By Bill Sullivan/Sullivan Images Media
PLACERVILLE, CA (3-27-10) – Over the past two season’s Penngrove’s Alissa Geving has competed on a number of different racetracks in California, North Carolina and Oklahoma. In her young successful racing career one of her more challenging tracks has always been the high banked Placerville Speedway bullring. After Saturday’s Golden State Challenge Series opener, 18-year-old Geving sees the red clay bullring in a different light then before.

“This place just hasn’t been good to me in the past,” said Geving. “We would come here with high hopes of just finishing a main event without incident and just couldn’t seem to get the job done. Tonight we finally got to the checkered flag and picked up a top ten at Placerville. This place is a lot of fun once you get a little used to it.”

Geving was one of 22 cars in competition for the event for the Golden State Challenge Series, California’s premier series for 410 cubic inch powered winged sprint cars. For Geving, limited sponsorship funds and her busy schedule in the Civil War Series and her home track of Petaluma Speedway allows for little time to compete in the tour with the likes of Brent Kaeding, Jonathan Allard and Jason Statler. If Saturday’s drive into the top ten is any indication of Geving’s ability to run with California’s big dogs the Kings of California surely will be seeing more of her in the future.

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