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June 18th, 2014

Ricky Weiss Takes Two Weekend Wins; Triple Header Weekend Next

Headingly, Manitoba, Canada (06/18/14) – Ricky Weiss enjoyed another great weekend in his #7 Derrick's Sandblasting/Bloomquist/ Pro Power Racing Engine Super Late Model, which saw him push his 2014 win tally to five.

Ricky Weiss returned to Red River Co-Op Speedway (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) on Thursday evening and parked his entry in victory lane for the second straight week. A modest eleven entries registered for the Weekly Racing Series program at the 4/10 mile oval. Ricky started his outing by charging from fifth to finish second in heat race action, locking him into the sixth starting spot for the finale. In the main event Weiss took control from Mike Balcaen on lap three. With laps winding down, Weiss began to show smoke out the back of his entry. He slowed up a little, allowing second running Balcaen to close the gap. The duo battled hard in the three remaining laps, swapping the lead multiple times. In the end despite his mechanical issues, Weiss was able to hold off the veteran and win his second straight feature at the oval. Steffen Snare, Mike Martin, and Shane Edginton rounded out the top five finishers. Full results from the event are available at www.VictoryLane.Mb.Ca .

Friday night saw action shifting to a I-94 Speedway (Fergus Falls, Minnesota) for a WISSOTA Weekly Racing Series program, and once again Weiss did not disappoint. With fourteen competitors registered for battle, Ricky finished third in his heat race to earn the pole position for the main event. In the feature he went on to claim the dominating victory over Don Shaw, Tom Thompson, Eric Breeschoten, and Kevin Robertson. Complete results are available at www.I94Speedways.com .

The upcoming weekend, June 19th-21st, holds a tri-fecta of action for the Canadian pilot. He will once again open his weekend on Thursday night at Red River Co-Op Speedway (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) with a Weekly Racing Series Event. Friday night will take the team to River Cities Speedway (Grand Forks, North Dakota) for an NLRA Late Model Series Event. The weekend draws to a close on Saturday evening at Hibbing Raceway (Hibbing, Minnesota), where another NLRA Late Model Series event will be contested. For more information on the events please visit www.victorylane.mb.ca/, www.RiverCitiesSpeedway.com, and www.HibbingRaceway.com .

Ricky Weiss would like to thank his marketing partners and sponsors including Derrick's Sandblasting. A.I.E. Bell Mobility, Hands On Excavating Inc., J&C Trucking, Turk Enterprises, Eibach Springs, Metalz In Motion, Speedworld Indoor Kart Track, New Vision Graphics, and MSRMafia.com Marketing Services.

For more information on Ricky Weiss please visit his website at www.WeissRacing7.com .

Bell Shifts Gears to More Speedweeks!

Lonnie Wheatley, NORMAN, Okla. (June 17, 2014) – From one Speedweek to two more.  Such is the life of up-and-coming star racecar driver Christopher Bell.

The 19-year-old Norman, OK, native comes off USAC’s Indiana Midget Week to embark upon eleven consecutive nights of winged Sprint Car racing beginning tomorrow night at Lawton Speedway in Southwest Oklahoma and stretching into Ohio next week.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” an eager Bell exclaimed.

Bell’s Indiana Midget Week wasn’t all he’d hoped for even though he did score an open wheel racing world’s best 12th win of the year on Friday night at Bloomington Speedway.

“It was un up and down week for sure,” Bell explained.

The worst of the down part came right out of the box.  After a Wednesday night rainout at Gas City, Bell’s Midget Week title defense got off to the roughest starts on Thursday night at Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway.

Testing a treacherous cushion to the limits, Bell went for a wild ride while trying to chase down the final transfer position in his heat race.

With too much damage to continue for the night, the resilient Bell bounced right back to drive the Keith Kunz Motorsports Toyota-powered Midget to victory lane at Bloomington the next night.

Bell drove to a third-place finish at Lawrenceburg on Saturday night, explaining that, “We were just a little bit off all night.  Even in the feature we were a fifth or sixth place car, we picked up some positions when (Alex) Bright crashed and then (Michael) Pickens crashed.”

Bell’s Midget Week wrapped up on Sunday with a 12-place finish at Kokomo after a flat tire in the early going sent him to the tail after a quick visit to the work area.

While Thursday’s heat race flip derailed his Midget Week title defense, it also nixed three nights of action in the Fox Brothers No. 53 non-wing Sprint Car.

“I needed to make sure I had my ducks in a row and focus on the Midget,” Bell commented.

“Steve and Brad (Fox) gave me a great car, we were going to be tough to beat at Lincoln Park,” Bell said of the car he raced to a convincing heat race win to earn a front row starting position for the feature only to have to scratch after his wild Midget ride.

There is a little time for rest though after Midget Week, as just a pair of idle days pass by before Bell transitions to winged Sprint Car for the next 11 nights beginning on Wednesday, June 18.

Bell will take the wheel of Brandon Berryman’s No. 31 Sprint Car for the final four legs of ASCS Speedweek at Lawton (Wednesday, Creek County Speedway near Tulsa (Thursday), Outlaw Motorsports Park near Muskogee (Friday) and then Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway (Saturday).

From there, it’s off to Ohio for seven consecutive nights of All Star Circuit of Champions Ohio Sprint Speedweek with the first four nights aboard the Ray Marshall Motorsports No. 33 mount before finishing it with three nights aboard the Keith Kunz Motorsports No. 67 winged 410-ci Sprint Car.

The transition from Midgets and the wingless ranks to winged Sprint Cars doesn’t phase Bell at all.

“Once you’re out on the track, go down the straightaway once and into a corner, you figure it out,” Bell says.  “Once you’ve done it a time or two, it’s not too bad making the change from one to another.”

For Bell, the only thing better than 11 consecutive race nights would be a 12th night.

2014 Quick Stats:  47 races, 12 wins, 27 top-fives, 31 top-tens.

Coming Up: ASCS Speedweek and then into All-Star Circuit of Champions Ohio Sprint Speedweek:

Wednesday, Lawton Speedway (Lawton, OK) – Berryman 31 Winged Sprint Car

Thursday, Creek County Speedway (Sapulpa, OK) - Berryman 31 Winged Sprint Car

Friday, Outlaw Motorsports Park (Wainwright, OK) – Berryman 31 Winged Sprint Car

Saturday, Lucas Oil Speedway (Wheatland, MO) – Berryman 31 Winged Sprint Car

Sunday, Waynesfield Raceway Park (Waynesfield, OH) – Marshall Motorsports 33 Winged Sprint Car

Monday, Wayne County Speedway (Orrville, OH) – Marshall Motorsports 33 Winged Sprint Car

Tuesday (June 24), Sharon Speedway (Hartford, OH) – Marshall Motorsports 33 Winged Sprint Car

Wednesday (June 25), Atomic Speedway (Chillicothe, OH) – Marshall Motorsports 33 Winged Sprint Car

Thursday (June 26), Fremont Speedway (Fremont, OH) – Kunz 67 Winged Sprint Car

Friday (June 27), Limaland Motorsports Park (Lima, OH) - Kunz 67 Winged Sprint Car

Saturday (June 28), Fremont Speedway (Fremont, OH) – Kunz 67 Winged Sprint Car

Keep Track:  Keep track of Christopher Bell’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.christopherbellracing.com/.

If you would like to keep up with all of Christopher Bell’s racing action by having press releases e-mailed directly to you, simply send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on racinboys.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Reutzel Opens Speedweek in Strong Form!

Lonnie Wheatley, CLUTE, Texas (June 17, 2014) – One brilliant heat race move was all it took for Aaron Reutzel to kick off the 22nd ASCS Speedweek on a strong note with yet another top-five finish Saturday night atop the storied ½-mile Devil’s Bowl Speedway clay oval near Dallas, TX.

With Saturday’s fourth-place run his fifth top-five in the last six ASCS National events, Reutzel and the Bob and Christie Miller’s Car Parts Machine/Wren Motorsports No. 87 Triple-X team take aim on the Bob Westphal Memorial Cup as Speedweek resumes for four consecutive nights beginning Wednesday at Lawton Speedway in Lawton, OK.

With the Devil’s Bowl Speedway manicured in fast and heavy form, a big pill draw for heat race action buried Reutzel near the tail of a heat race.  “It wasn’t looking too good.”

On a night where passing would likely be at a premium, a good start was imperative.  And Reutzel responded in the Momentum Racing Suspensions/Danny Sander Construction/ButlerBuilt machine.

“There were a couple of cars near the front that I thought maybe would have trouble with the dirty air getting into one,” Reutzel explained.  “They checked up and we went eighth to third in the first corner.  If they would have made it through the first two corners smooth though, we probably wouldn’t have been able to pass them.”

The top point earner after heat race action, Reutzel and the Lone Star Hydro Maintenance/BC Fundz/Wright Way Logistics team redrew the third row outside for the feature.

“The middle slicked up some but the top was still heavy,” Reutzel says of the ½-mile Devil’s Bowl oval.  “It was full throttle around the top.”

“We were fifth the first quarter of the race, I tried the bottom a little and Jason (Johnson) got me,” Reutzel says.  “He got to racing Crawley and we got him back to finish fourth.”

A fourth-place finish on a challenging track has Reutzel and crew enthused.

“We’re happy with it, we got a top-five at a place where you can just as easily miss the show,” Reutzel explains.

“It’s a good start to Speedweek and it was definitely a good points night for us, we beat all the guys that were ahead of us,” Reutzel says of the team’s move up to fifth in ASCS National points, only 62 points out of the top spot.

ASCS Speedweek continues on Wednesday night at Lawton Speedway, the ¼-mile red clay oval in Southwest Oklahoma that Reutzel has yet to visit.

“I’ve watched some video of it and it looks like my kind of joint, it can either be heavy and rough or slick off,” Reutzel says.  “I’m looking forward to it.”

From there it’s on to two tracks where Reutzel has already visited victory lane in 2014, Creek County Speedway near Tulsa on Thursday and then Outlaw Motorsports Park near Muskogee on Friday.  ASCS Speedweek then wraps up at the “Diamond of Dirt Tracks”, Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, MO, on Saturday night.

2014 Quick Stats:  28 races, 5 wins, 17 top-fives, 22 top-tens, 5 heat race wins, 3 “B” Main wins.

Up Next: The balance of ASCS Speedweek:

Wednesday – Lawton Speedway (Lawton, OK)

Thursday – Creek County Speedway (Sapulpa, OK)

Friday – Outlaw Motorsports Park (Wainwright, OK)

Saturday – Lucas Oil Speedway (Wheatland, MO)

Keep Track:  Keep track of Aaron Reutzel’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.aaronreutzelracing.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Reutzel-Racing/117666254913127 or on Twitter at @AaronReutzel.  You can also e-mail Aaron at aaronreutzel@yahoo.com.

If you would like Aaron Reutzel Racing press releases e-mailed directly to you, send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on racinboys.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.