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8/2/2010 |
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VERSUS
BROADCAST TEAM TO MEET AND GREET WITH FANS AT
STAFFORD SPEEDWAY’S 20TH ANNUAL TOWN FAIR TIRE 150 |
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the Whelen Modified Tour coming to Stafford Motor Speedway for the
20th Annual Town Fair Tire 150 on Friday, August 6th, Versus will
also be making a stop at the Connecticut half-mile to provide
tape-delayed television coverage of the race. The Versus broadcast
team consisting of Jack Arute, Jimmy Spencer, and Ralph Sheheen,
will meet and greet with fans and sign autographs at the Town Fair
Tire booth following the conclusion of Whelen Modified Tour Time
Trials.
Arute left his Stafford promoter duties in 1973 to pursue a
broadcasting career first with NASCAR's MRN Radio and then with ABC
Television where he covered a variety of sports including NASCAR,
the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Olympic Soccer, Cycling, and Luge. For
more than 25 years he was a cornerstone to ABC's coverage of NCAA
College Football as well as the IndyCar Series and the Indianapolis
500. Arute’s television efforts have earned him multiple
broadcasting awards and he is a current member of his hometown's
(New Britain, CT) Sports Hall of Fame. Since returning to the
Northeast in the early '90's Jack has been the force behind
Stafford's television coverage including ESPN's telecast of the Fall
Final and NESN's NASCAR New England. Now the IZOD IndyCar Pit
Analyst for Versus' IndyCar series telecasts, Jackie was also a key
catalyst in the network's decision to air 9 NASCAR Whelen Modified
Tour events this year including the Town Fair Tire 150 and
Stafford's season ending CARQUEST Fall Final.
Jimmy Spencer, also known as “Mr. Excitement”, is a former two-time
Whelen Modified Tour champion and he is the 1984 CARQUEST Tech-Net
Spring Sizzler champion. Spencer moved from the Modified ranks into
the Sprint Cup Series where he won 2 races while driving for Junior
Johnson. Spencer is one of a handful of drivers that have victories
in each of NASCAR’s three top series. Spencer has 2 career Sprint
Cup wins, 12 career Nationwide Series wins, and 1 career Camping
World Truck Series victory, which came at the New Hampshire Motor
Speedway in 2003. Spencer is a former co-host of NASCAR Race Day and
NASCAR Victory Lane on SPEED, and he is now the host of What’s the
Deal on SPEED.
Ralph Sheheen is currently a pit reporter for NASCAR on TNT, an
announcer for AMA motocross and supercross on SPEED, as well as
announcing many other forms of racing on SPEED. Sheheen's
broadcasting career began in 1988, when he did ISMA sports car race
for ESPN and he has since worked for ESPN2, FSN, Spike TV( formerly
TNN), and CBS covering various forms of auto racing. Versus is one
of the fastest growing sports channels in the country. Versus offers
a wide range of professional sports to viewers, including the Izod
Indycar Series, National Hockey League, WEC, UFC, College Football
and College Basketball, Professional Bull Riders Tour, the Tour de
France, and the UFL. Versus is available nationwide in high
definition on DirecTV and Dish Network and is available on a
regional level on cable.
Tickets for the 20th Annual Town Fair Tire 150 are on sale now at
the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $30.00 for adult
general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and
children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when
accompanied by an adult. Reserved seating is priced at $32.00 for
all ages. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free parking
with overnight parking available.
For more information on the 20th Annual Town Fair Tire 150, or to
order tickets, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at
860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at
www.staffordspeedway.com. |
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Source: Scott Running / Stafford Motor Speedway
Posted: August
2, 2010 |
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