{"id":13259,"date":"2012-08-24T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=13259"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:13:08","slug":"selinsgrove-speedways-inaugural-world-of-outlaws-late-model-series-event-on-sunday-aug-26-excites-track-champ-jeff-rine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/selinsgrove-speedways-inaugural-world-of-outlaws-late-model-series-event-on-sunday-aug-26-excites-track-champ-jeff-rine\/","title":{"rendered":"Selinsgrove Speedway’s Inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event On Sunday (Aug. 26) Excites Track Champ Jeff Rine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Oval\u2019s Top Winner Ready To Challenge National Stars On Home Turf<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"SELINSGROVE, PA \u2013 Aug. 24, 2012 \u2013 No one is more excited about the first-ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at Selinsgrove Speedway this Sunday night (Aug. 26) than Jeff Rine.<\/p>\n

The historic track\u2019s most prolific dirt Late Model winner has, after all, been waiting a long time to challenge a national tour\u2019s superstar drivers on his home turf.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gone to other tracks to run World of Outlaws shows over the years,\u201d said Rine, 35, of Danville, Pa. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be real neat to have the Outlaws come to our<\/em> track and see what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

A winner of seven points championships \u2013 including the last five in a row \u2013 and a record 77 career dirt Late Model features at Selinsgrove, Rine would love to reach Victory Lane in the richest dirt Late Model race ever contested at the sprawling half-mile oval. He knows capturing the 50-lap headliner\u2019s $10,000 top prize will be an extremely difficult task, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be like a dream come true to win it,\u201d said Rine, who has entered 17 WoO LMS events since 2007 and started eight A-Mains, with a top finish of 10 th<\/sup> on June 24, 2009, at Big Diamond Raceway in Minersville, Pa. (he also set fast time and won a heat race that evening). \u201cA lot of people we know will be there, so it sure would be a fun night if we could pull it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing that it\u2019s our hometrack, I think we should definitely have an advantage,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut the Outlaw guys (race) for a living so they don\u2019t take much time to figure a place out, and that\u2019s gonna make it tough on us. We\u2019re just gonna try to do our best to make the locals proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rine enters Sunday\u2019s action with plenty of confidence, owning five wins this season at Selinsgrove and appearing to be well on his way to tying Bobby Croop of Nescopeck, Pa., for the track-title record of eight. He seems to be firing on all cylinders at the right time to take on a star-studded WoO LMS roster that includes the sizzling Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky. (record 13 wins in 2012); defending champion Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who started his career at Selinsgrove and won the track\u2019s Late Model National Open last October; 2006 champion Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y.; Shane Clanton of Fayetteville, Ga., who won this season\u2019s $100,000 Dream event at Ohio\u2019s Eldora Speedway; and two-time champ Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., who will take advantage of a break in his NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule to return to the full-fender tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re at our best,\u201d said Rine, who will get one final tuneup for the WoO LMS show when he runs Saturday night\u2019s weekly program at Selinsgrove. \u201cWe\u2019ve had all season to get ready for it. We got a MasterSbilt (car) this year from (Maryland\u2019s) Huey (Wilcoxon), and we\u2019ve been working with him real close to try and get it as good as we can. I feel like we have something that\u2019s working pretty good right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rine will have some extra incentive on Sunday because his longtime car owners, Jeff and Cathy Kurtz of Elysburg, Pa., are sponsoring the WoO LMS event through their Jeff\u2019s Auto Body & Recycling business. It was Jeff Kurtz, in fact, who pushed Selinsgrove promoter Charlie Paige to schedule a full-fender World of Outlaws program.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff\u2019s been talking about trying to get the Outlaws in to Selinsgrove for a couple years,\u201d said Rine. \u201cEverything finally worked out and Charlie (Paige) decided to go ahead with it. I think he realizes how good it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Rine has high hopes for a race that will break new ground at a track in its 50th<\/sup> consecutive season of weekly racing and 67th<\/sup> year of competition overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s gonna be real neat,\u201d Rine said of the WoO LMS invasion of Selinsgrove. \u201cIt\u2019s about time \u2013 like I\u2019ve been saying, central PA is Sprint Car oriented, and now (Selinsgrove\u2019s fans are) finally gonna get to see some real<\/em> race cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rine was laughing, of course, when he made that comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have anything against Sprint Cars,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI actually raced a Micro-Sprint for about three years before going the Late Model route, and I actually build (Sprint Car) wings for a living (he operates the Wing Dynamics business). We just like to have fun going back-and-forth with the Sprint Car people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday night\u2019s program, which will also include an appearance in WoO LMS competition by 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion and current Nationwide Series standout Austin Dillon, is scheduled to begin with qualifying at 7 p.m. Gates are set to open at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Admission is $30 for adults, $20 for students (ages 12-17) and free for kids 11-and-under. Reserved seats are an additional $5, and pit passes cost $35.<\/p>\n

More information on Selinsgrove Speedway is available by logging on to www.selinsgrovespeedway.com<\/a> or calling 570-374-2999.<\/p>\n

For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fans can also follow the WoO LMS on Twitter at Twitter.com\/WoOLateModels <\/a>and Facebook at Facebook.com\/WorldofOutlaws <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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