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"9 ALL THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC G9 Saturday, july4, 1987 PIR, Fiesta Bowl to join in bid for street race MOTOR SPORTS MarkArmijo has every intention of beginning a long-term relationship with Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, in 1989. Ecclestone said Detroit is locked in until 1991, but said: "The race is more important to Detroit. We came here because we were asked. And yet, the motor industry has failed disgracefully in its obligation to support the event. We are very impatient with the facilities in Detroit." Despite Ecclestone's comments, Pynn said his group has had encouraging conversations with Ecclestone and that Pook recently spoke with Ecclestone in Detroit.

"Based on our talks, I think we have beyond a reasonable chance" Pynn said. WEEKEND RACING Sprint cars and midgets are scheduled tonight at Manzanita Speedway Late-model stock cars, pro stocks and a 50-lap street stock main event are scheduled tonight at Canyon Raceway. NASCAR late models and chargers are on tap tonight at Raven Raceway in Tucson. i Motorcycle racing is scheduled tonight at Firebird International Raceway Park. The Manzanita and Raven tracks also are offering a fireworks show.

Pynn said his group has talked with a major sponsor and is confident of securing it. Wood also said PIR's group is "Ninety-nine point nine percent sure of reaching agreement with a sponsor." Bernie Ecclestone, who heads the F-l organization, recently said in the magazine AutoWeek that the U.S. deserves two races. One race already is held in Detroit, and Ecclestone said the organization ENGINE SUPPLY INC. POOL STARTING AS $CAftC low oyyo Gamblers World Over 600 Books On Gambling Blackjack Craps Poker Greyhounds Etc.

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New rules might cause Firecracker to heat up INCL. CHARQER, 0.6 V. BATTERY It appears there will be two proposals for the Phoenix city manager's office to pick from when the deadline for filing proposals to stage a car race through downtown streets is reached on Monday afternoon. Phoenix International Raceway, in conjunction with the Fiesta Bowl, will file a proposal on Monday and join the Phoenix Grand Prix Committee of 500 as the only groups to offer proposals. The Phoenix Grand Prix organization filed its proposal on Thursday.

A committee will study both proposals and make a recommendation to the City Council, which will decide which group will oversee the organizing of a race. That decision could be reached in late August. The Phoenix Grand Prix group, headed by Howard Pynn, said its primary target is the European-based Formula One division. Pynn said that if efforts failed in that area, the group would approach Championship Auto Racing Teams, the major sanctioning body on the Indy-car circuit, or the International Motor Sports Association prototype cars. PIR officials haven't said which direction they are going, but will reveal details of their proposal on Monday.

Dennis Wood, PIR operations consultant, said his group's proposal has been in the works for about four months. "We talked about it for a long time before deciding to do it," Wood said. "We wanted to make sure we could get all the commitments we needed before going through with it." Wood said his group's proposal would include the organization and promotion of the race. Pynn said their promoter would be Chris Pook, who has helped pioneer major street racing events in the United States. He has promoted street races in Long Beach, since 1975 and has been a consultant for other street races.

Pynn said his group has the backing of the Phoenix Thunder-birds, a prominent service group. He said he has received oral commitments from 250 people to join his group at a cost of $2,000 each. A total membership, Pynn said, would reach 500 and would raise $1 million toward initial costs of staging such a race. Pook, who completed a feasibility study for the city several months ago and recommended that a race could be scheduled through downtown Phoenix, estimates anywhere from a $179,000 loss in the first year of an F-l race to a high-range profit of $840,000. Pynn said the Formula One Constructors Association, the governing body of F-l, wants a guaranteed purse of $2.5 million.

He said a major corporate sponsor would come forth with $1 million to $1.5 million, and the group's proposal estimates revenue of $2.9 million from gate receipts; $75,000 (television and radio rights); $115,000 (race program advertising); $70,000 (net race program sales); $100,000 (net concessions); and $125,000 (auxiliary revenue sources). The total revenues would reach $4.9 million and expenses would total $4.5 million, according to the proposal. 4.5 AMP BIT AND STEEL CASE ELECTRONIC GRINDER lluaKUxL SHARKSAW BOSCH 95 93 1348E 6.0 AMP ELECTRIC FEEDBACK REGULATES SPEED INCL. BLADES STEEL CASE PDRTERMDLE PORTA-BAND SAW la SGASOLINEr -POWEREDc RECIPRO SAW AA95 05 CM! 2 SPEED-WORM GEAR-CHAIN DR. 4.5 6.5 AMP INCL.

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The heat could also be a factor. Temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s and humidity about 80 percent by the end of the race. Another NASCAR rule change, which calls for the right-side windows of the cars to have glass, will add to the heat problem. The glass, actually a hardened plastic, and a small right-side skirt at the bottom of the car were added for the races this month at Daytona and Talladega in an effort to keep air from getting into and under the cars and sending them airborne if they turn sideways at high speed. However, the addition of the windows on one side seems to draw the hot air from outside through the open left-side windows and heat up the interior of the car considerably.

"These things feel like ovens on wheels right now, so I know 400 miles of it is going to be hot," Allison said. "I don't see how anybody's going to be able to survive 400 miles without a cool suit. We're going to wear one." Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Roll the dice. Turn the wheel.

Drop the green flag. The Firecracker 400 could be anybody's race. "There's going to be a lot of gambling going on out there, and every time there is gambling, there are winners and losers," Darrell Waltrip said of today's 400-mile NASCAR stock-car race at Daytona International Speedway. The race, on the high-banked 2.5-mile oval, will be the first test of the smaller carburetors mandated by NASCAR in an effort to slow the cars here and on the 2.66-mile speedway at Talladega, Ala. "Obviously, the change has worked," Bill Elliott said.

"Most everybody is about 10 mph slower than in February." Elliott, who won the pole and the race in February at the Daytona 500, will be starting on the outside of the front row next to rookie Davey Allison, who won the pole on Thursday with a fast lap of 198.085 mph. Elliott, in an almost identical Ford Thunderbird, was right behind Allison at 198.050. Said Allison, 26, who has won two poles and two races this season: "I don't think you'll see anybody who can run off. There'll be a lot of drafting going on. A car will be able to run a whole lot faster in the draft than by itself.

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