Williams Grove Speedway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg – Williams Grove Speedway will present the 30th annual Jack Gunn Memorial Triple 20s for sprint cars on Friday night, August 31 at 7:30 pm.
The races will be part of the 2012 Diamond Series at the track and will be pivotal in deciding the overall Williams Grove point title with each separate 20-lap race carrying full points.
Fireworks and sidewinder sprints are also on the Friday night program.
The event is raindated for Sunday night, September 2 at 7 pm.
The Triple 20s have been a mainstay at the track since first being staged back in 2000 with the first Gunn Memorial going off back in 1983.
The Gunn race has been run annually every year since in honor of the late, great, nationally recognized 1979 Promoter of the Year Gunn, who not only guided ovals like Williams Grove to worldwide fame but who also at times during his career held the reigns of tracks like Penn National, Selinsgrove and Hagerstown, Md.
Fred Rahmer, Sean Michael and Todd Shaffer scored the 2000 triples while Bobby Allen took the first Gunn Memorial itself in 1983.
This year’s triple 20s will pay $2,500 to win the first two features with the third and final main paying a hefty $5,000 to the winner.
Time trials will lock the first 12 starters into the first feature with starters 13 – 22 coming out of a pair of qualifying races made up of the balance of the time-trialers.
Starters 23 and 24 will be the highest drivers in Williams Grove points who have failed to already put themselves in the main during qualifying. A starting invert of four, six or eight will be drawn.
The finish of the first 20 will be used to lineup the second main event with an inversion of the first four, five or six rowns being drawn to set the field.
The final feature will be lined up in order of money earned in the first two races with an invert of the top six money earners in effect.
No driver has been more successful in the Gunn Memorial over the years than Don Kreitz Jr., who took his prestigious wins in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 2010.
The winner of the final triple 20 each year since the triples began in 2000 has been recorded as that year’s Gunn victor.
Friday racing is slated to begin at 7:30 pm with gates opening at 5:30.
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JACK GUNN MEMORIAL WINNERS
1983 Bobby Allen
1984 Randy Wolfe
1985 Doug Wolfgang
1986 Dave Blaney
1987 Doug Wolfgang
1988 Don Kreitz Jr.
1989 Kenny Jacobs
1990 Don Kreitz Jr.
1991 Frankie Kerr
1992 Don Kreitz Jr.
1993 Don Kreitz Jr.
1994 Don Kreitz Jr.
1995 Lance Dewease
1996 Lance Dewease
1997 Kevin Gobrecht
1998 Stevie Smith
1999 Kevin Gobrecht
2000 Todd Shaffer
2001 Keith Kauffman
2002 Lance Dewease
2003 Greg Hodnett
2004 Lucas Wolfe
2005 Jason Johnson
2006 Doug Esh
2007 Mark Smith
2008 Brian Leppo
2009 Daryn Pittman
2010 Don Kreitz Jr.
2011 Fred Rahmer
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TRIPLE 20S WINNERS
2000 Fred Rahmer
Sean Michael
Todd Shaffer
2001 Todd Shaffer
Todd Shaffer
Keith Kauffman
2002 Fred Rahmer
Fred Rahmer
Lance Dewease
2003 Doug Esh
Fred Rahmer
Greg Hodnett
2004 Fred Rahmer
Lance Dewease
Lucas Wolfe
2005 Lucas Wolfe
Alan Cole
Jason Johnson
2006 Mark Smith
Lance Dewease
Doug Esh
2007 Fred Rahmer
Don Kreitz Jr.
Mark Smith
2008 Fred Rahmer
Doug Esh
Brian Leppo
2009 Greg Hodnett
Daryn Pittman
Daryn Pittman
2010 Daryn Pittman
Tyler Walker
Don Kreitz Jr.
2011 Brian Montieth
Lance Dewease
Fred Rahmer