Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! You do not want to miss this!
The Pinto Stampede Starts Thursday, May 17th, 2012 in Ridgeway, Virginia and finishes
up at the Summit Point Motorsports Park Saturday, May 19th for 2 days of vintage racing.
Attention Stampeders! Bristol Motor Speedway has cancelled all
operations through July. They will be resurfacing the track and the Stampede will now start
in Ridgeway, Virginia with our 1st stop at the Wood Brothers Racing complex in Stuart, VA.
Wood Brothers Racing
located at 21 Performance Drive in Stuart, VA - What more can you say, "FORD!" And the winner of last year's Daytona 500.
Wood Brothers is the oldest continuously operating NASCAR Cup Series team and the team has always raced Ford products. Edsel
Ford, great-grandson of Henry Ford I proudly states, "We consider Wood Brothers Racing a part of our family, the Ford Family."
Martinsville Speedway
located at 340 Speedway Road, Ridgeway, Virginia 24148 - Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation - owned
NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, near Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles
in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR,
being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only racetrack that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948
National Firearms Museum
located at 11250 Waples Mill Rd in Fairfax, VA on the ground floor of the National Rifle Association's office building
headquarters. Its space seems small, but that may be because so many thousands of guns are packed into it. Wall after
wall are filled with old rifles and pistols, an impressive visual argument that America has always been awash in firepower.
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall. The building opened in
December, 2003, and provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot
be exhibited on the National Mall. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.
Saturday and Sunday, May 19th & 20th, 2012 find us at the
Summit Point Motorsports Park
for vintage racing and a Wounded Warrior benefit. The races will have numerous vintage cars and 10 Ford Pinto's will be competing.
Let's root for our brethren and show up in force.
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The 2012 Pinto Stampede is dedicated to Richie Evans to celebrate his induction into the
NASCAR Hall Of Fame.
Richard Ernest Evans (July 23, 1941 - October 24, 1985), winner of
nine NASCAR National Modified Championships while driving a modified Ford Pinto, including eight in a row from 1978 to 1985. The
International Motorsports Hall of Fame lists this achievement as "one of the supreme accomplishments in motorsports".
Evans won virtually every major race for asphalt modifieds, most of them more than once, including winning the Race
of Champions three times. Evans was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011. As one of the Class of 2012,
Richie will be one of the Hall's first 15 inductees, and is the first Hall of Famer from outside NASCAR's premier series.
Last year the Pinto Stampede and its team members raised $13,421.00 for the Wounded
Warrior Project. This year the Pinto Stampede is proud to continue our support of
the Wounded Warrior Project by raising awareness, encouraging donations and to support
our wounded warriors. Please click the Wounded Warrior Logo to visit
the Pinto Stampede donation page. All donations go directly to the Wounded Warrior
Project a licensed 501c3 charity, Federal tax I.D. number is #20-2370934
