Granite City, IL -- Tri-City Speedway is planning a huge weekend of racing Saturday and Sunday, July 10-11. Even though monsoon-like rainstormsforced cancellation of lst week's Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Racing Series at Tri-City Speedway, "Bike Week" has been scheduled for tonight and one lucky boy and one lucky girl will win brand new bicycles in a special drawing during Intermission.
The Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Racing Series features the Dodge Ironman Late Models, Mountain Dew Sportsmen, Budweiser Modifieds, Dominos Street Stocks and Auto Trader Factory Stocks on Tri-City's tight, quarter-mile dirt bullring.
Spectator gates open at 6 p.m.with racing at 7 p.m. Adults $10, Students (11-17) $5 and Children 10 and under $2. Parking is always FREE.
Billy Moyer, Wendell Wallace and Bill Frye will challenge local Late Model drivers like Washington, Missouri's Ed Dixon and St. Charles' Kevin Gundaker in a 40-lap, $10,000 to win battle on Tri-City's fast half-mile when the the United Midwest Promoters (UMP) Summer Nationals shred Tri-City Speedway's flat half-mile on Sunday, July 11.
Dixon and Gundaker, no strangers to the UMP battles, are expected to take on current UMP Summer Nationals points leader Don O'Neal, Shannon Babb, Brian Birkhofer, Rick Eckert, Steve Francis, Terry English, Rodney Melvin, Greg Johnson, Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Kevin Weaver and Steve Sheppard, Jr., for 40 laps of dirt spewing insanity and a $10,000 winner's check.
Also part of the July 11 Summer Nationals card at Tri-City are the open-wheeled UMP Modifieds in a $1,000 to win, UMP points event on Tri-City's tight, high-banked quarter-mile dirt. Expected to make the field are St.Louis natives Ray Walsh, Jeff LeBaube, Illinoisans John Seets, Bobby Bittle, Bobby Martintoni, Scott Weber and Donnie Wren.
Reserved seats in the Top Six rows are $24 and available at RaceLine at (636) 947-7287 or RaceTix at (314) 469-9666; General admission seats are $22. Pit gates open at 3 p.m., spectator gates at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m. Tri-City Speedway is located one-half mile south of I-270 on Illinois Route 203 (Nameoki Road), just 10 minutes north of downtown St. Louis.
The Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Racing Series features the Dodge Ironman Late Models, Mountain Dew Sportsmen, Budweiser Modifieds, Dominos Street Stocks and Auto Trader Factory Stocks on Tri-City's tight, quarter-mile dirt bullring.
Spectator gates open at 6 p.m.with racing at 7 p.m. Adults $10, Students (11-17) $5 and Children 10 and under $2. Parking is always FREE.
Billy Moyer, Wendell Wallace and Bill Frye will challenge local Late Model drivers like Washington, Missouri's Ed Dixon and St. Charles' Kevin Gundaker in a 40-lap, $10,000 to win battle on Tri-City's fast half-mile when the the United Midwest Promoters (UMP) Summer Nationals shred Tri-City Speedway's flat half-mile on Sunday, July 11.
Dixon and Gundaker, no strangers to the UMP battles, are expected to take on current UMP Summer Nationals points leader Don O'Neal, Shannon Babb, Brian Birkhofer, Rick Eckert, Steve Francis, Terry English, Rodney Melvin, Greg Johnson, Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Kevin Weaver and Steve Sheppard, Jr., for 40 laps of dirt spewing insanity and a $10,000 winner's check.
Also part of the July 11 Summer Nationals card at Tri-City are the open-wheeled UMP Modifieds in a $1,000 to win, UMP points event on Tri-City's tight, high-banked quarter-mile dirt. Expected to make the field are St.Louis natives Ray Walsh, Jeff LeBaube, Illinoisans John Seets, Bobby Bittle, Bobby Martintoni, Scott Weber and Donnie Wren.
Reserved seats in the Top Six rows are $24 and available at RaceLine at (636) 947-7287 or RaceTix at (314) 469-9666; General admission seats are $22. Pit gates open at 3 p.m., spectator gates at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m. Tri-City Speedway is located one-half mile south of I-270 on Illinois Route 203 (Nameoki Road), just 10 minutes north of downtown St. Louis.
