$2,000 IN PRIZING FOR KING OF THE HILL NATIONALS
John Houghton
Delaware Speedway
August 31, 2009
On Friday, September 4, 2009 the famous $1,000 to Win King of the Hill Spectators Race returns in a big way at Delaware Speedway as part of the Great Canadian Race weekend. With the support of Glen Fenwick Subaru, SPDA-Online.ca, Custom Auto Care of Sarnia and London Mechanical and Heating the total prizing available at the event comes to $2,000, the highest prize money ever available at a King of the Hill event.
The King of the Hill Spectator’s race is one of the most popular events at Delaware Speedway. The event allows spectators to compete with each other in one-on-one fun drag race type events around the half mile in street legal, street driven vehicles.
Each round the first place car advances while the second place car heads home. The event is a charity based event, collecting a $5 donation from competitors towards Jesse’s Journey, a local charity that raises money through an endowment to fight Duchene Muscular Dystrophy.
This time the event will pay $1,000 to the winner, $600 to the runner up, and $400 to third. Delaware Speedway would like to recognize Glen Fenwick Subaru, SPDA-Online.ca, Custom Auto Care of Sarnia, and London Mechanical and Heating for their support of the King of the Hill program.
The first-ever $1,000 King of the Hill race took place on Friday, July 13, 2007. Since then, Delaware Speedway’s message has continued to be clear: the streets are not for racing, but race tracks are. The racetrack provides a controlled environment in which racing can be enjoyed in front of thousands of spectators and there is no finer place to race than Delaware Speedway.
Canada’s first weekly NASCAR sanctioned facility, Delaware Speedway is a half-mile paved oval stock-car track, located just five minutes outside London, Ontario, Canada. For more than 55 years, Delaware Speedway has been the home to some of the finest stock car racing in Canada. Racing at the track features its four weekly racing divisions; APC Late Models, POWEARDE Modifieds, Delaware Super Stocks & Demar Aggregates Trucks, as well as a Transmission Direct Enduro Division (short for “Endurance”), the Ultimate Sandblasting & Coating Chaos Cars and the Krown Junior Racing League. The track also hosts many touring classes throughout the summer.
Single-day and weekend passes for the September 4-6 Great Canadian Race Weekend are available through the speedway website www.delawarespeedway.com.
Hope they are going to limit the number of cars they let in for this. Could go on for hours otherwise.
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SNOTROD will be there! Lets hope they let me in!
SNOTROD will be there! Lets hope they let me in!
"And there's the green flag. Snot Rod and the Grocery getter, neck in neck going into turn one. It's Grocery getter with a nose in going into the corner and up into turn two, and....wait...what's Snot Rod doing? Someone tell him he doesn't have to do the 360 in this one...ah well now coming down the backstretch its Grocery getter way out in front. Jared, what do you think Snot Rod's up to?
"I don't know John, but it looks like deja vu all over again as Snot Rod slolams down the backstretch, as the Grocery Getter comes out of turn 4 in full song"
"What a CAT-a-strophic turn of events for the Snot rod, I think he actually sees those barrels - even though they aren't really there."
"Right you are John, and its Grocery Getter down the fronstretch for the win"
"Hey Jared, should someone tell Snotty its over?"
"Nah...he looks happy doing what he's doing...goin round in circles"
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Should be lots of fun, I wonder if a 100 Hp family sedan has a chance?
See y'all there.