WEEKEND PREVIEW

Top 20 Showdown – Las Vegas Motor Speedway

November 15th, 2008

TOP 20 IS SET

RICKY ALVARADO

JUSTEN YEAGER

CHASE HANSEN

DON BAISCH

COLTEN VANDERHERP

MICKEY STUBBINGS

CORY SIMONEAU

JOE HOOD

DEREK KOPP

ROBERT GALLEGOS

TROY SWEETEN

TROY MCELROY

CORY SAMPLE

DUSTY SAFLEY

CHASE RUBLE

WADE TAYLOR

RICHARD ANDERSON

CHUCK BUCHANAN

JEFF COOPER

RYAN DIMICK

PREVIEW GOING INTO TOP 20 SHOWDOWN

Now, the race that everyone's been waiting for, The “TOP 20 SHOWDOWN” at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the eleventh annual IMCA Duel In The Desert. Jeep Berry dominated the race last year. Last years race has been known as the best Wild West Modified Tour race with side by side racing the whole 15 laps. Ricky Alvarado and Justen Yeager have been the class of the tour in 2008. But, there will be 18 other top drivers in the Wild West Modified Tour knocking on their doors. Alvarado, Baisch, Dimick, Gallegos, Hansen, & Stubbings will be seen for the second time in the Top 20 Showdown. Also known as the Wild West Shootout, The Top 20 Showdown will take center stage on Saturday, November fifteenth, 2008 in front of a spectactular crowd. 20 of the best IMCA Modified drivers in the Western and Rocky Mountain Region will battle side by side and will leave with bragging rights saying “I was in the Top 20 Showdown in Las Vegas”

TRACK SMACK

Las Vegas Motor Speedway– ½ mile semi banked dirt oval. Located in one of the most popular cities in America. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. This monster dirt oval produces some of best dirt races in the country. Also, one of the smoothest dirt tracks in the West. This is the place were the big dogs come out and play in the West.

DID YOU KNOW

Jeep Berry went on to win the first annual Top 20 Showdown in 2007.

OTHER STATS

PAST WINNER

2007 – Jeep Berry

ALL TOP 20 PARTICIPANTS

Bubba Alvarado
Ricky Alvarado
Richard Anderson
Don Baisch
Kasey Baisch
Jeep Berry
Chuck Buchanan
Jeff Cooper
Ryan Dimick
Dennis Durmas
Dan Fitzgerald
Robert Gallegos
Chase Hansen
Jason Haug
Joe Hood
Harvey Howard
Derek Kopp
Dwain McCarty
Troy McElroy
Chase Ruble
Dusty Safley
Cory Sample
Cory Simoneau
Aaron Spangler
Rick Spangler
Jon Stringfellow
Mickey Stubbings
Troy Sweeten
Regan Tafoya
Wade Taylor

Colten Vanderherp
Tyrone Yazzie
Justen Yeager

2ND YEAR IN TOP 20

Ricky Alvarado
Don Baisch
Ryan Dimick
Robert Gallegos
Chase Hansen
Mickey Stubbings

IN FOR FIRST TIME

Richard Anderson
Chuck Buchanan
Jeff Cooper
Joe Hood
Troy McElroy
Chase Ruble
Dusty Safley
Cory Sample
Cory Simoneau
Troy Sweeten
Wade Taylor
Colten Vanderherp
Justen Yeager

WAS IN 2007, NOT IN 2008

Bubba Alvarado
Kasey Baisch
Jeep Berry
Dennis Durmas
Dan Fitzgerald
Jason Haug
Harvey Howard
Dwain McCarty
Aaron Spangler
Rick Spangler
Jon Stringfellow
Regan Tafoya
Tyrone Yazzie

PICK EM'

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15th – LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

THE GAMBLING BEGINS

PERSON

WINNER

SECOND

THIRD

ANONYMOUS

SWEETEN, Troy

BUCHANAN, Chuck

RUBLE, Chase

VICKIE BENSON

YEAGER, Justen

ALVARADO, Ricky

MCELROY, Troy

GEOFF BRIGGS

YEAGER, Justen

ALVARADO, Ricky

KOPP, Derek

DON HARDINGER

ALVARADO, Ricky

YEAGER, Justen

DIMICK, Ryan

DUSTIN HANSEN

YEAGER, Justen

ALVARADO, Ricky

HANSEN, Chase

SHELLY HANSEN

YEAGER, Justen

DIMICK, Ryan

HANSEN, Chase

JODY HIERHOLZER

HOOD, Joe

KOPP, Derek

DIMICK, Ryan