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Brooke Tatnell to drive M&S car at Trophy Cup

ALK Promotions, September 10

Washington state-based Mike & Shaylen Motorsports is pleased to announce today that Australian sprint car star Brooke Tatnell will be driving their car next month in the prestigious Trophy Cup race at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, Calif.

The announcement comes at a good time also. Tatnell, who hails from the Australian state of New South Wales, is fresh off a victory in the Interstate Racing Association 410 sprint car event last Saturday at Cedar Lake Speedway in Wisconsin in the Jerry Richert Memorial, his fifth on the IRA tour. Tatnell has established himself as one of the worldʼs top sprint car racers, having won races in both the United States and his native Australia.

Next month will see Tatnell drive the Shark 360ci-powered No. 18 Eagle sponsored by SignMart, Anderson Power Washington, Burlington Collision, Tri-County Truss and Heavy D in one of the highest paying 360 sprint car events in the U.S. at one of Californiaʼs most popular dirt tracks. The M&S car has seen a lot of success over the years in the 360 sprint car division in Washington, having won the 2006 and 2007 track championships at Skagit Speedway with Steve Kilcup as the driver.

Along with his five IRA victories, Tatnell also finished 12th at the Knoxville Nationals (making the A-Main itself in that event is an accomplishment) and won a weekly show at Knoxville Raceway this year. Heʼs also the reigning World Series Sprintcars champion back home in Australia.

This follows a few years running full-time on the World of Outlaws trail, where he picked up a number of victories, including 2006 and 2007 wins at Skagit Speedway, which is in M&S Motorsports owner Mike Andersonʼs backyard. In 2003 he became the first Australian to win a World of Outlaws event with a victory at Jetmore Motorplex in Kansas.

Tatnell also previously raced for Tim Hansen, who is also from Washington state.

In his home country, Tatnell has several victories and six World Series Sprintcars championships, including this past winter, when it was summer down in Australia. Tatnell won his first title in 1994-95 and repeated in 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2005-06 and 2007-08.

The 15th Annual Trophy Cup, paying a purse of $112,500, will be held on October 23, 24 and 25 at the 3/8-mile, banked clay oval.

Wayne Johnson to d

rive M&S car at Fred Brownfield Memorial

ALK Promotions, September 10

Mike & Shaylen Motorsports is pleased to announce today that former ASCS National Series sprint car champion and 2008 Knoxville 360 Nationals champion Wayne Johnson will be piloting their car in next week’s Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash.

Johnson, formerly out of Oklahoma City and now residing in Knoxville, Iowa, has never set foot in the state of Washington before, let alone raced sprint cars on one its dirt tracks. Driving one of the Northwest’s top sprint cars next week, Johnson will be one of the favorites to win the $10,092 first prize in the event named for the late sprint car racer and promoter.

The car Johnson will be driving is the No. 18 Shark-powered Eagle, sponsored by SignMart, Anderson Power Washington, Burlington Collision, Tri-County Truss and Heavy among other sponsors. The car has primarily been driven by Steve Kilcup and Steve won track championships at Skagit Speedway in 2006 and 2007 in that car. This year, Seth Bergman has also driven the car on occasion and won his first career 410 event at Skagit in August.

The ride was arranged through one of the people at Weld Wheels. A little talk was going on between two parties and all of a sudden Johnson in Knoxville and M&S Motorsports owner Mike Anderson in Washington were talking on the phone with each other and the deal was made. Though Johnson has never been to the Evergreen State, he did know Fred Brownfield.

“I knew Fred a little bit. I ran some of the NST (National Sprint Tour) back here in 2006,” Johnson said.

Now living in Knoxville, Johnson in fact lives only two miles from Travis Cram, Johnson’s fellow competitor and Brownfield‘s nephew.

Johnson’s won the ASCS National championship and the Knoxville 360 Nationals title in 2000 and his biggest highlight of the 2008 season so far is the $10,000 first place prize for his second triumph at the Knoxville 360 Nationals. That win was his third ASCS National Series victory of the year and his 26^th of his career, sixth on the all-time list. He also won the Friday preliminary of the Knoxville 360 Nationals and his first win of the year came on July 4 at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas. He currently sits a close third in the American Sprint Car Series National standings.

“I’m looking forward to coming out there and do some good for Mike,” Johnson said. “I’ve heard nothing but great things about Mike’s cars.”

Johnson will be one of around 50 drivers expected to take part in the special ASCS Northwest Region event to take place on Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20, racing in memory of one of the sport's top promoters who lost his life in an accident at Grays Harbor Raceway in June 2006.

“It will be special come out here to race this event, and it would be especially awesome to win it,” Johnson said. “Fred was a great man in our sport.”

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Sponsors for M&S Motorsports

Burlington Collision
Tri-County Truss
H2H Photo
Anderson Power Washing
Art’s Auto Wrecking
Shark Engines
Race Outfitters
Sign-Mart USA
Performance R/C Hobbies
Heavy D

Bergman, M&S team have good time at Chico

ALK Promotions, September 9

Seth Bergman and the Mike & Shaylen Motorsports team probably envisioned themselves having a better night in Saturday’s Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway in California. Power steering blew before he could race in the C-Main. Weekend over.

Bergman and team, however, did have a good time in Chico. One of 106 teams on hand for the weekend, the No. 18 Shark-powered Eagle sponsored by SignMart, Anderson Power Washing, Burlington Collision, Tri-County Truss and Heavy D was slated to run Friday’s preliminary program while the other half of the field ran on Thursday. Getting yourself in the A-Main on preliminary night was an accomplishment itself but didn’t necessarily guarantee a starting position in Saturday’s A-Feature event, or even the B-Main for that matter.

In qualifying, Bergman drove around the ¼-mile, high-banked clay oval in 12.066 seconds, 24^th quickest and putting him in the fourth heat race. Even though the Gold Cup was an Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series event, instead of Outlaws Seth had many of California’s finest in that heat race with him. Seth finished sixth, missing the transfer by one position. The driver who held him off for that last transfer was non other than two-time defending USAC Silver Crown champion Bud Kaeding.

In the 12-lap B-Main event, Seth started sixth and went after the front runners immediately. Running fifth on a restart, Seth made the move of his weekend, diving low into turn one and squeezing between the inside edge of the track and his competitor to the outside. Bergman emerged out of turn two in the fourth and final transfer position and then moved into third, where he would finish to secure his starting spot in the Friday preliminary feature.

In the 30-lap preliminary feature, Seth had moved his way towards the top ten from his 19^th starting position when a car flipped upside down in front of him and Seth was unable to avoid, making contact. Unable to get his car repaired on time to rejoin the field, he had to settle for a tough 20^th place finish.

Because of the disappointing finish and the split field for the preliminary nights, Bergman ended up back in the C-Main for Saturday’s events. Scheduled to start 11^th, Seth’s power steering line then blew prior to the C-Main event, preventing him from starting and ending his weekend.

This weekend, M&S Motorsports will be back home in Washington and racing in Saturday’s season championships at Skagit Speedway in the 360 sprint car division. Seth is again expected to drive the car that night.

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Sponsors for Seth Bergman and M&S Motorsports

Burlington Collision
Tri-County Truss
H2H Photo
Anderson Power Washing
Art’s Auto Wrecking
Shark Engines
Race Outfitters
Sign-Mart USA
Performance R/C Hobbies
Heavy D