SAN BERNARDINO, California — It’s always nice to be able to fill a need. Filling two at once is even nicer, and that’s what Best in the West Racing has done with the creation of the Tour Truck class for the 2010 season.
The class is one of four additions to the weekly schedule at Orange Show Speedway, an ASA Member track, and Best in the West owner Rick McCray thinks it will be a positive addition for the racers, the track and the spectators.
It provides a home for racers looking for one and gives the fans another exciting division to follow.
McCray said the class will be open to the trucks that have run in the ASA Speed Truck, Super Truck or Spec Truck and SouthWest or West Coast Pro Truck series, and the rules package now being finalized will include provisions to compensate for the differences in the various trucks and equalize the competition.
“These truck guys just want a place to race,’ said McCray, who is offering potential Tour Trucks entrants a private Test and Tune session from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Friday (March 5).
The final Test and Tune opportunity for all classes is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday (March 6).
“Right now, with the cost of traveling (to races), some people can afford it and some can’t,” McCray added. “If they have a race track they can go to for a weekly series, that’s what they’re going to do. That’s what we’re trying to give them so they’ll have a place to run.”
Jocelyn, who is the owner and crew chief of the car his son Cameron will drive, echoed McCray’s comments in calling it “all a cost deal.” He said the team could have raced all season at Orange Show Speedway for what it spent to run half of the Speed Truck schedule and he was looking for an alternative to another year of part-time competition.
“We just want to come and play. That’s the general consensus with most guys, I think,” said Jocelyn, who’s hopeful the rules package will feature enough cost-control measures to “help the guys who have had the trucks setting in their garages who don’t have the latest of everything so they can get in and race and get these guys who can’t afford to do the tour thing out to Saturday night racing.
“We just want to come play. That’s the general consensus with most guys, I think. And the track wants us. That’s half the battle. They want us.”
The Orange Show Speedway season will open March 20 with a 100-lap Super Late Model race topping a program that will include the Team Too Pony Stocks, Interstate Batteries Factory Fours, Budweiser Legends and M.C. Erectors Bandoleros.
The Tour Trucks will make their debut March 27 along with the JAM Sportswear Late Models, Pick-A-Part Street Stocks, Stock Cars USA and Stock OHV Karts.
Spectator gates will open at 4 p.m., with an on-track autograph session from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and the first race at 7 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors (60 and older), students 11 to 18 and military personnel with valid identification. Children 10 and under are admitted free. A Family Pack, which includes admission for four plus a hot dog and small soft drink for each person, is priced at $40.
Parking is $5, with entry through Gate 4 off Mill Street.
A season ticket good for admission to all events except the Route 66 Rendezvous Burnout also is available for $250 and may be purchased at the speedway box office during the March 6 Test and Tune session or on opening day.
For information on sponsorship and promotional opportunities, please contact Best in the West Racing by telephone at 909-885-9000 or visit the new web site at www.BestInTheWestRacing.com.
For all other information, please contact Jim Short by telephone at 951-203-2649 or by e-mail at jimshort65@sbcglobal.net.
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As an American Speed Association (ASA)-sanctioned track, Orange Show Speedway is part of the ASA Member Track National Championship.
The goal of the ASA Short Track National Championship is to activate a measuring system which takes into account many variables – such as field size, inversion, wins and number of races in a season – and create a level playing field to determine who is the ‘best-of-the-best’ of the ASA Member Track Champions nationwide.
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The ASA Member Track program is comprised of a network of short tracks around the United States, as well as a variety of regional and national touring series. For news and information from all the racetracks and tours involved in the American Speed Association, visit www.ASA-Racing.com.
