PIR Notebook: Holidays over; KVRA back in action

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KVRA competitors return to action tonight at Paducah International Raceway.


Thanks to two straight rainy weekends and no races scheduled during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, tonight's race will be only the fourth of the month of May for KVRA competitors. It's the third event of the season for the vintage coupes and sedans at the 3/8-mile high-banked Paducah International Raceway oval. ...

Dave Davidson won his fourth feature of the season in KVRA's last outing May 16 at Western Kentucky Speedway in Nebo, Ky. Davidson won the season opener April 3 at Paducah and won two features at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway. So far, all his victories have come in odd-numbered events on the KVRA schedule. Tonight's Race. No. 8 will give him a chance to "get even." Davidson has 12 KVRA career feature wins in the No. 16 maroon and white 1933 Plymouth sedan ...

 

Mark Moore, founder and president of KVRA and the series' winningest driver with 19 career feature wins, has won eight races at PIR, including five triumphs last year. Moore, of Murray, Ky., has a single victory this year in the No. 33 orange and silver 1934 Chevy coupe, April 17 at Camden, Tenn. He finished second to Davidson May 16 at Nebo. ...

 

Mike Moore, brother of the KVRA president, will drive a Moore Motorsports entry, the No. 35 1935 Plymouth coupe, tonight. Moore missed the early part of the season working in a coal mining operation in Colombia, South America. His return to action May 15 at Paducah was an unhappy one, as he tangled with a lapped car and demolished his No. C7, a white 1934 Ford sedan, in a violent rollover crash. Moore won the 2008 KVRA season opener at Paducah. ...

 

Neal Ford of Paducah will make his KVRA debut tonight in the Moore Motorsports No. C8, a 1941 Buick-bodied machine. ...


Tonight's race is the first of two scheduled events for the weekend for KVRA. A Saturday night appearance at Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tenn., is on tap next.

 

We thank Paducah International Raceway for having us as a part of many of its racing programs for the third season in a row. We're proud to be part of the show at one of mid-America's finest racing facilities.


KENTUCKY VINTAGE RACING ASSOCIATION is based in Murray, Ky. The series features full-sized modern racing chassis and powertrains with original steel bodies of American-made automobiles, 1948 and older. They are fully powered racing machines, not dwarf or legends cars.

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