Kid Rocket Featured In CNN Presents Dirt Track Warriors

June 23, 2006

By Doc Lehman

Shinnston, WV --- Before NASCAR, high-speed race car drivers raced on dirt – and they still do. Dirt track automobile racing – an estimated billion dollar a year business with 30 million fans – is “the biggest sport you’ve never heard of,” according to the new documentary CNN Presents: Dirt Track Warriors, premiering on Saturday, July 1, at 8 p.m., with a replay at 11 p.m. Dirt Track Warriors re-airs on Sunday, July 2, at 2 a.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. All times Eastern. The new documentary features Josh ‘Kid Rocket’ Richards of Shinnston, WV who drives the Mark Richards Racing-owned #1 Seubert Calf Ranches, Ace Metal Works, MCB Motorsports, Hoosier Racing Tires, Rocket Chassis, Cornett Engines Grand Prix.

Dirt Track Warriors features exclusive access to the personal and professional lives of the drivers of lightweight, high-horsepower racing machines called “dirt late model” cars. The documentary follows racing’s teenager Josh “Kid Rocket” Richards, Chub “Chubzilla” Frank and “bad boy” Scott Bloomquist through a season of high-speed, dirt-throwing racing, climaxing with dirt late model’s biggest prize, the World 100 at Eldora Speedway in rural Ohio.

For Dirt Track Warriors, senior producer Ted Rubenstein interviewed dirt track’s “kings” throughout the 2005 racing season and offers viewers a look at the grueling life on the dirt track circuit through heartland America, which sometimes puts great strain on the personal lives of the drivers and their families. With the eyes of the racing world on the World 100, viewers learn whether 17-year-old phenom Josh “Kid Rocket” Richards will qualify for his first World 100 competition; whether Scott Bloomquist, celebrating his 25th year in dirt track racing will win his fourth championship at Eldora; or, whether “Chubzilla” can repeat his 2004 first-place success.

CNN Presents: Dirt Track Warriors was produced by Ted Rubenstein, with field producing by Emily Probst and Jamie Hutton. Mark Nelson is vice president and senior executive producer of CNN Productions. CNN Presents is the most honored documentary program in cable news.

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