One lucky racer will leave Delaware saying, "Thank you.... thank you very much...."
Auto Parts Centres (APC) and Delaware Speedway have announced an additional incentive for APC Late Model teams heading into the Great Canadian Race Weekend: A trip to Las Vegas in March of 2007.
One APC Late Model driver who finishes in the top twenty in the APC 300 on Sunday, September 3, will win the trip. In order to determine the winner, a wheel will be spun on the front straightaway just prior to the final 100-lap race. An envelope with a finishing position inside (anywhere from positions 2 through 20) will be “pulled” from wherever the wheel stops spinning. The random number inside that envelope will then be held and, eventually, revealed from the podium at the end of the race. The driver that finishes in that spot will win the trip.
“APC has put together this fantastic trip for our staff, suppliers and customers and we wanted to include our partners at Delaware Speedway,” said Luke Ramsay, Sales Manager and Director of Motorsports with APC and CANUSA. “With everything included in this trip, such as the chartered jet, Havoline hospitality seats at the Nextel Cup event, the stay at the Bellagio and more, this really is a once-in-lifetime opportunity.”
The trip will take place March 9 through 12, 2007 and includes: three nights and four days at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, a round trip flight from Detroit on a chartered jet and private bus and baggage handling.
Friday’s (March 9) activities include dinner at one of the Bellagio’s fine restaurants and reserved seats at the “Show ‘O’” by Cirque Du Soleil. The Saturday includes either a private bus with round-trip transportation to a golf outing at the Desert Pines Golf Club or a 50-minute relaxation massage at the Bellagio Spa. On Sunday, guests will be treated to round-trip private bus to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and access to the Havoline hospitality tent, along with breakfast and lunch. Once at the Speedway, guests will have access to car simulators, a driver appearance and reserved seats for the Nextel Cup race. The return flight to Detroit is Monday, March 12th.
The entire package has a retail value of approximately seven-thousand dollars.
“Spreading the opportunity back through the field adds some incentive to race teams that think they can finish, say, fifteenth, but aren’t sure they can win it,” said Delaware Speedway Race Director Jeff Wilcox. “And holding that winning number until the end of the race adds some mystery. We don’t want the racers to know what position it is because you don’t want to see a guy standing on the brakes on the last lap trying to get back to a certain spot or another guy spinning someone out right at the end because they know what place they have to be in to win the trip. This way, it can be a possible bonus for anyone that finishes somewhere between second and twentieth.”
Sunday’s all-new APC 300 will pay ten-thousand dollars to the winner. The APC Late Model Delaware Speedway track champion (which will be determined earlier in the day in the first of three 100-lap races) will also receive ten-thousand dollars, at the year-end awards dinner. For at least a few teams, it is possible to win each of those pay days, as well as the trip, depending on what number the wheel turns up before the race. Based on a full field, the APC 300 race purse is forty-thousand dollars.
Advanced tickets and weekend passes are available at participating Auto Parts Centre stores, TSC Stores, PartSource on Wharncliffe Road in London or online at http://www.delawarespeedway.com/.
- From Delaware Speedway
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