Bridgeport Equipment Night At The Bullring Set To Take the Green

As the green flag waved on the 2016 season at the Tyler County Speedway, strong fields in all divisions left little doubt to the caliber of racing action to be expected during the ‘Bullrings’ 42nd season of continuous operation. With a rare two night opening weekend in the books, the Hometown Racing Association will open the gates once again on Saturday Night, April 23rd with the Bridgeport Equipment Night at the Races featuring FREE admission to all 4H & FFA members.

A mainstay supporter of the Tyler County Speedway, Bridgeport Equipment is a value-added equipment and tool company. In addition to equipment rentals, offer safety supplies, fasteners, tools and power equipment including brands like John Deere, Stihl, Toro, and Bosch just to name a few. Founded in a small Ohio town, Bridgeport Equipment began doing business in 1995 and have since grown into many locations including in New Martinsville, Pennsboro, Huntington, Charleston and Ripley, West Virginia along with Marietta, Bridgeport, Bidwell and Pomeroy, Ohio locations plus a Wurtland, Kentucky store. For more info visit the fine folks at Bridgeport Equipment at www.bridgeportequip.com.

A full racing card will be on tap featuring action in all weekly racing divisions with gates opening at 4pm, MWRA Mini Wedges getting underway at 6pm with hotlaps/qualifying to follow. Tyler County Speedway will continue to hold the line on family affordability by offering the lowest prices in the region as general admission at the ‘Bullring’ is just $10, with children 10 and under free and pit admission priced at $30.

Opening weekend winners in the J&R Excavating Super Late Models presented by Midcap Land & Timber were a pair of Mountain State hotshoes in Robbie Scott and Tim Dohm, with wins have locked up a starting spot in the Season Championship $5,000 to win Sunoco Winners Shootout. Also picking up wins were Jacob Hawkins in the Two Brothers Motorsports AMRA Modified division while Alma, WV’s Travis Thomas would pick up a pair of Gear 2 Graphic EDGE Hotmod presented by Poske Performance Parts main events along with Middlebourne, WV’s Mick Baker also snaring an early season win. Traveling invaders of Pennsylvania’s Mike Pegher and southern West Virginia racer Aaron Barley would open up the 2016 FASTRAK racing season with wins. In the Chris Metz State Farm Insurance Modlites it was former track champion Mitch Ward winning the first of the year while young upstart Daniel Eddy would thrill fans with a last lap pass to secure his first ever feature win. Robert Frohnapfel and Scott Critchfield would split 4 Cylinder Feature wins while George Casto III and Tristan Borkoski would open up the MWRA Mini Wedge season with victories.

About the Tyler County Speedway: Located in the scenic WV hills, the Tyler County Speedway is located just 4 miles south of Middlebourne, on State Route 18 at the Fairgrounds approximately an hour from Wheeling, Clarksburg & Parkersburg. Tyler County Speedway is considered by fans, drivers and industry insiders to be one of the raciest tracks in the nation and has been dubbed the ‘Bullring’ with three and four wide racing action being the norm not the exception.

Tyler County Speedway annually hosts some of the largest and most popular events in the Ohio Valley region! National and regional touring series such as the World of Outlaw Late Model Series, Renegades of Dirt Modified Tour, FASTRAK Racing Series, UFo Late Models, ULMS Racing Series, AMRA STARS Late Models, Kings of Karnage and much more appear frequently. In addition to the incredible Special Event lineup, the Tyler County Speedway Weekly Racing Series consists of the AMRA Super Late Models, FASTRAK Late Models, AMRA Modifieds, EDGE Hotmods, ModLites, FWD 4 Cylinders and MWRA Mini Wedges on Saturday Nights April thru September. For additional information regarding the 42nd Anniversary Season at the Tyler County Speedway follow us online at www.tylercountyspeedwayonline.com, phone the track office at 304-771-6874 or 304-771-5661 or on raceday at 304-758-2660.