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46th Annual Gold Cup finale tonight
The odds of winning a major Motorsports event twice are less than good, but Ohio's Jac Haudenschild has his sights set on a second consecutive Gold Cup title at Silver Dollar Speedway.

Haudenschild pocketed the top prize of $20,000 last year in his first quest of the 46-year-old event. The "Wild Child" will be joined by over 70 other winged sprint car teams in tonight's battle for the gold.

Alan's Rib Roast & WoO Auction Today
Entering the fourth and final day of the "Fastest Four Days in California' there are still many special events leading up to tonight's big Gold Cup Race of Champions.

At the noon hour those of you who have taken up residence here at the Silver Dollar Fairgound will want to make your way over towards the pit gate area of the campground, also known as "the party zone" or best recognized as the only location at the Gold Cup Race of Champions where you can get your Christmas Tree flocked...nothing like getting a head start on the holiday season.

Gold Cup Added as Part of World Challenge Dash
KNOXVILLE, IA- Less than three weeks after Randy Hannagan of San Jose, Calif., took the checkered flag and $5,000 in the Kele & Associates Australian/American Challenge Dash during the Amoco Knoxville Sprint Car Nationals, Kele & Associates is proud to announce that the Challenge Dash is expanding for the year 2000 and beyond. According to Roger Johnson of the Memphis, Tenn.-based sponsor, "We at Kele & Associates are pleased to have reached an agreement with Knoxville Raceway on a plan to expand the dash into a true World Challenge, involving New Zealanders and Canadians in addition to sprint car racers from Australia and the United States. And we are very pleased to kick-off our international qualifying program at the September 15-18, 1999, Gold Cup Race of Champions event at John Padjen's Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California."

Web Page Hit All Time Record
CHICO - As of yesterday at 7 p.m. johnpadjenmotorsports.com recorded a record number of visits by race fans around the world with 16999 hits taking place after midnight on Thursday, Sept 1.

The official web site of the Gold Cup Race of Champions, located at www.JohnPadjenMotorsports.com is maintained by webmasters Cindy Buckley and Aron Jones. Nightly Gold Cup results and race summaries are provided by Bill Sullivan with the statistical assistance of Johnny Gibson of the Pennzoil World of Outlaws. In addition to the Gold Cup, the web site features information on all the happenings at Silver Dollar and Placerville Speedway and the Civil War Sprint series.

GOLD CUP, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1999 Big John's Breakfast Bonanza open 9-11am Gold Cup Ticket office open 9am-4pm Media/Press trailer open 1-4pm/11-midnight McCreary Tires Novelty Booth open 9am-11pm Pepsi refreshment center open 11am-11pm Coors Beer Garden open noon-11pm Alan's Rib Roast and WoO Auction  12:30 pm Pit Gate opens 2pm Front Gate opens 5pm Gold Cup Race of Champions - Racing starts at 6:30

Gold Cup Daily News
Published daily during the annual Gold Cup Race of Champions in Chico, CA
Published by John Padjen Motorsports
Design and Production - Bill Sullivan
Assistants/Contributors - Troy Hennig, Dennis Gage, Richard Day, WoO
Photographs supplied by Aron Jones, JohnPadjenMotorsports.com

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