Contact: Rachel Fluharty
RachelF@mxsports.com
For Immediate Release
MX Sports Introduces the Ray Lang Good Neighbor Memorial Award
The number 73 signifies Lang's racing number.
"I feel this is a very fitting tribute to Ray's life and it will ensure that Ray's memory will always be in the hearts and minds of our Loretta Lynn race family, said Tim Cotter, Event Director at MX Sports.
Lang was the epitome of the rank-and-file amateur motocross enthusiast who comes to Loretta's to compete and to enjoy the camaraderie of this American motocross classic. He was a vet-class rider who came to Tennessee to be part of it all, and with his generosity and enthusiasm, he made a great impression on everyone around him.
MX Sports hopes to seek out the family or persons camped at the ranch the week of the national who best epitomize good racing neighbors like Lang: kind and pleasant, helpful and respectful, enthusiastic and enjoyable.
In order to find that neighbor, MX Sports ask you to nominate someone (or a family) you feel lives up to this description, in 500 words or less, in a letter you can drop off at the MX Sports track office or by email (info@mxsports.com), no later than Friday morning at 9 a.m. That afternoon, MX Sports will name the winner of the First Annual Ray Lang Good Neighbor Memorial Award; both the winner of the award and the nominee will have electrical hook-ups reserved for them in 2010, so that they may park together and enjoy another week at the Air Nautiques AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships. They will also receive a commemorative plaque for being good neighbors.
About the Air Nautiques/AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships
Produced by MX Sports, Inc., the Air Nautiques/AMA National Motocross Championships is the world's largest amateur motocross race. Hosted annually since 1982 at the home of country music star Loretta Lynn in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., the event is the premier amateur motocross race in the world. Approximately 25,000 racers attempt to qualify in 33 classes for the 1,386 available gates at the finals. The National event, christened "The World's Greatest Motocross Vacation", is held the first week of August annually. As proof of the significance of winning an AMA Amateur National Championship title, most of today's top motocross and Supercross stars, including Ricky Carmichael, James Stewart, and Ryan Villopoto, won championships at Loretta Lynn's. For more information, please visit www.mxsports.com.
About MX Sports
MX Sports, Inc. is a Morgantown, West Virginia-based motocross production company. The group coordinates the Air Nautiques/AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, which includes a national qualifying program consisting of 52 Area Qualifying races held annually from February through May and 12 Regional Championship races conducted in June at select motocross facilities across the country. Less than five percent of the Area Qualifier entries actually qualify for the national championship event, held during the first week of August at the home of country music star Loretta Lynn in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. For more information, please visit www.mxsports.com.
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