photo by Ken MacIsaacMaritime Street Stock Showdown a Big Event With Big Payout February 17, 2017 Regional OYSTER BED BRIDGE. PE – The Maritime Street Stock Showdown is set to take center stage at Oyster Bed Speedway on June 24 and expected to feature the largest field of street stocks in the Maritimes in several years. The purse exceeds $14,000 with $6,100 in contingency awards plus another $7,800 is cash payouts; the winner is guaranteed a minimum $1,500 and that is garnering interest from all three Maritime provinces. The race is the brainchild of motorsports promoter, Tom Nicholls. It is open to all street stock cars as well as competitors in the truck division at Scotia Speedworld. The feature race will be 100 laps and it will be a non-points race for entries who claim Oyster Bed Speedway as their home track. All teams must register in advance in order to compete in the event. Registration is open from Feb 12 to June 1; 35 teams have registered to-date, a good start toward the 50 Nicholls is hopeful for. Time trials, heat races, a last chance race, and fan picks will set the 30-car starting field for the feature. The $25 registration fee includes free admission to the pits for one person ($25 value), a free event t-shirt ($20 value), free bridge (link) passes for the first 20 off-Island cars to register ($63 value), free ferry passes for the first five Sydney-area cars ($97 value), and $25 fuel for the first 40 cars registered. “Oyster Bed Speedway ownership is supportive of what it is that we collectively want to accomplish with this inaugural event,” said Nicholls. “They have held the admission price for the event at their normal rate of $15 per adult and have dropped the youth rate for this event, so sll youths and kids under 15 years of age will get into the event free.” In addition, Speedway ownership will also donate their portion of the 50/50 draw to a charity of choice in which Nicholls has selected the QEH Children’s’ Ward. Contingency programs for the Maritime Street Stock Showdown are as follows… Pole Award Sponsor – Phillips Auto Sales, Charlottetown, PEI Lap 50 Half Way Award Sponsor –Frizzell’s Auto Body, Winsloe, PEI Hard Charger Award Sponsor– Kustom Golf Carts, Sherwood, PEI Bridge Toll Sponsor – Johnston’s Enterprises Winsloe& West Royalty Irving’s, PEI Ferry Toll Sponsor – Kris Fournier Remax Charlottetown, PEI Fuel Sponsor – Oyster Bed Esso, Oyster Bed, PEI Top Finishing PEI Driver Sponsor – Kris Fournier Remax Charlottetown, PEI Top Finishing NB Driver Sponsor – Quality Pool, Miramichi City, NB Top Finishing NS Driver Sponsor – R & D Performance, Lower Onslow, NS 1st Heat Race Sponsor – MacLean Performance, Hunter River, PEI 2nd Heat Race Sponsor – Carquest, Charlottetown, PEI 3rd Heat Race Sponsor – Going Fishing, Charlottetown, PEI 4th Heat Race Sponsor – Tucker Racing Products, Fredericton, NB Last Chance Qualifier Race Sponsor- Novus Glass, Charlottetown, PEI Contributing sponsors include Tourism PEI, Sign Craft Charlottetown, and Peake & McInnis Insurance, Charlottetown. A primary sponsor for the event is expected to be announced in the near future. Laps can be sponsored for $50 each; those interested should email showdown2017@gmail.com. To learn more about the Maritime Street Stock Showdown please visit www.streetstockshowdown.com.
