Nuts & Bolts - July 2, 2008
Lucas Oil has become title sponsor of the USAC-CRA Sprint Car Series…Bobby Hamilton Racing signed Tahoe Smokeless to sponsor the No. 18 Craftsman Truck entry wheeled by Dennis Setzer for the remainder of the season...The Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series event scheduled July 5 at I-55 Raceway has been postponed because access roads to the Pevely, Mo., oval continue to be flooded. A make-up date has not been announced. However, the series will instead race at Riverside Int’l Speedway in West Memphis, Ark. on July 5...The WoO event rained out June 28 at River Cities Speedway in North Dakota has been rescheduled for Aug. 12...The recent 11th annual Michael Ross Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament and Ditzfield Transfer Summer Nationals held in Sedalia, Mo., raised $110,000 for the Bay Cliff Health Camp...Two Carolina Ford Focus Championship events scheduled for this weekend (July 4-5) at Spencer (N.Y.) Speedway and Chemung (N.Y.) Speedrome have been cancelled...Recently retired former NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Dale Jarrett has been named grand marshal for Saturday’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona Int’l Speedway...The ASA Kwik Trip Midwest Tour has added the 100-lap Kim Parsons Memorial race to its 2008 schedule. The event will take place Sept. 7 at Marshfield (Wis.) Super Speedway...The O’Reilly NCRA sprint-car division added a July 12 date at 81 Speedway in Park City, Kan., to its 2008 schedule....Veteran dirt-late-model driver Dale McDowell joined Speed’s broadcast team for World of Outlaws Late Model Series coverage. McDowell was to begin working with announcer Shane Andrews and and pit reporter Sarah Jane Hunt with the July 13 airing of the Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway, but the race was rained out...Speed will be offering multiple replays of the Prelude to the Dream all-star late-model race held June 4 at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway. The first airing will be Saturday (July 5) at 1 p.m...The ASCS Sooner Region event at Cowtown Speedway, which was rained out Saturday, has been reset for July 26.