Five Divisions Return to Marysville This Saturday

Marysville, CA (August 11, 2015) – After taking a weekend off the lights will be back on this Saturday night, August 15th, at the Marysville Raceway. Point race #13 will be presented by Riebes Auto Parts of Marysville. A big night of action packed auto racing is highlighted by the winged 360 sprint cars. The recent weekly car count has rivaled any other track in Northern California. Joining the mudslinging, aggressive sprint cars is the ultra-popular Super Stocks, wingless sprints, dwarfs cars and hobby stocks.

The pit gate will open at 3 P.M. while the front grandstand gate will open at 5 P.M. Qualifying for the winged sprint cars will begin at 6 P.M. with racing to follow. General grandstand admission to this event is $12.00 for adults, $9.00 for juniors and seniors or with military ID. Children, ages 6 to 11, are $6.00. Five and under are free. Family pass is $30.00 and includes 2 adult tickets and or 2 junior or 3 children tickets. For more information on times and prices please visit www.marysvilleraceway.com/tickets.html

Watsonville’s Justin Sanders picked up his 14th winged 360 sprint car of the season last weekend at Ocean Speedway. Sander’s now has seven wins at Marysville and seven wins at Ocean Speedway. His championship point lead is now at a staggering 46-point edge over Grass Valley’s Jeremy Burt. Former track champions set to knock Sanders off the podium include Colfax’s Colby Wiesz, Yuba City’s Korey Lovell and Grass Valley’s Billy Wallace. Rio Linda’s Cody Lamar is looking to catch a break and get back into victory lane. Chico’s Brad Bumgarner and Kenny Allen have been impressive this season and continue to be factors during the 25 lap main events. 

Browns Valley driver James Castleberry holds a slim one point lead over Yuba City’s Jerry Bartlett in the Super Stocks division. Chasing them are Marysville’s Courtney Dozier and Knightsen’s Mike Walko. The top four are only separated by eight points. The Super Stocks offer fast and fierce door banging action with sprint car top wings over their heads. 

Tim Sherman Jr. of Roseville is trying to secure his second straight track championship in the wingless sprint division. Sherman Jr. has 187 total points. Two drivers are tied for second in the points. Browns Valley’s Misty Castleberry and Marysville’s Josh Vieira are knotted with 178 points each. One point behind them is Grass Valley’s Brett Youngman. Marysville’s Kyle Standley sits in the fifth spot with 172 overall points. The wingless championship is coming down to the wire and should not be missed this Saturday night.

San Jose driver Ryan Winter won the most recent Dwarf Car race at Marysville. The traveling dwarf car division averages around 14 cars per event. 

For more information about the track please visit www.marysvilleraceway.com
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photo: Chris Cleveland