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50th ANNIVERSARY OF USAC RACING TO BE CELEBRATED IN GRAND STYLE

Minimum $10,000 Payday Awaits Victor of 50-Lap Main Event

ROSSBURG, OH (Feb. 3) – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of USAC (United States Auto Club) Sprint Car racing at Eldora Speedway, one giant night of racing, Saturday July 28, has been inked. It will live up to the traditional Eldora standards of greatness, complete with a 50-lap finale to honor the benchmark occasion. Completing the doubleheader program will be the winged National Racing Alliance Sprint Invaders, as announced this week by Eldora general manager Roger Slack.

“Fifty years of history, memories and traditions just can’t go unobserved – this calls for another fabled Eldora Experience,” stated Slack.

A whopping minimum $10,000 payday awaits the victor of the grueling chase around Eldora’s fabled high banks with $2,000 earmarked for a tenth place finish and a minimum of $1,000 to start the historic main event. In continuing with Eldora’s respected trend of putting showmanship and excitement to the forefront, a special event format is being developed and will be released soon.

“The partnership between Eldora and USAC has been magic; one that has produced multiple storylines since that initial April 1962 event won by Stan Bowman. Non-winged Sprint Car fans have been clamoring for more USAC Sprint racing at Eldora and this will certainly whet their appetite,” continued Slack in making the announcement.

Kevin Miller, CEO/President at USAC shared the excitement, "Eldora Speedway has seemed like home to USAC participants since its first USAC race in 1962," says Miller. "The history established there in the past 50 years is incredible and we certainly look forward to another 50 years of the same type of excitement the track has always generated. We salute Eldora for this initiative of honoring this rich tradition and expect a stellar field of drivers and cars for what will most certainly be one of the track's signature events."

Since Bowman took that checkered flag in April of 1962, another 180 USAC National Sprint Car races have been contested, with 70 different drivers tasting the flavor of an Eldora victory.

That win list is populated with many of the greatest names in open wheel, non-winged Sprint Car racing; including drivers that have gone from USAC events at Eldora to heralded National events such as the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500. Recognized names include Gary Bettenhausen, Mario Andretti, Roger McCluskey, Johnny Rutherford, Larry Dickson and of course, current Eldora Speedway owner and three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart.

Atop the list is a name even more common and recognizable to grassroots fans – Jack Hewitt from nearby Troy, Ohio. The colorful and outspoken Hewitt has amassed 13 USAC Sprint Car wins at Eldora, four more than his nearest rival, Larry Dickson.

Additional details and ticket information for the storied event will be released through the track’s website www.EldoraSpeedway.com. The targeted date for ticket sales is Monday, March 19; through the Eldora box office at (937) 338-3815 or online.

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Let's hope Roger Slack can turn the place around.Return it to be being a prominent track instead of a message board joke.:32:

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maybe one request for roger. could you get some of the great drivers from years past to show. that would totally top off the event for me. thx...

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I will be there, but first I better start saving up for gas and other travel expenses for this road trip:31:

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We could stop by and pick you up if you want? ;)

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make sure your`e tires are road ready

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This news fires me up and it's possible we could make another road trip for this one. Haven't been to Eldora in July for quite a while. It works out good for us also to hit Kokomo on the way home for the Bob Darland Memorial race! :6:

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I'm just a little NE of the Big E in Lima don't forget to stop & oick me up to.

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I'm just north of Lima in Ottawa.Pick me up too I'm on the way.:3:

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based on current travel schedule, I may be able to make this one. Sure hope so.

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This is a good show but why not pay $50,000 to win as a minium, If it's the 50th USAC year at the Eldora.

I was thinking the same thing! There hasn't been a big paying non-wing show at Eldora since the last year of the Mopar Thunder in 2005.

I figured with all of Tony's sponsor connections it would be easier for him to put on a big paying Winged or Non-Wing show than it was for Earl. The Knoxville Nationals is now over a million dollar purse and Earl did it in 2003. He did a million to Win for Late Models a couple years prior to that! I wish Tony could keep the tradition of the biggest paying shows in the country for Sprint Cars like Earl did.

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Id go with the standard 500 to start for 15-22 and Up the anti 2-10 with 15th being the last 1000

50 laps, I see ten cars just starting and parking.


Still, Id just like to have a complete show and one that I can see.

2 of the last three I've attended didn't have a feature
. Wasn't going back but willing to give the new guy a chance.

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It does say a minimum of 10 grand!!

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I just dont get it, why does everyone think they know better than the promoter? Now i'm sure if some of you want to get together and raise some money to add to the purse that Tony would gladly accept.....

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Another reason that I am glad you are not putting on the show, like mitch you want the big money guys to take all the money and leave nothing for the little guy. Sorry flipping out is just around the corner and Chuck you got me one step closer. :42::

Why can't we just be glad Tony is offering a place to race?

Jerry Spencer

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I just made some suggestions and apparently because they don't fit your criteria or Hoovers, You just aren't allowed to disscus anything anymore.

Mitch WHO?

My thinking was incentive, Not to hurt the little guy. SO EXCUSE ME! But I seen nothing wrong with one more spot paying a couple hundred more than say 50. and flipping out of a 500 dollar to start race is still 275 more than the local show.


BTW Jerry, Your car wasn't entered in either of those races people spent good money to go race or see and didn't happen. So Im allowed to have a opinion on that, YOU ARE NOT :) And please note the smiley face on that last response, you can race when and where you want too.

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I just hope there is a big turn out of fans for this race and it can become a yearly summer event with USAC. Good to finally see a summer race for USAC at ELdora scheduled.

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wow!!!!! this is great news for all the great dirt track racing fans. i would love to see one day that the burg would step up to the plate and say we would love to say thanks for all the great drivers and fans that have made the burg. all the great drivers that race at eldora have been to the burg and with the great things that the burg have to offer they need to keep that going on with a great racing event every year pack the 7000 seats all weekend long for a 2 our 3 date show with non wing and wing show. i was hoping that when the burg up dated the track that it would be the next eldora and with the things that have gone bad at eldora the burg would have say this is what would eldora used to be. good luck to all the great tracks in the 2012 season!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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huh?