Media Contact: Brett Deyo - Deyo99H@aol.com or 845.728.2781
For Immediate Release/January 30, 2011
Stewart Friesen First To File Entry For History-Making $8,000 Penn Can Speedway 'Clash at the Can' Tuesday, June 7 - Anticipation Builds As Penn Can Prepares For Highest-Paying Event
SUSQUEHANNA, PA - The driver besting all Northeast dirt Modified racers with 24 victories last season has already thrown his hat into the ring for the history-making 'Clash at the Can' at Penn Can Speedway in 2011.
Stewart Friesen of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., was the first to file an entry for the Tuesday night, June 7 special at Penn Can, the racy one-third-mile oval in Susquehanna, Pa. The 'Clash at the Can' offers a mammoth $8,000 winner's share - the most lucrative payday in speedway history - for 60 laps of feature-event racing.
Tire wear, high-dollar budgets and powerful engine combinations are afterthoughts in this event. The 'Clash at the Can' winner could easily be a "working man weekly racer" or dirt Modified superstar thanks to the Penn Can's layout. Sixty laps of intense, wheel-to-wheel short-track racing will tell the tale.
A co-promotion of Penn Can Speedway's management team of Reed Miller and Al Wilcox with Brett Deyo of BD Motorsports Media, the 'Clash at the Can' is sanctioned by the Race of Champions Dirt Modified Tour as the first of four "combination" events on the series schedule offering increased points. The RoC schedule includes 13 total events in 2011.
The 'Clash at the Can' will be the 12th RoC-sanctioned event at Penn Can, a charter member of the RoC Tour since it was formed by Andrew Harpell in 2005.
Friesen, who notched his first Penn Can victory last August with a three-wide, outside-lane pass of Alan Rudalavage and Duane Howard in the 'Hot Summer Night' special, is anxious to return to the facility located just south of the Pennsylvania/New York border. The August Penn Can win ultimately played a role in Friesen clinching the RoC championship by a single point over Danny Johnson.
A third-place finisher in the '10 edition of the 'Clash at the Can' Friesen trailed victor Howard, of Oley, Pa., and runner-up Danny Johnson of Rochester, N.Y. Penn Can regular Brett Tonkin (Carbondale, Pa.) led much of the race in a spectacular peformance before an overheating engine and deflating tire relegated him to a fourth-place finish.
"We struggled a little at Penn Can the first few times we ran there, but last year we figured the place out," said Friesen, who will drive the Tadd Parks-owned No. 1 Teo-Pro car in the 'Clash' event. "I'm stoked to get back there."
As a full-time dirt Modified racer, Friesen appreciates the 'Clash at the Can' purse and format.
"These are the types of events you look for when you're planning out a season," he said. "Penn Can is a track where you can go with one set of tires and run them all night. For car owners, it's cost-effective and it's in a central location."
The winner of the 'Clash at the Can' will earn a guaranteed starting position for the $15,000-to-win "Friends of Mike" race organized by Danny Serrano at New Egypt (N.J.) Speedway July 30.
Entry forms for the 'Clash at the Can' have been posted on the web at http://www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com/ in both PDF and Microsoft Word form. The RoC Dirt Modified Tour can be found on the web at http://www.rocdirt.com/.
The 'Clash at the Can' is Race No. 1 of the Pioneer Pole Buildings Inc. Short Track Four Crown, which also includes the August 'Hot Summer Night' and October 'King of the Can' at Penn Can and the Five Mile Point (N.Y.) Speedway fourth edition of the Short Track SuperNationals "Working Man's Race" on Columbus Day weekend in October. Drivers entering all four PPB Short Track Four Crown will be eligible for contingency prizes at year-end.
Marketing opportunities remain available for the Pioneer Pole Buildings Inc. Short Track Four Crown. Contact Brett Deyo by e-mail at Deyo99H@aol.com or call 845.728.2781. BD Motorsports Media is online at http://www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com/ and can also be found on Facebook.
Rules will be posted for the 'Clash at the Can' in the coming weeks. Big- or small-block Modified combinations on gasoline or methanol are permitted. Sail panels, maximum 65 inches high and even, are legal for this event.
Past Penn Can Speedway RoC Dirt Modified Tour Winners
Aug. 9, 2010 - Stewart Friesen
June 8, 2010 - Duane Howard
Aug. 11, 2009 - Jeff Rudalavage
Sept. 14, 2008 - Duane Howard
July 29, 2008 - Pat Ward
Sept. 16, 2007 - Jeff Rudalavage
July 31, 2007 - Pat Ward
Sept. 15, 2006 - Joey Grammes
Aug. 1, 2006 - Brian Weaver
Sept. 17, 2005 - Brian Weaver
Aug. 17, 2005 - Alan Rudalavage
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