Monthly Archives: April 2007

2007 Fantasy Racing with racingwisconsin.com It’s NASCAR racing time again and, time to sign up for the racingwisconsin.com Yahoo! Fantasy Racing League. This is our fifth year having a Fantasy League. Once again, we are going to give away prizes. Nothing huge, as this is still planned to be a fun and free league with just your pride on the line.  Prizes will go to the Overall Season Champion, First Half and Second Half Champion, Team with the most wins, Team that had the best week of the season and a few other random reasons.  Last year Rondo and Jack Daniels led the league.  This year, let’s give them some competition. In this game you will need to pick drivers from three separate groups.  The “A” group contains the top tier drivers, based mostly on last years results, and you will pick two for each race.  The “B” group is filled with the mid range of drivers and you will pick four.  The “C” group has the rest of the drivers and again you will pick two drivers.  You will need to pick the drivers before qualifying and you will receive qualifying points if any of the eight drivers you picked is in the top four.  Before the race, you will need to decide on your Active drivers (1 “A”, 2 “B” and 1 “C”) who will receive points for the race.  The trick is that you can have a single driver active for only nine races in the season. Oh, and the other trick is to have the active drivers finish well in the race that you picked them. This is a free game with the only requirement being that you’ll need to set up a Yahoo! ID.  This is a fun league with no fees, just good old friendly competition.  We will announce the weekly winners and league leader by their team name on the front page of racingwisconsin.com So…what are you waiting for…sign up now!

In order to join the group, just go to http://racing.fantasysports.yahoo.com/auto, create a team and choose to Join a Private Group. Then, when prompted, enter the following information…

Group ID#: 4631
Password: rw2007

Rockford, IL- Rockford Speedway was set to open its 60th Anniversary Season with a bang this Saturday night during the O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Smash-O-Rama. Old Man Winter had other plans as the Stateline Area is predicted to see temperatures barely reaching the thirties by Saturday with lows well into the teens mixed with the chance of snow.  “The simplest way to put it is, water can’t run when it is this cold, without running water, we can’t run an event with spectators,” stated Speedway Operations Manager Max Dickson.  Anyone that had purchased advance tickets for this event is invited to use those tickets during the Friday Night Fright event scheduled for Friday, May 25 at the Rockford Speedway. Discount coupons which had been distributed will be honored on that night as well as on Saturday night April 21 during the Coca-Cola NASCAR event.  Rockford Speedway will have cars on the track from noon until four this Saturday afternoon for an Open Practice which will see multiple divisions of cars preparing for the season ahead. Pit gates will open at 10AM for this practice session. 

The 60th Anniversary Season will attempt to begin next Saturday and Sunday with the running of the 30th annual Spring Classic featuring the Wisconsin Challenge Series in a 150 lap Championship Feature.  For a complete schedule of events and additional information, visit www.rockfordspeedway.com  or call the Speedway Box Office at 815-633-1500.