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NASCAR Nextel Cup
Drivers David Stemme And Kyle Busch To Test Monday
Grandstands Will Be
Open For Fans To Come And Watch
Winchester, IN (September 27,
2007) – NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers David Stremme and Kyle Busch
will be testing their CRA Super Series late model racecars at
Winchester Speedway this Monday to prepare for the 36th
Annual Winchester 400 Presented
By
Ed Martin Auto Group and Renegade on Sunday, October 14th
on the famous High Banks of historic Winchester Speedway. The test
session is scheduled from 9am until 5pm with the teams having
intermittent sessions on the track during that time. The grandstands
will be open at no charge for fans to come watch the test session on
Monday, fans can get a first hand look at the two NASCAR stars as they
prepare to battle the best late model drivers in the country for the
right to be known as a winner of the prestigious Winchester 400.
Stremme and Busch will be traveling
from Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday morning October 14th
after competing in the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup event at
Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Saturday night, October 13th. Both
Busch and Stremme will get some limited practice laps that Sunday at
Winchester Speedway, but since they will miss qualifying for the event
on that Saturday, they will have to start the event as Promoters
Options on the tail of the field.
To date there are already 35 cars
pre-entered for the 36th Annual Winchester 400 Presented By
Ed Martin Auto Group and Renegade, lead by Stremme and Busch. Some of
the top late model drivers entered from around the country include
North Carolina natives Jeff Fultz, a winner of the Labor Day Weekend
CRA Super Series event at Winchester, and Dennis Schoenfeld who
finished third in that same event and Brian Scott, who just announced
he will compete full-time in 2008 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck
Series. Alabama’s Augie Grill, who finished second in the 400 last
year and Stanley Smith, Florida ‘s Justin Drawdy and Jay Middleton,
Wisconsin’s
Robert Maynor and Josh Bauer, and Minnesota’s Andy Hanson.
CRA Super Series point’s leader Chris
Gabehart leads a strong group of CRA regulars already entered
including Rookie Of The Year John VanDoorn, 2006 series Champion and
Winchester 400 winner Scott Hantz, Jeff Lane, Rick Turner, Jack Smith,
Jason Shively, Sean Matthuis, Jason Dietsch and Donald Karr Jr. Local
veterans with lots of Winchester experience entered include Bull
Baker, a three time series winner at Winchester, Brian Rievley a
former series Champion and winner on the High Banks, Jim Crabtree Jr.,
Chet Blanton, and Scott Whitehouse. Track record holder Danny Jackson,
who sat on the pole in last years 400 is entered along with Michigan’s
Johnny Belott III, who came from 26th to finish sixth on
Labor Day Weekend.
The 36th Annual Winchester
400 will pay the winner $12,000, plus another possible $10,000 will be
available in lap leader bonus money. There will also be a $3,600 bonus
available to any former Winchester 400 winner or non CRA Super Series
regular if they can win the 36th Annual Winchester 400. The
36th Annual Winchester 400 is the second leg of the $50,000
to win Triple Crown that started at last Saturday’s Circle Track
Nationals "The 100 at O’Reilly Raceway Park were Chris Gabehart picked
up the $10,000 victory. Entry forms for the Winchester 400 and
additional series information is available at www.craracing.net or
contact the CRA office at 812-883-0455.
The 36th Annual Winchester
400 Weekend Presented By Ed Martin Auto Group and Renegade will take
place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 12th, 13th
and 14th with racing action from the Vore's Welding & Steel
CRA FWD Compacts, CRA Street Stocks, Howe CRA Sportsman, US PRO Cup
Series, The Run For The Gun Shootout between the American Modified and
the USA Modified Series in addition to the 36th Annual
Winchester 400. For additional information and to purchase advance
tickets go to www.winchesterspeedway.com.
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