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Welcome To The Big Show
The staff and management of John Padjen Motorsports extends their warm welcome to the 47th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions. This annual fall classic will feature four big days of open wheel and will boast an overall purse in excess of $130,000.

The millennium version of this event that is often sloganed as “the fastest four days in California” will kick off on tonight with the fourth annual Hoosier Racing Tires Civil War Pacific Sprint and Dirt Modified Cups. Both events are of the invitational nature for competitors with the Pacific Sprint Cup featuring the top 32-drivers from the current Hoosier Racing Tires California Sprint Car Civil War Race Series.

The Dirt Modified Cup will feature the top 22 drivers in the current Silver Dollar Speedway point standings as they battle it out for the final event of the season. This event offers $800 to the feature winner and will also determine the division champions and the final point standings for the tracks regular season championship. Following tonight’s opener, the official green flag will fall on the Pennzoil World of Outlaws as they take Thursday night in the first of three consecutive nights of WoO competition.

Fourth annual Pacific Sprint Cup
Auburn's Forsberg is Hoosier Tires Civil War point leader
Competitors of the Hoosier Racing Tires California Sprint Car Civil War Race Series are geared up for the crown jewel of their traveling campaign as Silver Dollar Speedway hosts the fourth annual Pacific Sprint Cup tonight.

Acting as the opener for the 2000 Gold Cup Race of Champions, the Pacific Sprint Cup will open four straight days of open wheel racing on the Silver Dollar Fairground where more than $130,000 will be up for grabs during this annual fall classic featuring the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars.

GOLD CUP, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2000 Big John's Breakfast Bonanza open 6-11am Gold Cup Ticket office open 9am-4pm Media/Press trailer open 9am-1pm / 11-midnight Hoosier Tires Novelty Booth open 9am-11pm Pepsi refreshment center open 11am-11pm Coors Beer Garden open noon-11pm Pit Gate opens  2pm Front Gate opens  5pm Pacific Sprint Cup & Dirt Modified Cup - Qualifying 6:30, Racing 7:30

Gold Cup Daily News
Published daily during the annual Gold Cup Race of Champions in Chico, CA
Published by John Padjen Motorsports
Design and Production - Bill Sullivan
Assistants/Contributors - Troy Hennig, Dennis Gage, Richard Day, WoO
Photographs supplied by Aron Jones, JohnPadjenMotorsports.com

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