The H-Town racing team fielded three modifieds for race number three of the Lucas Oil Modified Series at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The number 13 MAV-TV sponsored car, driven by Aaron McMorran, had a very solid weekend. McMorran qualified 5^th in field of 24 cars, he also won the Dart Trophy Dash and finished 3^rd in the feature event. Pat Petrie, driving the number 1 MAV-TV modified qualified 12^th and after being involved in a late race incident came home in 13^th place. The number 12 car driven by Tom Pfundstein’s night was cut short has he was involved in an accident early in the race and was unable to continue. All three drivers had issues early in the weekend and with the hard work of the crew were able to have solid weekends despite the caution filled event. All 3 cars will be ready to go for the June 9^th race at Lucas Oil I-10 speedway.

Upcoming Events:
May 25^th – Career Day at Sue Morrow Elementary School, Henderson, NV
June 1^st – Father/Son Night at Goynes Elementary School, Las Vegas, NV
June 2^nd – MAV-TV team at Electrical Union Health Fair, Las Vegas, NV
 

For more information contact: Pat Petrie 702-285-4645

On April 28, 2012 the H-Town Racing team traveled to Lucas Oil I10 Speedway in Blythe California for race #2 of the Lucas Oil Modified Series. Aaron McMorran, driver of the #13, and Pat Petrie Driver of the #1, MAVTV modifieds both participated. McMorran qualified in at a lap of 14.49 which was good for 4^th fast time and Petrie qualified at 14.60 which put him in the 7^th spot. McMorran finished 2^nd in the trophy dash, and 4^th in the feature event. Petrie started on the pole due to the invert and ran 2^nd for the first 25 laps, on lap 40 Petrie was involved in a two car incident which ended his evening. Both drivers participated in the on track autograph session and provided fans with MAVTV key chains, visors, and t-shirts, as well as signed pictures. The team will running race #3 at there home track, The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on May 12.

The H-Town racing team traveled to Lake Havasu City Arizona for round one of the Lucas Oil Modified Series on March 24. There was a very large and competitive field of cars for the first race of the season with 29 cars trying to qualify for the 22 car field. Aaron McMorran, driver of the MAVTV sponsored modified, qualified 11^th , Pat Petrie in the Findlay Chevrolet Modified was 17th and Tom Pfunstein was 22nd. McMorran  finished the 75 lap feature in the 9^th position, while Petrie was 17th and Pfundstein was 20th.

All three drivers participated in the  on track autograph session signing autographs, giving out candy and t-shirts to the fans of Havasu 95 speedway. The team  is looking forward to building on this races and making some adjustments to the cars heading to the April 28^th race at Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway.

 March 30 thru April 1^st the MAVTV modified will be on display at the MAVTV booth at the STRIP at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the NHRA Summit Racing.com Nationals. Aaron with be on hand to talk about MAVTV and the Lucas Oil Modified series. If you have any questions please contact:  Pat Petrie,  H-town Racing,  702-285-4645

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This past weekend the drivers and crew for H-Town racing were very busy. The team fielded five cars out of the H-Town shop. The Lucas Oil Modified series presented by Rock Star, was visiting the Bullring for race number 7 of the series. The team fielded four cars in that division, Pat Petrie in the number 1 car, Tom Pfundstein in the 1H , Jim Petrie in the 5, and Bear Reznowiecky in the 95.

The weekend started off Friday with practice and the 95 car of Reznowiecky was fast right out of the gate, the number 5 car of Jim Petrie was solid but need a little bit of tuning, and Pfundstein need as many laps as he could get in the seat of his new lefthander modified, to get comfortable with the big engine. The number 1 modified of Pat Petrie had tranny issues and the crew had to swap the transmission. At the end of the night Friday everthing seemed to be on track for a decent weekend,

Saturday, the 22 car modified field took the green and the the 1 of Pat Petrie finished 10th, the 1H oh Pfundstein was 14th, ,while the 5 of Jim Petrie made an early exit due to overheating issues and ended up 20th, the 95 of Reznowiecky was running a solid 6th when his night came to an end with motor issues as well. “Overall it wasn’t a bad night, we could have qualified better but the race went fairly well, and we will build on it for the next race at I10 speedway in Blyth on October 1st “ said Pat Petrie.

Jeff Bargerhuff was scheduled to pilot the number 1 NASCAR Charger but was unable to do so due to a sore neck that was a result of a crash in the Super Late Model on September 3rd. Mario Opipari, who normally drive the Performance Plus, Pickart’s Radiator number 53 drove the car. Mario finished took home a 2nd place finish.

H-Town racing would like to thanks all the fans who came out to support us on Saturday, including the staff from Findlay Chevrolet, Manny Abeyta from the Club Fortune Casino, and John Hefty of Create A Book and Dave Redden. As well as all of our family and friends. And we would like to give special thanks to our wives for all the support, Vicki Petrie, Erin Petrie, and Lynn Pfundstein. As well as the crew Joe Petrie, Sonny Whal, Zack Cranford, Kevin Terrell, and John Wright.

The HTown Racing team fielded 2 cars in the highly completive field of 24. Both Pat Petrie and Tom Pfundstein completed the night in uneventful fashion. Petrie was 17^th and Pfundstien was 22^nd. “Tonight was one of those races that you were hoping for a better finish, but we survived with both cars in good shape and are looking to build on this for the next race at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway” said Petrie.

The team is planning on being well prepared for the race on September 17^th at there home track in Las Vegas. Both cars will be testing extensively over the next month. With the help of Cody Chapman of Wicked HP, tuning the motors, and crew chief Joe Petrie along with Shock Specialist Sonny Wahl getting the cars dialed in, the team is excited about the next round in Vegas.

The anticipated excitement is growing rapidly surrounding the official debut of the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout, a special two race points series presented by the Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series and Rockstar Energy Drink. The green flag will officially fall on the first race of the Shootout on July 16th at the Madera Speedway, the fastest one third mile in the west. The second event of the series, scheduled for August 13th, will be held at the Toyota Speedway At Irwindale, the fastest half mile oval in the southwest.

This spectacular series, within a series, will pit the talents of the Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series teams, curently racing in southern California, Arizona and Nevada, against the equally talent modified racing contemporaries from northern California, as well as Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Hence the name North-South Shootout.

Another huge aspect of the special series debut involves yet another debut. The Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink will be making their official debut at the Madera Speedway on July 16th. There’s a very special reason why the Madera Speedway is known as “the fastest one third mile in the west” and the Lucas Oil Modified teams will be finding why that night. The speedway is lightning fast with sweeping high banks that allows a lot of room for passing. The laps go by very quickly which means it will be “go time” for the drivers the moment the green flag falls on the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout 75 lap main event.

Kenny Shepherd, the Madera Speedway President and General Manager, is very excited to host the Lucas Oil Modified teams and he’s especially pleased that the inagural Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout will be held at his speedway. “We’ve had a lot of question and answer conversations with drivers and race teams over the past few months about this event,” Shepherd said adding “there has been a lot of talk about the North-South Shootout as well as a lot of anticipation from our fans about the series coming to the Madera Speedway.”

Shepherd’s style of promoting a Saturday night race often involves large scale, elaborate, shows that always insures his fans receives the highest bang for their ticket bucks. Commenting recently on his special Madera Speedway shows, he said “at the beginning of the 2010 season, we factured in the tight economic conditions and offered our fans budget shows. To our surprise we were told by the fans that they much prefered the bigger shows even if some of them meant a higher ticket price for a special evening. These larger shows are very much worth our while and produce a high level of success.”

Shepherd and his staff has already gone all out to promote their July 16th evening at the Madera Speedway in a very large scale fashion. The evening has been officially named “Summertime Horse Power presented by Lucas Oil.” In addition to the debut of the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout, the speedway will also be presenting high flying action from the 410/360 Super Modifieds and round four of their Super Saturday Series presented by Coors Light. The Bay Cities Racing Association, BRCA, will also be on hand that night to treat the fans to their intense brand of open wheel racing with their midget and vintage sprint/midget divisions. There will also be a special guest appearance from the Western All Star Super Late Models as well as action from the speedway’s Hobby Stock and Four Banger divisions. Now that’s giving the fans more bang for their ticket bucks.

The debut of the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout is a dream come true, and the culmination of some careful planning and hard work, by officials from the Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series. Series Race Director Bill Rozhon is very excited that this long awaited project is finally going to become a reality and recently said “Madera is going to be a good night, and if what we’re hoping and what we’re hearing all comes together, we’re going to have a pretty good field of north and south cars. Our guys are definitely looking forward to going to Madera to meet new racers from the north end and I’m sure the north guys are coming with the same attitude that we have.”

Series Promoter Greg Scheidecker is a veteran racer who actually raced at the Madera Speedway while participating in the former NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Series, as did Madera Promoter Kenny Shepherd. “It’s my understanding that the race track really hasn’t changed that much,” Scheidecker said adding “it’s going to be very interesting to see north-south teams together in that type of atmosphere at their home turf. We’re going to the north and most of our drivers has never run on that race track. Right now I’d say that a lot of the favortism might be leaning towards the north teams.”
Jeff Stephens is also extremely excited about the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout. Stephens is the owner of Fire House Racing, a unique racing team consisting of Sacramento-California area firemen. They will be towing their modfied, driven by Rich Lindgren, to Madera to participate in the shootout. That will happen after Stephens takes care of important official duty scheduled for July 7th. That’s when he will officially retire after 30 years of protecting and serving the citizens of his community as a fire fighter with the Sacramento Metro Fire Department.

Referred to by Scheidecker as one of the North-South Shootout’s biggest cheerleaders, Stephens has more than proven that by going all out to promote the special series’ two races at the north end. Stephens believes that there is going to be a very healthy modified car count at Madera with at least 15 cars from both regions capable of winning the race. He fully expects northern California modified teams to make the two to Madera from their home tracks in Ukiah, Shasta and Roseville.

“For this project to work it first took a certain level of cooperation”, Stephens said adding “Greg Scheidecker and Bill Rozhon made that first step by implementing some rule changes that made it possible for the teams from the two regions to race together.The Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series is a first class operation. Greg and Bill go all out to make anyone who races in their series feel welcome. That includes giving the teams a selection of Lucas Oil products. It’s little things like that guesture that really makes a difference,” he said.

Stephens truly wants to see this project work and thinks it has a very bright future. He acknowledges the fact that the first year of the Shootout will require some minor adjustments such as the area of tire manufacturers. The northern teams use Goodyear while the southern teams race on Hoosiers. However, Stephens believes these are areas that can be easily addressed and reconciled. He can easily see this series being around for many years to come and would love to see a location trade off where the south teams head north to race on the tracks located there. He also beleives that the teams he races with will be very impressed adding “the northern California teams needs to find out that the Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series is a first class operation.”

However, there’s another major why this two race series is going to generate a lot of attention. That’s because the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout is a very lucrative racing proposition. The July 16th inaugural event, at the Madera Speedway, is a 75 lap event featuring a full field of 22 cars racing for a combined purse of $10,000, with $1,500 going to the winner. Any driver in the field is guaranteed at least $300 for just starting the 75 lap feature.
In addition to the highly lucrative purse available from these races, the driver who scores the highest amount of points in the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout will recieve a set of small block heads from Dart Machinery for either a Ford or Chevrolet engine. The points champion will receive his choice of either a set of PRO-1 or Iron Eagle heads, steel or aluminum. The value of this special prize is approximately $1,000.

For more information, regarding the Dart Machinery LTD North-South Shootout, contact Greg Scheidecker, 1 800 342 2512, Bill Rozhon 1 928 716 6300 or Kenny Shepherd, Madera Speedway, 209 384 9500. You can also dial up their websites at www.lucasoilmodifieds.com or www.RaceMadera.com.
The Lucas Oil Modified Racing Series, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, is supported by a highly potent marketing concept known as “Team Lucas.” Team members include Lucas Oil Products Inc, Magnaflow Exhaust Products, E3 Spark Plugs, General Tire, K&N Performance Filters, GEICO, CANIDAE All Natural Pet Food, MAV TV, Dart Machinery LTD, Rockstar Energy Drink and Master Craft Safety Equipment.

The series is also strongly supported by a group of associate sponsors featuring Eibach Springs, Hoosier Tire West, Budweiser, Blue Water Resort and Casino, Sunoco Race Fuels, Frank’s Radio, Racing Plus, Roush Yates Performance Parts and J E Pistons.