The 3rd Annual MOPAR-PRI Sprint & Midget Classic Presented by DHL held last Dec. 7th at Orlando SpeedWorld will be telecast nationally on the Outdoor Channel three consecutive Mondays?Feb. 11, 18 and 25.
Featuring a full night of frantic, wheel-to-wheel racing action, the event offered four classes of race cars?Raceceiver Legends, Focus Midgets, Sprint Cars and Midgets. The highlight of the evening was the two 40-lap feature races with the huge $50,000 bonus prize posted by Crane Cams, a division of Mikronite Technologies Group. It included the special challenge of taking the winner of the 40-lap Sprint Car feature race and placing him dead last for the start of the 40-lap Midget feature race. The driver had to try to pass the entire field to collect the big bucks!
Produced by Masters Entertainment, of Bristol, TN, the three 30-minute episodes will reach a potential audience of 31 million cable and satellite subscribers.
All first-time shows air at 4 p.m. Eastern time; 1 p.m. Pacific. The first episode airs on Monday, February 11; the second episode airs on Monday, February 18; and the third episode airs on Monday, February 25.
The 3rd Annual MOPAR PRI Sprint & Midget Classic Presented by DHL took place December 7, 2007, at Orlando SpeedWorld, as part of the PRI Trade Show, which was held that week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. It?s the world?s largest racing trade show.
?After producing the event for two years, we felt like it was absolutely necessary to expand it to one-and-one-half hours of coverage,? said Butch McCall, executive vice president and general manager of Masters Entertainment. ?You have a jam-packed, fast-paced, exciting event, and it took all three 30-minute episodes to truly get it all in.?
Each nationally telecast episode of the race will also be repeated twice, so the total package equals nine cablecasts.
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The first episode will feature the complete Raceceiver Legends and Focus races, with interviews of the winners. It will be rebroadcast on Monday, February 11, at 7 p.m. Eastern and 4 p.m. Pacific; and Tuesday, February 12, at 3 a.m. Eastern and at midnight Pacific.
The second episode focuses on the Sprint Car race. It will be rebroadcast on Monday, February 18, at 7 p.m. Eastern and 4 p.m. Pacific; and Tuesday, February 19, at 3 a.m. Eastern and at midnight Pacific.
The third episode will show all of the fun hoopla between the feature races, the Midget race and interviews with the winners of the Midget and Sprint Car feature races. It will be rebroadcast on Monday, February 25, at 7 p.m. Eastern and 4 p.m. Pacific; and Tuesday, February 26, at 3 a.m. Eastern and at midnight Pacific.
Associate Sponsors include Cometic Gasket, Performance Friction, JE Pistons, Calico Coatings, Brown & Miller Racing Solutions, Fuel Safe, HANS Performance Products, Circle Racing Wheels and Magneti Marelli.