Orange Show Speedway could have more fireworks
than expected Saturday night
SAN BERNARDINO (May 24, 2007) –
There is a fireworks show scheduled for the conclusion of the stock
car racing program at Orange Show Speedway Saturday night (May 26).
The question is whether there also will be fireworks earlier in the
evening, when the BSR West Late Models are on the track for their sixth
race of the year.
Through the first third of the 15-race season, the
Late Model division has been Orange Show Speedway’s answer to
World Wrestling Entertainment, with heated competition on the quarter-mile
paved oval and constant verbal battles off the track.
Things came to a head two weeks ago (May 12) when
a mid-race incident led to the suspension of a driver and two spectators
and made race winner Dave Arce the first to reach victory lane after
being temporarily airborne and driving over the front end of another
car.
Arce’s over-the-top move is more fitting to
the Lucas Oil Outlaw Figure 8 division or a Demolition Derby, both of
which also are on the schedule for “A Race to Remember –
Honoring Our Heroes.” The Legends Cars and vintage Sprint cars
and Midgets of the Western Racing Association round out a special program
saluting the men and women serving in our armed forces.
Saturday’s races are being run in conjunction
with the 92nd National Orange Show Festival. Anyone with a paid admission
to the Festival will be admitted to the speedway free of charge, courtesy
of the Matich Corporation, and all military and civilian support personnel
will receive complimentary admission to both venues. There will be no
speedway-only tickets on sale.
Spectator gates at the speedway will open at 5 p.m.
(the Festival opens at 11 a.m. ) and racing will get under way at 6:30
p.m. Pre-race activities will include an invocation by Chaplain Michael
Taylor of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms,
independent country music artist BECCA and a flyover by twin-engined
A-10 Thunderbolts, the anti-tank aircraft referred to as warthogs.
Those unable to attend will be able to follow the
action at home through an expanded edition of “Orange Show Speedway
Live” on The Toad (KTTD, 1350 AM). The radio show normally airs
from 8 to 9 p.m. every race night. But this week, through the generosity
of Toyota of San Bernardino, the entire evening will be broadcast from
6:30 to 9:30 p.m. It also will be available on the Internet at www.nixacountry.com.
Racing at Orange Show Speedway is sponsored by Lucas
Oil, Blackhawk Protection, Hype Manufacturing, Del Taco, KTTD radio
(AM 1350), Leno’s Rico Taco, Soboba Casino, Budweiser, Hoosier
Racing Tires, Frank’s Radio Service, Torco Racing Fuels, Parker
Pumper/BSR West, Eibach Springs, JP Striping, Center Chevrolet, Pepsi,
Matich Coporation, La Salle Medical Associates, L. Curti Truck and Equipment,
One Stop Landscape Supply, Extreme Exhibits & Logistics, Little
Green Onions restaurant and the San Bernardino County Sun.
For further information, contact Jim Short at 951-203-2649
or jimshort65@sbcglobal.net, call Orange Show Speedway at 909-888-6788,
X438, or visit the web site at www.nosevents.com.
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