Sunday, May 13, 2007

Good morning racers and fans! Dragway 42 is happy to offer a special race day program to recognize one of the most important women in all of our lives... MOM!

Today's World Cup Coffee Mother's Day racing action features our full Akron Machining Institute / Summit SuperSeries lineup of Milestone Services Corp Top; Wind-It-Tight Engines Mod; Akron Horsepower Street; The Bike Shop of Akron / Vanson Leathers Pro Bike; Pat Catan's Crafts Center Junior Fuel; World Cup Coffee Jr. Super Stock; and World Cup Coffee Jr. Stock classes.

To celebrate Mother's Day, all moms receive free general admission today. In addition the first 100 moms through the gates receive a 50th Anniversary Dragway 42 coffee mug and a sample pack of speciality coffee from World Cup Coffee. Another 100 free gifts will be distributed beginning at noon, courtesy of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Gates open today at 9 AM. Junior Dragster time trials begin at 10 AM and big car / motorcycle time trials begin at 11 AM. Final round eliminations for Top, Mod, Pro Bike, and Street begins at 3 PM.

A special 1/8th mile Powder Puff race will also be contested today, beginning after a few rounds of eliminations have been completed. Powder Puff race entry is free to all moms.

Happy Mothers Day! (Especially to JoAnn, Janie, Tootsie, and Jill).

Friday, May 11, 2007

Dragway 42 is proud to announce the addition of Wind-It-Tight Engines to the family of track advertisers with the company becoming the title sponsor of the "Wind-It-Tight Engines" Mod Class for the 2007 season.

Wind-It-Tight Engines, LLC is a Willard, Ohio based full service engine machine shop and repair facility offering race engine, high performance street engine, as well as diesel, farm, agricultural, and turbocharged engine work.

"Wind-It-Tight Engines has been serving our area for over 30 years but this is our company's first direct involvement with a racing facility," stated Wind-It-Tight owner John Miller. "A number of our customers are racers at Dragway 42 and our recent visit to the track on one of the point race days was all that we needed to see to know that Wind-It-Tight needed to be involved in a big way with Dragway 42, its racers, and its fans."

In addition to Dragway 42's previously announced prize package for the 2007 Mod Class track champion of a Dragway 42 Gold Card (good for free race entry to all track events during the 2008 season and valued at over $2,500), the track champion jacket, track champion plaque, and special photo package courtesy of Kruger's Photos, the addition of Wind-It-Tight Engines to the program will now allow the track to present a check for $1,000 to the 2007 "Wind-It-Tight Engines" Mod Class Champion, a $350 check to the Wind-It-Tight Mod Class season points runner-up, and a $125 check to the 3rd place finisher in the season long Wind-It-Tight Mod class point standings.

"We are very proud that John Miller and Wind-It-Tight Engines have come on-board with Dragway 42. The new Wind-It-Tight Mod class points fund represents a nearly 50% increase over the payout to the 2006 Mod class racers as well as an expansion in the program that allows us to pay the top 3 racers rather than just the class champion," said Dragway 42's Toby Ehrmantraut.

The financial investments of our 2007 class sponsors Wind-It-Tight Engines plus Milestone Services Corp, Akron Horsepower, The Bike Shop of Akron, Vanson Leathers, Pat Catan's Craft Centers, and World Cup Coffee have made it possible for cash payout to be made to the top placing racers in all of the weekend point classes for the first time in the history of Dragway 42.

"Sometimes we are all guilty of having a short memory," continued Ehrmantraut. "It was this same week, just one year ago, when Dragway 42 announced our very first class sponsor and a cash payout to point champion in that class. By the end of 2006 we had three classes with point champion sponsors, and now we stand here one year later with every single one of our weekend classes paying out not just a champion bonus, but payouts to at least the top 3 racers in each of those classes."

"Our point championship bonus payouts are a direct result of the great companies who have stepped forward to sponsor our various classes as they see the value that the track and the racers and fans who have supported Dragway 42 for the past 50 years offer to them," reflected Ehrmantraut.

"We certainly hope that our racers and fans recognize all of the businesses who use their advertising dollars to support our racers and the facility and take the time to consider each of these companies when the time comes to buy the merchandise and services that each of our sponsor's companies have to offer."

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Our shipment of 50th Anniversary Dragway 42 ceramic coffee mugs has arrived, just in time for our special Mother's Day racing event presented by World Cup Coffee.

The first 100 moms who come into Dragway 42 this Sunday will receive one of these mugs plus a coffee sampler as a gift to these very special ladies, courtesy of World Cup Coffee and Dragway 42.

In addition, this Sunday all moms will receive free general admission to Dragway 42; a special pampering courtesy of Mary Kay Cosmetics will go on from Noon-3PM with gifts to the first 100 'pamper-ees' and a drawing for a free Mary Kay gift basket; plus Dragway 42 will host a free powderpuff race will be contested beginning after the 3rd round of our regularly scheduled Akron Machining Institute / Summit SuperSeries event.

For those who would like to purchase one of the 50th Anniversary coffee mugs, a limited supply of them will be available at the Dragway 42 souvenir booth beginning Friday.