Indoor Racing comes to Allentown, PA
The two days of racing, sponsored by Ironton Telephone, has proven to be a popular investment with national and regional businesses who have taken advantage of sponsorship opportunities revolving around the event.
Ironton Telephone, in conjunction with Avaya with presentation by Future Homes are the returning title sponsors for the race weekend.
VP Racing Fuels is the title sponsor of the entire Indoor Auto Racing Series which started a week ago in Trenton, NJ and ends inside Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall on Friday and Saturday, January 27th and 28th.
Action Track USA in Kutztown, Pa., is the overall Slingshot division sponsor. Hoosier Tire is the overall Champ Kart class sponsor and is the provider of the official tire for the TQ Midget and Champ Kart classes.
Bob Hilbert Company has signed to sponsor a bonus for the TQ Midget class: if a driver wins all four A-Mains in the LSMP Series, he will earn a $10,000 bonus. By winning the inaugural race at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, N.J., on December 10, Erick Rudolph of Ransomville, N.Y., is the man eligible to collect. To do so, he’ll have to win both Friday and Saturday night’s A-Main in Allentown and then in Atlantic City’s NAPA Auto Parts classic.
Other businesses have come aboard to sponsor divisions or special awards within the classes in Allentown. Among them are E. Schneider & Sons, who will sponsor the TQ Midget, Slingshot and Champ Kart Hard Charger awards, All American Property Maintenance which is supporting the running of the TQ Midget heat races, Pocono Raceway, which has lent its name to the three TQ B- Mains, and S&S Speedways which will back the Slingshot heat races.
Steve Post, a veteran NASCAR pit reporter for the Motor Racing Network will join the announcing staff of the Indoor Auto Racing Series for events in Allentown, Pa. and Atlantic City, N.J. Post will join the ‘Voice of the Three Quarter (TQ) Midgets’, Bob Marlow, and Pocono Raceway’s chief announcer Earl Krause on the series starting with the Allentown event held inside the PPL Center on December 30 and 31. Post will also play a major role on the team at the Gambler’s Classic inside Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on January 27 and 28.
Tickets are available online at www.PPLCenter.com and or at the PPL Center box office located at 701 Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101.
The finale for the 2016-2017 Len Sammons Motorsports Productions Indoor Auto Racing Championship Series season is set for Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., on Friday and Saturday, January 27-28, 2017, featuring the fifteenth running of the Gamblers’ Classic.
Remaining Allentown and Atlantic City Indoor event and promotional sponsorship opportunity information is available at www.indoorautoracing.com or by phoning 609-888-3618.