ALLENTOWN, Pa. — After going winless in last year’s Indoor Auto Racing Series season, no one is more anxious to hit the reset button than Ryan Flores.
The six-time Indoor TQ Midget winner from Davidson, N.C. heads to Allentown’s PPL Center focused on returning to victory lane on Jan. 5-6 as part of the huge Ironton Global Cloud Phone sponsored weekend.
The event will be broadcast live by SPEED SPORT.tv.
After swapping the lead late in the going in the lone feature held last year at the PPL Center, he was forced to settle for second.
Later in the month on the first of two nights inside Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, Flores charged through the pack and was inside of race leader Andy Jankowiak when the pair made contact. Flores did a 360-degree spin and settled for a seventh place finish. The season ended with a fourth-place finish on Saturday night.
Flores, who captured the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series title as a front tire changer for Ryan Blaney and Team Penske comes into Allentown as one of the favorites. He is one of only three drivers to make all 11 A-Mains held at the PPL Center and has a 45-percent-win percentage with eight top-five finishes.
In 2017, Flores swept the weekend winning TQ Midget features held on Friday and Saturday that year. Thanks to an Ironton Auto Body Challenge in effect this year, if Flores wins on Friday, accepts a 10th-starting spot on Saturday and wins again he’ll head home with $10,000 in race earnings.
The eighth running of the Allentown event will feature three divisions of racing: TQ Midgets, Slingshots and Champ Karts with qualifying races and main events both nights.