INDIANAPOLIS — USAC has teamed with the Richard Petty Driving Experience and the Cory Kruseman Driving School, making them the Official Driving Schools of USAC.
Kruseman’s school fleet includes sprint cars, midgets, Ford Focus midgets and junior Focus midgets. The school, located in Ventura, Calif., trains drivers on basic and intermediate courses and is designed to offer the fundamentals of driving a race car. The advanced course is geared toward improving the weekly racer or a student seeking a racing career.
Facilities across the country host the Richard Petty Driving Experience, which offers instruction in  600-horsepower NASCAR-styled stock cars. The Driving Experience also serves as the title sponsor of USAC’s Carolina Ford Focus Midget Car Series.
For information on the Cory Kruseman Driving School, call (805) 649-1243. For more about the Richard Petty Driving Experience, call (800) 237-3889.

Dover, AAA Extend Sponsorship Deal

DOVER, Del. — Dover Int’l Speedway and AAA Mid-Atlantic have agreed on a seven-year partnership extension that includes sponsorship of Dover’s new Monster Monument at Victory Plaza, presented by AAA.
The agreement also includes entitlement sponsorship of Dover’s annual NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, the AAA Insurance 200.
As presenting sponsor of the Monster Monument at Victory Plaza, AAA will have prominent signage surrounding the 46-foot monument outside of turn four at the speedway. The monument depicts Miles the Monster holding a full-scale stock car in his right hand and also features a tribute to all Dover winners around the base of the structure.

General Tire Signs Off-Road Deal

CORONA, Calif. — General Tire has become the Official Tire of The Lucas Oil World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) for 2008.
General Tire has joined under Lucas Oil’s Team Lucas package, which allows for marketing and exposure of the tire company in a wide range of Lucas Oil Products properties.  The Off-Road World Series will kick off its season May 31-June 1 at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo.

Six USAC Features Set For Anderson

INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time in its 53-year history, USAC will conduct a race program consisting of six features. The historic night of racing is scheduled for June 11 at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway.
The rainout of Wednesday night’s regional tripleheader at the quarter-mile paved oval has resulted in those races being rescheduled for June 11, which will now feature back-to-back tripleheader racing programs with heats and 30-lap features for Regional, Kenyon and Midwest/Indiana Ford Focus Midgets, followed by a second round of heats and 30-lap features for each series.

Hoosier Hundred Offers $25 Infield Tickets

INDIANAPOLIS — Fans can watch this year’s 56th-annual Hoosier Hundred from the infield of the Indiana State Fair Grounds, scheduled for Friday.
By purchasing a $25 ticket, fans will be driven into the one-mile track’s infield through the turn-two tunnel for the event.
“With everything that is involved in today’s economic environment, we felt that this would be a good way to let folks come out and enjoy the night,” explained Bob Sargent of Track Enterprises. “It will promote the fair-like atmosphere that these events bring to the table and give people the freedom to enjoy the event on their own terms.”
For more information, visit www.trackenterprises.com.

‘Fuzzy’ Van Horn Will Be Inducted Into Hall

WEEDSPORT, N.Y. — New Jersey native Carl “Fuzzy” Van Horn was recently selected to be inducted into the Northeast Modified Hall of Fame during the ceremony May 25 at the Cayuga County Fairgrounds in conjunction with the Super DIRTcar Series event at the adjacent speedway.
First introduced to racing by his younger brother at age 18 in 1951, Van Horn drove in his first race at East Stroudsburg Speedway in Pennsylvania, donning the familiar yellow 17e he kept throughout his career. Driving in the All-Star Racing League, Van Horn competed up and down the East Coast, in Super DIRT Weeks and in a single NASCAR Cup Series race in 1974 at Pocono Raceway. He retired from racing in 1996 and now watches his grandson, David Van Horn, Jr., race.

Altenburg, Tripoint Part Ways After Title

TOOELE, Utah — Defending SCCA Pro Racing Speed World Challenge Touring Car Champion Jeff Altenburg and Tripoint Motorsports have ended their six-year association, and the No. 1 Mazdaspeed/Stoptech/Racinghart MAZDA6 will be re-badged as No. 75 and driven by Jim Daniels for the remainder of the season.
Daniels, the 2006 SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup champion, was behind the wheel this past weekend at Miller Motsports Park.
Altenburg will move on to DRC Motorsports in SCCA Speed GT, where he is 10th in points after driving two different Dodge Vipers in the first two races of the season. DRC has plans to debut its Lexus IS-F in the near future.

USMTS Chooses Childhelp As Charity

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The United States Modified Touring Series (USMTS)  has designated Childhelp as the Official Charity of the USMTS and the principle recipient for its fundraising efforts.
“It is our privilege to help Childhelp in their efforts, in any way that we can,” said Todd Staley, president and promoter of the USMTS.
At all O’Reilly USMTS National Tour and Southern Series events throughout the 2008 racing season, race fans will also be able to help out by donating spare change — or whatever they can afford — at the USMTS souvenir trailer and concessions areas.