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PINKS All-Out Premieres Tonight With Explosive & Controversial New Season
Last racer standing four-wide marathon, quickest field in history & the most controversial final launch season four
David Harris  |  Posted July 21, 2010   Charlotte, NC
The first ‘Last Racer Standing’ marathon four-wide finale from zMAX Dragway. (Photo: SPEED)
Episode two premieres Thursday in seasons regular time slot

Popular SPEED original series PINKS All Out rolls out its fourth season of new episodes starting with South Florida’s Palm Beach International Raceway tonight at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. Then on Thursday, the second episode premieres when wet, cold and windy weather challenges the entire team from Dallas Raceway starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, when the series settles into its regular time slot.

Familiar faces continue to lead the show, as host Rich Christensen is joined by his team of on-air technical advisors that includes Ken Herring, Willie B, Clay Millican and competition coordinator Brian Bossone. The series expands for the first time to 13 new episodes, culminating with a second visit to Firebird International Raceway.

With the nation getting back to the basics, PINKS All Out has done much the same, focusing on the drivers, cars and side-by-side racing that has become one of the show’s signature draws.

"The core elements of the live event are essentially the same as they have been from the beginning,” said Robert Ecker, SPEED VP of Programming & PINKS All Out Executive Producer. “We start the day with as many as 500 grassroots drag racers and end it 14 or 15 hours later with a single champion. The television show is now more tightly focused on the competitors and their cars than it has ever been before, allowing us to get deeper into the heads of the drivers as the day progresses."

The new season offers many twists and turns, including the first ‘Last Racer Standing’ marathon four-wide finale from zMAX Dragway (Thursday, July 29 @ 8 p.m. ET) and the most controversial show yet from Maple Grove Raceway (Thursday, Aug. 5 @ 8 p.m. ET). If you think you know who won… you don’t.

A hotly contested show from Virginia Motorsports Park (Thursday, Aug. 12 @ 8 p.m. ET) and the quickest and fastest field in PAO history takes on the arm drop start at Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway (Thursday, Aug. 19 @ 8 p.m. ET) all start off the new year with a bang.

The show returns in October when the PINKS All Out team visits the most central track in the United States at Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.). Picturesque tracks like Denver’s Bandimere Speedway, Sonoma’s Infineon Raceway and Tennessee’s Bristol Dragway join large-scale facilities like Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio and Houston Raceway Park to round out PAO’s most aggressive season.

About the Show
PINKS All Out is a unique television property which combines a ‘made-for-television’ grassroots drag racing competition with the sights, sounds and atmosphere of a large-scale motor sports event. Each episode – shot at 13 drag strips throughout the country from South Florida to Sonoma, Calif. for 2010 – invites up to 500 grassroots racers (door cars; 12.99 seconds and quicker) to compete for $25,000 in cash and prizes, running ‘All Out’ on national cable television network, SPEED, and in front of packed grandstands. Host Rich Christensen, creator of the PINKS concept, sets the show’s tone through his signature ‘arm drop’ starts, edgy personality and ‘firm but fair’ approach to the competition.

The rules are simple, run your car ‘All Out.’ After two timed sessions, the PINKS All Out technical team – led by Christensen and supported by technical advisors Willie B, Clay Millican, Ken Herring and Brian Bossone – selects a group of either 16 or 32 cars to compete for the title. The selection process is subjective in nature, focusing on a close grouping of elapsed times, great storylines, characters and interesting cars that generally make up the final field. Subsequent two-car elimination rounds set up a best two-out-of-three, ‘hot lap’ final. Racers can be eliminated from the competition if they click off elapsed times that aren’t consistent with their previous passes, thereby ‘sandbagging’ or trying to position their cars for the final field by holding back.

About SPEED
SPEED™, anchored by its popular and wide-ranging coverage of NASCAR, is the nation’s first and only cable television network dedicated to automotive and motorcycle racing, performance and lifestyle. Now available in more than 80 million homes in North America, SPEED, a FOX Sports property, is among the industry leaders in interactive TV, video on demand, mobile initiatives and broadband services. For more information, please visit SPEED.com, the online motor sports authority.
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