NEW SHARON, Iowa – Zack VanderBeek and the 33z Racing team announced their family of sponsors and preliminary plans for the 2010 racing this season this week.

VanderBeek’s primary sponsor for 2010 will be Casey’s General Stores. The #33z USMTS Modified will carry the Casey’s General Store logo as well as their Homemade Pizza To Go logo and their new slogan, “It’s All Good!”

Headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, Casey’s General Stores owns and operates more than 1,450 stores in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Casey’s supplies quality self-service gasoline, made from scratch donuts & pizza, sandwiches, hot & cold beverages, grocery items and a whole lot more. To learn more, visit www.caseys.com.

Other 2010 sponsors include The Pro-Line Building Company, AFCO Shocks, Race Tech Info, ABC Metals, Simmons Construction, Wayne-Dalton Doors, Tulip City Insurance Agency, Sput’s Racing Engines, Champion Storage & Signs, McGriff’s of New Sharon, Cute As A Bug Bows and Grandpa & Grandma Garrison.

“Our plans for 2010 include running 80-plus races in twelve different states,” said VanderBeek, “We plan on running the USMTS National Tour as well as the USMTS Southern Series.”

The 2004 DandyLand Farms Rookie of the Year with the USMTS, VanderBeek will be racing in the Belleville 100 at the Belleville (Kan.) High Banks on Friday and Saturday, July 2-3, as well as running local races when he is home.

The 2009 season included 70 nights of competition with 10 wins, 38 top-five and 55 top-ten finishes for the 25-year-old from New Sharon, Iowa. With the USMTS, he won the titles of Central States Region Champion and AFCO Pole Award Champion en route to finishing fourth in the final USMTS Casey’s General Stores National Tour points.

Among his biggest victories, he captured the Friday night main event at the 12th Annual Featherlite Fall Jamboree at the Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., for the second year in a row and was the winner of the USRA Fall Nationals at the Scotland County Speedway in Memphis, Mo.

Along with T-shirts, VanderBeek and the 33z Racing team will have coupons for Casey’s General Store products and other various items available a the track for fans.

You can follow “The Z-Man” and keep up to speed with results, pictures, news and more on his website at www.zackvanderbeek.com.

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