From Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. (October 4, 2010) – The American Sprint Car Series Canyon Region makes its fourth stop of the season at the semi-banked, 3/8-mile Canyon Speedway Park clay oval in Peoria, AZ, this Saturday night.
Saturday’s card marks the second of three consecutive ASCS Canyon Region events set for Canyon Speedway Park, with the final CSP event of the year for the wingless series on October 23 leading into USA Raceway’s 42nd Annual Western World Championships on November 18-20.
Current ASCS Canyon Region points leader and defending series champion Charles Davis, Jr., of Buckeye, AZ, has topped two of three previous series events at CSP this year and will be gunning for his seventh series win of the year on Saturday night.
While Davis, Jr., carries a healthy points lead into the weekend, the battle for runner-up honors is a tight one with just eleven points separating Yuma’s Mike Martin, Phoenix shoe R.J. Johnson and Peoria’s Josh Pelkey. Johnson cracked ASCS Canyon Region victory lane at Canyon Speedway Park in June, one of his three series wins on the year.
Two-time ASCS Canyon Region champion Jeremy Sherman of Surprise, AZ, is just another 31 points back in fifth, with the balance of the current top ten in ASCS Canyon points including Andrew Reinbold (Gilbert), Ronnie Clark (Tucson), Dalten Gabbard (Peoria), Brian Hosford (Gilbert) and Stevie Sussex (Laveen).
Saturday’s ASCS Canyon Region action at Canyon Speedway Park is slated to go green at 7:30 p.m.
Peoria’s Canyon Speedway Park is located 25 miles north of Phoenix on I-17 to Exit 223, then 6.3 miles west. For more information, contact the track at 602-258-7223.
The ASCS Canyon Region is currently slated for 18 overall nights of competition in 2010, including 13 nights in Arizona, a two-night Fourth of July weekend in New Mexico and pair of trips to California’s Perris Auto Speedway.
In its 19th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing, the American Sprint Car Series brings the best of Sprint Car racing to approximately 100 different tracks throughout 30 states and Canada. Anchored by the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS also consists of ten different Regions throughout the nation.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at www.ascsracing.com.