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02-10-2006, 09:19 AM
By Lehman Motorsports Services
The 2006 racing season kicked off for Doug Drown, 23, of Wooster, OH, this past weekend in Georgia and although he got to run some laps it wasn’t quite the weekend he hoped for as Drown’s ‘06 Black ‘N Blue Tour’ officially started aboard his Wooster Glass Co/Poske Performance/Wooster Doll Shoppe/Hamlin Automotive/Lehman Motorsports Services/Malcuit Racing Engines/Hoosier Tire Rocket Chassis Ford Mustang #12.
This past weekend Drown and crew traveled south to Oglesthorpe Speedway Park for the 2nd Annual Coca-Cola Young Guns Shoot-Out presented by Stock Car Racing and Circle Track Magazines along with Sport Clips at the Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia that was held on February 3-4.
After starting 22nd in the main event for the ‘Young Guns’ Drown was scored in 12th position after the race was cut nearly in half. Only 13 laps of the promised 25-laps were run.
“It started off alright, we had a pretty quick car,” explained Drown on Monday after returning home. “I was a little off in the heat but once we got to the feature Booper Bare helped me out a little bit with the setup and I was really quick. Halfway through the race we were already sitting ninth but under caution two cars passed me and they scored them ahead of me and also a person who was three laps down and they gave him his spot back which moved me back to 12th and then obviously with two laps left, that was lap 11, two laps later they checkered flagged it.”
“It was disappointing after going down there thinking we could do good and show them what we had. And I feel we were showing them. We were coming through the pack, but they cut us short with the laps. I’m not saying we would have won but I think we would have definitely moved ahead of three or four cars and had a nice top ten finish.”
The main purpose for Drown and his team to head south was for the opportunities that were being offered through entry fees including seminars, a mock interview and presentation DVD, media exposure and other promotional opportunities.
“Unfortunately hardly anything that was promised happened,” revealed Drown. “I don’t know about any NASCAR reps, we never saw any or heard they were there but that wasn’t why we went. We went for the exposure, the media contacts and the different seminars. We want to be serious about marketing. On Friday we got there at noon and the seminar started and they talked a little bit about how important media is and how you present yourself but there was supposed to be at least five speakers but only three speakers were there and it was done within an hour and we were headed to the track.”
“At the seminar they said they were supposed to do the mock interviews there but they said we’ll go around tomorrow and get you when we can. I was wondering why because we had three hours left to do it in, but unfortunately we never got any interviews and the cameras that were going around were camcorders like you use at home.”
“So we, and most of the others, didn’t get the mock interview or DVD. They told us they would give us a DVD of the interview and hand them out and for us to meet the press but we never got to do that because we never saw any. We also took press kits down and they said they would hand them out for us but I don’t know what happened to them.”
“We were going down for the media coverage and everything else they were offering. I would never go that far for just a $2,000 to win race. I wouldn’t leave the garage for less than $400 or $500 to start for that distant. It was for the media exposure, the seminars and what they said they would do for us. I guess you have to watch some of the people in this racing deal and be careful of who you can trust.”
“But it was definitely a learning experience, just not the way we thought it would be.”
Up next for Doug Drown and Drown Racing will be a trip to Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor Speedway for the Saturday April 8 World of Outlaws Late Model Series race that will be filmed for later broadcast on the Speed channel.
Drown Racing would also like to remind you that the 2006 Bowl For Kids’ Sake will be staged on February 25 at 1:00 PM EST at Parkview Lanes in Orrville, Ohio and will be presented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Wayne County (Ohio). Each team is made up of four bowlers (including a team captain) and each bowler is responsible for raising $100 in pledges. This year’s goal is $4,000. Team Captains will receive a canvas gift bag that will be distributed only to team captains. The bag contains goodies from BBBS including a water bottle, informational sheet and 4 pledge cards to be given to the team bowlers. Any pledge promised over $25.00 can be billed by the agency. The top pledge collector will receive 2 airline tickets to anywhere in the continental USA courtesy of AAA in Tuscarawas County. For more information contact Courtney Drown @ 330-465-7691 or Jamie Orr at 330-674-4004 or 1 (888)364-5965.
Drown, a former Renegade Dirt Car Series and MACS regular, will embark on his upcoming 2006 ‘Black ‘n Blue’ tour that will see the 23-year-old young gun run an extended schedule of high-profile events including non-sanctioned races as well as those sanctioned by the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, World of Outlaws Late Model Series, Mid Atlantic Championship Series (MACS), UMP and Sunoco ALMS.
Doug Drown Racing would like to acknowledge the support of: Wooster Glass Company, Malcuit Racing Engines, Poske Performance Parts, Wooster Doll Shoppe, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Lehman Motorsports Services, Bert Transmissions, Mason Racin’, Hamlin Automotive, Slavic Custom Racing Shirts & Decals and Farr Motorsports.
For more information on Doug Drown visit: www.dougdrown.com
-Prepared by Lehman Motorsports Services
The 2006 racing season kicked off for Doug Drown, 23, of Wooster, OH, this past weekend in Georgia and although he got to run some laps it wasn’t quite the weekend he hoped for as Drown’s ‘06 Black ‘N Blue Tour’ officially started aboard his Wooster Glass Co/Poske Performance/Wooster Doll Shoppe/Hamlin Automotive/Lehman Motorsports Services/Malcuit Racing Engines/Hoosier Tire Rocket Chassis Ford Mustang #12.
This past weekend Drown and crew traveled south to Oglesthorpe Speedway Park for the 2nd Annual Coca-Cola Young Guns Shoot-Out presented by Stock Car Racing and Circle Track Magazines along with Sport Clips at the Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Georgia that was held on February 3-4.
After starting 22nd in the main event for the ‘Young Guns’ Drown was scored in 12th position after the race was cut nearly in half. Only 13 laps of the promised 25-laps were run.
“It started off alright, we had a pretty quick car,” explained Drown on Monday after returning home. “I was a little off in the heat but once we got to the feature Booper Bare helped me out a little bit with the setup and I was really quick. Halfway through the race we were already sitting ninth but under caution two cars passed me and they scored them ahead of me and also a person who was three laps down and they gave him his spot back which moved me back to 12th and then obviously with two laps left, that was lap 11, two laps later they checkered flagged it.”
“It was disappointing after going down there thinking we could do good and show them what we had. And I feel we were showing them. We were coming through the pack, but they cut us short with the laps. I’m not saying we would have won but I think we would have definitely moved ahead of three or four cars and had a nice top ten finish.”
The main purpose for Drown and his team to head south was for the opportunities that were being offered through entry fees including seminars, a mock interview and presentation DVD, media exposure and other promotional opportunities.
“Unfortunately hardly anything that was promised happened,” revealed Drown. “I don’t know about any NASCAR reps, we never saw any or heard they were there but that wasn’t why we went. We went for the exposure, the media contacts and the different seminars. We want to be serious about marketing. On Friday we got there at noon and the seminar started and they talked a little bit about how important media is and how you present yourself but there was supposed to be at least five speakers but only three speakers were there and it was done within an hour and we were headed to the track.”
“At the seminar they said they were supposed to do the mock interviews there but they said we’ll go around tomorrow and get you when we can. I was wondering why because we had three hours left to do it in, but unfortunately we never got any interviews and the cameras that were going around were camcorders like you use at home.”
“So we, and most of the others, didn’t get the mock interview or DVD. They told us they would give us a DVD of the interview and hand them out and for us to meet the press but we never got to do that because we never saw any. We also took press kits down and they said they would hand them out for us but I don’t know what happened to them.”
“We were going down for the media coverage and everything else they were offering. I would never go that far for just a $2,000 to win race. I wouldn’t leave the garage for less than $400 or $500 to start for that distant. It was for the media exposure, the seminars and what they said they would do for us. I guess you have to watch some of the people in this racing deal and be careful of who you can trust.”
“But it was definitely a learning experience, just not the way we thought it would be.”
Up next for Doug Drown and Drown Racing will be a trip to Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor Speedway for the Saturday April 8 World of Outlaws Late Model Series race that will be filmed for later broadcast on the Speed channel.
Drown Racing would also like to remind you that the 2006 Bowl For Kids’ Sake will be staged on February 25 at 1:00 PM EST at Parkview Lanes in Orrville, Ohio and will be presented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Wayne County (Ohio). Each team is made up of four bowlers (including a team captain) and each bowler is responsible for raising $100 in pledges. This year’s goal is $4,000. Team Captains will receive a canvas gift bag that will be distributed only to team captains. The bag contains goodies from BBBS including a water bottle, informational sheet and 4 pledge cards to be given to the team bowlers. Any pledge promised over $25.00 can be billed by the agency. The top pledge collector will receive 2 airline tickets to anywhere in the continental USA courtesy of AAA in Tuscarawas County. For more information contact Courtney Drown @ 330-465-7691 or Jamie Orr at 330-674-4004 or 1 (888)364-5965.
Drown, a former Renegade Dirt Car Series and MACS regular, will embark on his upcoming 2006 ‘Black ‘n Blue’ tour that will see the 23-year-old young gun run an extended schedule of high-profile events including non-sanctioned races as well as those sanctioned by the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, World of Outlaws Late Model Series, Mid Atlantic Championship Series (MACS), UMP and Sunoco ALMS.
Doug Drown Racing would like to acknowledge the support of: Wooster Glass Company, Malcuit Racing Engines, Poske Performance Parts, Wooster Doll Shoppe, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Lehman Motorsports Services, Bert Transmissions, Mason Racin’, Hamlin Automotive, Slavic Custom Racing Shirts & Decals and Farr Motorsports.
For more information on Doug Drown visit: www.dougdrown.com
-Prepared by Lehman Motorsports Services