Hearn On Stage In Vault World Finals Talk Show
Saturday At Lowes
Concord, NC — November 1, 2008 –
By Tom Skibinski, DIRTcar Racing NorthEast PR
Director
*Bob Armbruster Photo
With the VAULT World Finals weekend highlighted
by World of Outlaws Series season-ending stops
for Sprint Car and Late Model teams at The Dirt
Track @ Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Advance Auto
Parts Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified
star Brett Hearn was also part of the program
Saturday afternoon.
As special stage visits by a solid turnout of
top divers pre-empted the trackside activity on
both Friday and Saturday, Hearn was featured
among a prominent list of headliners that
participated in a daily pre-race talk show
conducted “live” in front of fans gathered on
vendor row behind the main grandstand.
“Lowe’s is such an impressive place with people
coming here from all over the country, some I’ve
even met from around the world,” remarked Hearn,
the six-time overall Hoosier Tire Mr. DIRTcar
Champion who ranks first all-time in Advance
Auto Parts Series wins (100) with at least one
Series victory registered in each of the last 14
years. The ‘Corporate Jet’ shared victory lane
with Steve Paine in 2001 when the Big-Blocks
made the first of five straight appearances at
Lowe’s Dirt Track.
“The track was a blast when we first came down
here and the conditions this week are just like
they used to be. I hope we can come back. This
is a great deal and I’d like to see more events
with DIRT’s main divisions ---Big-Block
Modifieds, Sprints, Late Models--- all on the
same card. But right now I’m just enjoying being
a spectator. If you’re not a fan first, you’ll
never be a racer so I’m having fun watching from
the other side of the fence this weekend,” Hearn
said.
Recently crowned WoO Late Models Series Champion
Darrell Lanigan opened the Saturday show and was
followed by LM tour standouts Shane Clanton,
Rick Eckert, Shannon Babb, Dale McDowell and
that night’s winner Josh Richards. The Outlaws
Series Sprint Car contingent was led by veteran
wingmen Jason Meyers, Jac Haudenshild and Daryn
Pittman.
The lead-off show on Friday included three-time
WoO Sprint Car Series Champion Donny Schatz,
Kraig Kinser, Lucas Wolfe, Joey Saldana and
Kerry Madsen, while Chub Frank, Steve Francis,
Donnie Moran, Tim McCreadie, Tim Fuller and
opening night winner Scott Bloomquist
represented the full-fender ranks.
“Even though (Big-Block Modifieds) are confined
to the Northeast, we’re still one of the most
professional groups with drivers like McCreadie
and Fuller now able to prove it on a national
tour,” Hearn added. “And I do really enjoying
watching these guys from our neck of the woods
do well, not just one guy but everybody as they
got their start with the Modifieds.”
Along with Hearn, also spotted roaming the
Lowe’s Dirt Track pits during the weekend were
Big-Block runners Dale Planck, Justin Haers, Pat
and Tim O’Brien, with Billy Dunn serving as a
member of Fuller’s super late model crew.
With the 2008 DIRTcar Racing NorthEast ‘Night of
Champions’ Awards Banquet at the Turning Stone
Resort & Casino in Verona, New York coming up in
just two more weeks, Hearn has already set his
sights on defending the Florida tour title when
the Advance Series Modifieds compete in the 38th
Annual Alltel DIRTcar Nationals by UNOH at
Volusia Speedway Park on February 11-14, 2009.
NEW JERSEY RACING STAR SETS CAREER RECORD
Brett Hearn Wins 750th Feature Race
SUSSEX, NJ
(August 25)……..With a convincing victory in the
25-lap 358 (small-bock) Modified feature race on
Saturday, August 23, 2008 at Orange County Fair
Speedway in Middletown, New York,
Brett Hearn,
of Sussex, New Jersey, scored his 750th
career feature race victory.
Perhaps it
was fitting that Hearn’s milestone win came at
the track where he began his racing career as a
16-year-old teenager back in 1975.
Hearn has
raced as a full time professional driver since
the early 1980s, and has won feature races at 47
different tracks in ten states and two Canadian
provinces. Hearn has also captured 70 track and
series point championships.
The day
pervious to his 750th win, Hearn
achieved two additional career records, winning
his 300th small-block Modified race
and tying Jack Johnson for most wins at
Albany-Saratoga Speedway (Malta, New York) with
90.
Hearn’s
record---among the all-time best of all American
race car drivers---includes 447 Modified wins,
301 in small-block Modified competition, and two
United Racing Company sprint car victories. 304
of Hearn’s wins have been in extra-distance
races of 50 laps or more, including five
Syracuse 200s and eight Eastern States 200s, the
most prestigious races for dirt track
Modifieds.
At Orange
County, his home track, Hearn now has 289 wins
and 23 point championships in the two Modified
divisions and with two additional sprint car
victories, a total of 291 wins.
“This record
represents the hard work and dedication of a
great many people---team owners, crew members,
sponsors, manufacturers’ reps, friends,” says
Hearn, who will celebrate his 50th
birthday on September 1. “Some have been with me
for 30 years or more. I get the glory and
recognition, but they’re the reason we’ve been
able to be successful over the long term. We
strive to be the best in Modified racing, and we
go into every race with the goal of winning. I
guess it’s paid off.”
Media representatives may
contact Brett Hearn by calling 973-702-0819,
Monday through Friday during business hours. B.H.
Racing Enterprises, Inc. information is
available online at
www.bretthearn.com.
