After the success of last summer's inaugural Thursday Thunder Legends Car series, local race fans and competitors are eager for more Legends action on the -mile at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Not wanting to disappoint anyone, Atlanta Motor Speedway and Legends Cars of Georgia officials are busy making preparations for the second season of the series that proved to be so popular in 1998. But before the second season of Thursday Thunder kicks off on June 10, Legends racers will get several opportunities to tune up for a run at the series championship. I believe that the response from the competitors is going to be great. We expect to exceed the car count that we had during our race on Thursday night of Winston Cup weekend in March, and I'm confident that we can have as many as 125 cars competing.
Heat races begin at six p.m. and feature races start at eight.
While this is a competitor only event, the media is encouraged to attend to get a preview of the second year of the Thursday Thunder series. But we do want to remind the local race fans about Legends cars and build our fan base for the Thursday Thunder series. The best way to do this is for them to open the paper on Saturday morning and read about what took place at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday night. Local media are encouraged to attend the Spring Shootout on Friday night.