PASS National Series To Be Highlighted By Major Events and Big Money

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Naples, ME(January 11, 2013) – Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials have released the six races that will make up the 2013 PASS National Championship Series.  The schedule is comprised of six premier Super Late Model events in both PASS North and PASS South that will determine an overall PASS National Champion.  The PASS National Series will be highlighted by the return of Super Late Model action to the 40^th Annual TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway in July.  And, for the first time, the PASS National Series will take on a more international flavor with an event scheduled in Canada later this year.  While awards are currently still being finalized with sponsors, Bull City Race Cars has announced it will award the 2013 PASS National Champion with a chassis and Bell Helmets will provide a helmet to the new title holder.

“Thanks to a lot of time and effort by a group of really dedicated people, we are very pleased to announce our 2013 PASS National Series,’” said PASS President Tom Mayberry.  “These events exemplify what’s great about short track racing and we feel each of them will attract the best Super Late Model drivers competing today.  All of these events are unique and will prove to be a challenge for our competitors.  And, with the addition of races in Florida and Canada, a broad base of fans will get to see racers from all over North America come together and compete to see who truly is the best of the best.”

The PASS National Series gets underway in less than a month with the Inaugural Florida Winter Meltdown at Auburndale Speedway on February 8-9.  In addition to a talented group of PASS regulars, former PASS National Champions Ben Rowe and Jay Fogleman hope to contain a strong contingent of Florida Super Late Model standouts on the tricky quarter mile oval.

From Auburndale in February, it is back to the most traditional stop on the PASS National Series, Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina on March 30.  Hickory’s Easter Bunny 150 has grown to be one of short track racing’s biggest events of the Spring.  Since veteran Mike Rowe won the first Easter Bunny back in 2006, Hickory Motor Speedway’s hallowed victory lane has been one cherished by every Super Late Model driver that has followed in his tire tracks.

Race three of the 2013 PASS National Series will be the first of the year in New England and is perhaps the most legendary of all short track races.  The 40^th Annual TD Bank 250 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on July 21 will be contested by Super Late Models for the first time since 2006.  The list of winners reads like a “who’s who” in stock car racing and includes such names as Lindley, Bodine, Hanley, Craven, Rowe, Harvick, and Busch.  And, with the richest purse in all of Super Late Model racing, the TD Bank 250 at Oxford should once again attract North America’s best drivers, all competing for the $25,000 winner’s share.  With $25,000 in additional lap leader money, this year’s TD Bank 250 could take home upwards of  in total $50,000.

Next up, will be back-to-back PASS National races in the month of September.  For the first time ever, a PASS National Series event will be held in Canada at Autodrome Chaudiere on September 7.  The 200 lap race will pay $10,000 to the winner with an additional $20,000 in guaranteed lap leader money.  This race will also be the final event of the Autobus La Quebecoise Triple Crown, a “mini-series” of three PASS North races at Autodrome Chaudiere with a separate bonus points fund totaling $30,000 for drivers who compete in all three events there.

The following week the PASS National Series will hold its final race of the year in New England at another traditional stop, the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME.  The PASS 400 Weekend at Beech Ridge September 13-15 is always a favorite for both fans and competitors and this year’s contest will be no different.

Finally, the PASS National Series will conclude on November 23 at Southern National Motorsports Park with the 8^th Annual Mason Dixon Meltdown.  PASS returns to Southern National for the first time since Ben Rowe took the checkered flag there in 2009.  This year’s Mason Dixon Meltdown will again be a 200 lap test of man and machine.  And, Southern National’s fast, high banks will certainly not be taken lightly by the short track gladiators of the PASS National Series.

The Pro All Stars Series is recognized as North America’s premier sanctioning body for asphalt Super Late Models and boasts such marquee events as the PASS Northwest Triple Crown at Wenatchee Valley Super Oval, PASS South’s Easter Bunny 150 at the historic Hickory Motor Speedway, the Autobus La Qubecoise Triple Crown, and the legendary TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway.  For technical information the PASS National Championship Series please contact Scott Reed at 207-625-3230 or [email protected].  For media or marketing questions, please contact Alan Dietz at 704-231-2039 or [email protected].  Please visit ProAllStarsSeries.com for more information and don’t forget to “Like” the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook to keep up with breaking news as it happens.

2013 PASS National Series

            February 9     Florida Winter Meltdown    Auburndale Speedway          200 laps

            March 30       Easter Bunny 150                Hickory Motor Speedway       150 laps

            July 21           TD Bank 250                         Oxford Plains Speedway       250 laps

            September 7   Autodrome Chaudiere        Autodrome Chaudiere           200 laps

            September 15 PASS 400 Weekend           Beech Ridge Motor Speedway       300 laps

            November 23  Mason Dixon Meltdown      Southern National Motorsports Park                  200 laps