Moses Smith is heading to PIR

The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West driver Moses Smith is heading to Phoenix International Raceway for the series 2011 season opener. The 3 Amigos Organic Blanco “100” will be on February 24th.

Coming off his best season ever in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, the three-time Most Popular driver and Arizona resident, Moses Smith would like nothing better than to record a win in front of his home-town crowd. The veteran driver from Bill McAnally Racing returns to drive the No 16 Hasa Pool Products Toyota Camry. NAPA Filters will return strongly in 2011, sharing exposure on the No.16 Toyota with Hasa throughout the year.

The BMR team effort will be made up of four drivers including; three-time NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Champion Eric Holmes, 2010 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series Champion DJ Kennington, three-time NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Most Popular Driver Moses Smith, and NASCAR newcomer Travis Pastrana who later this year will make his debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Pastrana Waltrip Racing.

The Phoenix race will be televised on SPEED Channel. Check your local listings for date and time. The event will also be covered with lap-by-lap coverage on the NASCAR Home Tracks website.

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BMR Announces Lineup For Season Opener

Bill McAnally Racing is heading to the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season opener at Phoenix International Raceway with a lineup of drivers that includes three-time series champion Eric Holmes, 2010 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series Champion DJ Kennington, three-time NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Most Popular Driver Moses Smith and action sports star and NASCAR newcomer Travis Pastrana.

They will be competing in the 3 Amigos Organic Blanco “100” on Thursday, Feb. 24, at PIR.

Holmes is looking to make it two-for-two at the spring race at PIR, hoping to repeat his win of a year ago in the No. 20 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota Camry.

Kennington will be in the No. 12 Castrol Edge/Northern Provincial Pipeline Toyota Camry. The St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada resident had five wins in 2010, all coming on ovals. He finished on the podium in second place in the 2011 NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown in January.

Coming off a career-best season, Smith would like nothing better than record his first series win in front of his home-town crowd. The veteran driver from Bill McAnally Racing returns to drive the No 16 Hasa Pool Products Toyota Camry.

NAPA Filters will return strongly in 2011, continuing their 13 year partnership, while sharing exposure on the No.16 Toyota with Hasa throughout the year.

Through a partnership, BMR and Pastrana-Waltrip Racing have worked together to get Pastrana his first visit as a NASCAR driver to PIR to gain valuable seat time. He is driving the No. 99 Boost Mobile Toyota Camry. The car coming out of Pastrana Waltrip Racing’s 2010 Nationwide fleet, was prepared by BMR and will be manned by team members from Pastrana-Waltrip Racing and BMR led by crew chief Mike Greci.

Pastrana, who who later this year will make his debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Pastrana Waltrip Racing, recently made his NASCAR debut at the Toyota All-Star Showdown in Irwindale, Calif., where he finished sixth.

The Phoenix race will be televised on SPEED Channel. Check your local listings for date and time. The event will also be covered with lap-by-lap coverage on the NASCAR Home Tracks website.

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About the 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West

About the 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West schedule:

The season opener on 02/24/2011 is the first of 14 races in the 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season. The series will return to the Arizona track on November 12 when the 2011 season championship campaign comes to a conclusion.

The 2011 schedule features a return to several tracks. Included is a race on June 11 at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motors Speedway where the series raced in 2001, 2002 and 2003; a race on July 10 at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash. and a race on Sept. 3 at Spokane (Washington) County Raceway.

A key event on the schedule is the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East-West combination race at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa on May 21. The fifth edition of the East-West challenge will be the same weekend with a NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the track 30 miles east of Des Moines.

Again in 2011, the schedule includes three road course events – Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah on April 30; Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, on June 25; and Portland (Oregon) International Raceway on July 24.

For the fourth straight year, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West will make two visits to All American Speedway in Roseville, California. The historic fairgrounds track will host the series on April 16 and again on Oct. 15.

The series will visit Toyota Speedway at Irwindale (California) on July 2, participating in the track’s big Fourth of July holiday celebration event for a fifth consecutive year.

Two other popular short-track events on the 2011 schedule for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West include a visit to Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colorado, on August 6 and a trip to Montana Raceway Park in Kalispell, Montana., on August 13.

Source Bill Sullivan, GGRT Media Relations