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Hillier Anticipates Dave Helm Memorial
TULARE ,
CA (October 10) – Chad
Hillier will be racing with a heavy heart Saturday when the World of
Outlaws runs the Dave Helm Memorial at Thunderbowl
Raceway.
The Kevin Gobrecht
Rookie of the Year contender was a crewman for the late owner of the #11H Selma Shell Maxim
Helm campaigned on the World of Outlaws trail since the mid-1990s. Helm,
one of the most highly respected team owners in sprint car racing, lost a
long battle to illness earlier this year in Selma ,
CA , just 30 miles from Thunderbowl Raceway.
“Running the Dave Helm
Memorial will mean a lot to me,” Chad said Sunday. “I worked for
him in 2005. He was a super guy to work for and a great guy for the sport.”
Hillier, who drives the
#5c DIRT Inc. Maxim, hopes last Saturday’s 11th-place finish in
the Polydome Princeton Nationals will carry
through his weekend. He looks forward to racing at Tulare ’s high-banked, 1/3-mile oval.
“Thunderbowl
is a fun, little racetrack,” Chad said. “We’ve had good
nights and bad nights there. It can be hard on equipment, but it usually
produces a good race. Hopefully, we can go in there and build on what we
did this weekend.”
Hillier tied his
second-best finish in a World of Outlaws “A” Feature at Princeton Speedway.
The only driver to win championships in all three sprint car divisions at
Skagit Speedway was the second-fastest driver in the hot-lap session, only
.04 seconds off Joey Saldana’s pace. Hillier recorded a similar time in the
qualifying session and tied Chad Blonde for the seventh-fastest lap. Chad
started inside the second row in the Fourth Heat Race and passed 1995
Rookie of the Year Randy Hannagan on his way to a
runner-up run and a spot in the Crane Cams Dash.
Hillier passed World of
Outlaws points leader and eventual Polydome
Princeton Nationals winner Donny Schatz during the opening lap and held him
off for eight laps. He battled Jac Haudenschild and 20-time World of Outlaws champion
Steve Kinser throughout the second half of the
40-lap main event.
Hillier failed to
qualify for the main event on opening night and finished 23rd in
the “A” Feature in the finale when the World of Outlaws raced at Thunderbowl Raceway February 23-24.
DeWitt Industries
Racing Team Incorporated invites racing fans to visit its website at www.dirt-inc.com for news, results, sponsorship information and
photographs. The team is sponsored by Jansma
Construction, H.B. Jaeger, Fast Wings, Maxim Chassis, Pro Shocks and Weld
Racing.
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