Tommy Hinnershitz Spring Classic
At Williams Grove Friday
Super Sportsman also on the card
4/12/15
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg –
The Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprint cars are in action at
Williams Grove Speedway this Friday, April 17 at 7:30 pm when the 2015 Hoosier
Diamond Series kicks off with the running of the big money Tommy Hinnershitz
Memorial Spring Classic.
Racing action will also
include the popular super sportsman.
Adult general admission for the Tommy Classic is set at just $18 with youth ages 13 – 20 admitted for just $10 while ages 12 and under are always admitted for free at Williams Grove.
This week, the Williams
Grove portion of the 50/50 drawing will be donated to EMMR.
The prestigious 30-lap Tommy Classic event will pay $6,000
to win out of a total purse of more than $30,000 with time trials setting the
heat and feature starting grids.
Formerly known as the Early Bird Championship, The Tommy
Spring Classic took its name in 2007, now run in honor of the winner of the
first ever motor racing main event at Williams Grove Speedway back in 1939.
An eventual Hall of Fame driver, Hinnershitz of Oley went
on to win the track title that year and again in 1949 and 1952.
Doug Esh of Lancaster is the
defending Tommy Classic champion.
Other winners of the event since
taking the Hinnershitz name have been: Craig Keel, 2007; Brian Leppo, 2008;
Lance Dewease, 2009; and Chad Layton, 2010, 2012.
The event was lost to rain in 2011 and in 2013.
The Tommy Classic is also
the first date of the 2015 Diamond Series at Williams Grove.
The 2015 Diamond Series
continues one week later on April 24 with the first appearance of the season by
the All Star Circuit of Champions Sprints at Williams Grove Speedway.
The 358 late models will join
the All Stars to close out the month of April.
The kickoff of the 2015 Saturday Night Series featuring the
super sportsman, 358 late models and street stocks is slated for Saturday, May
2.
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