Riverside Speedway News

2008 Schedule Comes Together……(newsletter issued February 29th)

Race #1 

Riverside International Speedway will open its doors June 7, 2008 when the CARQUEST Maritime Pro Stock Tour Ron MacGillivray Chevrolet 100 will come to town for round two on the tour schedule. Joining them in June will be the Riverside Sportsman series. As in the past, this event will be a Saturday night deal with rain date Sunday afternoon. Ticket sales are expected to start some time late April early May.

 

Race #2

The next event will be July 18/19, The IWK 250 presented by DuPont & Steve Lewis Auto Body. This event in the past has been a PASS race, however that will change for 2008. The 2008 edition will be Maritime Pro Stock Sanctioned event. There will be some slight additions to the rules for this event only to accommodate any outside cars that may want to run this weekend. Plans are now underway to bring at least one current NASCAR driver to run in the event. We have had a lot of interest from a few of the top runners in the PASS series to come up and run as this is an off weekend for the PASS North series. We are hopping to draw cars from the newly named New Brunswick track, now Speedway 660. Negotiations are on going for them to take that night off to allow for some of their pro stocks to come down. One of the biggest purses will be offered to the more than 40 race teams we would expect to attend this premier event of the summer. (As of Feb 29th 39 teams have paid the pre registration fee). Full details of the event will be posted on our web site and future newsletter as they are finalized. For those planning to attend, a rough schedule is as follows: Friday night a Sportsman show along with a second support class yet to be named. There is also a chance we would have some kind of an open practice for the Pro Stocks on Friday. Saturday would be all heat races, time trials and the main event for the Pro Stocks. We are also working on a second support class to run on Saturday also. Advance Tickets sales will be available starting late April early May.

 

Race #3

Aug 16th will see the return of the CARQUEST Maritime Pro Stocks for The Parts for Trucks 100 Lap event. It will be round 9 of the tour schedule. This event will also include our Riverside Sportsman series.

Race #4

The NASCAR Canadian Tire series will return in 2008. The date will be Sept 20th.  This event in 2007 showcased some of the best racing in this series. We are looking forward to hosting them again. Car counts are expected to grow in 2008. See quote recently from circle track magazine: I had absolutely no regrets about getting out of the car for 2007 ....until I saw Riverside International Speedway. The only thing wrong with the high banked facility, according to the majority of the racers, is that John Chisholm didn't built in their home province. everyone is looking forward to going back in 2008. Dave Jacombs (Championship Team Owner Nascar Canadian Tire Series).

Race #5

We will end the 2008 season on Sept 27 or Oct 5 with the Sportsman open plus and additional support class. This is the only event we are still trying to nail down at the time of this newsletter.

Premium Seat News….

Renewals are coming in for premium seat holders anyone that had a seat last year will have until April to renew and pay. We have started a waiting list for fans looking for seats in 2008. We have a complete list on our web side of what is being renewed.  You can use your MasterCard or Visa to renew.

Reserved Seating In 2008

Riverside plans to offer reserved seating once again in 2008. For The IWK 250 event all main grandstand seats will be reserved. They will be priced on a scale bases with the prime middle seats one price and the seats further out in the wings and lower a lower price. We hope be able to meet everyone’s budget. The Sept 20th NASCAR race will also have a limited amount of reserved seating. We are looking at maybe offering a few hundred seats for the two Maritime Pro Stock events. Details to follow in the months ahead.

2008 Sponsorship Opportunities ….

Details of our sponsorship packages are now on our web site. There are opportunities for everyone’s budget some of the packages will include signs, lap sponsorships, title sponsorships, pole awards, halfway awards etc. they will also include discount ticket packages. Hospitality tents for groups, VIP boxes and more. If your company is interested check it out on our web site.

We expect to do one of these newsletters monthly to keep our fans updated. We now have more than 1000 names in our e-mail data bank.  If you do not want to receive one of these let us know and we will take you off the list.

 

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