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Smith Earns Top 10 at Attica to Open All Star Tripleheader

(Photo by DB3 Imaging)

Inside Line Promotions – BEDFORD, Pa. (April 20, 2016) – Less than the tick of a clock can make or break your night when it comes to sprint car racing. For Ryan Smith it made for a lot of hard work over the weekend.

The Kunkletown, Pa., driver competed in three events with the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions over the weekend. It began at Attica Raceway Park in Attica, Ohio, on Friday followed by Wayne County Speedway near Orrville, Ohio, on Saturday and ending Sunday on the half-mile Bedford Speedway.

The All Stars’ procedure has drivers qualifying against the cars in their respective heat races with the top four in times inverted for the heats. The top two finishers of each heat then compete in a dash and where they finish is where they start in the feature event.

Smith made the inversion for his heat at Attica and qualified for the dash, and thus a better starting position in the feature. However, at both Wayne County and Bedford, he missed the four-car heat race inversion by one position. He finished in the necessary position to make the feature, but had to start toward the back of the field in each feature event.

“At least with the All Stars a bad qualifying pill number doesn’t necessarily put you behind the eight ball all night because you are only qualifying with the cars in your heat,” he said. “Unfortunately as tough as the competition is, just a hundredth of a second can be the difference in starting in the first two rows and getting that shot at making the dash.”

Smith went into the HD Supply Spring Nationals at Attica Raceway Park with a lot of confidence after winning the event in 2015. He set the fourth quickest time in his heat race group, started on the pole and finished second in a heat race and qualified for the dash, where he placed sixth. Smith then finished where he started – sixth – in the 40-lap feature on a track that took rubber making passing difficult.

The next night at Wayne County Speedway Smith qualified 14th out of the 30 cars and fifth for his heat. He made the A Main with a sixth-place finish in his heat, which started him 17th in the feature. He ended with a 16th-place result.

Smith wrapped up the weekend on Sunday at Bedford Speedway, which saw 42 cars in competition. Again, he qualified fifth quick in his heat race group and 22nd overall, putting him to the inside of the third row for the starting grid of his heat. Smith raced to a fifth-place heat finish, good enough to make the A Main. On a track where passing was at a premium, Smith started 19th and came home 15th at the checkers.

Smith has a busy weekend on tap as he will battle the famed “PA Posse” at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa., on Friday for the Tommy Hinnershitz Memorial before battling the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions again on Saturday at Port Royal Speedway in Port Royal, Pa., for the Inaugural Keith Kauffman Classic and Sunday at Selinsgrove Speedway near Selinsgrove, Pa., for the Ray Tilley Classic.

QUICK RESULTS –

April 15 – Attica Raceway Park in Attica, Ohio – Qualifying: 8; Heat race: 2 (1); Dash: 6 (5); Feature: 6 (6).

April 16 – Wayne County Speedway in Orrville, Ohio – Qualifying: 14; Heat race: 6 (5); Feature: 16 (17).

April 17 – Bedford Speedway in Bedford, Pa.– Qualifying: 22; Heat race: 5 (5); Feature: 15 (19).

SEASON STATS –

13 races, 0 wins, 2 top fives, 5 top 10, 8 top 15s, 11 top 20s

UP NEXT –

Friday at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa; Saturday at Port Royal Speedway in Port Royal, Pa., and Sunday at Selinsgrove Speedway in Selinsgrove, Pa., with the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions

MEDIA LINKS –

Website: http://www.RyanSmithRacing.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanSmithRacing

Twitter Race Updates: https://twitter.com/DeniseS_SS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RyanSmith.TheKunkletownKid

Instagram: https://instagram.com/denises_ss

APPAREL –

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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT – Fighting Angels Foundation

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“We need to find a cure for kids like little Joey who have Angelman Syndrome,” Smith said. “The Fighting Angels Foundation is a great foundation that raises money to find a cure for this syndrome. Hopefully in the near future there will be a cure.”

Smith would also like to thank Warko Group, S&S Speedways, G.L.T. Electrical, Quality Roofing Supply, East Coast Helicopter Tours, CnB Chubby, Armbruster Racing Photos, Thunder on the Hill Racing Series, HP Engines, Pancho’s Racing Products, GME Steering and Vahlco Racing Wheels for their continued support.

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