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The Heat is On for the Vintage Modifieds

posted March 16, 2010

The Vintage Racers Of America has several sponsorship packages still available for their heat races that they will be running in during the 2010 season at various race tracks. The series will be campaigning their Vintage Modifieds at Springport Motor Speedway, Berlin Raceway, and Kalamazoo Speedway.

The cost for sponsorship is only $200 per night. All money is awarded to the top 3 positions in each heat race. The sponsor will be recognized at the race track by the VROA track announcer for that race date and on the VROA website for the entire season, with their company logo and pictures of the top 3 winners. All articles will mention the sponsor's name in relationship to the heat races.

Please contact Brad Perry at 989-666-0792 for more information.

Corrigan Oil to Supply Race Fuel at Springport

posted March 11, 2010

Corrigan Oil has long been a supporter of Springport Motor Speedway, ever since Paul Zimmerman and Jim Leasure first purchased the track and reopened it in 2004. For the 2010 season, as Steve Martin and Maurice Randall take over the operation of the speedway, Corrigan Oil will still be there supplying the Sunoco Race fuel that will be made available at the speedway.

Corrigan Oil was established in 1958 by Bernie Corrigan and is still a family owned business supplying lubricants, fuels, and now propane to many residential and commercial locations throughout Michigan.

Please visit CorriganOil.com for more info.

Short Track Racing Night and Battle Creek Revolution Hockey

posted March 11, 2010

On Saturday Night, March 13th, at 7:30pm, the Battle Creek Revolution hockey team will be going up against the Evansville Icemen at the Battle Creek Revolution Hockey Club Arena located at 75 Houston Street in Battle Creek, Michigan. For directions to the arena, click here for a map.

Representatives from Springport Motor Speedway, Kalamazoo Speedway, Galesburg Speedway, and Butler Motor Speedway will be on hand to support this event which will be helping to raise money to help Autism Awareness. There will be hand outs and giveaways from each track. Springport Motor Speedway will be handing out a number of 2 for 1 tickets which will be good through April and May. Free grandstand passes and certificates for Venom Stock Car Series t-shirts will also be given out during the 50/50 drawings.

Try to attend this special event, but if you are unable to, you can view the hockey game live on StreamNetSports.com. StreamNetSports.com is an affiliate of RacesOnTheWeb.com which will be broadcasting Springport Motor Speedway's events live every Saturday night in 2010.

If you are a fan of local short track racing in the summer and you like hockey in the winter, be sure to attend this special event. For more info, please visit the Battle Creek Revolution website.

Here's a look at the TV commercial for this weekend's game on YouTube

Pink Ribbon Riders to Invade Racin' & Rockin'

posted March 4, 2010

The Racin' & Rockin' show began in 2005 at Springport Motor Speedway. The idea behind this event was the brainstorm of Matt Schindewolf, also known as the Racing Hippie. Matt drives a Modified mostly at nearby Spartan Speedway on Friday nights and has also driven his Modified at Springport during the seasons when Modifieds were run there. Matt is also the lead singer and guitar player with a local band known as the Basement Dawgs. Matt's idea was to highlight the Modifieds at the Racin' & Rockin' show along with a few other divisions also racing that night. Then once the races were over with, everyone is invited to the pits for a hog roast, special awards, and live entertainment featuring none other than the Basement Dawgs. The 2005 event was a huge success.

Racin' & Rockin' was so well received, that it has been a regular feature at Springport Motor Speedway ever since and is back again for 2010. The July 17th event will be even more special as Springport Motor Speedway is teaming up with the Pink Ribbon Riders to help raise money for breast cancer awareness and for those in need. From the pinkribbonriders.com website, "The Pink Ribbon Riders mission is to promote awareness of breast cancer in the motor sports industry for both men and women while raising funds for those in need".

Tickets for the Racin' & Rockin' show will be available from Rob Nevins and other Pink Ribbon Riders members as well. You may contact Rob at robnfirecat700@gmail.com. 50 percent of each ticket sold through the Pink Ribbon Riders organization will go towards their fundraiser. If they are able to sell 2,000 tickets, they will raise $12,000 just from this one single event.

Be sure to visit the pinkribbonriders.com website for more info about the Pink Ribbon Riders and other events they are holding throughout the midwest. In the winter time, it's all about snowmobiles and in the summer time, they hit the road on their motorcycles.

Come on out on July 17th and enjoy a night of racing followed by an enjoyable get together in the pit area and music by the Basement Dawgs. And watch the spectacle earlier in the day as motorcycle after motorcycle arrives in pink trim.

A Brief History of the
Vintage Racing Organization of America (VROA)

posted March 3, 2010

In August, 1990, Brian Shultz posted flyers at Kalamazoo Speedway seeking people who were interested in starting a racing club similar to the Canadian Coupes and Coaches. The Canadians had been racing at Kalamazoo Speedway once or twice a year for the prior six years, and from the first time they arrived at Kalamazoo Speedway, Brian had fallen in love with their racecars and racing club. Since 1980 he had raced weekly at Kalamazoo Speedway in the Sportsman division. But his real love was open wheel racing, the kind he had grown up with through his father’s involvement in racing. Those cars were initially 1920’s – 1940’s Coupes and Coaches, that eventually evolved into the cut down Supermodifieds of the 1960’s. When Brian started racing in 1980, he had hoped to race these types of cars. But the stock car revolution had taken over and no open wheel racecars of the 1920 – 1940’s era were competing.
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Great Lakes Supercup Series
Announces Springport Motor Speedway Sponsor

General Materials
The Michigan-based Great Lakes Supercup Series has announced the sponsorship of General Materials, a Jackson based Building Materials Supplier, and D.A.W. Design Group, a Jackson based Construction Management Company, for their 2010 Springport Motor Speedway Championship.

Great Lakes Supercup coordinator, Tim Phillips, states that the addition of this sponsorship will allow the series to run a championship within a championship as a track champion will be crowned at Springport in addition to an overall series champion.

General Materials

As final details are pending, the sponsorship will offer up to $1,000 in additional payouts over the course of the season.

General Materials and D.A.W. Design Group in conjunction with Aspen One Hour, a Jackson based heating & cooling company, will also sponsor the #10 Supercup driven by David Wilson of Parma, Michigan, who will run a partial schedule for the 2010 season.

Championship night for the Great Lakes Supercup Series to determine the Springport Champion and the Season Champion will be on Saturday, September 11th during the Michigan Cup weekend.

The Great Lakes Supercup cars are 1/2 scale NASCAR Cup look-alikes, commonly referred to as Mini Cups. Due to their size and speed, racing at Springport Motor Speedway is similar to racing a full size race car on a superspeedway, and drafting becomes a factor. These races are always a crowd pleaser as the drivers race side by side and nose to tail without lifting off the throttle in the corners. Their first event at Springport is on opening night, April 17th. Check the 2010 schedule for further info.

Be sure to visit the General Materials website. If you live anywhere near the Jackson, Michigan area and are involved in anything from a small home repair to major construction project, stop in and see the folks at General Materials. They are located on the south east end of Jackson on M-50 near US-127, right on the way to Michigan International Speedway.
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