Tracks: Come Tailgate Party with the Outlaws at Lebanon Valley
31 March 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
WEST LEBANON, NY -- Lebanon Valley Speedway, know for
setting the standard in
short track racing will once again raise the bar in 2000. "The Valley" is
offering a very unique way for fans to catch the Pennzoil World of Outlaws
sprint cars presented by CARQUEST Auto Parts when they make their 20th
anniversary visit to the West Lebanon speed plant on Monday May 29th.
As announced in a previous release, plans are in place to park the World of Outlaw haulers somewhere other than the infield area of the speedway. This move will allow the fans in the grandstands a more unrestricted view of the action on the speedway that was obstructed by the large haulers in the infield. The modifieds are also on the card for the night.
Here's where the tailgate party comes in. Fans with pick-up trucks will be allowed to bring their trucks into the infield and park them on the west-end side of the pits. Bring your lawn chairs and sit in the back of your truck and enjoy The Greatest Show on Dirt". The pit concession will have their usual great food available, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, popcorn, french fries sausage grinders and baked beans. The London broil booth will also be serving those delicious juicy beef sandwiches. Ice-cold Pepsi-cola products as well as Budweiser and Coors beer will be on sale in the infield area.
There are only a few rules that we ask be followed if you participate in the pick-up truck tailgate party. No coolers may be brought in with the pick-up trucks, the pit concession will be open and our prices are very reasonable. Once your pick-up truck is in the infield area and parked we ask that you leave it parked in that spot until all the night's racing events have concluded. We would also ask that if you are enjoying the ice-cold beer that is available, please do so only on the west-end of the infield area where the pick-up trucks will be parked.
The pick-up truck tailgate party will be a lot of fun for the fans. Load up the truck with your buddies or the family and come on down to Lebanon Valley to see the "High Flying" Outlaws as they wing their way around the Valley high banks.
The gates will open for the pick-up trucks to enter the infield at 5pm. Warm-ups will start at 5:15pm with World of Outlaws time trials at 6:15pm. The first heat race will hit the speedway at 7:00pm. Tickets for seating in the grandstands are available now and can be purchased by calling the speedway office at (518) 794-9606 or (518) 794-9965. The office hours are 9am to 5pm Monday thru Friday. All grandstand seating is reserved and cost $22 each.
Admission to the pits for the World of Outlaws event is $20 for DIRT or Lebanon Valley license holders and $25 for non-license holders. There is no additional charge for your pick-up truck to park in the infield.
Lebanon Valley Speedway sportsman competitor Mike Boomhower of Cropseyville, NY is happy to announce the #88M team owned by Al Weeden has signed a new sponsor for the 2000 season. McCabe's Automotive of Watervliet, NY is now the team's main sponsor. McCabe's Automotive provides a tow vehicle for the speedway on race nights as well as vehicle towing and recovery services for the capital district area. McCabe's Automotive joins Maloney's Flower Shop, Boomhower Trucking, Brown Printing, David Dickinson Engineering, and Dan Engwer Wholesale Florist as sponsors.
Mike and the #88M team goals for the 2000 season are to run consistently in the top ten at Lebanon Valley weekly and to finish in the top ten in points to collect some of the lucrative point money that the Valley pays out each year. Mike will be piloting a 99 TEO powered by an engine built by his dad. Look for Mike and the team to make a hard charge at capturing their first sportsman feature win in 2000.
Text Provided By Lebanon Valley Speedway
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