INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (Jan. 20) – Cam and Jodi Granger have been awarded the contract to promote events this season at Independence Motor Speedway.

“We’re very excited and ready to get going,” said Granger, a former IMCA Modified and Late Model driver.

“Independence has been one of the top tracks in Iowa for a long time and it is a special place for us and for a whole lot of fans and racers in Northeast Iowa.”

Granger indicated that some details still needed to be worked out with the Buchanan County Fair Board, but he had the core of a team to run the track in place and that a schedule of events would be released soon.

“Mike and Julie O’Connor are coming back to help us. Mike is going to be the race director and Julie will run the concessions. They worked in those capacities last year and I think they did a great job,” he said. “We have already been in contact with IMCA and secured sanctioning with them. That means we will be running under the IMCA banner again and will be running the same five divisions, Late Models, Modifieds, Stock Cars, Karl chevrolet Northern Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks, that we have in the past.”

“We’re working hard on a schedule for 2009,” he added, “and that will be released shortly.”

Two Deery Brothers Summer Series events are already on the calendar at Independence, for July 1 and July 16.

The Grangers are West Union residents. They’ll also utilize the current track website, www.independencemotorspeedway.com, to keep drivers and fans up to speed with the proceedings at Independence Motor Speedway prior to and throughout the to and throughout the 2009 season.