Lincoln
Welders
Expands
Support
To
Include
All
CRA
Series
Salem,
IN
(April
15,
2008)
–
Lincoln
Welders,
a
division
of
Lincoln
Electric
Company,
who
announced
in
December
that
it
would
continue
its
marketing
partnership
with
the
CRA
Super
Series
for
the
tenth
continuous
season
in
2008,
has
now
agreed
to
expand
that
support
to
include
all
four
Champion
Racing
Association
series
by
adding
the
Howe
CRA
Sportsman
Series,
CRA
Street
Stocks
and
Vore’s
Welding
&
Steel
CRA
FWD
Compacts
for
the
2008
season.
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Special
from
Canusa
Racing
De St. Jean's
2008 Plans
Have Changed
After
a
few
months
of
speculation
and
rumors,
it
is
official,
Greg
De
St
Jean,
driver
of
the
#9
Canusa
Racing
Saturn
will
be
unable
to
attempt
a
defense
of
the
2007
Vores
Welding
&
Steel
CRA
FWD
Compact
Championship.
In early
December Greg
was injured at
work. He
suffered
multiple
herniated
discs in the
lumbar area of
his back. He
has gone
through months
of various
treatments.
After three
separate
epidural
injections
into the spine
and six weeks
of physical
therapy, most
of the
injuries have
recovered.
However, he is
having several
problems
including
extreme pain,
numbness, loss
of strength, &
limited use of
his right leg
and foot. He
has been
referred to Dr
Dwight
Tyndall, an
orthopedic
spinal
surgeon. Dr
Tyndall
strongly
recommended he
undergo a
microdiscetomy
of the L5-S1.
The surgery
has
tentatively
been scheduled
on April 1st.
The recovery
time can be
4-8 weeks.
After that he
will be
reevaluated.
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Vore’s Welding
& Steel Agrees
To Continue
Title
Sponsorship Of
The CRA F.W.D.
Compacts For
2008
Salem, IN
(December 27,
2007) –
Champion
Racing
Association
officials are
pleased to
announce that
Vore’s Welding
& Steel has
agreed to
continue their
title
sponsorship of
the CRA F.W.D.
Compacts for
the 2008
season. The
Vore’s Welding
& Steel CRA
F.W.D.
Compacts 2008
season will
consist of 8
to 10 events
beginning on
Sunday, April
20th
with the
season opening
event at
Winchester
Speedway, an
event that
will also
feature racing
action in the
Rich Vogler
Classic for
the USAC
National
Sprint Car
Series and the
CRA Super
Series late
models.
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CRA to Return
as Promoter
and Manager of
Events for
Winchester
Speedway
Winchester,
IN (November
21, 2007) –
Officials from
the Champion
Racing
Association
(CRA) and
Winchester
Speedway
announced
today that CRA
would once
again manage
and promote
the legendary
˝ mile oval in
2008.
Winchester
Speedway owner
Charlie
Shaw
noted it was
an easy
decision to
continue with
the guidance
that CRA
leaders R. J.
Scott, Glenn
Luckett and
Greg Wood have
provided since
taking over in
2005.
"Every year
our signature
events have
continued to
grow," Shaw
noted.
"Everyone at
CRA has done a
great job in
helping bring
back
Winchester
Speedway to
its glory
days. I look
for CRA to
continue to
manage this
track in a
very
professional
manner and I
look forward
to even better
things to come
in the
future."
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CRA FWD
Compact Teams
Invited To
Attend Meeting
CRA Officials
will be hosting
an
organizational
meeting for the
purpose of
clarifying a set
of rules for the
2008 CRA
FWD Compacts.
The meeting will
be held in
conjunction with Dave
Dayton's
Tradeshow &
Auction this
weekend at the
Indianapolis
Convention
Center. Series
Officials will
be utilizing one
of the
conference rooms
on Saturday at
1:00 PM for the
meeting. Anyone
interested in
racing a CRA FWD
Compact is
invited. The
goal is to
gather
information from
this meeting and
create a set of
rules that will
make sense for
all parties
involved. Please
come with any
deas and with
the goal of
working together
to make things
better for this
unique type of
racing. CRA
Officials will
also be on hand
throughout the
weekend in the
CRA / Winchester
Speedway booth.
More information
on the Tradeshow
& Auction can be
found at
www.americanracetires.com
Champion Racing
Association
Announces 2007
Awards Banquet Date
Salem, IN (November
19, 2007) –
Champion Racing
Association has
announced that the
2007 Champion Racing
Association Awards
Banquet will be held
at the recently
remodeled Days Inn
in Anderson, Indiana
at 5901 Satterfield
Rd, just off exit 26
of I-69. The 2007
Awards Banquet will
be held on Saturday
evening, January 12,
2008. The 2007
Champion Racing
Association
Champions will be
honored in the CRA
Super Series, Howe
CRA Sportsman, CRA
Street Stocks and
Vore’s Welding &
Steel CRA FWD
Compacts, along with
all the top fifteen
teams in 2007 CRA
Super Series Owners
Points and the top
ten finishers in
Owner Points in the
other three CRA
Divisions.
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October 2001.
with
the
CRA
Super
Series
for
the
tenth
continuous
season
in
2008,
has
now
agreed
to
expand
that
support
to
include
all
four
Champion
Racing
Association
series
by
adding
the
Howe
CRA
Sportsman
Series,
CRA
Street
Stocks
and
Vore’s
Welding
&
Steel
CRA
FWD
Compacts
for
the
2008
season.
Shaw
noted it was
an easy
decision to
continue with
the guidance
that CRA
leaders R. J.
Scott, Glenn
Luckett and
Greg Wood have
provided since
taking over in
2005. 
