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DirtNews Digest Your Online News Source for Late Model Dirt Track Racing "Get Some Dirt On Your Computer!" Todd Turner, editor Email address: DirtNews@aol.com Web site: ...

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DirtNews Digest Your Online News Source for Late Model Dirt Track Racing "Get Some Dirt On Your Computer!" Todd Turner, editor

Email address: DirtNews@aol.com Web site: http://members.aol.com/dirtnews/digest =================================== CONTENTS: April 18-20 preview (April 17) HAV-A-TAMPA: Bloomquist to defend title at Brownstown OTHER RACES: Roundup of weekend's other events =================================== HAV-A-TAMPA DIRT RACING SERIES

TRACK: Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway, quarter-mile oval.

DAYS: Friday (qualifying and heats) and Saturday (consolations and feature).

FEATURE: 100 laps, $15,000 to win.

RACE INFORMATION: (812) 342-6461 or 358-5332.

NOTES: Two-time Hav-A-Tampa champion Scott Bloomquist has told Brownstown promoter James Essex that he'll defend last year's victory in the series debut at the track .... if Bloomquist indeed races, it would be his first appearance with Hav-A-Tampa this year .... Bloomquist has been on a self-imposed boycott of Hav-A-Tampa stemming from a penalty he received last year that he felt unfairly cost him a possible third series title .... Billy Moyer Jr. will visit one of his favorite tracks coming off last week's victory at hometown Batesville (Ark.) Speedway .... besides Hav-A-Tampa regulars such as defending champion Freddy Smith, Wendell Wallace, Johnny Virden and Clint Smith, top Brownstown drivers expected include Mike Jewell, Steve Barnett, C.J. Rayburn and Jim Curry .... Rayburn, a 57-year-old chassis-builder and driver, won Brownstown's $5,000-to-win season-opening Hoosier Dirt Classic on March 29 .... Indy Racing League driver Tony Stewart, who piloted a Rayburn Team car to second place March 29, may race this weekend, too .... and don't be surprised if John Gill, who suffered serious injuries in an ARCA accident last November at Atlanta Motor Speedway, decides to strap himself into a dirt late model .... practice is scheduled for Thursday night from 6 to 9 p.m. .... the race will be first televised at the 45-year-old track, with broadcasts appearing next month on Fox Sports networks.

HAV-A-TAMPA POINT STANDINGS (points behind in parentheses): Freddy Smith 1,117; Billy Moyer Jr. (-38); Wendell Wallace (-108); Dale McDowell (-170); Clint Smith (-172); Johnny Virden (-184); Donnie Moran (-235); Steve Russell (-239); Skip Arp (-259); David Gibson (-274).

CREDIT: James Essex of Brownstown Speedway. ------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER WEEKEND EVENTS

FRIDAY, April 18 ***STARS, Williams Grove Speedway, Mechanicsburg, Pa., $5,000 to win ***NASCAR Busch All-Star Tour, Davenport (Iowa) Speedway, 40 laps ***RICK'S SERIES, Garner Town (Tenn.) Speedway, "Joe Wadley Memorial," $6,000 to win (qualifying and heats) ***IMCA Deery Brothers Series, Louisa County Speedway, Columbus Junction, Iowa, $2,000 to win ***UMP, Spoon River Speedway, Banner, Ill., $2,000 to win

SATURDAY, April 19 ***RICK'S SERIES, Garner Town (Tenn.) Speedway, "Joe Wadley Memorial," $6,000 to win (consolation and feature) ***STARS, Winchester (Va.) Speedway, $6,000 to win ***UDTRA, Cherokee Speedway, Gaffney, S.C., $3,000 to win ***SUPR, Super Bee Speedway, Chatham, La., $2,000 to win ***MLRA, Joplin (Mo.) 66 Speedway ***AMERICAN LATE MODEL SERIES, Eldora Speedway, Rossburg, Ohio, $2,000 to win ***IMCA Deery Brothers Series, Lee County Speedway, Donnellson, Iowa, $2,000 to win

SUNDAY, April 20 ***STARS, Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway, "Stanley Schetrompf Memorial," $8,000 to win ***UMP, Tri-State Speedway, Haubstadt, Ind., $5,000 to win -------------------------------------------------------------

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