ATLANTIC CITY, NJ
December 28, 2006... There will be a large number of race tracks and
organizations participating in the Motorsports 2007 presented by VP
Racing Fuels Race Car Show when it takes place at Atlantic City’s plus
Convention Center, January 12th through 14th. The show will open at 1
p.m. on Friday, the 12th.
“The show, filling more than 270,000 square feet of the Convention
Center, will have something for everyone,” said show organizer Len
Sammons. “We have a large number of major racing facilities, local short
tracks and motorsports organizations participating in the show.”
The state of New Jersey will be well represented at Motorsports 2007.
The new management of the popular New Egypt, NJ Speedway will have a
display at the show as will Wall, NJ Township Speedway, Bridgeport, NJ
Speedway and Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. In addition Englishtown,
NJ’s Raceway Park, one of the most successful drag racing facilities in
the nation, will be part of the show as will New Jersey Motorsports
Park, a unique motorsports facility being planned in Millville, New
Jersey.
“Garden State auto racing will be well represented,” commented Sammons.
“This is going to be a great opportunity for fans and racers to gather
information on various speedways, get schedules and put together their
plans for the 2007 season.”
Major racing facilities including Pocono Raceway, Dover International
Speedway, Martinsville Speedway and Watkins Glen International will be
part of the three day show which features just about everything
imaginable in motorsports. Each of these four speedways is part of the
very popular NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.
Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motorsports Speedway, the legendary Williams
Grove Speedway, Lincoln Speedway, Accord Speedway, Trail-Way Speedway
and the Thunder on the Hill Series featured at Grandview Speedway will
be exhibiting.
Sanctioning organizations also will be a big part of the show, which
has attracted more than 40,000 attendees during the three day shows in
the past, and will include DIRT Motorsports (sanctioning World of
Outlaws Late Models, World of Outlaws Sprints and Northeast Modifieds),
United Racing Company sprints, American Racing Drivers Club midgets,
ASCS Sprints, and Region Two tracks representing the Quarter Midgets of
America.
Vintage racing will be a big part of the show with several area clubs
that actively preserve the history of the sport participating. Garden
State Vintage Stock Car Club will have a significant display and will
bring back memories of the former Atlantic City Speedway that was once
located in Pleasantville, NJ not far from the show site. In fact several
drivers that raced at the half-mile asphalt oval will be on hand to meet
show attendees.
The 22nd edition of the Motorsports show, which had been presented at
the Fort Washington, PA Expo Center (now shuttered), will have more than
250 motorsports vehicles on display, more than 600 exhibit booths
displaying just about everything available in the sport, a variety of
FREE seminars, the U.S.Tobacco Ms. Motorsports contest plus the
opportunity for attendees to obtain FREE autographs from major
personalities in motorsports such as NASCAR Nextel Cup racers Matt
Kenseth, Dave Blaney and Denny Hamlin.
In addition to the Motorsports 2007 presented by VP Racing Fuels show
at the Convention Center, Sammons will also be presenting the “Gambler’s
Classic presented by Pepsi” indoor auto racing events featuring M&R
Midgets (Three Quarter Midgets and 600cc Micros) at the Boardwalk Hall
on the nights of January 12th and 13th.
Complete information on both shows can be had at
www.aarn.com
or telephone 609.888.3618.
Source: Ernie
Saxton/AARN PR
Posted:
December 28, 2006