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Shinnston, WV --- Josh ‘Kid Rocket’
Richards spent some time on the road this past week before climbing back
into his dirt Late Model at West Virginia Motor Speedway (WVMS) this past
weekend competing in his Mark Richards Racing-owned #1 Seubert Calf Ranches,
Ace Metal Works, MCB Motorsports, Hoosier Racing Tires, Rocket Chassis,
Cornett Engines Grand Prix.
For the RaceFest World Championship Saturday night at the West Virginia
Motor Speedway Kid Rocket scored a fourth in his heat race and seventh in
the main event.
In other Kid Rocket news the talented 18-year-old participated in the
Richard Childress Racing/General Motors Racing Driver Development Test
Tuesday at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro NC. Sixteen "promising young
drivers," ranging in age from 16 to 31, were in the group for GM to "meet
and observe their on-track skills."
The second part of the test will be 19-20 September 2006 at Dale McDowell
Dirt School at North Georgia Speedway in Chatsworth GA. There the drivers
will be in Crate Engine and Open Engine Dirt Modified Cars.
The drivers will again run Busch cars for the third/last stage, on 10-11
October 2006 at Nashville Superspeedway in Nashville TN
Kid Rocket is the latest late model driver to sign-up to wait tables at the
Knoxville Late Model Celebrity Waiter Dinner & Auction on Saturday,
September 30. The annual fund-raising event, which is held in conjunction
with the Lucas Oil Knoxville Late Model Nationals, benefits the host
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville and, to a lesser
degree, the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in Florence, Kentucky. Kid
Rocket will be competing at the third annual Lucas Oil Knoxville Late Model
Nationals, September 28-29-30.
This weekend Kid Rocket heads back to western Pennsylvania. After a one-year
hiatus, the stars of the WoO LMS will return to Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania
Motor Speedway for the rich $18,000-to-win PITTSBURGHER event set for Sept.
22-23.
On Fri., Sept. 22, pit gates are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. and spectator
gates at 5 p.m. WoO LMS time trials are set for 7 p.m., followed by
qualifying heat races for the WoO LMS, E-Mods and Pure Stocks.
Pit gates will open for the Sat., Sept. 23, program at 11 a.m. and spectator
gates at 12 noon. Racing will begin at 7 p.m., featuring WoO LMS B-Mains,
specials for the E-Mods and Pure Stocks, and the 18th annual Pittsburgher
100, which will not have a halfway fuel stop. |
