Concert update

Friday night is coming fast!
The fans are ready.
The Coca Cola and Waters are ice cold.
The Beer Cans are already in the cooler getting near freezing cold.
The concession stand is full of best food that money can buy.
The sound guy is heading here from Chicago with his huge rig.
The Bands are all looking forward to this Friday nights Dodge City Days Official Concert!

Where can you buy tickets?
In Liberal you can purchase at Crazy House
In Guymon you can find them at the Taco Tico
In Garden City you can pick them up at Hastings
In Dodge City you can get your tickets here at the Raceway Park Office 9-5pm or you can get them at Hastings by the Mall or you can order online at GETTIX.net or phone them at 1-866-443-8849
Check out this link for more online or phone numbers http://www.dodgecityraceway.com/tickets
Tickets are going fast, faster than last year because we have all these outlets.

Schedule of events
5pm gates open and Lawn Bands start playing
7pm Race Cars hot lap
7:30pm National Amthem by a suprise guest
Prior to the Concert we are honoring members of rock bands that played from Dodge City and some of them played in a very sucessful band called Switch.
HEAD EAST opens the Night with some great Classic Rock!
HALESTORM is up after a stage set change and Lzzy and Arejay and the rest of the band are ready to see how you guys party!
POP EVIL will end the night! This group was so popular with you from last year we brought them back and they have a whole bunch of new songs never heard before plus their great hits HEROES – SHINEDOWN – 100 in a 55 and more! Leigh and the guys are gonna tear it up!
Following the Concert there is parties at Cliff Bones Broken Spoke and also at Doctors Office. Both are offering discounts with your concert ticket stubb.

What can I bring?
You can bring a blanket, lawn chair to sit down below on the track and grassy sections. You can bring a camera – the bands prefer you do not bring video cameras to record them so please grant them that wish.

What can I NOT bring?
You are not allowed to bring in Food, Drinks, or any kind of weapons.
Everyone is subject to search for everyone’s safety.
No large bags are allowed so leave them in the car or check them at the DCRP office.
No Drugs, or Alcohol can be brought through these gates please do not make it a miserable evening for yourself and try to bring something illegal into this facilty.

Things to know
We are glad you are coming to the Raceway Park for this event. We want you to have fun and be respectful to others. This is an adult atmosphere and young children probably should not be here but that is the parents choice. The concert sound is LOUD and ear protection is available at the souvenir stands.
There will be merchandise and T-shirts from the Bands and official Rock N Race Fest shirts will be for sale in the Merchandise tent up by the main office.

Bring Cash you will need it
Other than for ticket sales we do not have a way to honor a credit or debit card. For food and drinks and merchandise bring cash. No Checks will be accepted without prior approval. Bring some cash.

First off we want you to have the time of your life
We have assembled what we call the Lawn Bands and they start at 5pm and will be playing throught the event when down time changing band sets or intermission!

The 4 lawn bands we have are ROMANTZ – CONTINGENCY – 8 BALLS & a BOX – and DEFENESTRATE all are very talented and are using this event as a stepping stone to the top just like Halestorm, Pop Evil, and Head East have done. Go give em a listen there will be two bands playing in two different locations at the same time! Two stages and more rock than anywhere you have been!

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Will they burn it down?

Last time these bad boys were here they were so fast – they were a blur!

This Saturday night July 31st is the Dodge City Days Late Model Stock Car Races!

In 2009 the crowd witnessed history as Kelly Boen lapped the entire field and we were all wondering if he would lap himself if he would have had a couple more laps! Kelly is faster than most and is basically feared by many. So to combat that we go together with the NCRA (National Championship Racing Association) and invited the CLMRA (Colorado Late Model Racing Association) to this huge race for Dodge City Days.

In the first of the race season we who braved the cold and wintery skies saw the Midwest Late Model racers take on the CLMRA boys. The winner this spring was Fast Eddie Kirkhoff from Gilette, Wyoming.

Boen seems to have a problem with his home area association and does not run at their events so the CLMRA racers are looking forward to the battle.

This NCRA vs CLMA Challenge will boost car count and rev up the East versus the West and on Saturday night we are going to find out if anyone has what it takes to challenge Boen and the other top dogs from NCRA including Delbert Smith, Al Purkey and more.

With this huge event the pits will be full of cars with IMCA MONSTER MODIFIEDS, NAPA THUNDER CARS, IMCA SPORT MODS, HORNETS, and UNITED WIRELESS STOCK CARS.

Six (6) full classes of cars and ticket prices are only $15 dollars for Adults, $10 for Sr Citizens, and only $5 bux for kids. NAPA in Dodge City has $1 off discount Adult tickets for sale get them while they have some left.

Rain did not win!

BST Modified Nationals was a great race this past Saturday July 24th.

The Blood Sweat and Tears Larry Shaw Modified Series is rated as the top traveling IMCA National Series and founder Joe Bellm has assembled a group of racers throughout the midwest and Rocky Mountain region that is the best of the best.

Will Brack is one of them and he showed our Kansas guys a thing or two. He found the sweet spot on the high banks of DCRP and went to the top next to the concrete and motored around the top to tak the win.

Finishing second was Brendon Gemmill who recently was rated in the top 10 of IMCA drivers. His Dad Troy Gemill would finish 3rd while the whole time he had the best seat in the house for watching the battle between those two.

In the other classes it was Brian Sauser that won a crash marred shortened lap race in the UNITED WIRELESS IMCA Stock Car class. Brian was happy his parents who were there for his first win of the year happened to be here tonight to see him repeat that.

In the Hornets once again the Post Man Dave Guinn would drive past nearly all the other Hornets to finish first. Lampe was second one Sprott was third.

The NAPA Thunder Cars was a good race that saw Reagon Sellard put his car in victory lane over Brett Copeland and Andy Barton. He and had a great race with Copeland but still managed to win.

More when Gina gets the finishes and points done but it was a great race night even snook it in with rain all around us.

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United Wireless August 29

Only two races left this year in Liberal.

The Liberal racing season is coming to a close for this year with this next race on Sunday, August 29 and then the last race which is September 19. Wow what a season it has been already!

Sunday, August 29 is UNITED WIRELESS FAN APPRECIATION Night at the Liberal Fairgrounds Speedway with United Wireless IMCA Stock Cars getting top billing and racing a 30 Lap Feature for $400 to win! $400 to win in this class is a big amount and should draw cars from all over. Tuff of the tuffest in this class with guys like Cole Wilson who is sponsored by the Southwest Daily Times. Wilson who is 22 years old is a second generation race car driver and he is also the kind of driver who seeks out a different line. If the inside line is fast he still goes up to the top of the track to see if it is faster. Always thinking his way to the front this guy was the Kansas State Champion in the IMCA Stock Car division.

Take a look at the IMCA Points for this United Wireless class:

2010 Liberal Stock Car Track Points
1 46 Cole Wilson 71
2 7s Drew Denton 68
3 82 Mike Olson 63
4 13J Roy Beckett 63
5 60T Rod Wadel 39
6 40 Rich Wadel 38
7 6L Tim Leiker 37
8 44 Randy Dowell 36
9 14 Brandon Fisher 35
10 17H Jeremy Hogg 33

Wilson is leading but Drew Denton, Mike Olson, and Roy Beckett are all up in the race to the finish for sure. Four of them and all need the points and now the purse has been raised. Look for Rod Wadel – his son Rich and guys like Tim Lieker, Brandon Fisher and Jeremy Hogg to jump in the party for $400 bux to win!

Other classes running that night are the Monster Energy IMCA Modifieds, and Thunder Cars and IMCA Sport Mods. Those points races are close also.

Tickets are only $5 bux for everyone in the Grandstands!

Thanks to UNITED WIRELESS for their involvement in the racing in Liberal – go by their store and check out the best service you could ever imagine.

Tickets available at NAPA AUTO PARTS in Liberal and Guymon so you do not have to wait in line and you can also go get some of the “Good Stuff” at NAPA.

Grandstand Gates open at 5 Hot Laps at 6 and Races 6:30pm

Steve King Memorial Unforgettable!

J.D. Johnson of Goddard, Kansas took advantage of race long leader Garry Lee Maiers misfortune as he became the sixth different feature winner in as many races on the 2010 race season as he took home his fourth career O’Reilly/NCRA sprint car series feature Saturday night at Dodge City Raceway Park in Dodge City, Kansas during the tracks running of the third annual Steve King Memorial.

Luke Cranston started on the pole for the thirty lap feature finale with Maier alongside. After a couple of starts delegated the start, the third time was a charm with Maier charging into the lead as the green flag fell and set a torrid pace on the rest of the field. Cranston settled into the runner up position with Johnson giving chase throughout the early portion of the event.

Maier, aboard the familiar Ochs Brothers #1x, used the top of the three-eighths mile speed plant to perfection and had opened a half stretch lead on Cranston before entering lapped traffic on lap six.

Behind those two, a four car battle for position waged between Johnson, Jeremy Campbell, Jason Martin and Mike Peters throughout the early stages of the race.

Maier looked to be in control of the feature and the first repeat winner on the 2010 race season before disaster struck on lap twelve. Jeff Heffner appeared to slow coming out of turn four. Series rookie contender Trevor Grossenbacher had nowhere to go and collided with Heffner, causing Grossenbacher to flip. Maier, who was full throttle coming out of turn four, couldn’t check up in time and hit Grossenbacher head on. Grossenbacher climbed out of his destroyed mount shaken but uninjured while it took awhile for Airflow Racing Products hard luck driver Maier to climb out of his destroyed Midwest Ag Professionals/Millart Management/Mid-States Hay Inc. /Ruff Bailey Cattle Co. sponsored Maxim chassis. He was also shaken but appeared to be uninjured.

Once the carnage was cleared from the track, the racing action continued as Johnson, aboard the Alternative Pest Management/Evans Building Company Inc. /Auto Masters sponsored JE chassis, powered his way past Cranston in between turns three and four to take the lead on lap thirteen.

There was no stopping Johnson from there as he went the final seventeen laps unchallenged to pick up his first feature victory of the season and first with the series since 2006.

“We kind of struggle there early but once the fuel went away we were a lot better, “said an elated Johnson. “I knew on that restart that I was going to have to make my move then or he (Cranston) was going to get away from me and hard to pass. I knew once we were out front that it would be hard for that second place guy to get around me. I have learned you never slow up in one of these things, no matter how big of a lead you think you have.”

Current series points leader Campbell, aboard the Danny King owned ICM/Ethanol #E85 sponsored sprinter, got around Cranston down the back stretch with one lap to go to finish second. Cranston settled for third with Peters and Martin rounding out the top five. Sherman Davis of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, who used a promoters provisional, started 22nd and came home with a strong seventh place finish.

The eight lap heat races for the twenty-seven car field were won by Cranston, Maier, Johnson and Gavin Punch while Dennis Park wired the field to take home the twelve lap “B” feature.

The next stop for the O’Reilly/NCRA sprint car division will take place on Saturday night, August 7th, as the tour attempts to complete the previously rained out 54th annual Hutchinson Grand Nationals finale on the Kansas State Fairgrounds.

The O’Reilly/NCRA sprint car series is entering its 21st consecutive season while the series itself is in the midst of their 40th season of sanctioning dirt track races throughout the Plains.

The series would like to thank the following for their partnership with the O’Reilly/NCRA sprint car series for the 2010 race season.

2010 NCRA sprint car sponsors: O’Reilly Auto Parts, Hoosier Race Tires, Sunoco Race Fuels

2010 NCRA sprint car contingency partners: Arizona Sports Shirts, Airflow Racing Products, Brodix Cylinder Heads, Hooker Harness, Keizer Racing Wheels, Pro Shocks, Racing Optics, Rod End Supply, Saldana Racing Products, Schoenfeld Headers, Super Shox, Taylor Cable Products, The Joie of Seating, Ultra-Shield Race Products, Vertex Magnetos and Winters Performance Parts

ARP Hard Luck: Maier

Saldana Racing Products 2nd Place: Campbell

The Joie of Seating 2nd Place= Campbell

Rod End Supply 3rd Place= Cranston

Super Shox 5th Place= Martin

Dodge City Raceway Park/Dodge City, Kansas

July 17, 2010

27 Cars

A Feature: 1) J.D. Johnson 2) Jeremy Campbell 3) Luke Cranston 4) Mike Peters 5) Jason Martin 6) Aaron Berryhill 7) Sherman Davis 8) Gavin Punch 9) Patrick Stasa 10) Jon Freeman 11) Taylor Velasquez 12) Whit Gastineau 13) Scott Cochran 14) A.J. Selenke 15) Cody Forshee 16) Garry Lee Maier 17) Trevor Grossenbacher 18) Jeff Heffner 19) Taylor Milton 20) Dennis Park 21) Steve Richardson 22) Mark Wallender

B Feature: 1) Dennis Park 2) Scott Cochran 3) Jeff Heffner 4) Taylor Velasquez 5) Bob Schaffer 6) Sherman Davis 7) Steve Richardson 8) Brian Hardman 9) Jeff Stasa 10) Jordan Whitehead DNS: Jake Martens

1st Heat: 1) Luke Cranston 2) Mark Wallinder 3) A.J. Selenke 4) Trevor Grossenbacher 5) Jeff Stasa 6) Bob Schaffer 7) Steve Richardson

2nd Heat: 1) Garry Lee Maier 2) Mike Peters 3) Aaron Berryhill 4) Taylor Milton 5) Scott Cochran 6) Jake Martens 7) Sherman Davis

3rd Heat: 1) J.D. Johnson 2) Cody Forshee 3) Whit Gastineau 4) Jason Martin 5) Dennis Park 6) Taylor Velasquez 7) Brian Hardman

4th Heat: 1) Gavin Punch 2) Jeremy Campbell 3) Patrick Stasa 4) Jon Freeman 5) Jeff Heffner 6) Jordan Whitehead

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