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The Dome at America's Center

Fast Facts: VP Gateway Dirt Nationals

November 27, 2018, 5:31 am
By Robert Holman
DirtonDirt.com weekend editor

3rd annual VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals

Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 1 (two $5,000-to-win preliminary features Friday and one $30,000 feature Saturday).

Track: The Dome at America’s Center (fifth-mile indoor temporary clay oval).

Sanction: None.

Purse: $30,000-to-win.

Tickets: Adult general admission is $25 Thursday; Reserved seating $25-$35-$45 Friday and $35-$45-$55 Saturday.

On the web: www.gatewaydirt.com.

Gateway Dirt Nationals phone: 314-786-2636.

Last year’s winner: Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill., won 2017’s $30,000 finale.

Video: DirtonDirt.com is providing live pay-per-view video from the VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals with Late Models, midgets and modifieds in action. Live productions each night available at DirtonDirt.com, with multiple announcers, multiple cameras, driver interviews, on-screen race lineups and a live timing and scoring feed. Prices are $24.99 Thursday, $29.99 Friday and $39.99 Saturday or $89.99 for a three-day weekend package.

Notes: The VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals returns to the Dome at America’s Center for the third straight year. … Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., won the inaugural event, outrunning Don O’Neal and Brandon Sheppard for a $20,000 payday. … Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., has reached victory lane during both Gateway events. He won the preliminary feature in 2016 and won the Race of Champions in ’17. … Eleven drivers — Babb, Bloomquist, Pierce, O’Neal, Sheppard, Joey Coulter, Gordy Gundaker, Darrell Lanigan, Hunter Rasdon, Kent Robinson and Chad Zobrist — have qualified for both main events. … Drivers from 22 states entered last year's race; Illinois led the way with 30 entries. … For the third year in a row, event promoter Cody Sommer enlisted Kevin Gundaker to construct the fifth-mile temporary dirt oval inside the Dome. … Gundaker and his wife Tammy promote Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Ill., about 15 miles from The Dome. … The Dome, which will seat up to 70,000, was home to the St. Louis Rams NFL football team from 1995-2015. … Along with NFL football, The Dome has hosted NCAA basketball tournament games, college football, Monster Jam trucks,  AMA Supercross and concerts including U2, the Rolling Stones, Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and ’N Sync. … The Late Model field is set to be split into two preliminary programs after Thursday's time trials. ... A pair of Friday Late Model programs include heats, consolations and 20-lap features. ... The top four finishers from each of Friday's $5,000-to-win Late Model preliminary features are locked into the first four rows of Saturday's $30,000-to-win event (those eight drivers will redraw for position) ... The Late Model purse for the weekend is more than $151,000. … Modifieds and midgets are also in action. Modifieds will contest time trials and heat races on Thursday, a pair or preliminary features on Friday and a 20-lap, $10,000-to-win main event on Saturday. … Midgets will time trial and run heats and two prelim features on Friday and run a 30-lap, $10,000-to-win feature on Saturday. … Karl Kustoms is the presenting sponsor. ... Watch all the Gateway action live via pay-per-view at DirtonDirt.com.

(Complete Gateway Dirt Nationals coverage)

Gateway Dirt Nationals winners

Year: Winner, hometown
2017: Bobby Pierce, Oakwood, Ill.
2016: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.

(Complete race history)

Weekend purses

Thursday’s Race of Champions
1. $5,000
2. $2,500
3. $1,800
4. $1,500
5. $1,200
6. $1,000
7. $900
8. $800
9. $700
10. $600
11-15. $500
Friday’s preliminary features
1. $5,000
2. $2,500
3. $1,800
4. $1,500
5. $1,200
6. $1,000
7. $900
8. $800
9. $700
10. $600
11-20. $500
Saturday’s main event
1. $30,000
2. $15,000
3. $10,000
4. $5,000
5. $3,000
6. $2,500
7. $2,400
8. $2,300
9. $2,200
10. $2,100

11-20. $2,000

Event schedule

(All times CST)
Wednesday
10 am. - Registration and credential office opens
10 a.m. - Fuel storage and check-in opens
1 p.m. - Competitor parking begins
3 p.m. - Vendor row move-in begins
6 p.m. - DirtonDirt.com’s Late Model Live from the Dome
9 p.m. - Registration office closes
11 p.m. - Competitor parking and vendor move-in closes
11 p.m. - Pit area cleared and closed
Thursday
8 a.m. - Competitor parking for late arrivals opens
10 a.m. - Registration and credential office opens
11 a.m. - Pit area, vendor row and VIP Club opens
1 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
2 p.m. - Spectator doors open
3 p.m. - On-track activity for Late Models and modifieds
- Hot laps
- Time trails
7 p.m. - Opening ceremonies
- Late Model Race of Champions
- Modified heat races
9 p.m. - Registration and credential office closes
(Pits close one hour after final checkered flag)
Friday
10 a.m. - Registration and credential office opens
10 a.m. - Fuel storage and fueling lane opens
11 a.m. - Pit area, vendor’s row, VIP Club opens
Noon - VIP Club meet and greet
1 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
2 p.m. - Spectator doors open
2 p.m. - On-track activity for Late Models, modifieds and midgets
- Midget engine heat and time trials
- Late Model heat races
- Midget heat races
- Late Model C-mains
- Modified consolation races
- Midget consolation races
- Late Model B-mains
7:30 p.m. - Opening ceremonies
- First modified feature (20 laps)
- Second modified feature (20 laps)
- First midget feature (20 laps)
- Second midget feature (20 laps)
- First Late Model feature (20 laps)
- Second Late Model feature (20 laps)
(Pits close one hour after final checkered flag)
Saturday
10 a.m. - Registration and credential office opens
11 a.m. - Pit area, vendor’s row, VIP Club opens
Noon - VIP Club meet and greet
1 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
2 p.m. - Spectator doors open
3 p.m. - On-track activity for Late Models, modifieds and midgets
- Late Model consolation races
- Late Model hot laps (top eight locked in teams)
- Midget consolation races
- Midget hot laps (top eight locked in teams)
- Modified consolation races
- Modified hot laps (top eight locked in teams)
6:30 p.m. - Pre-race show
7 p.m. - Opening ceremonies
- Late Model feature (40 laps)
- Midget feature (30 laps)
- Modified feature (30 laps)

(Pits close one hour after final checkered flag)

Tickets

Thursday
General admission only: $25
Pit pass: $40
Friday
Reserved seating only: $25-$35-$45
Pit pass: $50
Saturday
Reserved seating only: $35-$45-$55
Pit pass: $60
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