News
from the 25th annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car
Show presented by Reading Eagle and WEEU 830 AM
Media Contact: Brett Deyo - 845.728.2781 or
Deyo99H@aol.com
For Immediate Release/February 24, 2010
Small Cars Draw A Large Crowd
To 25th Annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show;
Modified Stars Visit Tonight
READING, PA - Small cars drew a
large crowd to center court of the Fairgrounds
Square Mall on Tuesday night.
Racers and fans of the region's small car divisions,
including Micro-Sprints, XCel 600 Modifieds,
Slingshots and Quarter Midgets turned out in full
force for Small Car Night during the 25th annual
Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show presented by
Reading Eagle and WEEU 830 AM, held at the former
site of the famed Reading Fairgrounds Speedway.
600cc Micro-Sprint Web site 600Scene.com
presented a Small Car Roundtable, featuring Richie
Hartman of RTS Chassis, Mike Dicely of Hyper
Chassis, Kevin Steele, Micro-Sprint racer and
600Scene.com co-owner and JoAnne Mady, PR rep
for the XCel 600 Mod Series filling in for a
snowbound Doug Borger.
Small car Area Auto Racing News
columnist Barry Angstadt served as moderator while
Racers Roundtable radio show host Pete
Knappenberger worked in the MC role and took
questions from the crowd.
The expert panel discussed
hot-button issues such as the cost of racing,
track preparation, the influx of small-car
divisions, winged vs. wingless racing and much
more.
Prior to the Roundtable, small car
racers Katie and Joe McCardle, Eric Whitby, Brad
Arnold, Mike Freed, Matt Miller, Kurt Bettler and
Quarter Midget talents Lauryn and Laurysa
Seigfried, were interviewed by Pete Knappenberger
on stage.
The show resumes today (Wed., Feb. 24) with
Reading Plastic Fabricators Inc. 'Modified Madness
Night' at the mall.
From 3-5 p.m., WEEU 830 AM will
broadcast live from center court, setting the
stage for the evening's activities.
Drivers scheduled to appear include
New Jersey legend Billy Pauch, Grandview (Pa.)
Speedway and Big Diamond (Pa.) Raceway talents
Doug Manmiller, John Willman, Kevin Hirthler,
Terry Meitzler, Jeff Strunk and Bridgeport (N.J.)
Speedway star Ryan Watt.
Don't miss the public debut of the
BFP Specialty Young Guns: Mike Gular, Billy Pauch
Jr., Jon Kellner Jr., Sean Merkel, Brad Missimer,
Kyle Follweiler, A.J. DeSantis, Addison Meitzler,
Jordan Umbenhauer, Kevin Albert Jr., Danny
Nicholas, Carroll Hine III, Mike Lisowski, Jared
Umbenhauer and Michael Weinert.
Six of the top Modified drivers
will congregate at Randy's Raceway, an HO slot car
track in the mall, at 6:45 p.m. for a celebrity
slot car event.
Ms. Thunder on the Hill Cassi
Pinder will be out during the evening as well.
At 9 p.m. Jeff Strunk, Mike Gular,
Doug Manmiller and Kevin Hirthler will step behind
the bar at Applebee's adjacent to the mall for
celebrity bartending.
With 113 race cars on display, the show continues
through Saturday (Feb. 27) with nightly activities
planned. The show features a wide cross-section of
racing vehicles, including vintage/restored cars,
big- and small-block Modifieds, Late Models,
Sprint Cars, ARDC Midgets, SpeedSTR Midgets,
Sportsman, Roadrunners, Micro-Sprints, XCel 600
Modifieds, Slingshots, Go-Karts, Quarter Midgets
and more.
Among the 2010 show exhibitors are Grandview
Speedway, Big Diamond Raceway, Kutztown
Fairgrounds (Pa.) Speedway, Thunder on the Hill
Racing Series, URC, Reading Eagle, Pioneer Pole
Buildings Inc., Speedway Entertainment (Slingshots
and SpeedSTRs), Reading Fairgrounds Speedway
Historical Society, RAACE Foundation, Doug
Borger's XCel 600 Modifieds, Gary Silverman
Productions, Dale Snyder Video, Clyde Martin
Memorial (Pa.) Speedway, Bob Hilbert Sportswear,
Keystone State Quarter Midget Club, the NEETS
Enduro Series and the Montgomery County Quarter
Midget Racing Club
The annual Reading Fairgrounds
Speedway Reunion (Friday evening, Feb. 26 at 6:30
p.m.) and the LLANDCO Inc. Penn National Speedway
Reunion (Saturday afternoon, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.)
are among the show highlights.
Show awards - including the first Don Marks
Memorial Contribution to Motorsports Award - will
be distributed during the popular BASH Racing
Party to be held Friday night, Feb. 26 at the
Temple Fire Company, just blocks from the mall,
beginning at 9 p.m. Beer City of Quakertown and
Lee Myles Transmissions are presenting sponsors of
the BASH.
The BASH Party will feature music for dancing, a
cash bar, racing movies (including 2009 footage
from the Pennsylvania Dual-Track circuit) and
plenty of bench racing. Tickets to the BASH are
$10 and will be sold during the show and at the
door.
Driver bartending at the Applebee's on 5th Street
Highway, adjacent to the small, is planned for
tonight and Thursday, Feb. 25 beginning at 9 p.m.
each night.
Author Gary Ludwig appears nightly beginning at 4
p.m. and during mall hours on Feb. 27 to autograph
copies of his best-selling book Tommy
Hinnershitz, The Life and Times of an Auto Racing
Legend, which will be on sale at the show.
Randy's Raceway of Kutztown, Pa., has set up his
HO slot car track all week during the show. A
celebrity race featuring Modified racers is
planned for tonight's 'Modified Madness' program.
Vendors are on hand selling national and local
racing memorabilia, collectibles, racing DVDs and
much more.
For general show information, contact Brett Deyo
at 845.728.2781, via e-mail at
Deyo99H@aol.com
or on the web:
www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com.
For further information on the Reading Eagle or
WEEU, log on to
www.readingeagle.com
or
www.weeu.com.
