 2010.

Following a travel day on June 18 (or a raindate for Merrittville's program if necessary), the WoO LMS caravan will haul 475 miles (764 kilometers) to the Northeast for a Sat., June 19, date at Autodrome Drummond in Drummondville, Que., the four-tenths-mile oval that presented the tour's historic first-ever event in 2007. Huge crowds and an energetic atmosphere have become a trademark of the Outlaws' invasion of Drummond, where Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky. (2007) and Eckert (2008) were victorious before last year's race was washed out by rain.

Ron Morin's Cornwall (Ont.) Motor Speedway – a quarter-mile bullring located about 140 miles southwest of Drummondville – will host the series for the third consecutive year on Sun., June 20. The tour's two previous visits to the well-manicured facility produced full grandstands and memorable drives to victory by defending WoO LMS champion Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., who will look to remain undefeated at the track.

The Great Northern Tour returns to the Empire State on Tues., June 22, for a short-track battle at Brewerton (N.Y.) Speedway, a one-third-mile track known as the 'D-Shaped Dirt Demon.' New to the early-summer swing, Brewerton held its inaugural WoO LMS event late in the 2009 season and a record crowd packed the stands to watch Fuller score a thrilling triumph over Vic Coffey of Caledonia, N.Y., at the track owned by John Wight, who fields Fuller's Gypsum Racing dirt Late Models.

And finally, after one day for teams to regroup, the Great Northern Tour climaxes at Lernerville Speedway from June 24-26. The three-day spectacular will be filled with all-out racing and plenty of pre- and post-race activities that have become a trademark of the weekend, including concerts following the programs on Thursday and Friday; a driver/fan horseshoes tournament, weenie roast and Ms. Firecracker pageant on Saturday afternoon; an enormous autograph session under the grandstand prior to Saturday night's first green flag; and a pulsing display of pyro to send off the 100-lapper's field.

Over $425,000 in purse and contingency awards has been posted for distribution to drivers during the Great Northern Tour, which will be headlined by former WoO LMS champions Richards, McCreadie, Francis and Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., as well as their fellow '10 series regulars Fuller, Eckert, Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., Russell King of Bristolville, Ohio, and rookies Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del., and Jill George of Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Other drivers expected to join the Outlaws as entrants in all Great Northern Tour events include Rick 'Boom' Briggs of Bear Lake, Pa., Dan Stone of Thompson, Pa., Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, Pa., Mike Knight of Ripley, N.Y., 15-year-old Tyler Reddick of Corning, Calif., and April Farmer of Livingston, Tenn.

Each event leading up to the Firecracker 100 weekend will be highlighted by a 50-lap A-Main paying $10,000 to win.

For more information on the 'Great Northern Tour':
* Chapman's Can-Am Motorsports Park on Tues., June 15: Visit www.canammotorsports.com or call 315-658-4431.
* Merrittville Speedway on Thurs., June 17: Visit www.merrittvillespeedway.com or call 905-892-8266.
* Autodrome Drummond on Sat., June 19: Visit www.autodrome-drummond.com or call 819-474-2222.
* Cornwall Motor Speedway on Sun., June 20: Visit www.cornwallspeedway.com or call 613-938-3945.
* Brewerton Speedway on Tues., June 22: Visit www.brewertonspeedway.com or call 315-668-6906.
* Lernerville Speedway on June 24-26: Visit www.lernerville.com or call 724-353-1511.

Advance tickets to Lernerville's Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com are now on sale and going fast. They can be purchased now by clicking on the 'Buy Tickets Now!' link at www.lernerville.com or by calling the speedway office at 724-353-1511 Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

The best Firecracker 100 deal available is an advance three-day reserved ticket package priced at $59 for adults and $19 for kids 10-and-under. A free pit pass for the Thurs., June 24, and Fri., June 25, shows and priority access to autograph session on Sat., June 26, is included if the package is purchased by June 23.

For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.