EDMONTON, AB – The Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model Series is announcing a major schedule adjustment and venue change to the last half of the 2009 race season.  The Sunday August 16th event, originally scheduled at Drumheller Alberta’s Dinosaur Downs Speedway, will now be competed at Rocky Mountain Raceway Park near Okotok’s Alberta.

NPP REPLACES DRUMHELLER EVENT WITH AN ENCORE RACE AT RMRP

“NPP Series race teams would like to thank Brian and Sharon McCaughan for adding this extra race date to their schedule,” says NPP Late Model Series announcer Gord Craig, “Rocky Mountain Raceway Park already has a full calendar of events and to be able fit us in and to get staff together on such short notice is an incredible feat.”  Track officials in Drumheller and NPP Series officials agreed today (Wednesday) that the racing surface at Dinosaur Downs Speedway still needs some improvement in order to safely hold a major motorsport event.  At the grand opening event of Dinosaur Downs Speedway on June 28th, the racing surface disintegrated into a fine dusty powder during NPP Series heat races.

CONCERNS REMAIN REGARDING RACING SURFACE AT DRUMHELLER

In the interest of safety, all remaining NPP Dash and Feature events were cancelled.  “Nobody wants a repeat of what happened at the end of June.”  The Saturday August 15th event at Bridge County Raceway in Lethbridge and the Sunday August 16th event, now being held a Rocky Mountain Raceway Park, wraps up the final Southern Alberta road trip of the season for Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model teams.  Only five races remains in the 2009 NPP season after these two Southern Alberta events.

BRIDGE COUNTY RACEWAY – Lethbridge, AB
>Saturday, August 15th
Spectator gates at 5PM
Racing at 7PM

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RACEWAY PARK – Okotoks/High River, AB
>Sunday, August 16th
Spectator gates at 4PM
Racing at 5PM