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 |