Williams Grove Honors Late
Car Owner With Gary Beam Sprint Tribute Friday Presented by Superior Plus Energy
Services
385 late models on card, sprints race for $4,088 to win!
8/28/16
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg – Williams Grove Speedway will host the first-ever Gary Beam
Tribute Race in honor of the late Williams Grove track champion car owner coming
up this Friday, September 2 at 8 pm, presented by Superior Plus Energy Services.
The Beam Tribute will showcase the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprint cars in a
25-lap main event paying a hefty $4,088 to win in honor of Beam’s famed No. 88
sprint car.
Time trials will be used to set the sprint car lineups for the night.
The 358 late models will join the 410 sprints for the show with $800 posted to
win the limited late model main.
Fireworks will also help kickoff the holiday weekend.
Adult general admission is $16 for the racing program with youth ages 13 – 20
priced at $10.
Kids ages 12 and under are always admitted for free at Williams Grove Speedway!
The Williams Grove portion of the weekly 50/50 drawing will be donated to the
Eastern Museum of Motor Racing.
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Friday’s posthumous honoree, Gary Beam of Gardners owned and fielded his famous
No. 88 sprint car for decades going back to the early 1980s with drivers in his
seat including Joey Gravino, Larry Jackson, Scott Gesford, Chuck Reinert, Barry
Camp, TJ Stutts and Kevin Nouse but undoubtedly his most prolific drivers were
Maynard Yingst and Todd Shaffer.
Shaffer himself garnered Williams Grove Speedway track titles for Beam and his
co-owner wife Patty Beam in 1995, 2007 and in 2009.
As owners, Beam and his wife Patty scored a total of 37 sprint car wins during
their ownership career at Williams Grove Speedway.
Yingst drove Beam’s No. 88 to a win at Williams
Grove over the All Star sprints in the National Open Prelminary back in 1986
while other Grove All Star wins for the team came at the hands of Shaffer in
1997 and in 2009.
The car beat the Division II World of Outlaws with Shaffer wheeling at the Grove
in 2002.
The team of Beam and Shaffer scored the Williams Grove Diamond Series title in
2009, won the prestigious Williams Grove season opener in 2009, claimed the Jack
Gunn Memorial in 2000 and in 2001, took the Mitch Smith Memorial in 1998, walked
away with a speedweek main in 1998 and finished a best of second in the Williams
Grove National Open in 2007.
With a track record like that, it’s easy to see why Beam will be honored this
week at Williams Grove Speedway.
Friday’s Beam Tribute will be another race in the 2016 Hoosier
Diamond Series at Williams Grove.
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