Topless LMs, Yellow-Out Just Part Of Fulton’s Saturday Excitement

Story By: DAVE MEDLER / FULTON SPEEDWAY – FULTON, NY – Major marketing partner Sunoco Fulton Ethanol Facility is set to present a night of fast, family affordable fun this Saturday, July 22 at the “Highbanks” of the Fulton Speedway.

Adult grandstand admission is $12 with everyone 18 years old and younger FREE. Pit is $27 participant, $30 non-participant. Grandstands open at 5:00 with racing at 7:00.

Help us make Saturday night racing program a Yellow-Out by wearing yellow for Rhabdomyosarcoma Month. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a fast-growing soft tissue cancer. All money donated will go directly to Golisano Children’s Hospital in Syracuse, NY to help their fight with childhood cancer.

Rachael Moyer who is the fiancé of Fulton Speedway Late Model racer Chris Fleming and one of our 50/50 girls has this cause very near and dear to her heart. To read her story go to www.fultonspeedway.com and in the news section look for the story with the Golisano Children’s Hospital logo.

After being popular with the fans and racers in 2016, the roofs will once again come off for the highly competitive Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Late Models. Being run only once a season it’s anyone’s guess who will be sitting in victory lane at the end of 20 laps as taking the roofs off totally changes how the car races.

Also putting on side-by-side racing excitement will be the grandstand shaking, 800 horsepower Tracey Road Equipment Big Block Modifieds, SUNY Canton Sportsman, E&V Energy Novice Sportsman and JB Logging & Firewood 4-Cylinders.

Before the racing starts the Home Depot will be on hand in the midway for the kid’s workshop with fun activities for all the Jr. fans.

Have you always wanted to get your child involved in racing and didn’t know where to start? The Syracuse Microd & Quarter Midget Clubs will be on hand with their cars on display and to answer any questions you might have about this great family sport.

Starting this Saturday, thanks to Textron Off Road who is the primary sponsor on Jason Occhino’s Late Model and Max McLaughlin’s Modified there will be weekly pit tours.

After hot laps at 6:30 a trolley will pick up fans and give them a tour of the pit area each week. The trolley will leave from the Candyland trailer in the midway behind the grandstands in turn four. There will be several trips into the pits to let fans see the cars and drivers up close until just before the start of the night’s racing.

With just over a handful of races left to decide the 2017 track champions, the point races are really heating up. Here are the top-five division point stands coming into July 22.

(Tracey Road Equipment Modifieds) – 99L – Larry Wight (458) 83x – Tim Sears Jr. (448) 98H – Jimmy Phelps (445) 42p – Pat Ward (417) 109 – Billy Whittaker (394).

(SUNY Canton Sportsman) – 15 – Todd Root (512) 32R – Ron Davis III (500) 7c – Glenn Forward (498) 14 – Jeremy Pitcher (479) 31 Corey Barker (476).

(Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Late Models) – 38 – Jason Parkhurst (1,068) 3x – Kevan Cook (1,064) 91 – Chad Homan (1,051) 10 – Chris Fleming (1,044) 81 – Bret Belden (1,024).

(JB Logging & Firewood 4-Cylinders) – 16b – Chris Bonoffski (384) 21W – Quinn Wallis (372) 26R – Ray Bechler (366) 21Jr. – Joe Buske Jr. (314) 26b – Dakota Bechler (270).