Toledo Speedway

FLAT ROCK, MI: (6-10-09): Flat Rock Speedway officials have just announced that additional bonus money will once again be added to the purse for Flat Rock Speedway's biggest Late Model race of the season, the Moran Chevrolet/Stan Yee Memorial 150, set for Saturday evening, June 27 at the ¼ mile paved oval. Each of dollar figures for the 24 starting positions will now end in 33, which adds money to each spot. And new for 2009, the fast qualifier will have the chance to take The Challenge, which will award a $1000 bonus if he starts last and wins the 150 lap event.

If the fast qualifier chooses not to take "The Challenge", the offer will be made to the second fastest driver and on down to the 5^th fastest if each of the previous drivers decline.  Additional bonus money includes $333 for the Diamond Racing Products fast time, while an additional $333 bonus will go to the leader of lap 33. 

The event will now pay $2533 to win and $533 to start the contest, with drivers from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Canada expected.  The track's Figure 8 and Street Stock classes will also be in competition as support divisions.

Should a driver sweep the awards (fast time, lap 33 leader, challenge and win), he could go home with $4199, a record amount for a Late Model race at Flat Rock.  The additional bonus money is being posted by friends and the family of Stan Yee Sr.  The bonuses now push the June 27 total purse for the night to over $26,000.

Yee, a hugely successful car owner for over 40 years, passed away May 18, 2008, just 2 days shy of his 76^th birthday.  Stan's son, Stan Jr., competes in the Moran Chevrolet/Miller Lite Late Model class at Flat Rock.  Stan Sr. and his drivers captured numerous titles and big race wins, but perhaps his greatest accomplishment may well have been mentoring Stan Jr. to the 2003 Flat Rock Speedway Late Model championship.

Stan was a fixture in Midwest Late Model racing since the 1960's.  Both on dirt and the asphalt, Stan's famed #33 cars won countless races.  Drivers such as Marv Parenteau, Joe Ruttman, Artie Sommers, the late John Anderson, Rick Sheppard, Danny Byrd, Harold Cook, Chuck Roumell, Steve Lee and his son, Stan Jr., piloted Yee's Collision machines.

Ruttman, one of Stan Sr.'s former drivers in the early 1970's, has agreed to return to Flat Rock for the event and drive one of Stan Jr.'s #33 cars.

An open practice is scheduled for Wednesday, June 24 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the track for race cars of all types.  The pit area will open at 4 p.m.

This year's 150 and the July 25 Flat Rock 100 lap event are now both part of the Hantz Group/Allegiant Air Gold Cup Series, linking 3 events at Toledo and the pair of races at Flat Rock to form a 5-race series.  A point fund has been posted, with $1000 in bonus money going to the overall point champ.  $600, $400, $300 and $200 will go to the second through fifth place point finishers, respectively, for the 5 races. 

All tickets for the event are general admission and are available beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 27.  The pit area opens at 1, practice begins at 3, time trials are set for 5 and racing begins at 7 p.m.  For the current entry list, go to http://www.flatrockspeedway.com/