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3/12/2007 5:47 PM

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5th Annual Jeremy Esparza Memorial Race - 04/07/07 (United States)

Modified By Trace McRae on 6/5/2008 11:18:02 PM)

5th Annual Jeremy Esparza Memorial Race - 04/07/07

The 2007 race will be held on April 7th, 2007. Sign-up at the track 8:00am-9:30am. Racing begins at 10:00am. All classes are welcome and we hope to see a good turnout to honor a great kid.

Jeremy will always be a member of the club. He was a person many people looked forward to seeing at the track and his personality was always refreshing during a sometimes hectic race day.

3/30/2007 6:53 PM

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Re: 5th Annual Jeremy Esparza Memorial Race - 04/07/07 (United States)

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4/8/2007 8:35 PM

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Re: 5th Annual Jeremy Esparza Memorial Race - 04/07/07 (United States)

Our first race every season is the Jeremy Esparza Memorial Race which brings a large turnout to remember Jeremy. We Continue to remember a special kid, club member, and racer by having an annual race dedicated to his memory.Jeremy will always be a member of the club. He was a person many people looked forward to seeing at the track and his personality was always refreshing during a sometimes hectic race day. We will always remember.

The St. Louis Dirt Burners would like to thank the following people for helpingus get everything ready for the season and this race:

The Esparza family
Panther Products, Inc.
City of Kirkwood
Chris Conwell
Aaron Pucci
The Poeling's
Dan Walter
Tim Eberhardt
Colton Kiefer
Ernie Speer
Mark Locheed
Gary Roland
All others who helped us!

The 2007 racing season could not have began without the help of many people whohelped doing everything from moving dirt to picking up trash and rocks. Thanks toeveryone who helped and contributed to a great opening day.

Special thanks to all who came out and braved the cold to race with us and honorJeremy. The race was a great way to honor Jeremy and we hope all that attended emjoyedthe racing and facility. The cold weather kept the turnout lower than expected.But, the track and layout seemed to be an overwhelming success and provided somegreat racing in all classes.

We would like to thank the Esparza family again and the St. Louis Dirt Burners willbe donating half of all proceeds from the race to M.A.D.D. in honor of Jeremy. Wehope to bring awareness to prevent this from happening again and we hope everyonewho attended will say a prayer for the Esparza family.

The cold weather did not hamper what turned out to be a great day of racing andremembering for everyone. After a very cold morning of practice and sign-ups, racingbegan just before noon. About halfway through the first round the sun came out andthe wind seemed to calm down. It was still cold, but it was not near as bad as itwas earlier. Three rounds of qualifying went very smooth and the qualifying actionwas tight and some good drivers fought through the cold trying to improve theirtime.

The mains ran very smoothly and provided some very close and entertaining racing.Many of the mains ended with the top two to three drivers all within seconds oreven tenths of each other as the clock was winding down. The fight for positionson the track went down the wire and many missed a bump-up or win by only a secondor two.

Race Results

Overall Results

1/8th Scale Buggy A-Main

1/8th Scale Buggy B-Main

1/8th Scale Buggy C-Main

Arena Truck A-Main

1/10th Gas Truck A-Main