CRA Super Series To Sanction
40th Annual National Short Track Championships at Rockford
Speedway
Salem, IN (January 7,
2005) –
CRA Super Series officials and Rockford Speedway officials
have announced that the CRA Super Series will sanction the 40th
Annual National Short Track Championships 250 lap main event at Rockford
Speedway
again in 2005. This will be the series third appearance at the historic ¼
mile facility, and the third consecutive appearance in the National Short
Track Championships at Rockford Speedway, located in Rockford, Illinois.
The CRA Super Series will practice and qualify on Saturday, September 24th.
The 40th Annual National Short Track Championships 250 lap main
event will take place on Sunday, September 25th.
Last seasons National Short
Track Championships saw a record number of CRA Super Series cars
participate as 40 competitors took qualifying times with Nathan Haseleu
capturing the Corteco Fast Qualifier Award. The field of 28 competitors
was set through very tight qualifying, qualifying races and an exciting 25
lap last chance event that saw Kenny Tweedy race to the front and grab the
lead and then hold off a hard charging Scott Baker after he lost his
brakes over the last two laps to get the victory and a chance to start in
the 250 lap main event.
On a beautiful September
afternoon, Brad Mueller started on the outside of the front row jumping
out front to lead the first 220 laps. Fast Eddie Hoffman was working his
way through traffic picking off the cars in front one by one. On lap 177
he took over second place moving around Justin Diercks while avoiding a
lapped car on the low side and moved cleanly up before Diercks could get
to the spot. Hoffman then passed Mueller using the lapped cars very
carefully to his advantage on lap 204. Mueller was given another chance
when an accident behind the leaders caused the field to revert to the
previous lap again when the yellow flag came out putting Mueller back in
the lead.
After the restart Hoffman
followed Mueller until he found an opening, going under Mueller, who was
running a high line in the corners, Hoffman took the lead for good on lap
220. Mueller slipped up into the wall lightly and moved from first to
seventh on that lap, before finishing sixth. Hoffman got the win, his
close friend Steve Moenck finished second, Brian Hoppe third, Steve Rubeck
fourth and Brian Johnson, Jr. rounded out the top five in one of the most
exciting National Short Track Championships 250 lap main events ever.
More information on Rockford
Speedway is available at
www.rockfordspeedway.com.
