Colston Paving 60 Pays $7,500 to win for Late Models at Ponderosa Speedway August 24

**race-results** · 08-02-2012, 08:52 PM

Ponderosa Speedway
365 Phillips Lane
Junction City, Kentucky 40440

2012 Official Media Release #63 (For Immediate Distribution: August 2, 2012)
Contact- Michael Despain (mgdespain@windstream.net or via Twitter @MichaelDespain)

Colston Paving 60 Pays $7,500 to win for Late Models at Ponderosa Speedway on Friday August 24

Junction City, KY- August 2, 2012- Ponderosa Speedway track promoter Larry Yantz and co-promoters Chad and Sarah Yantz are pleased to announce some of the early details concerning the upcoming event at Ponderosa Speedway on Friday August 24 as the 3/8 mile D-shaped red clay oval better known as “Kentucky’s Baddest Bullring” will present the Colston Paving 60, paying $7,500 to win for Good Neighbor Pharmacy Late Models, along with $1,000 to win for Clayton Homes Modifieds and $500 to win for Ken Towery’s Auto and Tire Care Sportsman. The Bob Allen Motor Mall Front Wheel Drives will not be on the schedule for this event.

The next scheduled event at Ponderosa Speedway will be on Friday August 24 and that event will feature the Good Neighbor Pharmacy Late Models racing for $7,500 to win and $300 to start in the Colston Paving 60. The event will start 22 entries that will be determined from time trials, heats, and B-Mains. For this event only this season at Ponderosa Speedway, the Late Model division will utilize the tire rule of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. The event format and total purse will be announced in an additional press release. The Late Model will time trial, while Front Wheel Drives will pill draw for starting positions. All drivers will need to sign in at the registration window up arrival to the track and RACEceivers are mandatory in all divisions. The highest finishing racer in the A-Main event utilizing a Crate powered entry will receive an extra $100 and the second-highest A-Main finisher that is powered by a Crate engine will receive an extra $50.

The Clayton Homes Modified division will also be in action on Friday August 24 and will compete in a $1,000 to win main event that will pay $100 to start. A total of 22 open-wheel competitors will take the green flag in the Modified A-Main, with that feature line-up determined by time trials, heats, and B-Mains. The rules for the Modified division for this event will be the same as they have been all season at Ponderosa Speedway and the feature event purse will be announced in an upcoming press release. All drivers will need to sign in at the registration window up arrival to the track and RACEceivers are mandatory in all divisions.

The Ken Towery’s Auto and Tire Care Sportsman division will also be in competition on Friday August 24 and will race for $500 to win and $50 to start in their main event. A total of 22 entries will start in the main event for the division. Payout for this division will also be announced in a later press release. Beginning with the August 24 event, the rules for the Sportsman division will be opened up to allow clip cars to compete, along with cars that have aluminum after-market bodies and also for those that may sport a “Late Model” style body. Those cars that have a standard frame/chassis will have to weigh 3,200 lbs., while those cars that have a clip/tube type chassis will have to weigh 3,300 lbs. and the extra 100 lbs. must be placed in front of the motor plate. All drivers will need to sign in at the registration window up arrival to the track and RACEceivers are mandatory in all divisions.

Times and gate prices for the upcoming Colston Paving 60 will be announced in additional press releases that will be put out in the coming weeks leading up to the Colston Paving 60 on Friday August 24.

Ponderosa Speedway last raced on Friday July 27 and feature event winners included Brad Neat of Dunnville, KY in Good Neighbor Pharmacy Late Models, Tommy Bailey of Corbin, KY in Clayton Homes Modifieds, Bartley Grant of Berea, KY in Ken Towery’s Auto and Tire Care Sportsman, and Rodney Foltz of Florence, KY in Bob Allen Motor Mall Front Wheel Drives.

Current track championship points leaders heading into the Friday August 24 racing event are Michael Chilton of Salvisa, KY in Good Neighbor Pharmacy Late Models, Elliott Despain of Campbellsville, KY in Clayton Homes Modifieds, Donnie Sullivan of Stanford, KY in Ken Towery’s Auto and Tire Care Sportsman, and Brandon Holt of New Haven, KY in Bob Allen Motor Mall Front Wheel Drives.

Ponderosa Speedway is located at 365 Phillips Lane on the Boyle/Lincoln County border, outside of Junction City, KY, just minutes from Danville, KY. Larry, Chad, and Sarah Yantz are the track promoters and will present dirt track sports entertainment on Friday and selected Saturday evenings from April through October of the 2012 race season. For more information about racing activities at Ponderosa Speedway, visit the track’s webpage on the internet at www.ponderosaspeedway.net or by phoning Larry Yantz at (606) 510-5331, Chad Yantz at (606) 510-4836, via Twitter @MichaelDespain, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/131180253585931/. Partons or other interested parties can phone the track at (859) 854-6808 on raceday.

**hirollcenter** · 08-02-2012, 09:44 PM

One thing you need to work on to make the racers keep coming back is fair car inspections. The guy who's duty this is now should not be affiliated with any of the cars that are in competition.

And it's ODD to see your tech guy working on competitors cars on race night and having their picture taken in the winners circle with them when they win.

**race-results** · 08-03-2012, 04:49 AM

Have a great weekend!

**Pro21** · 08-05-2012, 12:52 PM

WOW!...$7500 to win...Guess ill make the 300 miles round tripper drive...Best racing surface in the state hands down!!...C Ya dare...

**racin_fan** · 08-05-2012, 07:52 PM

why change the tire rule for this race? all you are doing is trying to accomadate to some big names and screwing your local drivers after they have run hard tires all season there. way to go just another track puting the small guys out of racing.

**bleedsbluer2** · 08-05-2012, 10:00 PM

small guys would be running for the consi anyway for this kinda money

**race-results** · 08-06-2012, 04:51 AM

www.ponderosaspeedway.net

**Penni Tration** · 08-06-2012, 10:50 AM

are they blak tppin ponderasa speedway. thats what i was told.

**HomerD** · 08-06-2012, 03:59 PM

you need to go to school penni to learn how to spell.

that Colston does own a black top company, so wouldn't surprise me.!!! You know that have to dump that excess blacktop somewhere.
And If he has as much money as he claims to have, why is the track closed?

**Rollin Thunder** · 08-06-2012, 09:31 PM

MY GOOD GOD!!!! Announce a huge race, in this economy, during a down year in racing, and it's BITCH, BITCH, BITCH! Find another track to go run in the ground! Let us true race fans enjoy some great dirt track racing! BITCH, BITCH, BITCH! If buying a couple of tires is going be the difference in you racing a late model show, quit racing the late model and get in a front runner! Late models cost a lot of money to run and even more to be up front in one. QUIT BITCHING!! The track opens its rules to allow cars from another track to come race on Friday nights and it's BITCH, BITCH, BITCH! Tracks can't even cooperate anymore, try to help each other stay open without BITCH, BITCH, BITCH! Look at all the posts on 4m, it's all BITCH, BITCH, BITCH!
I am completely convinced if a track had a $10k to win show for late models, offered free entry for fans and drivers, had free tires, free fuel and free food, someone would BITCH that the payout wasn't good enough, track wasn't prepped properly, or didn't like the way the show was run. I am so sick of all the BITCHING about racing!