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Rip Michels
Racing, Inc. Driver Development & Leasing Program |
Rip Michels Racing is
proud to announce a new Driver Development & Leasing Program. The
team currently has two (2) Super Late Models and one (1) SRL tour
car to run both Irwindale and the new track in Bakersfield, Ca.
for the 2008 racing season.
These cars have the best of the best in equipment. All cars have
top notch Freighttrain Peters engines, with chassis by Victory
Circle, Hightower transmission, Penske shocks & wilwood brakes.
Rip Michels and his 8 time Championship winning crew will prepare
the cars. This is a full service operation, including, but not
limited to, Driver Coaching, PR, Transportation, Car Prep, Sponsor
Hospitality, and Race Day Crew. (FULL STORY) |
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Stock Building
Supply & Rip Michels Racing:
Announces Tentative Schedule of Events for 2008 |
Celebrating their fifth
year as marketing partners, Stock Building Supply and Rip Michels
Racing, Inc. are proud to announce a multiple race deal for the
upcoming 2008 season.
The races will consist of at least three races in the Flashco SRL
Southwest Tour Series. Stock Building Supply will sponsor the
three-race “Stock Building Supply Challenge” in 2008, in which a
bonus will be awarded to the driver who has the best overall
performance in the three races, designated as part of the
“Challenge”.
The locations of the three races that will make up the Challenge
have not been finalized, but will include the new home of NASCAR
racing in Bakersfield, California, which is set to open in 2008.
At least one of the races will also include the Stock Building
Supply Home Improvement Show. Details on this and the announced
dates for the “Stock Building Supply Challenge,” will be announced
at a later date. (FULL STORY) |
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2007 Irwindale
Speedway Super Late Model Champion: Rip Michels |
How does one become a
legend in West Coast racing, or in racing period? What makes those
determining factors, which separate those individuals whose names
are mentioned, and you immediately think, one of the best.
Is it by what that person accomplishes that gives them that title?
Is it their commitment, their hard work that brings them to that
next level? Or is it all of the above?
For this writer, it is all three. When I think of the legends, such
as Petty, Earhardt, or the West Coast racers like Dan Press, Oren
Prosser, Rick Carelli, Jim Thirkettle, Dave Phipps, Jimmy Inslo,
Jim Robinson, Jim Petit, and Ron Hornaday, just to name a few. You
look at what they accomplished, and you see the difference from
all the rest. Multiple Championships, inventors of the sport, guys
who worked their tails off and it showed each and every time they
showed up at the track. (FULL STORY) |
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Sunrise Ford Race
Report: Drive for 10 |
Fresh off their 9th victory (8-11-07) of the season in 14
starts, Rip Michels and the Sunrise Ford Racing team will be
gunning for their 10th victory of the season this coming weekend
at Irwindale Speedway.
A win this weekend would match Rip’s career best of 10 wins he
had in the 2003 season in the Super Late Model Division at
Irwindale. A season, which saw Rip and the team win the Super Late
Model Division Championship, and the 2003 Nascar Sunbelt Regional
Championship. Rip and the team currently find themselves in a
battle for two championships this year.
The team currently sits in the number one spot for the 2007
Irwindale Speedway Super Late Model Division Championship, with a
44 - point lead over second place, and second generation driver,
Travis Thirkettle. The team also sits second in the points for the
Whelen All-American Series California State Championship. The
championship points are determined as follows: (FULL STORY) |
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Sunrise Ford Race
Report: Team on a Mission |
The Sunrise Ford Racing
team swings back into action this Saturday night at the famed
half-mile speedway that is known as Irwindale Speedway, or as the
competitors like to call it, “The Dale”
Rip Michels and the team have been on a tear of late, winning 8 out
of the last 10 races, including 7 in a row. Coming into this
weekend’s race, Rip holds a 38 point lead over second place with 6
events remaining in the 2007 Super Late Model season.
“I could not be any more prouder of my team,” said Rip Michels.
“The team has now been together for 6 years, and is more like a
family, than just a race team. The team has been real successful,
with two SLM championships, a NASCAR Regional Championship, and
the last ever Southwest Tour Championship. I feel that it may be
one of the best teams on the West Coast. I know that sounds
impartial on my part, and hell, maybe it is, but the proof and the
stats are out there to back that claim up. So for me, it is easy
to make that statement.” (FULL STORY) |
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