RIMBEY, AB. – Central Alberta Raceways has released its tentative schedule for the 2013 season. A total of nine potential oval race dates have been made available to the Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model Series. “New staff and management is already in place at this facility,” indicates NPP Series announcer Gord Craig, “one of their first decisions was to change their regular oval dates from Saturdays to Sundays. Personally, I think it’s a very good move.” Central Alberta Raceways is only a sixty-five minute drive from the hub of racing in the province of Alberta. Castrol Raceway released its Oval schedule in November. “Edmonton has basically owned the Saturday night racing scene since the mid-1990’s,” explains Craig, “it’s pretty hard to go head to head with this facility.” Craig says with the scheduling change [in Rimbey] there is the possibility of racing in Edmonton Saturday night and Central Alberta Raceways on Sunday afternoon.

“Out of the nine oval race dates in Rimbey, six dates are scheduled the day after an Oval event in Edmonton. This opens the door for a two-day race weekend.” Since the inaugural season of the NPP Late Model Series back in 2001, race schedules always featured a mix of one and two-day shows. “The goal for our upcoming race season is to have the entire 2013 schedule made up of only two-day shows. This will give drivers and teams a few extra weekends away from the track during the summer.” Despite never running back to back shows in Edmonton and Rimbey on the same weekend, the proximity of the two tracks makes the venture quite feasible. The proposal to run in Edmonton Saturday and Rimbey Sunday will be made to drivers and teams at the upcoming NPP Series off-season meeting in January. “There are several other tracks we’d like to compete at next season. We’re hoping to see some available race dates from them in the next few weeks.” The tentative 2013 schedule of the Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model Series is now expected to be released by the end of January.

2013 TENTATIVE FACILITY SCHEDULE
Sunday, May 5th – ATV MUD BOGS
Sunday, May 26th – OVAL**
Sunday, June 9th – OVAL**
Sunday, June 23rd – OVAL
Sunday, July 7th – OVAL
Sunday, July 13th – DRAGS (200ft Shootout^^)
Sunday, July 28th – OVAL**
Sunday, August 11th – OVAL**
Sunday, August 25th – OVAL**
Sunday, September 8th – OVAL**
Saturday, September 21st – MUD BOGS
Sunday, September 22nd – MUD BOGS
Sunday, September 29th – OVAL (raindate)

**Saturday night race in Edmonton
^^ shootout could be held on the new drag strip/potential late summer grand opening.

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2013 TENTATIVE OVAL SCHEDULE
Saturday, May 4th
Saturday, May 11th
Saturday, May 25th
Saturday, June 1st
Saturday, June 8th
Friday, July 19th (tentative NPP Series race date)
Saturday, July 20th (tentative NPP Series race date)
Saturday, July 27th
Saturday, August 10th
Saturday, August 17th (tentative NPP Series race date)
Friday, August 23rd
Saturday, August 24th
Saturday, September 7th
Saturday, September 14th