CONCORD, NC - Nov. 3, 2009 -
GRAND FINALE: The 2009 World of Outlaws Late Model Series season concludes with a blockbuster four-day meet at The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway, beginning on Wednesday night (Nov. 4) with the postponed ‘Topless Showdown by Hungry Man' and continuing with the third annual World of Outlaws World Finals on Nov. 5-7.
With the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series also part of the World Finals, the four-tenths-mile oval is the only track where fans can see the two WoO tours race together on the same program in 2009.
THE FORMAT: Thanks to Mother Nature washing out the Topless Showdown on its original Oct. 14 date, the World Finals has a thrilling dirt Late Model lead-in for the second consecutive year.
Wednesday night's Topless Showdown – the only WoO LMS event this season in which teams will remove their cars' fiberglass roofs to give fans a clear view of the drivers working the steering wheel – will include a normal tour program of time trials, heat races, B-Mains and a 50-lap A-Main. But there's a wrinkle thrown in that makes this show stand out from the crowd.
The Topless Showdown features a unique bonus program and starting-position draw. It offers a base purse of $10,000 for first place in the A-Main, but if the winning driver submitted an official entry form prior to deadline they will also receive a ‘passing' bonus in an amount equal to $1,000 multiplied by their starting position – a perk that could push the winner's take-home pay to as much as $30,000.
In addition, the heat-race qualifiers will participate in the ‘Southern Fried Scramble' draw that gives them a chance to play it safe or roll the dice in pursuit of the maximum $20,000 bonus prize. The draw will consist of five buckets holding four starting-spot pills each – positions 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 and 17-20. When the drivers are called up to draw in the order of their heat finishes (winners first, etc.), they'll have the option of selecting a pill from any of the buckets. Essentially they can guarantee themselves a starting spot in the first two rows of the A-Main by staying conservative and sticking their hand in the first bucket – or they can go for a position further back in the field that would set them up to claim a huge paycheck if they win the Showdown.
After Wednesday's action gets fans heated up, the World Finals kicks off on Thursday night with time trials for both the WoO LMS and Sprint Car Series. Both tours will contest two separate rounds of qualifying – the first to line up Friday night's heat races, the second to align Saturday night's heats.
The Friday and Saturday cards will feature a full series of qualifying events and A-Mains for both divisions. The WoO LMS A-Main is scheduled to run last on Friday night and the WoO Sprint Car headliner is set to close out Saturday night's competition.
THE DRAMA: After 37 WoO LMS A-Mains this season, Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., holds a mere four-point lead over Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., in the battle for the $100,000 tour championship.
Wednesday night's Topless Showdown offers only WoO LMS show-up points, so the title will be determined in the pair of 50-lap, $10,000-to-win headliners on Friday and Saturday nights.
Defending WoO LMS champion Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., is third in the standings and still has flickering hopes of repeating. But with a 92-point deficit to Francis, Lanigan can only make a miraculous comeback if both drivers in front of him experience major problems in each A-Main.
That leaves Francis, 43, and Richards, 21, in a one-on-one face-off for the points crown. A win is worth 150 points, second place is 146 and then each remaining position drops two points, so every spot will be critical.
Does one of the championship combatants have an edge at The Dirt Track? Not really. Both drivers have one career win at the speedway – Francis the 2008 Colossal 100, Richards last year's World Finals finale.
What's more, both drivers have performed well in the two previous World Finals. Richards preceded his victory last year with a 10th-place finish, and in 2007 he finished fifth and 11th in the two A-Mains. Francis, meanwhile, didn't take the green flag in last year's Friday-night A-Main due to a busted transmission during the pace laps, but that's the only time he's placed outside the top five in the World Finals – he was fifth in last year's Saturday-night 50-lapper, and in '07 he was fourth (from the 18th starting spot) on Friday and second on Saturday.
Earlier this year, in the Colossal 100 at The Dirt Track, Richards finished third and Francis took fourth.
HOW THEY'VE FARED: Of the 14 WoO LMS regulars who have entered every tour event in 2009, Richards is the only driver who has won a World Finals A-Main over the past two years and Francis is the lone Outlaw with a runner-up finish in a Finals feature.
Here's the career-best World Finals finishes for '09 WoO LMS regulars: Tim Fuller of Watertown, N.Y. (third – from the 22nd starting spot – on Saturday in 2007); Lanigan (fifth on Saturday in ‘07); Rick Eckert of York, Pa. (sixth on Friday in ‘07); Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa. (sixth on Saturday in '08); Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga. (ninth on Saturday in ‘07); and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga. (17th on Saturday in '08).
Rookie of the Year contender Jordan Bland of Campbellsville, Ky., entered the 2007 and 2008 World Finals but did not qualify for an A-Main, while Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., Rookie of the Year points leader Russell King of Bristolville, Ohio, Brent Robinson of Smithfield, Va., Dustin Hapka of Grand Forks, N.D., and Tyler Reddick of Corning, Calif., will be making their first-ever World Finals appearances.
The 20-year-old King, who qualified for the Colossal 100 in his first start at The Dirt Track earlier this season, enters the weekend on the verge of clinching the 2009 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year crown. With King holding a 148-point edge over Bland in a points race determined using the rookies' best 30 finishes, the only way King can lose the crown is if he fails to finish 20th or better in at least one of the 50-lap A-Mains and Bland wins the two headline races in an unprecedented sweep.
HOW MANY CARS?: Big fields of dirt Late Models have been the rule for the World Finals and this year's edition figures to continue the tradition.
With more than 50 drivers pre-entered for the Topless Showdown and World Finals and many more with the events on their schedules, it's expected that the car count will approach, if not exceed, the turnout of the past two years. There were 82 cars signed in for qualifying in 2007 and 78 in 2008, and last year's Topless Showdown on the eve of the Finals drew a sterling 81-car field.
ROYAL FIELD: All five former WoO LMS champions are entered in this week's action – Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. (1988-89, 2005), Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn. (2004), Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y. (2006), Francis (2007) and Lanigan (2008).
Bloomquist is the only two-time winner in World Finals action after capturing the Friday-night A-Main in each of the past two seasons. McCreadie, meanwhile, scored a top finish of fourth in his lone Finals appearance in 2008, and Moyer is planning to run the event for the first time.
ROUND 2: The two drivers who produced one of the most dramatic finishes of the 2008 WoO LMS season – and have won the last two Topless Showdowns – will be back at The Dirt Track to reprise their battle.
Chris Madden of Gaffney, S.C., won last year's Topless Showdown over a charging Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., by a mere 0.077 of a second. It was Madden's fourth career triumph at The Dirt Track and he pocketed a cool $16,150, including a $6,000 ‘passing' bonus.
Babb won the 2007 Showdown, which was run three weeks before the World Finals and with roofs on the cars. He earned $18,225, including an $8,000 ‘passing' bonus.
PREPPING FOR '10: Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del., and Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, Pa. – two rising young talents who have expressed interest in applying for Rookie of the Year status on the 2010 WoO LMS – have filed entries for this week's race-fest.
Hubbard, 17, has entered more than half of this year's WoO LMS events and owns three top-five finishes. He recently turned heads by qualifying for the World 100 and Dirt Track World Championship in his first crack at both events.
The 24-year-old Satterlee, meanwhile, has one top-five finish in his 14 WoO LMS starts this season. He won 12 features in 2009 on the western Pennsylvania circuit.
TALENT GALORE: Other standout drivers expected to compete this week include 2009 UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model national champion Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill.; Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa; Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., who scored finishes of second and third in last year's World Finals; Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn.; Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.Va., who set fast time in both rounds of qualifying during the '07 Finals; 2009 Colossal 100 winner Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla.; Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, who won the Saturday-night Finals A-Main in 2007; and Jeep VanWormer of Pinconning, Mich.
STRAIGHT-LINE STAR POWER: An intriguing addition to this week's dirt Late Model field is two-time and reigning NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon, who will transition from flying down the drag strip at speeds of more than 300 mph to maneuvering a full-fender machine around The Dirt Track.
Pedregon purchased a dirt Late Model this season to run in selected events around his NHRA schedule and has quickly become a contender. He won his first career dirt Late Model feature on Aug. 8 at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, Ind.
GET YOUR AUTOGRAPHS: A special autograph session featuring several WoO LMS stars and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman will be held under The Dirt Track's grandstand at 5 p.m. on Wednesday prior to the start of the Topless Showdown.
Newman competed in last year's Topless Showdown, but after surviving a wild flip in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway he will stay out of the cockpit and instead sign autographs alongside his Steve Francis-prepared dirt Late Model.
OFF-TRACK ENTERTAINMENT: The Souvenir Village located just outside the front grandstand gate of The Dirt Track will be bustling with activity throughout the week.
In addition to the Late Model and Sprint Car merchandise trailers that will be open for business, a stage erected in the middle of the area will be a focal point for fans. A special free concert and party will be held there beginning at 9 p.m. on Thursday night, and a pre-race show hosted by Virginia Motor Speedway announcer Dave Seay and reporter Ashlee Sieveke will put star drivers and noted track promoters in front of the crowd from 3-5 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
And on Saturday night, the national anthem will be sung by Broken Bow Records country music recording artist Ash Bowers.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: All fans and participants planning to travel to The Dirt Track through western North Carolina on I-40 should be aware that a portion of the highway is closed indefinitely due to a rockslide that occurred on Oct. 25.
The rockslide, which covered the highway at mile marker 2.6 in North Carolina, near the Tennessee state line, has closed I-40 from mile marker 451 in Tennessee to mile marker 20 in North Carolina.
An alternate route has been outlined for those travelling to Lowe's Motor Speedway from the Tennessee area. Travelers should take I-40 to I-81 North to Asheville. Take exit 57A to I-26 East. Exit to I-240 East, then take a left exit to I-40 East toward Statesville.
SCHEDULE: For the Topless Showdown on Wednesday, grandstand gates are scheduled to open at 5 p.m. and qualifying is set to commence at 6:45.
Spectator gates open at 4 p.m. for all three days of the World Finals. Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday and 6:20 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
NATIONAL AUDIENCE: The finale of the World Finals on Sat., Nov. 8, will air live on the SPEED cable network beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Shane Andrews and former Lowe's Motor Speedway short-track manager Roger Slack will provide the commentary from the booth on the WoO LMS portion of the program.
Fans who can't make it to the track can also watch all the action leading up to Saturday's SPEED telecast on DIRTVision. Live video coverage of the Topless Showdown and first two nights of the World Finals through www.DIRTVision.com for a special World Finals subscription price of $12.99.
GET YOUR TICKETS: Tickets for Wednesday's World of Outlaws Topless Showdown are $25 for adults and $5 for children 12-and-under. Three-day passes for the World of Outlaws World Finals are just $59 for adults and $19 for children 12-and-under, and single-day tickets are also available.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.lowesmotorspeedway.com or by calling the Lowe's Motor Speedway ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS.
For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.
2009 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Point Standings – 37 A-Mains completed (rank/driver/points/deficit to leader):
1. Steve Francis 5073 (-0)
2. Josh Richards 5069 (-4)
3. Darrell Lanigan 4981 (-92)
4. Tim Fuller 4925 (-148)
5. Rick Eckert 4867 (-206)
6. Shane Clanton 4835 (-238)
7. Chub Frank 4793 (-280)
8. Brady Smith 4674 (-399)
9. Clint Smith 4581 (-492)
10. Russell King 4129 (-944)
11. Jordan Bland 3981 (-1092)
12. Brent Robinson 3757 (-1316)
13. Dustin Hapka 3422 (-1651)
14. Tyler Reddick 3242 (-1831)
15. Vic Coffey 3092 (-1981)
16. Austin Hubbard 2873 (-2200)
17. Matt Lux 1817 (-3256)
18. Gregg Satterlee 1706 (-3367)
19. Dan Stone 1526 (-3547)
20. Tim McCreadie 1471 (-3602)
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.
GRAND FINALE: The 2009 World of Outlaws Late Model Series season concludes with a blockbuster four-day meet at The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway, beginning on Wednesday night (Nov. 4) with the postponed ‘Topless Showdown by Hungry Man' and continuing with the third annual World of Outlaws World Finals on Nov. 5-7.
With the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series also part of the World Finals, the four-tenths-mile oval is the only track where fans can see the two WoO tours race together on the same program in 2009.
THE FORMAT: Thanks to Mother Nature washing out the Topless Showdown on its original Oct. 14 date, the World Finals has a thrilling dirt Late Model lead-in for the second consecutive year.
Wednesday night's Topless Showdown – the only WoO LMS event this season in which teams will remove their cars' fiberglass roofs to give fans a clear view of the drivers working the steering wheel – will include a normal tour program of time trials, heat races, B-Mains and a 50-lap A-Main. But there's a wrinkle thrown in that makes this show stand out from the crowd.
The Topless Showdown features a unique bonus program and starting-position draw. It offers a base purse of $10,000 for first place in the A-Main, but if the winning driver submitted an official entry form prior to deadline they will also receive a ‘passing' bonus in an amount equal to $1,000 multiplied by their starting position – a perk that could push the winner's take-home pay to as much as $30,000.
In addition, the heat-race qualifiers will participate in the ‘Southern Fried Scramble' draw that gives them a chance to play it safe or roll the dice in pursuit of the maximum $20,000 bonus prize. The draw will consist of five buckets holding four starting-spot pills each – positions 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 and 17-20. When the drivers are called up to draw in the order of their heat finishes (winners first, etc.), they'll have the option of selecting a pill from any of the buckets. Essentially they can guarantee themselves a starting spot in the first two rows of the A-Main by staying conservative and sticking their hand in the first bucket – or they can go for a position further back in the field that would set them up to claim a huge paycheck if they win the Showdown.
After Wednesday's action gets fans heated up, the World Finals kicks off on Thursday night with time trials for both the WoO LMS and Sprint Car Series. Both tours will contest two separate rounds of qualifying – the first to line up Friday night's heat races, the second to align Saturday night's heats.
The Friday and Saturday cards will feature a full series of qualifying events and A-Mains for both divisions. The WoO LMS A-Main is scheduled to run last on Friday night and the WoO Sprint Car headliner is set to close out Saturday night's competition.
THE DRAMA: After 37 WoO LMS A-Mains this season, Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., holds a mere four-point lead over Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., in the battle for the $100,000 tour championship.
Wednesday night's Topless Showdown offers only WoO LMS show-up points, so the title will be determined in the pair of 50-lap, $10,000-to-win headliners on Friday and Saturday nights.
Defending WoO LMS champion Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., is third in the standings and still has flickering hopes of repeating. But with a 92-point deficit to Francis, Lanigan can only make a miraculous comeback if both drivers in front of him experience major problems in each A-Main.
That leaves Francis, 43, and Richards, 21, in a one-on-one face-off for the points crown. A win is worth 150 points, second place is 146 and then each remaining position drops two points, so every spot will be critical.
Does one of the championship combatants have an edge at The Dirt Track? Not really. Both drivers have one career win at the speedway – Francis the 2008 Colossal 100, Richards last year's World Finals finale.
What's more, both drivers have performed well in the two previous World Finals. Richards preceded his victory last year with a 10th-place finish, and in 2007 he finished fifth and 11th in the two A-Mains. Francis, meanwhile, didn't take the green flag in last year's Friday-night A-Main due to a busted transmission during the pace laps, but that's the only time he's placed outside the top five in the World Finals – he was fifth in last year's Saturday-night 50-lapper, and in '07 he was fourth (from the 18th starting spot) on Friday and second on Saturday.
Earlier this year, in the Colossal 100 at The Dirt Track, Richards finished third and Francis took fourth.
HOW THEY'VE FARED: Of the 14 WoO LMS regulars who have entered every tour event in 2009, Richards is the only driver who has won a World Finals A-Main over the past two years and Francis is the lone Outlaw with a runner-up finish in a Finals feature.
Here's the career-best World Finals finishes for '09 WoO LMS regulars: Tim Fuller of Watertown, N.Y. (third – from the 22nd starting spot – on Saturday in 2007); Lanigan (fifth on Saturday in ‘07); Rick Eckert of York, Pa. (sixth on Friday in ‘07); Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa. (sixth on Saturday in '08); Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga. (ninth on Saturday in ‘07); and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga. (17th on Saturday in '08).
Rookie of the Year contender Jordan Bland of Campbellsville, Ky., entered the 2007 and 2008 World Finals but did not qualify for an A-Main, while Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., Rookie of the Year points leader Russell King of Bristolville, Ohio, Brent Robinson of Smithfield, Va., Dustin Hapka of Grand Forks, N.D., and Tyler Reddick of Corning, Calif., will be making their first-ever World Finals appearances.
The 20-year-old King, who qualified for the Colossal 100 in his first start at The Dirt Track earlier this season, enters the weekend on the verge of clinching the 2009 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year crown. With King holding a 148-point edge over Bland in a points race determined using the rookies' best 30 finishes, the only way King can lose the crown is if he fails to finish 20th or better in at least one of the 50-lap A-Mains and Bland wins the two headline races in an unprecedented sweep.
HOW MANY CARS?: Big fields of dirt Late Models have been the rule for the World Finals and this year's edition figures to continue the tradition.
With more than 50 drivers pre-entered for the Topless Showdown and World Finals and many more with the events on their schedules, it's expected that the car count will approach, if not exceed, the turnout of the past two years. There were 82 cars signed in for qualifying in 2007 and 78 in 2008, and last year's Topless Showdown on the eve of the Finals drew a sterling 81-car field.
ROYAL FIELD: All five former WoO LMS champions are entered in this week's action – Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. (1988-89, 2005), Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn. (2004), Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y. (2006), Francis (2007) and Lanigan (2008).
Bloomquist is the only two-time winner in World Finals action after capturing the Friday-night A-Main in each of the past two seasons. McCreadie, meanwhile, scored a top finish of fourth in his lone Finals appearance in 2008, and Moyer is planning to run the event for the first time.
ROUND 2: The two drivers who produced one of the most dramatic finishes of the 2008 WoO LMS season – and have won the last two Topless Showdowns – will be back at The Dirt Track to reprise their battle.
Chris Madden of Gaffney, S.C., won last year's Topless Showdown over a charging Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., by a mere 0.077 of a second. It was Madden's fourth career triumph at The Dirt Track and he pocketed a cool $16,150, including a $6,000 ‘passing' bonus.
Babb won the 2007 Showdown, which was run three weeks before the World Finals and with roofs on the cars. He earned $18,225, including an $8,000 ‘passing' bonus.
PREPPING FOR '10: Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del., and Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, Pa. – two rising young talents who have expressed interest in applying for Rookie of the Year status on the 2010 WoO LMS – have filed entries for this week's race-fest.
Hubbard, 17, has entered more than half of this year's WoO LMS events and owns three top-five finishes. He recently turned heads by qualifying for the World 100 and Dirt Track World Championship in his first crack at both events.
The 24-year-old Satterlee, meanwhile, has one top-five finish in his 14 WoO LMS starts this season. He won 12 features in 2009 on the western Pennsylvania circuit.
TALENT GALORE: Other standout drivers expected to compete this week include 2009 UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model national champion Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill.; Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa; Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., who scored finishes of second and third in last year's World Finals; Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn.; Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.Va., who set fast time in both rounds of qualifying during the '07 Finals; 2009 Colossal 100 winner Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla.; Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, who won the Saturday-night Finals A-Main in 2007; and Jeep VanWormer of Pinconning, Mich.
STRAIGHT-LINE STAR POWER: An intriguing addition to this week's dirt Late Model field is two-time and reigning NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon, who will transition from flying down the drag strip at speeds of more than 300 mph to maneuvering a full-fender machine around The Dirt Track.
Pedregon purchased a dirt Late Model this season to run in selected events around his NHRA schedule and has quickly become a contender. He won his first career dirt Late Model feature on Aug. 8 at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, Ind.
GET YOUR AUTOGRAPHS: A special autograph session featuring several WoO LMS stars and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman will be held under The Dirt Track's grandstand at 5 p.m. on Wednesday prior to the start of the Topless Showdown.
Newman competed in last year's Topless Showdown, but after surviving a wild flip in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway he will stay out of the cockpit and instead sign autographs alongside his Steve Francis-prepared dirt Late Model.
OFF-TRACK ENTERTAINMENT: The Souvenir Village located just outside the front grandstand gate of The Dirt Track will be bustling with activity throughout the week.
In addition to the Late Model and Sprint Car merchandise trailers that will be open for business, a stage erected in the middle of the area will be a focal point for fans. A special free concert and party will be held there beginning at 9 p.m. on Thursday night, and a pre-race show hosted by Virginia Motor Speedway announcer Dave Seay and reporter Ashlee Sieveke will put star drivers and noted track promoters in front of the crowd from 3-5 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
And on Saturday night, the national anthem will be sung by Broken Bow Records country music recording artist Ash Bowers.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: All fans and participants planning to travel to The Dirt Track through western North Carolina on I-40 should be aware that a portion of the highway is closed indefinitely due to a rockslide that occurred on Oct. 25.
The rockslide, which covered the highway at mile marker 2.6 in North Carolina, near the Tennessee state line, has closed I-40 from mile marker 451 in Tennessee to mile marker 20 in North Carolina.
An alternate route has been outlined for those travelling to Lowe's Motor Speedway from the Tennessee area. Travelers should take I-40 to I-81 North to Asheville. Take exit 57A to I-26 East. Exit to I-240 East, then take a left exit to I-40 East toward Statesville.
SCHEDULE: For the Topless Showdown on Wednesday, grandstand gates are scheduled to open at 5 p.m. and qualifying is set to commence at 6:45.
Spectator gates open at 4 p.m. for all three days of the World Finals. Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday and 6:20 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
NATIONAL AUDIENCE: The finale of the World Finals on Sat., Nov. 8, will air live on the SPEED cable network beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Shane Andrews and former Lowe's Motor Speedway short-track manager Roger Slack will provide the commentary from the booth on the WoO LMS portion of the program.
Fans who can't make it to the track can also watch all the action leading up to Saturday's SPEED telecast on DIRTVision. Live video coverage of the Topless Showdown and first two nights of the World Finals through www.DIRTVision.com for a special World Finals subscription price of $12.99.
GET YOUR TICKETS: Tickets for Wednesday's World of Outlaws Topless Showdown are $25 for adults and $5 for children 12-and-under. Three-day passes for the World of Outlaws World Finals are just $59 for adults and $19 for children 12-and-under, and single-day tickets are also available.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.lowesmotorspeedway.com or by calling the Lowe's Motor Speedway ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS.
For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.
2009 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Point Standings – 37 A-Mains completed (rank/driver/points/deficit to leader):
1. Steve Francis 5073 (-0)
2. Josh Richards 5069 (-4)
3. Darrell Lanigan 4981 (-92)
4. Tim Fuller 4925 (-148)
5. Rick Eckert 4867 (-206)
6. Shane Clanton 4835 (-238)
7. Chub Frank 4793 (-280)
8. Brady Smith 4674 (-399)
9. Clint Smith 4581 (-492)
10. Russell King 4129 (-944)
11. Jordan Bland 3981 (-1092)
12. Brent Robinson 3757 (-1316)
13. Dustin Hapka 3422 (-1651)
14. Tyler Reddick 3242 (-1831)
15. Vic Coffey 3092 (-1981)
16. Austin Hubbard 2873 (-2200)
17. Matt Lux 1817 (-3256)
18. Gregg Satterlee 1706 (-3367)
19. Dan Stone 1526 (-3547)
20. Tim McCreadie 1471 (-3602)
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.
