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PIR notebook: Reserved seats sold out
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Reserved seats for Sunday’s Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway are sold out, track officials said Monday, but hillside tickets for the NASCAR Nextel Cup race are still available.
A ticket for the hillside, located outside of turns 3 and 4, is $30. Children 12 and younger are free.
Tickets still remain for NASCAR races Thursday through Saturday.
The Southwest Series Arizona Lottery 125 is Thursday, the Craftsman Truck Series Chevy Silverado 200 is Friday and the Busch Series Arizona 200 is Saturday. Nextel Cup qualifying is also on Saturday.
CRAFTSMAN TRUCKS
Erin Crocker will make her series debut Friday at Phoenix International Raceway, driving the No. 4 Dodge for Bobby Hamilton Racing.
The series already has two women — Deborah Renshaw and Kelly Sutton — driving, and if all three qualify for the Chevy Silverado 150, it will mark only the second time ever that three women have competed in the same truck race.
Crocker has been driving part-time in the Busch Series, where she cracked a rib in a hard crash Sept. 26 at Dover, Del.
DRIVER APPEARANCES
• Jamie McMurray, who drives the No. 42 Texaco/ Havoline Dodge for Chip Ganassi Racing, will sign autographs at The Pit Stop Shop, 1480 S. Hohokam Drive in Tempe, from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
• Jimmie Johnson will sign autographs at The Pit Stop Shop from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday. Only 200 will be admitted into the Johnson autograph session, and those interested must get a wristband, beginning at 10 a.m., from the store.
• Michael Waltrip will visit Napa Auto Care, 875 N. McQueen Road, in Gilbert from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday.
There will be food, drink and prizes.
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