By Kevin Bulmer
Delaware, ON - The stakes just got a little higher for drivers in Delaware Speedway's Cintas Late Model division. Beginning with this Saturday's Twin 50-lap feature races, drivers will now have a chance to win a Lucas Oil "Scratch and Win" bonus, worth $500 of cash and product for each race. In addition, Heritage Chrysler from Strathroy has posted a $500 bonus for any driver that can win both 50-lap feature races on Saturday night.
The Lucas Oil "Scratch and Win" is a new bonus program that will apply for the rest of the 2005 season and will work as follows:The top-two finishers from the previous week's feature race will start the next feature from the back row (i.e., "starting scratch"). If either of those two drivers wins that feature, they'll receive a bonus of $250 cash and $250-worth of Lucas Oil products. If the bonus isn't won, the money and product will go toward the year-end Cintas Late Model point fund. All told, the program will put an additional $5,000.00 in cash and $5,000.00 in Lucas Oil product in the hands of Delaware Speedway competitors.
The Lucas Oil "Scratch and Win" bonus will benefit in a number of ways: It will provide added incentive for the previous week's top drivers to start further to the back of the field, thereby presenting a greater opportunity to earn bonus points for passing cars, which is a twist to the Lucas Oil Weekend Warrior Series points program (calculated and administered separately from Delaware Speedway's points system). The incentive should also make the race more fun for the fans, as they'll get the chance to see if the previous race's two-top finishers can come from the back of the feature-race field to win in the next event. In addition, the cash and product not won on a week-to-week basis will be transferred to the year-end Delaware Speedway point fund and paid-out to drivers who achieve at least 80% attendance throughout the season but do not win any dollars from either the Lucas Oil Weekend Warrior Series or the NASCAR Dodge WeeklySeries program. This will ensure that almost everyone who supports the track by competing on a weekly level will stand to directly benefit, one way or another, from Lucas Oil.
The Heritage Chrysler bonus will apply for Saturday's Twin 50's only, an event sponsored by Dodge. The aim of that bonus is simple: win both races on the same night. Any driver that can do that will receive a $500 cash bonus from Heritage Chrysler in Strathroy. Combining the event purse, the new Lucas Oil bonus and the Heritage Chrysler bonus, there's just under $15,000.00 in cash and product up for grabs for Cintas Late Model drivers on Saturday night.
Spectator gates open at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. CASCAR Super Series time trials are at 3:00 pm and the racing program will start at 7:00 p.m.
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