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Moore heads for Bill Brownell Memorial after 7th place finish in
Placerville point opener
By Gary Thomas
Chico, CA – April 6, 2009…Following a 7th place finish in
the Placerville Speedway 360 point opener on Saturday Princeton,
CA's Mason Moore is geared up and ready for the second annual
Bill Brownell Memorial at the Silver Dollar Speedway this Friday
night. This past weekend saw Moore kick off not only the
Placerville point opener, but also the opening 410 point race at
the Silver Dollar Speedway on Friday driving the family owned
Rolling Hills Casino, Moore Insurance Services, NOS Energy Drink
No. 22.
A very fast track was presented to competitors at the Feather
Falls Casino opener and the 18 year-old started off the event by
qualifying 17th fastest in the field, before finding his groove
in the heat race to easily win the eight lap contest. In the
main event Moore started from the seventh row inside and hung
tough for the duration of the race and crossed under the
checkered flag in the 10th position after 25 laps of action.
Saturday night saw Moore make the drive to the Placerville
Speedway to compete aboard the Friends & Family Racing No.
x1 in the first of 13 Red Hawk Casino 360 point races at the
red-clay bullring.
A 24 car field was on hand at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds
track and the driver known as "Primetime" qualified
sixth quick overall and scored a fourth place result in his heat
race. He then lined-up third in the feature and battled around
the top five for much of the race, until the crossing the stripe
in seventh at the checkered.
Bill Brownell
Memorial defense this Friday-
This Friday night will find Moore heading into the prestigious
$3,000 to win Bill Brownell Memorial at the Silver Dollar
Speedway in Chico. Last season saw the youngster lead all 25
laps at the event to pick up his first career sprint car
victory. "It was really the perfect night to come out and
win our first race last year," said Moore, who finished
third in the final Chico point standings last season.
Last year's Brownell Memorial featured a stout 34 car field on
hand at the quarter-mile bullring and it all began with Moore
qualifying ninth fastest to start off the night. When the right
pill was drawn for the inversion it put him on the pole of the
main event and despite a tricky track that had developed,
"Primetime" was able to hit his marks and hold off all
challengers to score the huge win.
To make things even more special and impressive was the fact
that the drivers who finished behind Moore in the top five at
the Brownell Memorial last year included Stephen Allard, Brent
Kaeding, Jonathan Allard and Andy Forsberg, all former Silver
Dollar Speedway or Golden State Challenge Series champions.
When asked about the nerves of being out front with all the big
names behind him, Moore commented that he had to block all of
that out. "Even with all those guys behind me I just had to
focus on running my own race and thankfully it worked out and we
were able to come out on top. Hopefully we can come back this
weekend and do it again to put this car in victory lane for the
second year in a row," Moore concluded. After Friday's
event Moore will travel to the Petaluma Speedway on Saturday to
kick off the California Sprint Car Civil War Series season. In
September of last year the Princeton racer solidly drove to a
fifth place finish in the Civil War main event at the 3/8 mile
clay oval, which also marked his first night of driving the
F&F Racing No. x1. This coming Saturday he'll look to start
off the Civil War schedule with a strong run in the Steve
Tuccelli/Alan Bradway owned A.R.T. Chassis sprinter.
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