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 11, 2010
Local Tracks To Be Well Represented At
Upcoming 25th Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show
presented by Reading Eagle and WEEU 830 AM
READING, PA - The upcoming 25th
annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show
presented by Reading Eagle and WEEU 830 AM will
be the source for information on local auto
racing.
The major oval tracks in the
region have signed on to participate in the
event, set for Feb. 21-27 at the Fairgrounds
Square Mall on 5th Street Highway in Reading,
the former site of the famed Reading Fairgrounds
Speedway.
Over 100 race cars, present-day
and restored, are expected to jam the mall to
capacity, while a full schedule of activities
awaits attendees throughout the weeklong event.
Grandview Speedway, the
one-third-mile oval in Bechtelsville, Pa., has
set plans to attend the show to promote the
upcoming season of NASCAR Whelen All-American
Series 358-Modified and Late Model competition
and the special-event Thunder on the Hill Racing
Series.
For Grandview racers, the
speedway will have representatives signing up
NASCAR members on Wed., Feb. 24 (6-9 p.m.),
Thurs., Feb. 25 (6-9 p.m.), Fri., Feb. 26 (5-9
p.m.) and Sat., Feb. 27 (5-9 p.m.) at the
Grandview display.
After an absence of two years,
Big Diamond Raceway returns to the Racing
Legends Reunion & Car Show to distribute
schedules, rules and information in advance of a
busy 2010 campaign at the Forestville, Pa.,
track.
LANCO's Clyde Martin Memorial
Speedway in Brickerville, Pa., will be in
attendance. Clyde Martin hosts five divisions of
weekly Micro-Sprint racing on Saturday nights.
The Fairgrounds at Kutztown (Pa.) Speedway,
known for its midweek brand of summer
Micro-Sprint and Slingshot racing, will
distribute schedules and divulge plans for the
upcoming 2010 season at the one-fifth-mile clay
oval in the shadows of Kutztown University.
Shellhammer's Speedway, a
Saturday-night venue featuring go-kart and
Slingshot racing in Shoemakersville, Pa., looks
ahead to 2010 with a booth at the show.
For the first time ever, Joe and
Erin Cutri's North East Enduro Tour Series (NEETS) will
attend the Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show.
The NEETS Enduro group has a schedule of eight
events planned for '10 at Grandview.
NEETS owner Joe Cutri will offer
an 'Introduction to Enduro Racing' presentation
on the show's opening day, Sun., Feb. 21 at 2
p.m. to discuss the brand of racing and answer
questions on getting involved in the sport.
Rich "Toby" Tobias Jr. of
Speedway Entertainment is another newcomer to
the Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show. Speedway
Entertainment will display its popular Slingshot
cars and the growing SpeedSTR Midget division
will be featured.
Tobias plans to take the stage on
Mon., Feb. 22 during Pioneer Pole Buildings Inc.
'Open Wheel Night' to discuss affordable racing
technology.
Information will be available at
the show from URC, ARDC and the Race of
Champions Dart Dirt Modified Tour.
The Short Track SuperNationals
presented by Dart Machinery at Five Mile Point
(N.Y.) Speedway Oct. 8-9 and 'Super Summer
Series' at Penn Can (Pa.) Speedway June 8 and
Aug. 10 will have promotional materials
available, as well.
A full week of events are planned
for the show's 25th anniversary.
On Friday night, Feb. 26 the
annual BASH Racing Party takes place at the
Temple (Pa.) Fire Company just minutes from the
mall on Kutztown Road. The BASH begins at 9 p.m.
The annual BASH includes the presentation of
show awards, including Best of Show, Best
Modified, Best Open Cockpit, Best Late Model,
Best Micro-Sprint, Best Restored Race Car and
Best Quarter Midget as decided by a voting panel
of press members.
A highlight of the BASH Racing Party will be the
presentation of the first-ever Don Marks
Memorial Contribution to Motorsports Award.
Nominees representing numerous facets of the
sport have been received via e-mail through the
show Web site (www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com)
for several months. The votes have been tallied
and the winner will be revealed at the BASH.
Marks was the longtime track photographer at
Grandview Speedway, submitting photos to a
number of publications. His work was seen in the
pages of Area Auto Racing News weekly from
Grandview and many other tracks up and down the
East Coast. He was also an active member of the
Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA).
Marks passed away suddenly in 2008.
Sponsorship support for the 2010 BASH comes via
Beer City of Quakertown, Pa., owner Bert Jones
and Lee Myles Transmissions Pennsylvania
locations in Reading, Birdsboro, Allentown,
Easton, Mt. Pocono & York.
Tickets for the BASH Party are $10 and will be
available during the show.
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.
Other show highlights include the
600Scene.com 'Small Car Roundtable' on
Tuesday night, Feb. 23, the annual Reading
Fairgrounds Speedway Reunion on Friday night,
Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. and the first ever Penn
National Speedway Reunion set for Saturday
evening, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.
There will be a number of exhibitors and vendors
selling racing collectibles and memorabilia.
Author Gary Ludwig will appear
nightly beginning at 4 p.m. and during mall
hours on Feb. 21 and 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.,
will be set up with his portable HO slot car
track all week during the show. A celebrity race
featuring Modified racers is planned for
Wednesday's Reading Plastic Fabricators
'Modified Madness' program.
Driver bartending at the
Applebee's on 5th Street Highway, adjacent to
the small, is planned for Monday, Feb. 22, Wed.,
Feb. 24 and Thurs., Feb. 25 beginning at 9 p.m.
each night.
