Plenty on the line for S.B.'s Venegas tonight.
Speedway motorcycle rider Charlie Venegas, a San Bernardino resident, can set an Industry Speedway record with wins tonight and each of the next two Wednesday nights in the City of Industry.
If you're not familiar with the discipline, click here. If you haven't checked out the Industry track, it's worth a look, sitting smack-dab on top of the L.A. basin. Makes for good nighttime scenery (on a clear night).
The following was provided by Jim Short at IndustrySpeedway.com:
Venegas, a 20-year veteran of Speedway Motorcycle racing, is the winningest rider in the short history of Industry Speedway, with 33 main event victories since the start of the 2005 season (2004 results are not available), and he's been winning at better than a 50 percent ratio the past two years.
The 41-year-old father of three goes into tonight's event with nine wins in a season that will conclude with two more track championship races and the AMA Sports/USA Speedway California State Championship Sept. 17. That puts the rider known as "The Edge" in position to tie or break the record he set in 2007, when he won 10 regular season races and his second State title.
Venegas set his record in 21 races in 2007. This week's event will be the 18th of 20 overall in The Grand arena at the Industry Hills Expo Center. But Venegas did not ride in two of those while finalizing the opening of his Golden Gate Speedway in Vallejo and three times has failed to qualify for the main event - among them one that was cancelled. So in reality, Venegas has collected his nine wins in just 11 races.
Entrance gates at The Grand open at 5:30 p.m. and racing gets under way at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, students and military, and $5 for children 6-13.
Information may be obtained by calling the Industry Speedway Hotline at 949-640-0455 or visiting the Internet web site at www.Industryspeedway.com.