News from BD Motorsports
Media
For Immediate Release/January 6,
2013
BD Motorsports Media Sets 2013
Plans for Penn Can and Five Mile Point Specials at EMPA Convention; Rising
Modified Star Mike Mahaney Outlines Benefits of Entering Southern Tier
Specials
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA - Mike Mahaney may
be the only driver to admit on record he didn't mind drawing 99 out of 100 for a
dirt Modified race.
Mahaney, a 23-year-old rising dirt Modified
star from King Ferry, N.Y., joked about his poor pick while addressing the media
Saturday morning during the Eastern Motorsport Press Association Convention at
the at the Crowne Plaza Philadelphia Valley Forge in King of Prussia, Pa. EMPA is one of the largest motorsports media
organizations in the nation. The organization holds the only annual working
convention with seminars, press conferences, workshops and an annual Hall of
Fame dinner.
Mahaney, a first time EMPA visitor, spoke to
the more than 100 assembled members of the auto racing press as the BD
Motorsports Media 2013 events at Penn Can (Pa.) Speedway and Five Mile Point
(N.Y.) Speedway were outlined with a multimedia presentation in the facility's
amphitheater.
Penn Can Speedway will host the 'Clash at
the Can' on Tuesday, June 11 (rain date: June 12) and the 'King of the Can' on
Friday, October 18 (rain date: October 20).
The sixth edition of the Short Track SuperNationals is planned for Five
Mile Point Speedway on Saturday, October 12 (an open practice is planned for
Friday, October 11).
"It's no fun when you go to a track and draw
99 like I did last year at the Short Track SuperNationals," Mahaney said. "But
you don't mind when it's the same for everybody. When you go to those (BD
Motorsports Media) races, their slogan is 'No BS. No Politics.' and that's the
way those races are run.
"It doesn't matter if it's me or anybody
else, every driver there gets treated fairly. That goes for the draw and
everything that follows. You can't ask for anything better than
that."
Mahaney had perfect attendance at BD
Motorsports Media events last year and has the 2013 dates circled on his
calendar.
"The great thing about those races is you
don't have to win to have a good night financially," Mahaney said. "The races
pay back through the field very well. There are always sponsors and bonus money
handed out. You could have a bad night
and still leave with your trip paid for.
"This year at the 'King of the Can' race I
had engine trouble and didn't qualify for the feature. But I still left the
track with a set of bumpers and rubrails from Shiley Fabrication. Going out and
getting those sponsors takes a lot of time and effort but it means so much to us
as racers."
The fourth 'Clash at the Can'
60-lap big-block/small-block event at Penn Can features a restructured, non
top-heavy purse: a minimum of $5,000 for the winner, $1,500 for fifth, $1,000
for 10th and $500 to take the green flag.
"I'm really looking forward to that race,"
Mahaney said. "For us, we get more excited to race for a payout like that, where
the whole field benefits, rather than $10,000 to win and you don't break even
finishing outside the top five. It's a
big deal to keep people coming back."
The 'Clash at the Can' will feature a Race
of Champions Dirt Modified Tour sanction in '13. Penn Can is one of only three
tracks to host a RoC Dirt Modified event every year since the tour's inception
in 2005, joining Five Mile Point and Utica-Rome (N.Y.) speedways.
Again this season, the 'King of the Can'
will be an unsanctioned event paying $5,000 to the winner (minimum) as a 50-lap
headliner for the big-block/small-block Modifieds. The 14th edition of the 'King
of the Can' will offer $314 to take the green flag and the winner will take home
a signature 'toilet trophy' that was a huge hit last October.
Five Mile Point Speedway plays host to the
'Working Man's Race' Short Track SuperNationals for the fourth time in the
race's five-year history in '13. The big-block/small-block Modifieds headline
the program in a 50-lap independent event.
A number of qualifying events on the American Racer/Lias Tire 'Road to
the SuperNationals' will lead up to the show.
Mahaney, the son of New York driving icon
Jim 'the Workshoe' Mahaney, put himself on the map with victories at Fonda
(N.Y.) Speedway (April Ice Jam and September Tribute to the Champions
112-lapper), I-88 (N.Y.) Speedway (Race of Champions event), Can-Am (N.Y.)
Motorsports Park and Fulton (N.Y.) Speedway.
This season, he'll chase his first checkered
in a BD Motorsports Media event.
"We will be at all of them," he said. "They
aren't easy races to win. Sometimes you get close to 80 cars. You've got to work
hard. The rules are set up so you can go with what you have, no matter where you
race, and be competitive.
"To win one of those races would be a
highlight for me. We'll definitely be trying."
To learn more about BD Motorsports Media and
the 2013 events, visit www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com or "like" BD Motorsports Media on
Facebook.
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