PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Showtime Speedway promotor Robert Yoho has announced final details of the Sixth annual Dave Steele World Championship Weekend.
Details of this year’s event weren’t finalized until just this week, as just a few months ago, there was doubt that the event would even happen. The state of Florida was using Showtime Speedway as a storage facility for debris from recent hurricanes that have ravished the area this past fall.
Yoho was given the track back in mid-December and given the go-ahead to continue racing. For the longest time, it was unsure when racing would resume this year.
Yoho has announced both weekends of the annual Dave Steele World Sprint Car Championship will be consolidated into one gigantic weekend of pavement sprint car racing on Feb. 21-22.
The action kicks off Feb. 21 with a 100-lap non-wing sprint car racing paying $7,500 to win and $500 to start. The non-winged portion of the event has typically been a 125-lap affair, but since teams will be racing the following night, it was decided to cut the distance of the non-winged race to 100 laps.
The following evening teams will put the wings on for twin 35-lap features. Each feature will pay $2,500 to win and $300 to start. If a driver could win all three events, he would go home with $8,000 not including lap monies. If a driver can start all three feature events, he is guaranteed.
The Dave Steele non-wing portion of the Dave Steele World Championship weekend is one the most unique races in all of Florida open-wheel racing. It gives Florida teams who anticipate competing in the Little 500 a low-cost tune-up race.
Teams will get the chance to use a long-distance race, on a track similar in size to Anderson Speedway, the chance to try things out prior to heading up north in late May.
