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This week in sports

We would like to thank the following businesses and friends for their generous support at the second annual Sam Stringer Memorial Super Stock Race.

At Your Fingertips, Awesome Construction, Horizon Market, Carquest, Dairy Queen, Dean’s Welding and Wrenching, Frontier Family Dental, Golden Gaming, H&M Pipe and Supply, H&R Block, Hollis Harris Realty, Jerry’s Extreme Machines, Lucas Oil, Mankins Allstate, Markem Escrow, Napa, P-Town Air, Pahrump Sanitation, Pahrump Station Best Western, Pahrump Valley Auto Plaza, Pahrump Valley Speedway, Robby Woods Racing, RFM Supply, Saitta-Trudeau Chrysler-Jeep, Snowden Landscaping, Spring Mountain Raceway, Studio Hair Design, Two Star Towing, Valley Electric, Wulfenstein Construction, Wulfy’s Restaurant.

Congratulations to Levi Kiefer for defending his title. Thank you to the race fans that hung around for that long rain delay. You saw an exciting race. We will be back next July 19 for the third annual race. Hope to see you all again.

Sincerely,

The Stringer Family

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