MICHELS COMING TO IRWINDALE OPENING NIGHT.Byline: - Tim Haddock Rip Michels will be taking some time off from his NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Elite Division, Southwest Series schedule to race at Irwindale Speedway Irwindale Speedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for USAC sprint car and regional NASCAR races. on opening night. ``I can't wait,'' said Michels, the reigning Southwest Series Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to:
The NASCAR season opens Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway with the Super Late Models. NASCAR Late Models, Super Stocks, Super Trucks, Mini Stocks and Grand American For sports car racing association formed in 1999, see . Grand American was a NASCAR sanctioned series of pony car stock cars. The series ran from 1968 until 1971. The series was sometimes called the Baby Grand series. Modifieds also are scheduled for the Advantage Ford opening night. The Super Late Model class, the top division that runs at Irwindale Speedway, has a garage full of new faces. Andrew Phipps and Doug McComb, class champions in the lower divisions at Irwindale Speedway, are moving up to Super Late Models. But probably more importantly, Super Late Model champion drivers such as Michels and Greg Pursley have moved on to the Southwest Series. Pursley, a driver from Canyon Country, won the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series national championship while racing at Irwindale Speedway in the Super Late Model division last year. Both Pursley and Michels were entered and raced in the Southwest Series opener at Phoenix International Raceway Phoenix International Raceway, or just PIR, is a one mile tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. It opened in 1964, as the new home of major open-wheel racing in the Phoenix area, replacing the track at the Arizona State Fairgrounds as an automobile racing venue. in January. With the next Southwest Series slated for April 9 at Mesa Marin Raceway Mesa Marin Raceway was a high banked half mile racetrack in Bakersfield, California that was demolished following the 2005 racing season to make way for housing developments in the foothills of northeast Bakersfield. in Bakersfield, Michels had some time to kill. ``To me, it's motivation,'' Michels said. ``I never get to race against these guys. It'll be a good test.'' |
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