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Message started by LMR on 08/24/11 at 11:49pm

Title: Fastest Baltes Classic Late Model to receive $250 bonus
Post by LMR on 08/24/11 at 11:49pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 24, 2011
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FASTEST BALTES CLASSIC LATE MODEL TO RECEIVE $250 BONUS

ROSSBURG, OH (August 24) – Time trial attempts for the WIX Filters sponsored Sunoco American Late Model Series (ALMS) event on Sunday, Sept. 4 at Eldora Speedway have taken on an added dimension. The St. Henry Commercial Club has posted a $250 cash prize for the quickest of the Late Model entrants that evening.

The incentive is part of the St. Henry Good Neighbors Night promotion that will coincide with the full evening of action, already dubbed as the Baltes Classic.

It will mark the fourth consecutive season that the business leaders of St. Henry, located just six miles North of Eldora, have joined forces with the speedway in a joint promotion to showcase each other’s assets.

Commercial Club spokesman, Don Hess of Homestretch Sportswear, relates, “it’s a positive promotion for both parties. We invite the race fans to visit us and see what St. Henry has to offer them in their travels to and from Eldora, and Eldora extends a special discount offer to encourage residents of St. Henry to visit the celebrated speedway to see exactly why fans from across the Nation flock in. It’s good business sense and relates well to the Good Neighbors theme.”

For this year’s Baltes Classic event, featuring not only the Sunoco ALMS, but the Modified and Stock Car divisions as well, adult residents of St. Henry will receive a $3 discount on their general admission ticket. In addition, the speedway management will donate $2 from every discounted ticket towards the St. Henry Park Fund, as a charitable contribution.

Eldora General Manager Larry Kemp adds, “St. Henry has always been supportive of the racing activity at Eldora Speedway. It is great to reach out with them to share this opportunity to advertise for each other as not only good neighbors, but great friends.”

And, the St. Henry neighborhood, as well as the entire auto racing fraternity, is in for a rare treat that night, as another Eldora ‘first’ takes place. In recognition of Eldora’s founder Earl Baltes and his many uncanny promotions that helped to put Eldora Speedway on the national map, the Eldora management has announced that the Baltes Classic Late Model main event will start up to 33 cars in a three-wide format on the massive one-half mile clay oval. This is the largest field of Late Models to ever start a main event at Eldora and never before have they attempted to take the green flag in the same format that has made the Indy 500 such a widely known event – three wide.

Complete event for the Baltes Classic by WIX Filters (Sept. 4) may be found the track’s website www.eldoraspeedway.com.