Sands Chevrolet Southwest Championships Honoring Rick Stewart Will Pay $3000.00 to Win Sprint Feature!

    The First Annual Southwest Championships promoter Steve Dunn announced this week that with the Support received from Sands Chevrolet, Allscapes, Dave Ellis Race Cars, Piggly’s BBQ and Grill, A.M.E. Electrical Contracting Inc., Arizona Race Mart, and ABC Motorsports, Canyon Speedway has increased the sprint car feature winners pay to $3000.00.

   “Support for this event that will also honor the life of sprint car and midget builder Rick Stewart has been strong, and by next year we expect this event to become the premier non wing race in the state of Arizona,” commented Dunn.

    The co-featured midget race will be the final of the “National Midget Driver of the Year Championship” of 2009, and will crown their Champion at Canyon Speedway Park Saturday night. The winner of Saturday Night’s Midget Feature will earn $2000.00.

   Forty five midgets took the green at last Saturday’s midget race at Ventura Speedway. Many that participated in last week’s Ventura race are expected to make the tow to Canyon Speedway Park for this weekend's Southwest Championship.

  The final piece to the puzzle will be the 35-40 modified midgets/mini sprints that will battle for the $750 to win main event Saturday night.

   Open practice will be held tomorrow November 25, at 6: oo P.M. and will last until 10: oo P.M. A pot luck dinner (with turkey provided by Piggly’s BBQ) will be held Thursday starting at 3:00 P.M with a band playing live music starting around 4:00.

    Racing on Friday and Saturday will start Friday and Saturday at 7:15 with the front gates opening at 4:00 both days. For any questions regarding the Sands Chevrolet Southwest Championships go to CanyonSpeedwaypark.com or contact Steve Dunn at 602-318-0437