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The Quarter-Million Dollar race was the idea of race promoter
and track owner George Howard of Birmingham, who said it was a spin-off
of his successful B&M Racer Appreciation Series Million Dollar race,
which boasts a six-year history and purses that often hit $200,000 or
more. The payouts for the Huntsville race, like those at the Million,
were based on a sliding scale. More than 200 racers paid the $500 entry
fee, with $125 buy backs in the first or second round. Two "Twin 20s"
races paying $20,000 each to the winners were held on Friday and Sunday.
If 500 racers had signed up, the winning purse would have
reached a quarter- million dollars. More such races are planned, Howard
said.
Other winners at the Quarter-Million were Troy Williams
Jr. of Bradenton, Fla. on Thursday's gamblers race; Don Smith of Cincinnati,
who won the rained out Bristol Dragway B&M race held at Huntsville on
Friday; Wayne Selogy of West Palm Beach on Friday's gamblers race; Shane
Carr of Williamstown, NJ for winning Friday's second gamblers race;
and Todd "Bones" Ewing of Cullman, Ala. on Friday's Twin 20s go. Richardson
beat Szerlag on Sunday's Twin 20s race.
Doug Harper of Alabama and James Monroe of Indiana made
two perfect runs at the race's Saturday dash-for-cash, which paid $10,000
to Harper and got Monroe a free entry into the B&M Million, to be held
at Memphis Motorsports Park on October 10-13. Andy Beal won an Undercover
Chassis slip-joint dragster in a special 32-car runoff.
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