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Irwindale Speedway released its 2008 racing schedule, which includes two visits by the newly named NASCAR Camping World Series, formerly the Grand National Division West Series, and a 100-lap Flashco Stockcar Racing League Southwest Series race.
The ASA Speed Truck Challenge, USAC Midgets and Sprints, D1 Grand Prix Drifting and the Outlaw Figure 8 World Championships will also race at Irwindale Speedway in 2008.
The season opens March 22 with a night of late model racing. The NASCAR Super Late Models, Late Models, Super Trucks, Mini Stocks, Legend Cars and figure 8s will race on opening night.
The Flashco SRL Southwest Series race is on April 26. The first Camping World Series race is July 4. It is a 200-lap, 100-mile race highlighting a night of events that will also feature a 100-lap Late Model race and fireworks show.
The Camping World Series returns to the track Aug. 16 for another 200-lap race.
The Outlaw Figure 8 World Championships are Nov. 15 and the D1 Grand Prix Drifting event will be Nov. 22-23.
The season ends Nov. 26 and 27 with the USAC Turkey Night Grand Prix.

It looks like there will be a SRL race at Irwindale Speedway in 2008.
The newly formed Flashco Stockcar Racing League Southwest Series will race at Irwindale Speedway on April 26. The entire Irwindale Speedway schedule will be released later this afternoon.
The Irwindale Speedway schedule will include two NASCAR Camping World Series races, formerly known as the NASCAR Grand National Division West Series. They will be on July 4 and Aug. 16.
The Flashco SRL Southwest Series announced that it will have a 12-race schedule starting March 29 at All-American Speedway in Roseville. It will include stops at Colorado National Speedway, the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the new track in Bakersfield.

Ron Hornaday Jr. has been around long enough to know that it takes more than a talented driver to win a championship.
His most recent championship started years ago with a man named Wally Rogers.
Hornaday credited Rogers, the former crew chief on his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team for Kevin Harvick Inc., for laying the foundation for his championship run in 2007.
Rogers has since moved on to KHI’s Busch Series team. Rick Ren is Hornaday’s crew chief now, but it was Rogers who started it all.
“It’s kind of ironic,” said Hornaday, a former Saugus Speedway champ from Palmdale. “He used to work for Bill Davis and took a lot of good notes and put it to ours, and everything just seemed to work out.”
It was Hornaday’s third Truck Series championship and his first with Kevin Harvick Inc. He won four races and had 22 top-10 finishes in 25 races in 2007. His 33 career wins are the most of any driver in the history of the Truck Series.
“I mean, this is cool,” Hornaday said. “We’ve won at some race tracks that Rick has never won at and he’s won at race tracks I’ve never won at. I won the championship for Rick Ren, Kevin Harvick Incorporated. This is just really special.”
Hornaday was the only driver with local ties to win a championship at the national level this year.

NHRALarry Dixon, a Van Nuys High graduate, and Jack Beckman, of North Hills, qualified for the first-ever Countdown, the six-race playoff devised by the NHRA.
Dixon, an NHRA Top Fuel driver, went in to the Countdown to One, the final four in the playoff for which only the top four drivers qualified, as the top-seeded driver. He came out in fourth place.
Beckman, perhaps the most unlikely qualifier in the NHRA Funny Car division, went from third place before the Countdown to One started to fifth place and out of the Countdown after it started. Beckman ended fifth in the final Funny Car standings.

American Le Mans Series
Santa Clarita-based Honda Performance Development and its Acuras made their debut in the American Le Mans Series. Three teams — Andretti Green Racing, Lowe’s Fernandez Racing and Highcroft Racing — used Acura-powered cars in the LMP2 division of the American Le Mans Series.
Valencia’s Bryan Herta was part of the Andretti Green Racing team that won the LMP2 portion of the season-opening 12 Hours of Sebring.
Robert Clarke, the outgoing president of Honda Performance Development, said winning at Sebring was the highlight of his 15 years with the company, which included providing engines and support for teams in the Indy Racing League and the old CART Series.
Highcroft Racing’s David Brabham and Stefan Johansson had four podium finishes and were was third in the final LMP2 team championship.
In addition to winning at Sebring, Herta, a Hart High of Newhall graduate, had podium finishes at the Lone Star Grand Prix in Houston and the Grand Prix of Mosport, just outside Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Lowe’s Fernandez Racing, with drivers Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz, had three podium finishes.

Irwindale Speedway
Elsewhere, Rip Michels of San Fernando added to his legend at Irwindale Speedway. He won 11 races and his third NASCAR Super Late Model championship. Add his Grand American Modified championship and Michels has four track championships. His 55 career wins at the track are the most of any driver.
Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills put together a four-car team, High Point Racing, to compete in the NASCAR Late Model division at Irwindale Speedway. He won the Late Model championship, the second of his career at the track.
He and his drivers — Jace Meier, Chris Carmody and Scott Jenkins — all finished in the top 10 in the Late Model division standings. The four drivers combined to win six of the 15 Late Model races at the track.
Meier, a driver from Las Vegas, ended up second in the Late Model standings with one win. Carmody, from Valencia, won two races and was fifth in the Late Model standings. Jenkins, from Portland, Ore., had six top-five finishes and finished was eighth in the Late Model standings.

Talk about old school. No one was able to accurately gauge who had the fastest cars during Wednesday night’s practice for the Turkey Night Grand Prix at Irwindale Speedway.
None of the cars had transponders on them. Crew members, wives, girlfriends, parents and spectators were calculating times and speeds with stopwatches throughout the sessions.
Everyone was pretty much in agreement that Jason Leffler, Bobby East and Dave Steele had the fastest cars in the USAC Midget practices. Not many surprises there.
Leffler and East are mercenaries from NASCAR with extensive USAC experience. Steele is a USAC veteran with two Silver Crown series championships and more than 50 USAC wins.

"He’s been fast for the past 10 years,” Midget driver Brady Bacon said about Steele.

Kody Swanson was reportedly turning laps in the 16.8 second range in his Sprint car around the half-mile oval. He was one of the few drivers who was able to break the 17 second barrier.