SAINT JOHN, NB, - Officials from Lonnie Sommerville Racing are proud to announce their 2009 season schedule. Another championship run in the Carquest Maritime Pro Stock Tour, a national title hunt, plus a heavy balance of races south of the Mason Dixon line highlight the 2009 schedule.
In addition to setting their season schedule Lonnie Sommerville Racing is proud to announce that A.E. McKay Builders will return as primary sponsor while Irving Lubricants will return as an associate sponsor once again. Kent Building Supplies, Pub’s Drive Thru Bottle Exchange, and Select Kitchens will also adorn Sommerville’s black colored Chevys in ’09 on the associate level as part of their inaugural year of sponsorship with the team. Supporting sponsors ARP Bodies, Tex Motorsports Marketing, and Sommerville Flooring will also be onboard with the team.
The team will kick off their 2009 racing season by debuting a newly built Hamke racecar at the Hickory Motor Speedway on April 11th for the first of the four races that make up the ‘09 PASS National Championship series; a tour that Lonnie plans on making a full time run at for a national championship. The remaining three rounds that make up the national championship include September 13th at Beech Ridge (ME) Motor Speedway, then on September 26th Kenly, North Carolina’s Southern National Raceway Park will host race three, and finally the national champion will be crowned at “The Meltdown” at South Boston (VA) Speedway on Saturday October 17th.
While the PASS National tour will be a new series that the Saint John, NB native will compete full time in, a return to the Carquest Maritime Pro Stock Tour in ’09 will be a very familiar one. For the third consecutive year Sommerville will tackle the twelve race chase for the championship with the hopes of dethroning defending champion Wayne Smith of the top spot.
Rounding out the team’s schedule will be a PASS North start in the series’ only trip outside the U.S. at Speedway 660 in Geary, NB which just happens to be Sommerville’s home track. Three races in three nights at three different racetracks starting July 3rd with a PASS South series race at the Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, SC followed by a July 4th ASA Challenge race at the track simply known as “The Rock” (Rockingham (NC) Speedway), and finally another PASS South event on July 5th at the Hickory (NC) Motor Speedway will complete the new season of racing.
Gary Crooks, a fellow Canadian native now residing in Mooresville, NC will also be returning to Lonnie Sommerville Racing as the team’s consultant in 2009. Crooks brings a long list of successful super late model accomplishments, team structure, and a ton of racecar engineering knowledge which will bolster an already stout race team.
For more information and to get all the latest new on Lonnie Sommerville Racing visit their website at www.lonniesommerville.com. For media and public relations related issues contact Chris Ragle with Tex Motorsports Marketing at 704.706.3666.
From Chris Ragle // TEX Motorsports Marketing / Pro Photo Productions
