St. Thomas Dragway is pleased to announce it’s 2008 Racing Schedule

Highlights include the first trip to Western Ontario of the Show Me the Money Tour featuring a $10,000 payout for Sunday’s Super Pro/Top category. The Tour which operates in Eastern and Northern Ontario as well as Quebec will be featured the weekend of July 4, 5 & 6. A new stand alone event for the wildly popular nostalgia cars, the ONDR Nostalgia Day, will be held on June 29. The Ontario Street Car Association returns September 6 & 7 after a one year association hiatus.
The Canadian Sport Compact Series will be back on September 14. The always popular Wiseco Hot Rod Reunion will be campaigned on the August Civic holiday weekend, August 2 & 3 and will feature non-points racing for the Nostalgia vehicles. The fast growing Windsor Shootout comes back for a third year the weekend of August 22, 23 & 24.
The sixth annual St. Thomas Truck Nationals, a major fund raising event for the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Foundation, returns August 16 and 17. The year’s largest event, the Turkey Nationals will be run once again with bonus brackets on the Thanksgiving weekend, October 11 & 12.

Fifteen Summit ET Bracket Races are scheduled with the first twelve contested as points races while the last three will be available for rain dates if needed. Two NHRA events are included in that total with the NHRA King of the Track on May 24 & 25 and the NHRA National Dragster Challenge on June 21 & 22. NHRA ‘Wally’ trophies will be up for grabs at both events. The Ontario Mini-Rod Tractor Pullers and the Garden Tractor Pullers return Saturday night June 28.

In addition more than 25 car clubs will be holding events throughout the season. The Friday night Street Legal races return with a new enhancement - on the third Friday night of each month the quickest 8 street legal vehicles, car, truck, bike and/or sled, will run off for $500 to win, $125 runner-up and free passes for the other 6. The Saturday night Run What Ya Brung program will have a similar enhancement with the quickest 8 vehicles running off for $500 to win, $125 runner-up and free passes for the other 6 on the second Saturday of each month. As the name implies, Run What Ya Brung, all vehicles are eligible including race cars. These ‘Quick 8' Shootouts will be run May through September. The full schedule is available on the website. For further information, contact the track at 519-775-2263, FAX 519-775-2593, e-mail at sttdrags@skynet.ca

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Show Me the Money Tour coming to St. Thomas Dragway

Canada's longest running and richest drag racing series, The Show Me the Money Tour, will be coming to St. Thomas Dragway July 4, 5 & 6, 2008. The tour which regularly campaigns in Northern and Eastern Ontario as well as Quebec, is Canada’s most successful touring drag racing series. Operated by Arnie Malcolm of Luskville Dragway just west of Ottawa in Quebec the series feature's a monster $10,000 payout for Sunday’s Super Pro/Top class as well as large payouts for Mod/Pro, Street and Bike/Sled. The St. Thomas Dragway Stop on the Tour will also include Top Sportsman and Top Dragster classes.

Benson Auto Parts, based in Ottawa, is the major sponsor of the series and Benson’s Glenn Highland stated that this move coincides with Benson’s expansion into Western Ontario. They have already opened two stores in London, one across from Ace Radiator on Bessemer Road and the other across from Kydd Radiator on Hamilton Road.

Malcolm attended the Turkey Nationals in October with several of his racers and had this to say - ‘I’ve got to be honest, I fell in love with the place, one of the nicest tracks I have ever been to and I had a blast racing there’!! Malcolm added that additional enhancements to the show will be announced at a later date.

For further information, contact the track at 519-775-2263. Arnie Malcolm can be reached at arnie.malcolm@sympatico.ca or at www.luskvilledragway.com.

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February 19, 2007

Wiseco to sponsor Hot Rod Reunion

Wiseco Performance Products located in Woodstock, Ontario, has stepped up their long time participation with St. Thomas Dragway by becoming the title sponsor for the very popular Hot Rod Reunion. The event featuring the fastest growing segment in drag racing, the Nostalgia Cars, will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 4 & 5. The Ontario Nostalgia Drag
Racers will again attend at what has become their largest and most anticipated event of the year. Started five years ago with about twenty members the group has grown under the direction of President Rick Proctor to over three hundred members. The regular racers running in the track’s points series will also run both days. Several match races are also being put together. In addition a ‘Gasser Challenge’ is planned for Saturday night.

Harvey Silverthorne of Wiseco stated that ‘we are very pleased to become title sponsor of the Hot Rod Reunion within this fastest growing segment of drag racing. We feel the many participants are natural customers for our popular Wiseco line of performance pistons’. Wiseco manufactures a full line of pistons for the entire range of motorsports including cars, trucks, motorcycle and snowmobiles. Wiseco is a long time sponsor in Canada for all forms of motorsports. Wiseco’s website can be accessed at www.wiseco.com. For further information, contact the track at 519-775-2263

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February 8, 2007
Canada Trailers new sponsor of TOP Bracket

Canada Trailers has signed on as sponsor of the TOP Bracket at St. Thomas Dragway. Located on Imperial Road just north of Aylmer, Ont. the company manufactures and sells a full line of trailers including car trailers, dump trailers, snowmobile trailers, landscaping trailers, tilt trailers and car dollys. Their distinctive logo can be seen on trailers throughout Ontario and other parts of Canada. Their website can be found at www.canadatrailers.com.
Track owner Dave Mathers commented that “We are very pleased to welcome the return of Canada Trailers as an advertiser and now class sponsor. The quality of their equipment is the very best in the industry and a credit to their work force”. For further information, contact the track at 519-775-2263,