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As we begin a new year in racing … Thank You to our sponsors , teammates, friends and fans for your support in 2014. Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! With the beginning of a new season still a few months away, we look back on our 2014 performance and say without hesitation ... IT WAS A SEASON OF SUCCESS FOR MBR For Mitch Brown it was his most successful season since becoming a Sprint Car competitor in 2010. The 21 year-old won five A-Main features, enjoyed a steady diet of qualifying heat wins and was runner-up in the championship points’ standings in Ohsweken Speedway’s Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprint Car division and in the Southern Ontario Sprints touring series. In the Canadian Championship Series of the Patriot Sprint Tour, the Brantford, ON native finished fourth in points and earned his first podium finish in a PST American race with a third place run at Mercer Raceway Park. He also had two other Mitch Brown top-10 finishes in limited PST America appearances. With no hockey commitments to shorten his racing season, Mitch qualified for his first Canadian Sprint Car Nationals rallying from a flat tire to finish 13th in the 35-lap event. He also won the first annual Kevin Ward Jr. Young Stars Challenge - an event honouring the memory of a young racer who lost his life in a tragic on-track accident at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in August of this year. (Ward Jr. had participated at Ohsweken Speedway the night before that tragic event.) When Mitch Brown's regular season here in Canada was over, he went south of the border where he gained the added experience he was seeking by running October events at Waynesfield Speedway and Eldora Speedway in Ohio before wrapping his season up with runs at Devil's Bowl Speedway Mesquite, TX and I-30 Speedway, Little Rock, AK -both ASCS events.. At Ohsweken’s annual awards banquet on November 21st the fifth year competitor was acknowledged as the track’s "Driver Jake Brown of the Year" in the Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprint Car division -an award voted on by his fellow competitors. Among Mitch's other credits was a perfect attendance award while his teammates were recognized as “Crew of the Year”. Continued -Page 2 Edition #1 2015 www.mitchbrownracing.com . Editor's Comments 2014 WAS A SEASON OF SUCCESS ... -Continued from Page 1 With this edition of our team newsletter we close out Mitch's brother Jake also had a very rewarding season in his first the reporting of our 2014 racing season for MBR and year behind the wheel of a winged, open-wheel race car. provide a quick preview of what is in store for 2015. Jake finished third in Ohsweken Speedway's inaugural Strickland's Only two on-track miscues (both that were later GMC 602 Crate Sprint Car division– his first in a sprint car - and he acknowledged as "driver error") and a bizarre incident too was recognized for his perfect attendance at Ohsweken with a chunkof clay that damaged hiscar,prevented Mitch Brown from Once his Ohsweken Speedway racing activities were completed, he capturing oneand possibly two 360 Sprint Car championships. closed out his season on a winning note in a special promotional But as with any run for a championship by any individual or sports team, race at South Buxton Raceway on September 28th. luck -good or bad- often plays some role in the outcome especially when they are all competing on a level playing surface. WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THR BROWN BROTHERS IN 2015? For Mitch Brown and his brother Jake, the racing season never Jake Brown also had a terrific year in Ohsweken Speedway's new Crate ends in what is fast becoming a year round operation for the Sprint Car division - a developmental Sprint Car division introduced at the Brantford-based teammates. track in 2014. At this time of year not all of Mitch's 2015 plans have been The youngest of the two third-generation drivers finished the season finalized pending the release of schedules and tire rules by the with three feature wins -two at Ohsweken and one in special race at travelling series in which he competes. But he will again be back for South Buxton Raceway late in September. a determined run for the championships in Ohsweken Speedway’s Keep an eye on that division to spawn some future stars for the 360 Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprints division and the Southern Sprint car circuit. OntarioSprints series. He also anticipates running a limited number of events with the Patriot Sprint Tour and Empire Super Sprints. 2014 was definitely Glenn Styres' year as the "Ohsweken Flyer" capturedboth Ohsweken's championship and also the Southern Ontario But before those series get underway in 2015, Mitch is heading Sprints title. south in February for some early Sprint Car events in Florida - events for which he already has received some additional Obviously the passing of Harold Brown -the patriot of our racing family- sponsorship support. left a huge void in our team but who will forget that first night following his passing when Ohsweken Speedway paid a glowing tribute to that Jake Brown will be back again in the Strickland's 602 Create Sprint divisions seeking to vault to the top of the standing and capture his truly good guy and Mitch Brown ran to a storybook finish in winning his first feature of 2014 at the "Big O". first championship on dirt. Be sure to see our special year end magazine -CHASIN' the Sprints 2014 Additional details will be posted on the team's website posted on our team website www.mitchbrownracing.com www.mitchbrownracing.com in the weeks ahead. Here's wishing you a safe and Happy New Year... and we hope to see you around the ovals in 2015. Ken Spencer Photo by Gary Eves – 2015 RACING SCHEDULE RELEASED by Tommy Goudge (January 13, 2015) – The 2015 racing schedule for Ohsweken Speedway was officially released September 19 will feature the $12,000-to-win CSCN 360 Sprint Car event, on Tuesday. Racers will hit the track for the first time in 2015 with a Test & plus Affordable Towing & Recovery Thunder Stocks. Tune Night scheduled for Friday, May 8, while the season concludes with Ohsweken’s weekly Corr/Pak Merchandising Sprint Car competitors will the 11th annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals on Saturday, September 19. take on some of the best teams in the northeast in 3 challenge events this The schedule features 22 events, beginning with the 20th annual Opening season, with the Patriot Sprint Tour visiting on June 19, the Southern Night on Friday, May 15. All weekly racing events at the speedway will Ontario Sprints on July 3, and the Empire Super Sprints on August 7. begin at 7:30p.m. again in 2015. Regular weekly racing events will include Three special memorial events also highlight the schedule, including the 20 lap features for the Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprint Cars and inaugural Frankie Turkey Memorial Night on July 10. Turkey brought a Affordable Towing & Recovery Thunder Stocks, 15 lap features for the young Glenn Styres to the races each summer, making an impression Strickland’s GMC Crate Sprint Cars and HRW Automotive Mini Stocks, and which started his nephew down the path which eventually led to the a 12 lap feature for the Gale’s Auto Aftermarket Bombers. creation of Ohsweken Speedway. The 4th annual Brock Leonard Memorial Four marquee events highlight the schedule, including the inaugural 50 for Affordable Towing & Recovery Thunder Stocks is set for July 17, and running of the Triple Crown Showdown on Tuesday, June 30. The new the 16th annual Art Hill Memorial 42 for HRW Automotive Mini Stocks will event will include the Super DIRTcar Big Block Modified Series and Go be run August 14. The TUSA Canada Mod Lite series will also be on the Nuclear! Late Model Series competing at Ohsweken for the first time, with schedule on Art Hill Memorial night, while the Gale’s Auto Aftermarket the Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprint Cars joining the show, along with Bombers have that night off. Twin 15 lap features for the Affordable Towing & Recovery Thunder The Sportsman Shootout returns for a third consecutive season, with the Stocks. DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds headlining the show on Friday, June 26, Northern Summer Nationals night is scheduled for a Monday again this while the Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 Sprint Cars have the night off in year, with DIRTcar 358 Modifieds joining the Corr/Pak Merchandising 360 preparation for the Triple Crown Showdown. Sprint Cars, Strickland’s GMC Crate Sprint Cars, and HRW Automotive Mini The Duel on the Dirt series being run in conjunction with Brighton Stocks on July 27. Speedway, Merrittville Speedway, and Humberstone Speedway includes The “Greatest Show on Dirt” returns to Ohsweken on Tuesday, July 28 three Affordable Towing & Recovery Thunder Stock events at Ohsweken, when the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car series will contest the 9th with 20 lap Home Track events on July 10 and August 28, and a $1,000-to- Annual Six Nations Showdown, joined by the Affordable Towing & win 50 lap event on September 11. Recovery Thunder Stocks, and Gale’s Auto Aftermarket Bombers. The UMP Modifieds will return to Ohsweken for the first time since 2009 and track will be closed on Friday, July 31, following the Northern Summer headline the show on September 11 along with the Duel on the Dirt series Nationals and Six Nations Showdown events.