For Immediate Release

SUNY Canton Sportsman Series Announces Prizes and Lap Sponsorship

SUNY Canton along with FX Caprara Car Companies presents Fun-4-Fans Events with the SUNY Canton Sportsman Series. Recently announced, the SUNY Canton Sportsman Series offers a 4 race event series to Sportsman drivers, with a separate point system and more opportunities to help the Sportsman drivers in the area.

“I want to thank SUNY Canton for all there support for everything they have done to help promote local racing in are area,” commented Chip Burdick. “This was a fun series that SUNY Canton and FX Caprara Car Companies wanted to put on in hopes of helping out Sportsman drivers and giving guys more opportunities to win more and to help out their racing programs. I hope that there are students out there that will someday take advantage of the Motorsports classes that SUNY Canton has to offer for college students such as two and four year degrees in everything from automotive, engineering, nursing, healthcare to business and liberal arts.”

The SUNY Canton Sportsman Series will begin at Caprara’s Thunder Alley Speed Park on Friday, July 11, 2008 . Thunder Alley will host another Sportsman Series event on September 5, 2008 . The other two events will be hosted at Caprara’s Can-Am Motorsports Park on Saturday, September 6th and Saturday, September 13th. All events are $800 to win with additional money added to the purse. Laps are now on sale for each of the four events. For $40 a person can sponsor one lap in each of the four events. The minimum amount to sponsor is $40, while people are welcomed to give more for the laps in which they sponsor. This will cover any race with laps 1 through 25, for the two events in which there are 30 lap feature events, then laps 26 through 30 are $20 each to sponsor. Those wishing to purchase laps can do so by contacting Chip Burdick at (315) 778-3407 or by seeing him on race night.

Also on tap will be a prize package where on the final night of the series, drivers in the top ten in points will enter a dash. The winner of the dash will be able to claim the following prizes. A Fugi Camera ($200 value), four cases of Pepsi Products ($40 value), four cases of Coke Products ($40 value), Lands End SUNY Canton travel bag ($50 value), Lands End SUNY Canton jacket ($60 value), Duffle bag ($20 value), Four PS-2 and X Box Games ($100 value), four boxes of full size candy bars ($75 value), 3 dozen custom made t-shirts of your design from Victory Promotions ($300 value), 11x14 framed photo of dash for prize winner from Turn4Photo.com ($20 value), $50 gift certificate for Jreck Subs ($50 value), four cases of bottle water from Frontenac Springs ($40 value), One year subscription to Gater Racing News and 4 tickets to the 2009 Motorsports Expo courtesy of Gater Racing News ($70 value) which means a driver can take home $1,110 in prizes and this is just the beginning!

The final points champion for the SUNY Canton Sportsman Series will receive a guaranteed position in the Mr. DIRT Sportsman Series Event at Caprara’s Can-Am on Wednesday, October 8th along with a 2009 Season Pit Pass to Caprara’s Can-Am Motorsports Park and Caprara’s Thunder Alley Speed Parks . FX Caprara Car Companies is also putting up a $1,000 bonus to any driver that can win three out of the four events.

Information on SUNY Canton and all of their exciting programs and the opportunities that they offer can be found at www.canton.edu.  More information on the SUNY Canton Sportsman Shootout, the SUNY Canton Street Stock Series or any other events for the 2008 season can be found on Can-Am’s website at www.canammotorsports.com,  on Thunder Alley’s website at www.thunderalleyspeedpark.com,  or by contact Chip Burdick at (315) 778-3407. Information on tech can be found by contacting Lloyd Larmon at (315) 767-7819.