The Texas Pro Sedans touring series start their 12 race 2007 season with a race at San Antonio Speedway on Saturday night, March 3. The race will mark their 32nd consecutive season of four cylinder stock car racing in the southwest.
Texas Pro Sedans Series Race and Administrative Director, Neil Upchurch has announced that an official pre-entry list of 23 TPS drivers has been received, to date, for this event.
The Texas Pro Sedans race will consist of 2 laps of Qualifying Time Trials. The field of TPS drivers will attempt to break the TPS SAS qualifying record of 21.910 seconds which was set a year ago by Bryce Dishman in his, 2349cc equipped Ford Mustang- svo.
The March 3rd, 25 Lap TPS Feature Race will be run under TPS rules and procedures in which yellow flag laps are not scored. A green-white-checkered flag is required to officially finish a TPS race under full racing conditions.
Included in the entry list is are drivers cars who have won the TPS Driver Championship seven times during the past 31 seasons of competition and one other significant driver:
Six time TPS Champion Bill LaBarge of Bryan has filed entry in his #27 BMW “Beamer†for the March 3rd TPS race at SAS. He won the TPS Championship in 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2004. No other driver has dominated the TPS series championship as has Bill LaBarge.
Sergio Hexsel of Live Oak will again drive his familiar #20 VW Rabbit with a larger engine. He was the 2005 TPS Champion. During the 2006 season he won three TPS feature races and placed second in championship point standings last year.
Mike Knotts of Universal City, Texas was the first TPS Driver to file his entry for the March 3 race at SAS. He has competed in all but three of more than 600 TPS races in the past thirty- one years. Knotts is the only charter member driver remaining in the Texas Pro Sedans series.
A full program of ASA Late Model Series cars in the “Alamo 200â€, SAS Sportsman and SAS Road Runner class racing will highlight the March 3rd, 2007 opening night race program at the San Antonio Speedway half mile, 19 degree high banked asphalt track.
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