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LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE KROWN JUNIOR RACING LEAGUE IN 2009! August 25, 2009 John Houghton Announcer / PR Delaware Speedway The Class of 2009 will run their Championship Race on Wednesay Evening
Wednesday evening is the season finale for Five-Dollar Wednesdays featuring the Krown Body Maintenance Junior Racing League at Delaware Speedway. Racing starts at 6:45 pm, admission for adults is $5, kids twelve and under are free of charge. Competition on Championship Wednesday will be made up of two divisions, Junior (ages 8-12) and Senior (ages 13-17) years old. The drivers will be competing in their half-scale race vehicles on the inside road course at Delaware Speedway. The Junior Division will be running three eight-lap heats followed by the senior division’s pair of ten-lap heats. Both divisions will then run their final feature events of the year, with the Junior Division running twenty laps, the Senior Division running twenty-five laps.
The Junior Division points standings are tight heading into the championship evening. Maddison Van Grinsven (#22) of Strathroy leads the points standings by eleven points over Komoka’s Lucas “Maddog” Manning (#66). Van Grinsven has a pair of feature wins to her credit, Manning also has a win. Both drivers had their wins early in the season and have been placing strongly in events and had solid classroom scores to keep them at the top of the leader board. Not mathematically eliminated, but with quite a drive ahead of him if he were to pull off an upset, Jaxon Jacobs (#3) of London sits in third, twenty-nine points back from the leader.
The Senior Division point standings have a much larger spread then the Junior Division. Wednesday’s event is all but a championship coronation for London’s “Cowboy” Kris Lawrence. Lawrence leads the points by eighty-two over the next closest challengers. The battle for second place is much closer, however, with Jordan Lawrence (#28) of London tied with Jonathon Van Grinsven (#99) of Strathroy. Jordan Lawrence is the younger brother of points leader Kris Lawrence, while Jonathon Van Grinsven is the older brother of Junior Division points leader Maddison Van Grinsven. The Krown Body Maintenance Junior Racing League is a program for 8-17 year olds that teaches the ins and outs of stock car racing. The program, which began in 1997, is run as a miniature version of a Friday Delaware Speedway NASCAR Whelen All American Series racing program including technical inspection, officiating, safety crews and even announcing. For the first time on Wednesday’s event is also being recorded by the speedway’s media team, Checkered Flag Media, from multiple angles for later assembly into a simulated television broadcast. As part of the Krown Body Maintenance Junior Racing League drivers participate in the racing program, and attend classroom sessions. These are held after every race and count towards the end of the year championship. The sessions teach the young drivers about subjects such as safety, public speaking, taking responsibility, the dangers of drugs and alcohol, vehicle maintenance, sponsorship, aerodynamics, engines and much more. The next racing event on the big track at Delaware Speedway is NASCAR Whelen All-American Series action presented by Maple Leaf Food Services and Coca-Cola. Gates open at 6:00 pm, practice runs from 6:00-7:00 pm, racing starts at 8:00 pm. The speedway is gearing up for one of its biggest weekends of the year, The Great Canadian Race Weekend (September 4, 5, 6). Early bird tickets for the weekend are only available until Friday night through the speedway website, www.delawarespeedway.com.
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