Saturday night, September 27th will mark the next-to-last 2008 season race for the Texas Pro Sedans touring series. TPS will hold the tenth event of their 33rd consecutive racing season at Thunderhill Raceway as part of the 12th annual “Stock Car Spectacular”.
TPS Race & Administrative Director, Neil Upchurch recently announced that $500 is guaranteed to the winner of the 33 lap TPS feature race in the “THR Stock Car Spectacular” race. In addition, the field purse has been significantly increased over traditional field purse payouts for the expected twenty car starting field.
Upchurch credited the $500 to win purse to “Stock Car Spectacular ”primary sponsor: Tom Lorenz of Hoosier Tires Southwest and Jerry Spencer, Hoosier Tires at Thunderhill Raceway, and to “Stock Car Spectacular ” Associate Race Sponsors: Richard and Bea Villanueva of San Antonio; Nelson Skinner, Attorney at Law, San Antonio; Buggy Warehouse of San Antonio thru Steve Foster.
The race will nearly determine the Texas Pro Sedans 2008 Championship. Going into the September 27th event, Mike Merrell of Kingsland, Texas leads defending Champion Sergio Hexsel of Live Oak by 21 points for the 2008 TPS Title. A total of 23 points is within reach of a driver scoring a “clean sweep” on September 27th by earning all 3 pre-race bonus points, breaking the existing TPS track record of 16.832 seconds worth 3 points and then by winning the race and 17 points.
An extremely close 2008 “Rookie-of-the-Year” title chase is being contested between Lisa Sandoval of Corpus Christi and Bob Sherland from San Antonio. Only two points separate the two TPS “Rookies”.
A late entry was received from Mike McCain of Corpus Christi, who is also known as “Oldtimer” and his unique spelling and grammar in composing frequent posts on Texas Speed Zone.
The Texas Pro Sedans racing format will consist of 2 Qualifying time trial laps followed by a 33 lap Feature Race for the TPS four cylinder stock cars. The Feature Race length of 33 laps will salute TPS’s 33rd consecutive season. A large field of 25 TPS cars and drivers have filed their entries.
The “Stock Car Spectacular” special event is the largest race of the season at Thunderhill Raceway and will include the following racing touring series and THR classes:
TSRS – TEXAS SUPER RACING SERIES, EXPRESS JET PRO MODIFIEDS, PRO TRUCKS, TEXAS PRO SEDANS, NasKarts and DWARF CAR RACING SERIES of TEXAS and THUNDERHILL RACEWAY CLASSES: ASA A-LINE SUPER STOCKS, GRAND and THUNDER STOCKS will contest their races.
For race entry information contact:Neil Upchurch, TPS Race & Administrative DirectorTPS Office > 210/ 655-3222 Phone & Faxor by e-mail > neilupchurch@sbcglobal.net
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