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Q&A with QB – SPEARS Southwest Tour Series championship car owner Quentin Bammer

  2013  SPEARS  Southwest  Tour  Series  championship  owner,  Quentin  Bammer  fields  the  Moeller  Bros./HUR  Engines  #18  car  with  driver,  Jim  Pettit  II.      1) How  did  you  get  your  start  in  racing?   Started  with  working  as  a  crewmember  for  Top  Fuel  Altered  owned  by  Rick  Guasco  and  driver  Dale [...]

AmeriPride and the SPEARS Southwest Tour Series Continue Longtime Partnership

        Bakersfield, CA – It’s a marketing partnership that spans over 20 years, AmeriPride and the management of the SPEARS Southwest Tour Series have worked together for two decades promoting AmeriPride through motorsports.       “It’s a great relationship,” stated the SRL’s Brian Olsen.  “David Jachetti and everyone we work with at AmeriPride [...]

PAST CHAMPIONS – 2007

Dave Byrd and the Bob Strandwold Racing team celebrated their 2007 SRL Championship after the season finale at Altamont Raceway Park. The below press release was from Dave Byrd Media Relations following his 2007 championship. Dave Byrd Media Relations October 15, 2007 TRACY, California -- While the 2007 SRL racing season brought a [...]

SAD NEWS – Updated

Our dear friend and SPEARS Southwest Tour Series photographer, David Farr, passed away, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at Tarzana Regional Medical Center. His loving wife, Renee, was at his side. More details to follow. As many of you have inquired, here is an update from the Farr Family, including [...]

PAST CHAMPIONS – 2012

The below Press Release followed Thorn's championship in 2012:   The final race of the 2012 SPEARS Southwest Tour Series saw Lakeport’s Derek Thorn win the series title and Twin Falls, Idaho’s Jonathon Gomez win the race and the record $15,000 in prize money that came with the win at The [...]

PAST CHAMPIONS – 2011

PETTIT BECOMES FIRST TWO-TIME SPEARS SRL SOUTHWEST TOUR SERIES CHAMPION The below Press Release followed Pettit's second championship in 2011: BAKERSFIELD, CA – Jim Pettit II has made a career of racing for championships, and when the checkered flag fell on the season ending “Sigma Engineering Solutions 154” at The Bullring Saturday [...]