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ASALM Series To Visit Milwaukee Mile In 2006
The Outdoor Channel to televise 10 ASA Late Model Challenge Series events in
2006! The famed Milwaukee Mile, amongst the first venues to sign on for next
season!
By Matt Prieur-ASA Late Model Series
(West Allis, Wisconsin 10/20/05): The 2006 season for the ASA Late Model
Series Presented by GM Performance Parts is coming together nicely and the
anticipation is building at a tremendous rate. All three 2006 schedules in the
three touring series, the ASA Late Model Challenge Division as well as the ASA
Late Model Series Northern and Southern Divisions are in the process of being
announced to the racing world.
In addition to the three schedules that are about to be released in the coming
days, a major announcement came out in a press conference held at the famed
Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin earlier today (October 20, 2005). ASA
Late Model Series Founder/President, Ron Varney, formally announced the
television package for the 2006 ASA Late Model Challenge Series! 10 of the
scheduled events to be held in 2006 for the ASA Late Model Challenge Division
will be nationally televised on a tape delay basis on the cable network, The
Outdoor Channel!
Im just ecstatic about the television deal, this brings back a tradition
the fans of the old ASA tour had grown accustomed too, offered Varney.
With the exposure the series will get on a great network like The Outdoor
Channel, the possibilities and the potential for the ASA Late Model Series
itself, our fans, and especially are teams are endless!, Continued Varney.
Look at where we were just a few years ago in 2003 with the formation of
the USPRO Cup Series and look where were at today with the current ASA Late
Model Series., Varney added. We now have three different traveling
series! This is beyond my wildest dreams when I envisioned the direction of
the series, He added.
To learn more about The Outdoor Channel, go to their website at: www.outdoorchannel.com
In addition to the television announcement, Varney and Milwaukee Mile General
Manager, Gary Girard also jointly announced the return of call letters, ASA,
to the famed one-mile track located just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin! The
ASA Late Model Challenge Series will headline the Saturday portion of the
prestigious Governors Cup Weekend to be held August 25-27, 2006.
We welcome the ASA Late Model Challenge Series to The Milwaukee Mile. This
150-mile event will be a highlight on our August 25-27 Governors Cup
Weekend, with a Saturday afternoon shootout we know our fans will enjoy,
Girard said after the announcement was made. With what will be the largest
track the ASA Late Model Challenge Series will compete on in 2006, we look
forward to working with Ron Varney and his staff in putting on a great race,
building on the tradition of stock car racing dating back to 1948 here at
Americas Legendary Oval, Added Girard.
Since 1903, The Milwaukee Mile has been one of the premier venues in American
motorsports. Nearly every major auto racing sanction body has hosted
events at The Mile through its century of existence. The roster of past
winners at the track includes the greatest names in both open wheel and stock
car racing. A listing of ASA drivers that have won at Milwaukee is also
stacked with accomplished "name" competitors.
The historical ASA National Tour has had a prominent place in the stock car
history at The Milwaukee Mile, holding 35 events there since 1978. Starting
with the first ASA event at the Mile on May 7, 1978, the historical ASAs
all-time wins leader, Bob Senneker recorded that first ASA victory at the
Milwaukee Mile.
Other winners throughout the years at the Mile include, Wisconsin Legend, Dick
Trickle as well as the late Alan Kulwicki. Other winners on that impressive
list include, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Jim Sauter, Butch Miller, Seven-time
ASA National Champion, Mike Eddy, Johnny Benson Jr., three-time ASA National
Champion, Kevin Cywinski, Mike Garvey, the late Joe Shear and most recently,
Wisconsins own, Bryan Reffner on August 29, 2004.
This has been a great day for the ASA Late Model Series, Added Varney.
With the television package coming together, plus we get to go back to one
of the most prestigious tracks in the country in the Milwaukee Mile, this is
just mind-numbing! Milwaukee Mile and ASA share a solid history and a solid
tradition together. To be able to resume that tradition at the Mile with the
ASA Late Model Challenge Series is definitely a huge feather in the Series
cap.
Varney then added; The whole ASA Late Model Series family; The Drivers,
Fans, Crews, Teams, Officials, everybody. Every single one of us should all be
very proud today! Without a shadow of a doubt, Today is the biggest day in the
history of the ASA Late Model Series! He ended.
To learn more about the historical Milwaukee Mile, log on to their website at:
www.milwaukeemile.com
The ASA Late Model Series Presented by GM Performance Parts will close out the
2005 season on Saturday October 29th for the conclusion of the 40th annual
National Short Track Championships at the Rockford (IL) Speedway in Loves
Park, Illinois. Current ASA Late Model Series Points Leader, Stephen Leicht
and Rockford's own hometown favorite, Ryan Carlson will lead the field to the
green flag to start the Chicago International Trucks/Season Championships 100
to close out the 2005 season.
Leicht merely needs to take the green flag and the 18-year-old Asheville,
North Carolina native, one of the Young Lions of the ASA Late Model Series,
will clinch the 2005 ASA Late Model Series Championship! In addition, Brian
Campbell, the current Pat Bourdow Memorial Rookie of the Year Points Leader,
just needs to start the Chicago International Trucks/Season Championships 100
and the Grand Rapids, Michigan pilot will clinch the freshman crown! Mark
Hartline has already won the 2005 GM Performance Parts Shootout Points
Championship.
For more information about the remaining 2005 season as well as the
approaching 2006 season with the ASA Late Model Challenge Division, the ASA
Late Model Series Northern and Southern Divisions; check out their websites
at: www.asalatemodelsnorth.com
and www.asalatemodelssouth.com
You can also call the ASA Late Model Series home offices at 1 (800) 385-2503
or log onto the main website at: www.asalatemodels.com
ASA LATE MODEL CHALLENGE 2006 SCHEDULE
PRESENTED BY GM PERFORMANCE PARTS
Tentative subject to change
April 23rd
.TBA
May 27th
..Madison International Speedway Oregon, WI
June 10th
Oswego Speedway Oswego, NY
June 14th
Berlin Raceway Marne, MI (tentative)
July 8th
.I-70 Speedway, Odessa, MO
July 21st
..Hawkeye Downs Speedway Cedar Rapids, IA
(tentative)
July 29th
..Jennerstown Speedway Jennerstown, PA
August 12thth
..TBA
August 26th
...Milwaukee Mile Milwaukee, WI
September 3rd
..Elko Speedway Elko, MN
October 14th ..
Iowa Speedway Newton, IA
ASA LATE MODEL SOUTH 2006 SCHEDULE
PRESENTED BY GM PERFORMANCE PARTS
Tentative subject to change
March 4th
..
Bronson Motor Speedway FL
April 1st
. Huntsville Speedway AL
(tentative)
April 29th
Beech Bend Park KY
May 13th
. Five Flags Speedway -
FL
May 20th
Riverview Speedway
TN (Tentative)
June 3rd
.. Southern
National Speedway - NC
June 17th
Hickory Speedway NC
August 5th
Radford Motor Mile - VA
September 23rd
Florence SC
(tentative)
September 16th
I-70 Speedway MO ( special event
N/S Allstar Champ) (tentative)
October 21st
Beech Bend Park KY (Last
Southern Points Race)
ASA LATE MODEL NORTH 2006 SCHEDULE
PRESENTED BY GM PERFORMANCE PARTS
Tentative subject to change
May 6th
I-70 Speedway Odessa, MO
May 20th
.Lake Geneva Lake Geneva, WI
June 9th
..Lake Erie Speedway Erie, PA
June 17th
Jennerstown Speedway Jennerstown, PA
June 24th
..Sandusky Speedway Sandusky, OH
July 1st
..Angola Motor Speedway Angola, IN
July 14th
.. Motordrome Speedway Smithton, PA
August 4th
Madison International Oregon, WI
August 18th
..Kalamazoo Speedway Kalamazoo, MI
August 19th
..Berlin Speedway Marne, MI (Tentative)
September 1st
..Hawkeye Downs Speedway Cedar Rapids, IA
(tentative)
September 16th
.I-70 Speedway Championship Race MO (N/S
Championship)
September 23rd-24th
.Rockford Speedway Rockford, IL
October 6th
LaCrosse Speedway West Salem, WI
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