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07-13-2017, 01:27 AM
Mahoning Valley Speedway to honor late champion Bill Teel with special memorial race September 16
Mahoning Valley Speedway has had a great number of champions over the years. The names are part of an amazing history. There are the select few who have been lucky to win more than one title during their career and those who made a lasting impression long after their racing days ended.
Bill Teel is one of those drivers who not only won Mahoning Valley championships but amassed a legion of fans that to this day consider him one of the all-time best. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone with a bad word to say about Teel.
Teel passed away in 2012. He who won Modified titles in 1988, 1990 and 2000 and will be honored with a memorial event on Saturday, September 16.
The Bill Teel Memorial will consist of four 16 lap Modified features paying $616 to win each plus lap money and contingencies. The overall top finisher will receive a huge trophy and have a guaranteed starting spot for the Octoberfast 200 on October 28.
The 16 is significant in the fact it was Teel’s signature car number and ironically when he won his last feature on July 8, 2000, it would be his 16th.
Modified drivers will be lined up for the first 16 lap feature via regular weekly handicap points. The next three races will be an invert for positions 6 – 20 provided all drivers are on the lead lap at the respective finishes. In-between features cars will be pitted in the staging area.
This will be a non-point race, however there will be 50 show up points towards this year’s final standings.
Anyone wishing to sponsor a lap can do so at $10 per lap by contacting Dene Smith at 610-392-8653. More information will be ongoing.
Also on the card that evening will be Mahoning’s Late Models, Street Stocks, Dirt Mods, Pro 4s and Hobby Stocks.
A rain date of September 23 in in place if need be.
Dino Oberto
Mahoning Valley Speedway has had a great number of champions over the years. The names are part of an amazing history. There are the select few who have been lucky to win more than one title during their career and those who made a lasting impression long after their racing days ended.
Bill Teel is one of those drivers who not only won Mahoning Valley championships but amassed a legion of fans that to this day consider him one of the all-time best. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone with a bad word to say about Teel.
Teel passed away in 2012. He who won Modified titles in 1988, 1990 and 2000 and will be honored with a memorial event on Saturday, September 16.
The Bill Teel Memorial will consist of four 16 lap Modified features paying $616 to win each plus lap money and contingencies. The overall top finisher will receive a huge trophy and have a guaranteed starting spot for the Octoberfast 200 on October 28.
The 16 is significant in the fact it was Teel’s signature car number and ironically when he won his last feature on July 8, 2000, it would be his 16th.
Modified drivers will be lined up for the first 16 lap feature via regular weekly handicap points. The next three races will be an invert for positions 6 – 20 provided all drivers are on the lead lap at the respective finishes. In-between features cars will be pitted in the staging area.
This will be a non-point race, however there will be 50 show up points towards this year’s final standings.
Anyone wishing to sponsor a lap can do so at $10 per lap by contacting Dene Smith at 610-392-8653. More information will be ongoing.
Also on the card that evening will be Mahoning’s Late Models, Street Stocks, Dirt Mods, Pro 4s and Hobby Stocks.
A rain date of September 23 in in place if need be.
Dino Oberto