Blonde Leads MustSee To Salem
by NSSN Staff

SALEM, Ind. — Jason Blonde has always had a love for speed and racing. Growing up in Litchfield, Mich., just five miles from Butler Speedway, he spent a lot of time at the track and has been racing sprint cars since graduating from high school.

On March 19, Blonde earned the title “Fastest of the Fast” by competing in the World’s Fastest Half-Mile Speed Trials and won. The competition was part of the 50-year anniversary celebration of Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn.

He completed a blistering lap traveling 144.871 miles per hour in 13.245 seconds. He competed against Ford NASCAR drivers in a street legal Mustang, a Tony Stewart-owned sprint car, two supermodifieds and a world superbike champion for the title.

“It’s pretty much the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my racing career,” said Blonde. “It was on the Speed Channel. It was at Bristol and there were lots of NASCAR drivers there.”

Blonde said the Bristol track is very comparable to the high banks of Salem Speedway, noting the biggest difference is that Bristol is a smoother track.

One fact the two tracks do have in common is that Blonde holds the track record at both.

Last May, Blonde set Salem’s .555 mile track record going 140 miles per hour in 14.224 seconds. He said racing Salem’s track definitely helped him prepare for the Bristol event.

“The speed is the same and the set up is the same,” he said.

This weekend, Blonde will be back at the Salem Speedway racing in the Winged Sprint Spectacular featuring The Must See Racing Xtreme Sprint Series. Although he has only one win at the track, which was July 12, 2003, Blonde said Salem is one of his favorite places to race

Jason Blonde will be back in his primary car, a 410 MOPAR Gaerte Diablo 2011 Model. Jason's Bristol ride has been retired to Billy Wease!

“I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone at Salem,” he said. “They always treat us first class there and it’s one of our favorite tracks to go to for that reason.”

Blonde will lead a distinguished group of drivers onto the high banks on Sunday. Expected entries include Troy DeCaire, Ryan Litt, Jeff Bloom, Jacob Wilson, Jimmy McCune, Travis Miniea, Mike Larrison, Hank Lower, Kyle Flint, Jason Cox, Billy Wease, Dave Baumgartner and Donnie Adams, Jr., among others.

The track will host an open test and tune session Saturday and on Sunday, MSRXSS will host a special autograph meet and greet session with the drivers, present a race fan contest with the grand prize winner receiving a certificate to drive a real sprint car and the race fans can strap on the seat belts in the Must See Racing show sprint car.

Sunday’s race is also the season opening event for the Lucas Oil Super Stocks and the Dave & Deb’s Winner’s Circle Great American Stocks.