Toledo Speedway

(TOLEDO, Ohio - May 22, 2012) - ARCA’s Allegiant Late Model Gold Cup Series for the outlaw-style bodied cars will visit Spartan Speedway Sunday, May 27 for a 100-lap shootout on the quarter-mile paved oval. The current list of paid entries stands at 20 cars, with several more drivers expected to make the trip to the Lansing, Mich.-area track. 

Phone calls have been received from a handful of drivers from Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana in regard to the race, which is the first Gold Cup race to be contested outside of Flat Rock and Toledo Speedways. Only entries received are being listed on the updated roster. Defending Gold Cup champ Dennis Strickland and 2-time Gold Cup champions Harold Fair Jr. and Mike Root lead the list of entries as of Tuesday, May 22. 

Lansing resident Scott Pemberton has filed his entry for Sunday's event. The second-generation driver tested at Flat Rock a few weeks ago and will make the short trip from his home to Spartan Sunday. Flat Rock regular Jimmy Alvis and Angola, Ind. driver Craig Everage are the most recent entrants. South Bend, Ind. racer Derrick Griffin has been tabbed to pilot Bob Blount's machine for this weekend at Spartan. 

The entire entry list can be viewed at www.spartanspeedway.com, www.flatrockspeedway.com or www.toledospeedway.com.

The Sunday, May 27 contest at Spartan is part of the Sunday "Slugfest" Series at "The Track the Stars Call Home." Spartan's Pony Stocks, Spartan Stocks and a Pony Stock Figure 8 race will also be in action for the Memorial Day holiday weekend event. The pits open at noon, practice begins at 2:30, time trials are at 4:30 and racing begins at 6 p.m. Fastime Racing Engines and Parts of Wyandotte, Mich. have posted a $100 bonus for the fast qualifier for each of the six contests. 

Each Gold Cup race will pay a minimum of $500 to start the feature events. The ARCA Allegiant Gold Cup 2012 champion will receive a test ride at the ARCA test in December at Daytona International Speedway, courtesy of Fast Track Driving High Performance Driving School president Andy Hillenburg. The top three in the final points will receive a pair of round-trip tickets, courtesy of Allegiant Travel.  

Terry Senneker took the Gold Cup opener at Toledo April 29.  Additional races include the Diamond Racing Products Joy Fair Memorial 100 Saturday, June 23 at Flat Rock, and the series returns to Toledo Friday, July 6 and rolls back to Flat Rock Saturday, July 28 for the Moran Chevrolet Stan Yee Memorial 150.  The final race of the six-race series is at Toledo Friday, August 17, a combination point race with the Main Event Racing Series, the Miller Lite 100. For additional information, please call 419-727-1100, or log onto www.flatrockspeedway.com, www.toledospeedway.com, or www.spartanspeedway.com.

A list of entries for Sunday's race at Spartan is below.