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ELLIOTT AND HOWARD LEAD THE ENTRANT LIST FOR BRIDGEPORT’S CHARLIE BRAY
MEMORIAL ON NOVEMBER 19 AND 20

BRIDGEPORT, NJ (November 11, 2011) - With a chance at one more
checkered flag before winter arrives, many top names in dirt racing
including Ricky Elliott and Duane Howard are getting ready for the
Charlie Bray Memorial Race on November 19 and 20 at Bridgeport
Speedway. This season finale at the Gloucester County complex in New
Jersey honors the late Nazareth Speedway Promoter and Bridgeport
Speedway Official, who passed away suddenly on December, 8, 2008.

Activity for the two day event gets started on Saturday, November 19
with qualifying and a 25-lap $3000-to-win feature for the Super Late
Models. Elliott headlines the Super Late Model field that is expected
to include Kenny Pettyjohn, Donnie Lingo, Dale Lingo, Staci
Warrington, Al Cheney, Lou Johnson and a host of others. Rick Eckert,
the 2011 World of Outlaw Late Model Champion, has expressed interest
in attending this event and will confirm his status shortly. Also on
Saturday, the Bridgeport Modifieds will have heat races for Sunday’s
25-lap main event. In addition, the previously postponed $2500-to-win
25-lap Bridgeport Modified feature from the Wingate Classic will
occur. Plus, the open Modifieds will do battle on the quarter mile
track with qualifying contests and a 25-lap main event paying $1000 to
the victor. The day closes out with an Allied Recycling Demolition
Derby.

On Sunday, November 20, the Big Block Modifieds return to the big
5/8th mile dirt track with heat races being held prior to the
$3000-to-win 25-lap feature. Howard leads a star studded field of Big
Block Modified competitors which should include Ryan Watt, Rick
Laubach, Richie Pratt, Jr., Craig Von Dohren, Mike Barone, Mike Franz,
Billy Pauch, Jr., and many others. After Saturday’s qualifying, a
25-lap Bridgeport Modified feature occurs with a potential of $1200
going to the winner if more than 30 cars attempt to compete. The
Proformance Cuts Outlaw Stocks will honor the late Marty Kulesza with
the Fallen Friend Fifteen race. Kulesza, a co-owner of Proformance
Cuts, passed away suddenly on October 25. Completing the program will
be the TSRS Sprint Cars and Vintage Stocks. All of Sunday’s racing
will be conducted on the outer oval.

On Saturday November 19, competitors can begin to enter the pit area
at 10:00 a.m. with the spectator turnstiles opening at 11:00 a.m. Hot
laps get underway at noon with racing slated to start shortly
afterwards.

On Sunday November 20, all gates open at 10:00 a.m. A pre-race pit
party for all classes and driver re-draw is scheduled for 10:45 a.m.
at the pavilion behind the main grandstand. An extra treat is in store
for fans as Sunday’s meeting for drivers will be held at the
grandstand pavilion. Warm-ups hit the track at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday
with racing starting afterwards.

A 2-day general admission pass may be purchased for $45 and a single
day grandstand ticket can be secured for $25. Kids 12 and under are
admitted for free to the grandstand. Plenty of giveaways are planned
for this event as well. A 2-day pit admission pass is available for
$60 and a single day wristband to the pits can be purchased for $40.
No pit license is required for the Charlie Bray Memorial event.

The rules for this race weekend have been simplified. Any legal 13 x
92 Modified tire can be used for competition in the Big Block
Modified, open Modified and Bridgeport Modified divisions on this
weekend. No weight rule will be in force for Saturday’s open Modified
event on the quarter mile and sail panels are permitted.

For Sunday’s Big Block Modified race, any Big Diamond/Grandview legal
358 Small Block or DIRT legal 358 Small Block must weigh a minimum of
2350 pounds to compete in the Big Block Modified division. Legal 467
Big Block Motors and any Big Small Block engines must weigh 2500.

Bridgeport Speedway provides a safe and secure family atmosphere, free
parking, giveaways and fan participation games. Billed ‘The Fastest
Dirt Track in the East’, Bridgeport Speedway is a banked 5/8th mile
dirt oval, featuring a dirt 1/4 mile oval embedded in the center, and
is located in Southern New Jersey -- just minutes from Pennsylvania
and Delaware at exit 14 off of I-295.