Raffle For Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity Part Of Charitable Effort To Support Families Of Victims Slain In Tuesday’s Alabama Tragedy
LOXLEY, AL - March 11, 2009 – By Ozzie Altman/Deep South Speedway –
A new ‘first’ in the world of American Stock Car Racing will be unveiled this weekend when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series rumbles into Deep South Speedway for a special two-day event weekend on the high-banked, four-tenths mile oval near the Gulf Coast.
Deep South Speedway officials, in a cooperative effort with the World Racing Group and
Domino’s Pizza, announced Wednesday morning that a never-before-attempted promotion will occur during the two nights of WoO LMS action at the exciting racing facility located halfway between Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla.
With a busy racing schedule ahead for Deep South Speedway this weekend, a special cause will also take center stage in the form of a unique charitable effort to help the victims of Tuesday’s shooting tragedy in Geneva and Samson, Ala.
When the green flag waves in the weekend’s ‘Battle of the Gulf’ A-Mains on Friday night (March 13) and Saturday night (March 14), four race fans will actually have the opportunity of a lifetime and start the feature events as passengers in two-seat dirt Late Model race cars.
You didn’t misread the previous sentence – yes, two race fans each night will be strapped into dirt Late Model race cars for the start of the features. These history-making racing fans will literally start at the tail of the feature events.
All fans attending this weekend’s WoO LMS action at Deep South Speedway will have the opportunity to make a charitable donation of one dollar or more to the families who suffered great losses in Tuesday’s Geneva County tragedy. Donations made on Friday will give fans a chance at winning one of two seats in the specially-prepared dirt Late Models to start the evening’s 40-lap, $7,000-to-win A-Main, and donations made on Saturday will provide fans a shot at two open seats in the cars for the evening’s 60-lap, $12,000-to-win finale.
The winning fans will suit up and experience the start of a WoO LMS A-Main from a vantage point right in the middle of the action. With an experienced racer steering them around the track, they will be a part of the field during the tour’s famed four-wide parade laps and then actually take the green flag at the start of each A-Main before pulling off the racing surface as the field exits turn two on the opening lap.
The special, unprecedented promotion will be a part of the activities during one of the biggest stock car programs ever held along the coastal region of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
“We wanted to do something thrilling for the race fans that make this sport what it is,” said Speedway manager Ozzie Altman of the unique fund-raising promotion. “This week’s tragic events down the road forced us to see what we could do to help out the immediate needs of some folks that are facing life-changing circumstances and grief. As their neighbors we need to help them out, and we can involve all the race fans in the assistance effort as well during an event of the magnitude that we have this weekend at Deep South Speedway.”
Karen Webb, a lead partner in Deep South Speedway’s ownership team, is a graduate of Auburn University, as is U.S. Congressman Bobby Bright, whose district includes the communities of Samson and Geneva, Ala. Webb, along with her husband Bill, are accustomed to quick response and aid to communities through their BKW, Inc. response and recovery business, which the government calls upon for disaster relief.
“Just to be strapped into a real racecar as the starting field of American racing legends takes pace laps around the track for opening ceremonies – and then to actually take the green flag with the field – is something that race fans across the nation have never had the opportunity to do,” stated Altman. “Bill Webb (of Deep South Speedway) and I have talked about this deal for a lot of years, and we have recently spoken with the officials of the World of Outlaws to make it become a reality.
“The most important issues surrounding the promotion are to make certain that we do not jeopardize the safety of anyone involved, while also not creating any interference with the actual race itself. It is unheard of, but it is also a great method to raise much-needed funds for such a worthy cause and the folks with the World of Outlaws are behind the promotion one-hundred percent.”
Along with the promoters of the event, the new-age online media outlet DirtOnDirt.com is a part of the effort to give race fans a radical manner to participate in the sport that they so dearly love. In addition to the winning pair of race fans in each night’s raffle, consolation prize winners will be given the opportunity to wave the green flag to start each feature event and also win year-long subscriptions to www.dirtondirt.com. DirtOnDirt.com will also be on hand to document the history-making nights of the four fortunate race fans
Thursday Night Welcome Party/Open Practice/Media Night Kicks Off Weekend
Action gets underway this week at Deep South Speedway with a ‘Welcome Party/Media Night that features an open practice session for all racecars on Thursday (March 12) from 6-9 p.m. Pit Gates will open at 5 p.m.
On Friday, pit gates will open at 12 noon and grandstand gates will open at 4 p.m., and on Saturday afternoon pit gates will again open at 12 noon and grandstand gates will swing open at 3 p.m. ahead of pre-race festivities featuring a performance by the band “7th Green” from 4-6 p.m.
WoO LMS time trials are scheduled to begin at 6:15 each night, with each night’s opening ceremonies slated for 7:10 p.m. Feature racing will immediately follow.
Adult pit passes are $30 each night, with adult grandstand ticket pricing set at $20 on Friday and $25 on Saturday night. Grandstand admission for kids 6-12 years of age is $5 each night, with children 5-and-under admitted free into the grandstand area when accompanied by a paying adult.
Complete WoO LMS programs will be presented on both Fri., March 13, and Sat., March 14, including time trials, heats, B-Mains and an A-Main. Local divisions will also be in action each evening.
Deep South Speedway is located on Alabama Hwy 59, four miles north of Exit 44 off Interstate 10 or 16 miles south of I-65 Exit 37.
For more information, visit www.deepsouthspeedway.com or call the speedway office 251-964-6953.
Additional info on the WoO LMS is available by logging on to www.worldofoutlaws.com.
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by many important sponsors and partners, including Arizona Sport Shirts (Official Apparel Company), Armor All (Official Car Care Products), Crane Cams (Official Valvetrain), Hoosier Racing Tires (Official Racing Tires), Fusion Energy Boost (Official Energy Boost), SuperClean (Official Cleaner-Degreaser) and VP Racing (Official Racing Fuel); in addition to contingency sponsors Champ Pans, Eibach Springs, Hoosier Tires, Integra Shocks, Jake’s Custom Golf Carts, Ohlins Shocks, Racing Electronics, Quarter Master and Wrisco Aluminum; Crane Cams Engine Builder's Challenge participants Cornett Racing Engines, Custom Race Engines and Pro Power Racing Engines; and Chassis Builder Challenge participants Rocket Chassis and Team Zero by Bloomquist.
LOXLEY, AL - March 11, 2009 – By Ozzie Altman/Deep South Speedway –
A new ‘first’ in the world of American Stock Car Racing will be unveiled this weekend when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series rumbles into Deep South Speedway for a special two-day event weekend on the high-banked, four-tenths mile oval near the Gulf Coast.
Deep South Speedway officials, in a cooperative effort with the World Racing Group and
Domino’s Pizza, announced Wednesday morning that a never-before-attempted promotion will occur during the two nights of WoO LMS action at the exciting racing facility located halfway between Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla.
With a busy racing schedule ahead for Deep South Speedway this weekend, a special cause will also take center stage in the form of a unique charitable effort to help the victims of Tuesday’s shooting tragedy in Geneva and Samson, Ala.
When the green flag waves in the weekend’s ‘Battle of the Gulf’ A-Mains on Friday night (March 13) and Saturday night (March 14), four race fans will actually have the opportunity of a lifetime and start the feature events as passengers in two-seat dirt Late Model race cars.
You didn’t misread the previous sentence – yes, two race fans each night will be strapped into dirt Late Model race cars for the start of the features. These history-making racing fans will literally start at the tail of the feature events.
All fans attending this weekend’s WoO LMS action at Deep South Speedway will have the opportunity to make a charitable donation of one dollar or more to the families who suffered great losses in Tuesday’s Geneva County tragedy. Donations made on Friday will give fans a chance at winning one of two seats in the specially-prepared dirt Late Models to start the evening’s 40-lap, $7,000-to-win A-Main, and donations made on Saturday will provide fans a shot at two open seats in the cars for the evening’s 60-lap, $12,000-to-win finale.
The winning fans will suit up and experience the start of a WoO LMS A-Main from a vantage point right in the middle of the action. With an experienced racer steering them around the track, they will be a part of the field during the tour’s famed four-wide parade laps and then actually take the green flag at the start of each A-Main before pulling off the racing surface as the field exits turn two on the opening lap.
The special, unprecedented promotion will be a part of the activities during one of the biggest stock car programs ever held along the coastal region of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
“We wanted to do something thrilling for the race fans that make this sport what it is,” said Speedway manager Ozzie Altman of the unique fund-raising promotion. “This week’s tragic events down the road forced us to see what we could do to help out the immediate needs of some folks that are facing life-changing circumstances and grief. As their neighbors we need to help them out, and we can involve all the race fans in the assistance effort as well during an event of the magnitude that we have this weekend at Deep South Speedway.”
Karen Webb, a lead partner in Deep South Speedway’s ownership team, is a graduate of Auburn University, as is U.S. Congressman Bobby Bright, whose district includes the communities of Samson and Geneva, Ala. Webb, along with her husband Bill, are accustomed to quick response and aid to communities through their BKW, Inc. response and recovery business, which the government calls upon for disaster relief.
“Just to be strapped into a real racecar as the starting field of American racing legends takes pace laps around the track for opening ceremonies – and then to actually take the green flag with the field – is something that race fans across the nation have never had the opportunity to do,” stated Altman. “Bill Webb (of Deep South Speedway) and I have talked about this deal for a lot of years, and we have recently spoken with the officials of the World of Outlaws to make it become a reality.
“The most important issues surrounding the promotion are to make certain that we do not jeopardize the safety of anyone involved, while also not creating any interference with the actual race itself. It is unheard of, but it is also a great method to raise much-needed funds for such a worthy cause and the folks with the World of Outlaws are behind the promotion one-hundred percent.”
Along with the promoters of the event, the new-age online media outlet DirtOnDirt.com is a part of the effort to give race fans a radical manner to participate in the sport that they so dearly love. In addition to the winning pair of race fans in each night’s raffle, consolation prize winners will be given the opportunity to wave the green flag to start each feature event and also win year-long subscriptions to www.dirtondirt.com. DirtOnDirt.com will also be on hand to document the history-making nights of the four fortunate race fans
Thursday Night Welcome Party/Open Practice/Media Night Kicks Off Weekend
Action gets underway this week at Deep South Speedway with a ‘Welcome Party/Media Night that features an open practice session for all racecars on Thursday (March 12) from 6-9 p.m. Pit Gates will open at 5 p.m.
On Friday, pit gates will open at 12 noon and grandstand gates will open at 4 p.m., and on Saturday afternoon pit gates will again open at 12 noon and grandstand gates will swing open at 3 p.m. ahead of pre-race festivities featuring a performance by the band “7th Green” from 4-6 p.m.
WoO LMS time trials are scheduled to begin at 6:15 each night, with each night’s opening ceremonies slated for 7:10 p.m. Feature racing will immediately follow.
Adult pit passes are $30 each night, with adult grandstand ticket pricing set at $20 on Friday and $25 on Saturday night. Grandstand admission for kids 6-12 years of age is $5 each night, with children 5-and-under admitted free into the grandstand area when accompanied by a paying adult.
Complete WoO LMS programs will be presented on both Fri., March 13, and Sat., March 14, including time trials, heats, B-Mains and an A-Main. Local divisions will also be in action each evening.
Deep South Speedway is located on Alabama Hwy 59, four miles north of Exit 44 off Interstate 10 or 16 miles south of I-65 Exit 37.
For more information, visit www.deepsouthspeedway.com or call the speedway office 251-964-6953.
Additional info on the WoO LMS is available by logging on to www.worldofoutlaws.com.
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by many important sponsors and partners, including Arizona Sport Shirts (Official Apparel Company), Armor All (Official Car Care Products), Crane Cams (Official Valvetrain), Hoosier Racing Tires (Official Racing Tires), Fusion Energy Boost (Official Energy Boost), SuperClean (Official Cleaner-Degreaser) and VP Racing (Official Racing Fuel); in addition to contingency sponsors Champ Pans, Eibach Springs, Hoosier Tires, Integra Shocks, Jake’s Custom Golf Carts, Ohlins Shocks, Racing Electronics, Quarter Master and Wrisco Aluminum; Crane Cams Engine Builder's Challenge participants Cornett Racing Engines, Custom Race Engines and Pro Power Racing Engines; and Chassis Builder Challenge participants Rocket Chassis and Team Zero by Bloomquist.
