Aztec Speedway prepares for weekend action
FARMINGTON — Aztec Speedway will formally rejoice its 70th anniversary of are living automobile racing this weekend by internet hosting a pair of playing cards Friday and Saturday evening.
That includes some of the best regional drivers in the American Sprint Auto Sequence Southwest Area as effectively as POWRi Desert Winged Sprint Motor vehicle Collection, the weekend plans are the third dwell weekend playing cards of the period and run through October 8.
There will also be races scheduled for IMCA Sport Compacts, as properly as Northern SportMods, Stock Auto and Hobby Shares on the training course for equally of the weekend courses, which will commence Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m.
The present-day points chief in the ASCS Southwest Region is Logan Calderwood from Goodyear, Arizona, adopted by Tuesday Calderwood as properly as Cody Sickles from Glendale, Arizona and Lorne Wofford from Alamogordo. All four of those drivers are envisioned to compete on the monitor this weekend.
Rick Ziehl, who has concluded in the top 10 in seven of nine races this calendar year, will be behind the wheel this weekend as effectively, competing as portion of the POWRi 360 Wing Sprint Car or truck Desert Collection.
Dillon Tanner, from Rio Rancho, will also make an physical appearance at Aztec Speedway this weekend. Tanner, who drives in a few divisions sanctioned with POWRI, will be on the lookout for his to start with get of the yr.
Also slated to push this weekend is Don Grable from El Paso, Texas. A three-time winner at Sandia Speedway in Albuquerque, Grable has completed in the best five in 4 of nine races this year.
Major the New Mexico Motor Racing Association standings coming into this weekend are Albuquerque’s Caleb Stelzig, just in advance of Spencer Hill and Caleb Saiz, with Colt Treharn from Los Lunas rounding out the top 4 drivers. Those motorists will all be scheduled for motion this weekend.
Pits open up at 5 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday, while admission gates open up at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. For lovers not equipped to be at the monitor in person, the racing will be revealed stay by means of pay-for each-check out on watchfye.tv.
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