Texas Corral To
Sponsor 6th Annual Elmer Musgrave Memorial At Illiana Motor
Speedway
Schererville, IN
(June 11, 2007) – Illiana Motor Speedway officials have announced
that Texas Corral Grill & Saloon will sponsor of the 6th
Annual Elmer Musgrave Memorial CRA Super Series event
on
Saturday, June 23rd. This will be the 3rd year in a row
that the Texas Corral has supported the event. CRA Super Series will
again sanction this event, it will be the fifth series event held at
Illiana Motor Speedway.
The event is held in the memory and honor of the
late Elmer Musgrave, who passed away at the age of 72 on September 20,
2000. Musgrave was a long-time Chicagoland stock car competitor,
racing at tracks throughout the Midwest and the Chicago area.
Musgrave was a front-runner at the Wilmot (Wis.) Speedway and at the
old Waukegan (Ill.) Speedway, where he was the stock car champion in
1952. Musgrave was the winningest driver in competition at the
Waukegan dirt oval in the early 1950’s. For a number of years,
Musgrave was a regular at the old O’Hare Stadium in Schiller Park,
Ill.
In
addition to his local stock car racing success, Musgrave also competed
on several “national” circuits, including the United States Auto Club
(USAC) and the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), which was
formerly known as the Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC).
Musgrave captured two stock car events on the old USAC tour with the
first coming at California’s Ascot Stadium in a 1958 Pontiac. He
later followed up with another USAC victory at Illiana in 1963,
wheeling a ’63 Mercury.
Musgrave won a total of five MARC/ARCA races,
including a victory in a 250-mile event on the road course at the old
Meadowdale International Raceway in Carpentersville, Ill. in 1964.
Musgrave is the father of 2005 NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series Champion—Ted Musgrave. Ted began his racing career at
Waukegan in late model action in 1974. He raced at various Chicago
area short tracks before moving his attention to the Wisconsin stock
car scene, in addition to competing in ARTGO and American Speed
Association (ASA) competition. Ted Musgrave made a total of 305
career starts in NASCAR Nextel (Winston) Cup racing from his first
start in 1990 through 2003 before turning his attention to the
NASCAR’s truck series. Ted Musgrave the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck
Series champion, will be on hand Saturday for a special autograph
session.
For more
information, call the speedway at (219) 322-5311 or go to
www.illianaspeedway.com.
The track is
located on U.S. Highway 30, about two miles east of U.S. Highway41 or
five miles west of Interstate 65.
